Happy 4th of July

[Jordan]

Happy July 4th everyone.  Try not to blow yourself up...  😈

 

[klandrader]

my fireworks consist of fantavision on ps2 what a dull game

 

[Evolution Racer]

Its the 2nd of July. You're a bit early.

 

[True Drifta]

We are thinking of setting off a Dodge minivan for a grand finalie. What a holiday!

 

[Jordan]

Quote: from Evolution Racer on 7:41 pm on July 2, 2001[br]Its the 2nd of July. You're a bit early.

Yeah, I know, I just want to make sure everyone sees the message before Independence Day.  

 

[mike969048]

yo drifta thats a heck of a finalie!!! 😈   that sounds like a sweet plan...lol be careful not to blow yourself up...    :smilewinkgrin:  

 

[True Drifta]

My dad is using his friends field to set it off, We still gotta figure out how to set it off without going up with it. Make a trail of gas.........

 

[mike969048]

i got an idea throw a stick of dinamite at it!!!! 😈
yea a trail of gas would work but u got to be careful...

 

[Jordan]

I hope you get a picture of that, Drifta!  Just a suggestion, but I heard that burning NOS makes some pretty colors...

 

[mike969048]

yea jordon it does usually bake a pretty blue color!!!

 

[Talentless]

Actually, I think independence was declared on the second and the pertaining document was signed on the fourth.

Please do remember the 5th of November.

 

[mike969048]

whats on the 5th of november?

 

[Evolution Racer]

an easier way to make a nice big explosion is to fill the minivan's tank with gas then put a long piece of cloth into the gas tank so that some of the cloth is extending out of the tank. Then light the cloth and happy July 4th!

I got this idea from Gone in 60 Seconds.

 

[Jordan]

A lot has happened on the 5th of November, Mike:


1228 Wu MeKuan, a collection of 48 Zen koans, compiled in China
1414 Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens
1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba
1530 St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast
1556 Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi
and Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu
1605 Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot
    uncovered & leader Guy Fawkes hanged
1630 Spain & England sign peace treaty
1678 Brandenburgse troops occupy Greifswald in Sweden
1725 Spain & Austria sign secret treaty
1757 Battle at Rossbach (7 year war/French & Indian War)
1781 John Hanson elected 1st Pres of US in Congress assembled
1789 Fleeing slaves under Bonni attack military post on Suriname
and French National Meeting declares all citizens equal under law
1811 El Salvador's 1st battle against Spain for independence
1838 Honduras declares independence of Central American Federation
1846 Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres
1854 Battle at Inkermann, Krim: allies beat Russians
1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac
and Battle at Barbee's Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1871 Susan B Anthony arrested trying to vote in Rochester NY
1872 Paul Henry discovers asteroid #126 Velleda
and Prosper Henry discovers asteroid #127 Johanna
and Susan B Anthony fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S Grant
and Ulysses S Grant elected as US president
1876 Henry Morton Stanley's expedition leaves Nyangwe
1877 Paul Henry discovers asteroid #177 Irma
1881 French government-Ferry resigns
1882 Bedrich Smetana's Ma Vlast, premieres
1883 Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army
and Musical Cordelia's Aspirations premieres in NYC
1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5
    to win the Dominion championship
1894 Frederick Lugards expedition reaches Nikki
and Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegels, premieres
1895 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden)
and King Edward VII says We are all Socialists nowadays
and US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1898 Gerhart Hauptmanns Fuhrmann Henschel, premieres in Berlin
1901 M Wolf & A Kopff discovers asteroid #692 Hippodamia
1911 Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli & Cyrenaica
    Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental
and airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
1912 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
and Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
and Woodrow Wilson (D) beats Theodore Roosevelt (Prog) & Pres Taft (R)
1913 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
1914 Big-Britain/France declare Turkey the war
and Britain annexes Cyprus
and Gr Britain, France & Russia declares war on Turkey
1916 Emperor Wilhelm II & French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland
and Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
and Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Lousiville Ky
    ordiance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas
1919 Ir … Steringa Idzerda begins hosting soir‚e-musical on Dutch radio
1921 S Belyavsk˜ discovers asteroid #969 Leocadia & #3134 Kostinsky
1922 Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1925 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1927 Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title
1928 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1102 Pepita
1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for Babbitt
1932 Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals
1933 Chicago Bears 30 game unbeaten streak ends to Patriots (10-0)
and Spanish Basques agrees for autonomy
1935 Maryland Court of Appeals orders U of M to admit (black) Donald Murray
and Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly
1936 French writer Andr‚ Guide criticizes Soviet regime
1938 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
and Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
1940 Dutch submarine departs Dundee
and Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1942 Nazi raid on Greek Jews in Paris
and Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez's final transmission
1943 -6] Vatican bombed
1944 Allied troops reach Zoutelande Walcheren
and Canadian & British troops liberate Dinteloord
and German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
1946 John F Kennedy (D-Mass) elected to House of Representatives
1950 Cleveland Browns' Tommy James intercepts 3 passes, club record
and Philippines president Quirino ends emergency crisis
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 French MystŠre 4 flies 1,100 kph (record)
1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
and Paul Searls saws a 32 log in 86.4 seconds
and Terence Rattigans' Sleeping Prince, premieres in London
1955 New Vienna Opera house opens (Austria)
1956 Britain & France land forces in Egypt
and Dutch Communist Party office of Felix Meritis seized
and Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Datis nuperrime
1957 F‚lix Gaillard forms govt in France
and Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2«› soccer pool ticket
1958 KGLD (now KSNG) TV channel 11 in Garden City, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 AFL announced with 8 teams
1961 India's premier Nehru arrives in NY
and St Louis Cards Bill Stacy, returns 2 interceptions for TDs vs Dallas
1963 US VP Lyndon B Johnson visits Netherlands
1964 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1966 Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained
and US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 ATS-3 launched by US to take 1st pictures of full Earth disk
and New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Phila Eagles 31-24
and US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
and Yemen president Sallal flees
1968 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain
and Nixon (R) beats VP Humphrey (D) & George C Wallace for presidency
1971 Bolivia passes death penalty for political kidnapping
and NBA's LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service
1974 Dmitri Sjotakovitsj completes Michelangelo-liederen
and Ella Grasso (Ct) elected 1st woman US gov not related to previous gov
and Walter E Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Wash DC
1975 British government routes troops to Belize
and L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3747
and Sao Tome & Principe adopts constitution
1976 USSR performs nuclear test
1977 NCAA passing record set at 571 yards (Marc Wilson, Brigham Young)
1978 Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
and Khomeini followers attack British embassy/El Al office in Iran
and Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
1979 Iran government of Bazargan resigns
and Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US The Great Satan
1981 Charles Fuller's Soldier's Play, premieres in NYC
and Former Dolphin, Mercury Morris, is sentenced to 20 years
    for drug trafficing, conspiracy, & possession of cocaine
1982 Cleveland Cavaliers lose 24th consecutive game (NBA record)
and George Harrison releases Gone Troppo album
1983 C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3285 Ruth Wolfe
and Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden
and Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3744
1987 France performs nuclear test
and Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
and South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
and Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine's musical Into the Stars, premieres
and Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana
1988 Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage
and France performs nuclear test
and Gulch wins Breeder's Cup
and Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1989 20th NYC Marathon (J Kanganaa 2h08m01s & Ingrid Kristiansen 2h25m28s)
and Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
and US plays El Salvador, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1991 Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan
1994 George Foremn KOs Michael Moorer in 10th to become heavyweight champ
and Space probe Ulyssus completes 1st passage behind the Sun
and Tony Rominger bicycles world record time (55,291 km)
and Yak-40 accident in north of Peru, 8 killed

 

[klandrader]

now com on jordan do you think i have the time to sit and read all that ????

 

[True Drifta]

Evo, we are gonna do that. We did it last year with a 91 CRX, we got the idea from bride of chuckie. I was preety cool, he little car was pactically launched in the air, the rear end explosion caused it to flip rear over front and land upsied down, it was defiantly an un foergettablw hoiliday.

 

[Jordan]

Quote: from klandrader on 7:31 pm on July 3, 2001[br]now com on jordan do you think i have the time to sit and read all that ????

Well, yeah, it took me song long to type it...  

Evo, where are you guys getting all of these cars to trash?

 

[Talentless]

Guy Fawkes day is what I was referring to. Holiday respecting.

There are, I believe, several versions of a poem wich surrounds this day, 5 Nov., and I think one does start with the line, Please do remember the fifth of November.'

Here is one example.

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

Anyone know of any other holidays that are about keeping a nation intact?

For the record I think my birthday falls on the independence day for some country to the south of me and is the same as Mussolini's.

Lucky me.

29 July.





(Edited by Talentless at 11:22 am on July 4, 2001)

 

[Jordan]

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I did find this site which has pretty much every holiday in every country around the world.  :shocked:

http://www.holidayfestival.com

 

[True Drifta]

Het Jordan, we picked up the CRX last year for $50, we thought $50 was worth it, and it was. The van has been sittings in a junkyard and the guy is about ready to crush it, it is filled with bees nests and we're gonna blow them up.

 

[mike969048]

yo got drfta!!! he jordon whats up with the book you wrote? we asked what everyones birthday was not a story of what happened!!! you have too much time on your hads...lol where did you get all the info to do that?
😈

 

[Jordan]

You mean the info on Nov. 5th?  

 

[mike969048]

yea

 

[Jordan]

I have a secret...it's called Google.  

 

[mike969048]

google hey i think i been there a few times..lol. 😈

 

[mike969048]

hey drifta hows the van/car??? did you blow it up..  :thumbsup:   😈

 

[Jordan]

hey drifta hows the van/car??? did you blow it up..

Ditto!

 

[Evolution Racer]

hey i know about google you must of got it from the links section in the OPM mag didn't you!? 😈

 

[mike969048]

hey guys what happened to drifta did he blow himself up????    :shakehead:   :shocked:
hope we hear from him soon!!!!
                    ....turned.... 😈

 

[Jordan]

Yeah, I'm a little worried.