Happy Birthday, Tarpo!
NoahConz
December 14th, 2004, is the birthday of RATMMer and #ratmmer Robert "Tarpo"
Tilley. One of our fine crop of Newfoundland MSTies, the Boss Newf is a fan of
the show, of course, but also one of RATMM's wrestling geeks, console gamers,
'toon junkies and master chefs. Please join us in wishing Rob a very happy
birthday!
Happy birthday, Rob, and many, many more!!
Noah, Connie, Logan, Ian & Brenna
Freezer
Happy birthday, Rob! Sit back, relax, check out what makes your
birthday extra-special!
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1503 - Nostradamus, astrologer and mathematician
1546 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer
1640 (baptism date) - Aphra Behn, playwright, novelist
1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter
1866 - Roger Fry, artist, art critic
1896 - King George VI of the United Kingdom
1896 - Jimmy Doolittle American World War II General
1897 - Margaret Chase Smith, American politician
1902 - Frances Bavier, actress
1908 - Morey Amsterdam, comedian, actor
1909 - Edward Tatum, geneticist
1911 - Spike Jones, comedian, musician
1913 - Dan Dailey, actor
1919 - Shirley Jackson, writer
1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer
1932 - Charlie Rich, country music performer
1935 - Lee Remick, actress
1938 - Leonardo Boff, theologian
1939 - Ernie Davis, NFL Hall of Famer
1946 - Patty Duke, actress
1946 - Jane Birkin, actress
1946 - Michael Ovitz, film producer
1948 - Marianne Fritz, writer
1962 - Ginger Lynn Allen, pornographic film actress
1965 - Craig Biggio, baseball player
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1542 - James V of Scotland
1788 - Charles III of Spain
1799 - George Washington, first President of the United States
1861 - Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria
1873 - Louis Agassiz, zoologist, geologist
1963 - Dinah Washington, singer
1964 - William Bendix, actor
1985 - Roger Maris, Should-be Baseball Hall of Famer
1989 - Andrei D. Sakharov, physicist, Soviet dissident
1993 - Myrna Loy, actress
1998 - Norman Fell, actor
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1503 - Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant Nostradamus was born at
St. Remy, Provence, France.
1798 - David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patented the nut and bolt
machine.
1819 - Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.
1900 - Professor Max Planck of Berlin University revealed his
revolutionary Quantum Theory.
1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach
the South Pole. He reached the destination 35 days ahead of Captain
Robert F. Scott.
1915 - Jack Johnson became the first black world heavyweight champion.
1918 - For the first time in Britain women (over 30) voted in a
General Election.
1939 - The Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.
1945 - Josef Kramer, known as "the beast of Belsen," and 10 others
were executed in Hamelin for the crimes they committed at the Belsen
and Auschwitz Nazi concentration camps.
1946 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to establish the United
Nation's headquarters in New York City.
1947 - NASCAR founded
1959 - Archbishop Makarios was elected Cyprus' first president.
1962 - The U.S. space probe Mariner II approached Venus. It
transmitted information about the planet's atmosphere and surface
temperature.
1975 - Six South Moluccan terrorists surrendered to police after
holding 23 people hostage for 12 days on a train near the Dutch town
of Beilen.
1981 - Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in war in
1967.
1983 - The U.S. battleship New Jersey fired on Syrian positions in
Lebanon for the first time after American F-14 reconnaissance flights
were fired on.
1984 - Howard Cosell retired from the NFL's Monday Night Football.
1985 - Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American
Indian tribe as she formally took office as principal chief of the
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1986 - The experimental aircraft Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and
Jeana Yeager, took off from California on the first non-stop, non-
refueled flight around the world. The trip took nine days to complete.
1987 - Chrysler pled no contest to federal charges of selling several
thousand vehicles as new. Chrysler employees had driven the vehicles
with the odometer disconnected.
1988 - CBS won the exclusive rights to major league baseball's 1990-94
seasons for $1.1 billion.
1988 - The first transatlantic underwater fiber-optic cable went into
service.
1990 - After 30 years in exile, ANC president Oliver Tambo returned to
South Africa.
1993 - A judge in Colorado struck down the state's voter-approved
Amendment Two prohibiting gay rights laws, calling it
unconstitutional.
1993 - The United Mine Workers approved a five-year contract, that
ended a strike that had reached seven states and involved some of the
nation's biggest coal operators.
1995 - The presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia
signed the Dayton Accords to end fighting in Bosnia.
1995 - AIDS patient Jeff Getty received the first-ever bone-marrow
transplant from a baboon.
1997 - Iran's newest president, Mohammad Khatami, called for a
dialogue with the people of the United States. The preceeding Iranian
leaders had reviled the U.S. as "The Great Satan."
1997 - Cuban President Fidel Castro declared Christmas 1997 an
official holiday to ensure the success of Pope John Paul II's upcoming
visit to Cuba.
1998 - Hundreds of Palestinian leaders renounced a call for the
destruction of Israel.
1999 - U.S. and German negotiators agreed to establish a $5.2 billion
fund for Nazi-era slave and forced laborers.
1999 - Charles M. Schulz announced he was retiring the "Peanuts" comic
strip. The last original "Peanuts" comic strip was published on
February 13, 2000.
2000 - It was announced that American businessman Edmond Pope would be
released from a Russian prison for humanitarian reasons. Pope had been
sentenced to 20 years in prison after his conviction on espionage
charges.
2001 - European Union leaders agreed to dispatch 3,000-4,000 troops to
join an international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan.
2001 - The first commercial export, since 1963, of U.S. food to Cuba
began. The 24,000 metric tons for corn were being sent to replenish
lost that were lost when Hurrican Michelle struck on November 4.
Tell Your Boss You're Taking The Day Off For
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Chingshan Wang's Birthday (Taiwan)
Feast of Saint John of the Cross (Catholicism)
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And my anti-drug is porn.
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(MSTings and other assorted brain droppings)
Andrew
"NoahConz" <noah...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041213235941...@mb-m22.aol.com...
: It's nearly midnight here on the east coast. According to our records, today,
Happy birthday, Rob.
---Andrew kunz.
Jay Grymyr
> It's nearly midnight here on the east coast. According to our
> records, today, December 14th, 2004, is the birthday of RATMMer and
> #ratmmer Robert "Tarpo" Tilley. One of our fine crop of Newfoundland
> MSTies, the Boss Newf is a fan of the show, of course, but also one
> of RATMM's wrestling geeks, console gamers, 'toon junkies and master
> chefs. Please join us in wishing Rob a very happy birthday!
Happy Birthday, Tarpo! In your honor, and to share my love of giant monster
movies and Japanese sci-fi (and because I have no life), I give you Your Day in
G-History:
1503: MICHEL DE NOSTRADAME a.k.a. NOSTRADAMUS, whose prophecies were the
basis for "The Last Days of Planet Earth", is born Michel de Notre Dame in
Saint-Rémy, France.
1967: Episode 28, the final episode of "Ultra Q", "Open Up!", makes its
long-delayed debut on Japanese TV.
1973: THUY TRANG, who played Trini Kwan the Yellow Ranger on "Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers", is born in Hanoi. She was also in "Spy Hard" and "The Crow:
City of Angels".
"Godzilla vs. Megalon" is released in West Germany.
ARCHIE KAO, who played Kai Chen the Blue Ranger in "Power Rangers Lost
Galaxy", "Power Rangers Lost Galaxy: Return of the Magna Defender", and "Power
Rangers in 3D: Triple Force", is born in Washington, D.C.
1974: Episode 9 of "Kamen Rider Amazon", "Go Amazon! To the Island of the
Crab Beastmen!", debuts on Japanese TV.
1979: Episode 11 of "Sky Rider" debuts on Japanese TV.
1991: "Gojira tai Kingugidora" a.k.a. "Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah" is
released in Japan.
1996: "Mosura" ("Mothra") a.k.a. "Rebirth of Mothra" is released in Japan.
1999: Toho announces that Godzilla would be brought back for a film in the
year 2000.
2002: "Gojira tai Mekagojira" ("Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla") is released
in Japan.
2004: "Son of Godzilla" and "Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S." are released on DVD in
the U.S.
That last one kinda tells you how you should celebrate your natal day.
Reaper "Have a good 'un!" G
http://www.giantmonstermovies.com
http://www.livejournal.com/users/reaper_g/
Sheryl Gere
Sheryl
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'"The" Sheryl, MSTie #12802
Filker, punster and bookaholic
Gene police: You! Out of the pool!
Cats are Murphy's way of saying "Nice Furniture!"
Bill Livingston
Happy Birthday, Tarpo! I think the next Gotham crime lord that Batman faces
ought to be named "Boss Newf".
Bill L.
[attach TarpoTilleyBirthdayBash.ZIP]
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bil...@hiwaay.net http://home.hiwaay.net/~billfl
"If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you're smart,
surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you."
Isaac Jaffee (Robert Guillaume), "Sports Night"
Fory-san
-Fory-san, The Former Mysterious Lurker
"As you get older, it's no longer 'dork', it's 'eccentric'."
http://www.carm.org/index/Jesus_saves.htm
Gary Ehrlich
Happy Birthday Rob!
-- Gary
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"Gorgeous" Gary Ehrlich, P.E.
http://www.speakeasy.net/~electro/electro.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gorgeousgary/