Just found it.

nah, the couch and STEALING YOUR DATAZ are obvs the best.

bat country > foodz > most >>>>>> dataz

fuck you.
and go home, you loser.

otm


he's old

show some goddamn fucking respect

this is bat country should be yancy's new catchphrase. we bestow it up on you on your birthday.

NO.

you guys... im kiiiiiiiiiiiiinda drunkishy.
wheeee my job rulzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'm proud of this board for not having a thread devoted to Lindsay Lohan's va-j-j.

<Pats on back>

I just did a celebrity look-alike thingy out of boredom and it said I look most like Jewel Staite (I didn't know who she was until now), Mandy Moore, Faith Hill, and Christina Ricci. And in that order. haha. The internet sure is entertaining.

Who's who??




http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php

(I'll probably regret putting another picture of myself here.)

Thanks for making my return to the grid so...nice.

i got my haircut and i look like this guy right now....LOL @ Iron and WINe

It said I look like Jimi Hendrix, Ashton Kutcher, and Nobuo Uematsu.

lol, the composer of the final fantasy games.


lol @ that

For anyone who hasn't met me yet, I look exactly like this.

dude kinda

I too have been bugging the crap out of friends forwarding the FooDZ and whatnot. Yancy for comic of the year.

Albini looks like David Cross as Borden Grote:



Cool to see those Big Black members as old people:



Santiago was Employee of the Month! Good for him.

It told me I look like Hideki Matsui.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?acti...85A7024621AD6AE

What the fuck did I just listen to.

Truly, a Trapper Keeper Icon

Undo is fucked up.


I don't know, but that's definitely Raphael's VA, Rob Paulsen, so i assume it's some cartoon.

Jewel Staite is so hot. Remember that show Space Cases on Nickelodeon? She was that one girl.

Hey you! Where've you been?!


I don't remember that show...I'm too old.


Well, is that accurate? I don't picture you as a Hideki look-alike, but I've never seen you. heh heh.

(Big inhale) Montauk, Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago (for 24 hours) and now back in the desert. What'd I miss, besides everyone's birthdays?

MY FOOT HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTS

A doctor might help with this.

going there in an hour. UGH

Can I be Prince Teba and the Sons of Thunder?

doctors are weird.

Did he ask you to get naked just to look at your foot?

haha, actually yes

I'm in the wrong line of work.

also, it wasnt a he, it was a she.

and since im a new patient i had to get a physical. anyway. it sucked. the nurse hated me. she took my blood pressure and was like "220 over 85. that's high. why is your blood pressure SO HIGH?!" all accusatory! and i'm like "uhm.. i don't know?" turns out she was a moron who didnt know how to use the blood pressure thingy.

TIME TO GET CABLE FOR GENA

cable is evil.

Oh man, Yancypants, that cat thing was beautiful. No lie.

It's pretty funny because not only do you look exactly like these guys, but they look so much like each other. wtf. haha.

It took a good 10 seconds or so of sharp analysis for me to realize that the above post was meant as sarcasm.

I've been on this board for the past 5 years. This is the worst it's been, ever.

Say goodbye to Undo. It was fun while it lasted, but it's time to move on.

I kind of agree with this, sans the melodrama.

Paves, you are so awesome. seriously.

i'm really really liking the decemberists new record.

Shankill Butchers

The Shankill Butchers were a group of Ulster Volunteer Force members in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who abducted Roman Catholics usually walking home from a night out, tortured and/or savagely beat them, and killed them, usually by cutting the throat. None of their victims had any connection to the IRA or any other republican groups.


Lenny Murphy leader of the shankill butchersContents
1 The Killing Begins
2 Capture
3 The Killing Ends
4 Aftermath
5 References
6 See also




The Killing Begins
The leader of the Shankill Butchers was Lenny Murphy. Born in 1952, he was possessed of a seething anti-Catholicism that may have been because his surname was traditionally Irish and so more associated with Catholics. At school he was a bully and a thief, and as soon as he left at the age of 16 he became a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force.

By 1972, age 20, Murphy gathered together a gang of equally violent young men, the core being Murphy himself, Robert "Basher" Bates, and "Big" Sam McAllister, who used his huge frame to intimidate the Butchers' victims. In what is said to have been retaliation for the Bloody Friday bombings by the Provisional IRA, a Catholic man, Francis Arthurs, was abducted, and beaten and stabbed for over an hour before being killed.

The murder of Tom Madden is seen as one of the most terrible examples of the Butchers' brutality. Madden was abducted, and then stripped naked. He was hanged upside down from the beam of a lock-up garage, and slowly skinned alive. He eventually died of slow strangulation.

On September 28 1972, Murphy shot and killed William Pavis, who was suspected of selling arms to the IRA. Murphy and his accomplice, Mervyn Connor, were arrested shortly afterwards and held in prison awaiting trial. However, Murphy killed Connor in the prison, just after forcing him to write a confession to Pavis' murder. The charges against Lenny Murphy relating to the murder of Pavis collapsed, although Murphy was held behind bars for a number of escape attempts.

In May 1975, Murphy was released from prison. He married and fathered a daughter, but like the rest of his gang he cared little for domesticity and would spend most of his time hanging around pubs on the Shankill Road, drinking heavily and plotting crimes. That October they raided a shop, and on finding out the four employees there were Catholics, Murphy shot three of them dead and ordered an accomplice to kill the fourth.

Another key figure of the Shankill Butchers was William Moore. He had worked as a butcher and had stolen several large knives and meat-cleavers from his old workplace, tools that would be put to a horrific use. Over the coming months the gang began kidnapping Catholics late at night and viciously killing them.

Francis Crossan, aged 34 and father of two, was walking home from a night out, when he was spotted by one of the gang. This was around 12-12:30am. He was hit from behind with a wheel brace, and dragged into the taxi, which drove into the Shankill area. Francis was then tortured and badly beaten. He was repeatedly hit by Murphy, both punched and with the wheel brace. Murphy repeatedly said things like, "I'm going to kill you, you bastard!" Francis was then dragged into an alley, and his throat cut almost through the spine by Murphy. Pieces of glass found in Francis' head showed that a beer glass had been shoved into his head, either in the black taxi, or in the alley. The other victims were killed in a similarly horrific manner.

The Shankill Butchers also got into a feud with another loyalist gang, which quickly ended when Murphy brutally killed a member of the rival gang. There is a lot of evidence to suggest Murphy and his fellow murderers were more like serial killers than terrorists, and that the political situation in Ulster allowed them a respect within their community they never would have had otherwise. They occasionally used guns, but preferred knives and cleavers (serial killers tend to prefer 'hands-on' weapons that involve getting up close to the victim), and rather than carry out crimes that were carefully planned, the gang usually went out hunting on a whim, usually at night after spending all evening drinking heavily. On one occasion Murphy and Bates impulsively shot and killed two people, believing they were Catholics, when in fact they were Protestants.

In March 1976, Murphy shot and injured a Catholic woman. He was arrested and subsequently pleaded guilty to a firearms charge. He ordered the murders to continue, and over the next year, with William Moore acting as the new leader, several more Catholics were abducted, tortured and hacked to death.


Capture
In May 1977, a young man who was abducted by the Butchers was found alive, albeit badly wounded. He had been left for dead by the gang, but the freezing night air had slowed his bleeding and he was discovered and hospitalised. The police drove him around the haunts of the gang, whom they had long suspected, and he identified all of them. Moore, Bates and McAllister all confessed their guilt. They also said that Murphy had been their leader but they retracted these claims. Police had always suspected Murphy was the man behind the murders, but when interviewed whilst serving his firearms sentence, he just laughed, confident that the police had no proof and that no-one would dare testify against him. Unfortunately, he was right.

The rest of the Shankill Butchers came to trial in February 1979. Eleven men were convicted of a total of 19 murders between them, and the 42 life sentences handed out were the most ever in a single trial in British criminal history. William Moore pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder and Bates pleaded guilty to 10. They were sentenced to life with no chance of release (although all are now free men; see below.)

In his book "The Shankill Butchers", Martin Dillon said that his own investigations suggest the gang were responsible for a total of 30 murders.


The Killing Ends
His sentence for the firearms conviction complete, Lenny Murphy was released from prison in early 1983. He is suspected of murdering someone within 24-hours of release, beating to death a man who gatecrashed his release-party at a Loyalist drinking club. A few weeks later he shot to death a car-salesman in a dispute over money.

Murphy re-assembled a new gang around the time a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, Tommy Cochrane, was kidnapped. The IRA had kidnapped him and were demanding a ransom. Murphy decided to kidnap a Catholic and demand the release of Cochrane for the Catholic. Murphy hijacked a black taxi and headed to the Falls Road where 48 year old father-of-two Joseph Donegan waved them down. He was taken to Murphy's house, where he was tortured. He had his teeth pulled out with pliers by Murphy until only 3 were left. He was finally killed by Murphy. Murphy again demanded the release of Cochrane, with the public not knowing that Joseph Donegan was dead. Finally, his body was found in the back of Murphy's house. Murphy was arrested but there was no evidence to suggest that he had committed the crime, though police were certain it was him. Tommy Cochrane's body was found a week later, and showed signs of having been beaten. The IRA also knew that it was Murphy who had abducted and murdered Joseph Donegan. The manner of his death particularly angered them, and plans were taken to murder Murphy.

Murphy was at his girlfriend's house, waiting outside, when a van pulled up beside him. The people in the van were from the IRA. They opened fire with machine guns and 22-bullets ripped into Lenny Murphy and killed him instantly. The gunmen fled and a couple of days later the IRA claimed responsibility for the killing.

Many assert that the UVF assisted the IRA - their arch-enemies - in slaying Murphy, as it would have been very difficult for them to know his movements otherwise. His crimes were so savage that even his own side were appalled by him. This result suited both sides, with the IRA showing it could kill an enemy of the nationalist population, and the UVF able to wash its hands of the death of a man many extreme loyalists regarded as a hero.


Aftermath
The first member of the Shankill Butcher's to be released was William Townsley, who had only been 16 when he was arrested.

In October 1996, Robert Bates was released after apparently finding religion behind bars. He was shot and killed on the Shankill Road the following year. The IRA and other Republican groups denied the killing, and it is now believed that Bates' killer (who has never been caught) was a vengeful relative of a Protestant barman Bates had killed, believing the victim had been a Catholic.

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement included an amnesty for all those convicted of terrorist crimes. As a result, all the remaining Shankill Butchers are now free men.

In November 2004, the Serious Crime Review Team in Belfast said they were looking into the mysterious death of a Rosaleen O'Kane, 33, who was found dead in her home in September 1976. Her family and authorities believe the Shankill Butchers may have been involved in her death.

WTF? Is this for real?

Nah, he's too much of a pussy to quit.

This is way overblown. I've been here less than a year, and it's been way worse within that time alone. Ebb and flow.