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Legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel died Friday, according to evelknievel.com
CNN.com ^ | NOV 30 2007 | CNN

Posted on 11/30/2007 1:14:55 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: evel; evelknievel; genx; icon; knievel; legend; motorcycles; obituary; stuntman
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141 posted on 11/30/2007 3:01:07 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

RIP Evel...


142 posted on 11/30/2007 3:05:16 PM PST by rockrr (Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
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To: Thrownatbirth

Love your tagline, and I’m one too. In mid-1991 I remember telling friends that we would have to go in again...and that’s when I was still a liberal!


143 posted on 11/30/2007 3:08:35 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
No more like him. He kind of makes today's X-treme Supports seem not so X-treme.

Apparently I got to meet the guy when I was about 1 year old. He asked my dad to design a rocket engine for the Snake River Canyon jump so from what I am told he was actually at my house.
144 posted on 11/30/2007 3:17:28 PM PST by Daus
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

RIP to a childhood hero.
May God bless Evel Knievel and his family.


145 posted on 11/30/2007 3:21:16 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Red Badger

Kayne West would have to stand on his mothers shoulders just to kiss Evil Knievels ass.


146 posted on 11/30/2007 3:26:03 PM PST by bad company (How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization)
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To: Bear_Slayer
It must have been a real pleasure drinking with EK.

I don't remember it as being a pleasure, it was an absolute hoot! Besides being loud, what I really remember, is all of the jewelry he had on. Damn if he didn't glitter. It was a lot of fun.

147 posted on 11/30/2007 3:51:01 PM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Officially Fredbacker1 but don't know how to change my name)
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To: Gator101
“Do you know who I am?”

Absolutely perfect!

148 posted on 11/30/2007 3:55:09 PM PST by Eaker (If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
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To: Eaker

Just discussing this.

Hubby has a blank signed by him from his Enterprises, older than old. Also a record album with a poster inside, opened but never played. A poster and program signed from 1972 at the Cleveland Convention Center.

Time is ripe for eBay but hubby is the original Mr. Haney!!!!


149 posted on 11/30/2007 5:07:51 PM PST by Shyla
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To: redrunner

I had one. ‘73.....I was 4 and a huge fan.


150 posted on 11/30/2007 5:08:04 PM PST by Grunthor (The Clintons need to be reminded that Satan will show them no gratitude for all the things they did)
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To: qam1

Somehow, the world seems less “cool.” Thanks for the memories Evel and for filling my head with so many daydreams as a young lad.


151 posted on 11/30/2007 5:10:20 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

RIP Evel..


152 posted on 11/30/2007 5:29:06 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (Every time engineers build something idiot-proof, man builds a better idiot.)
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To: jagusafr
Had a long, steep hill right by my house on Griffiss AFB in New York when I was about 10 and we did the same thing. Just about broke my tailbone when we did it with me sitting Tail End Charlie on a 4-man toboggan!

IIRC --and correct me if I am wrong -- Griffiss was somewhere near Utica-Rome. I was down near the old Stewart Airbase in Newburgh, New York.

153 posted on 11/30/2007 6:20:32 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: qam1

Thanks for the ping.


154 posted on 11/30/2007 6:43:12 PM PST by GOPJ ("Imagine the Outrage if FOX had Fixed a “debate” like this??" Freeper bray -- "CNN Sucks" - GOPJ)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet; MikefromOhio

Probably my favorite Evel moment was when he went on Jim Rome’s radio show. The conversation, naturally enough, turned to the Snake River jump, and Evel allowed as how it’d been figured he had a fifty-fifty chance of getting killed in that stunt.

Rome asks, more or less, “Well, if you knew you had a coin-flip chance of getting killed doing that jump, why’d you do it?”

Evel replies, just as calm and matter-of-fact as you please (and this is a direct, word-for-word quote):

“You know who the hell I am?”


155 posted on 11/30/2007 6:52:29 PM PST by RichInOC (...R.I.P.)
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To: thackney
All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

That's pretty cool.

156 posted on 11/30/2007 6:54:24 PM PST by bobbyd (Flyer, I love and miss you...Lords best my FRiend)
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To: redrunner
I had that, and this, too:
157 posted on 11/30/2007 7:12:38 PM PST by hoppity
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To: hoppity

oh DUDE! You HAVE to hang on to that!!


158 posted on 11/30/2007 7:39:20 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

My dad dumped it two years ago when he redid their guest bathroom. It sat in happy seclusion under my old sink until then. Oh, well. There are always memories (shedding a tear).


159 posted on 11/30/2007 7:42:59 PM PST by hoppity
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160 posted on 11/30/2007 7:49:48 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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