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Evel Knievel dies at 69
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_knievel

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/1...vel/index.html



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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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That's too bad.

I hear that Super Dave will be reading the eulogy, though.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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And in related news, he ended up 10 feet short of the Pearly Gates, ain't that a bitch?


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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I was going to make some sort of obligatory 'jumped the shark' reference, but then I looked it up and it actually came from the Fonzie on Happy Days, which inadvertently enlightened me about an Arrested Development injoke that I had missed. So thanks for that Evel.


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This months Maxim actually has what is apparently the last interview/article with Evel in it. Weird, because I was reading the interview this morning.


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Evel Knievel dies at 69
If that Electric Scooter could have hit 75, I bet he would have cleared all 3 busses.



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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Awww, everyone's already made a joke at the expense of someone's death. Now I got nothing to do in this thread.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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You could make a joke about his hearse jumping 10 open graves.

Well... you could have anyways. Too late now.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Pearll said:
You could make a joke about his hearse jumping 10 open graves.
Stealing this idea for my funeral thx.


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R.I.P.

I remember all the commotion made when I was a kid with his stunts.

white - with red and blue jumpsuits ftw!! 1970s


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R.I.P.

I remember all the commotion made when I was a kid with his stunts.

white - with red and blue jumpsuits ftw!! 1970s
Did anyone else read this as Loreleli caused a commotion when she tried to do the same stunts as Knievel?


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Jhani Vandolay said:
Stealing this idea for my funeral thx.
Myself, I'm thinking of getting myself "The Spock".


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I haven't filled Jhani in on my plan of merging us into a single incorporeal binary-based entity.


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Xynn said:
Did anyone else read this as Loreleli caused a commotion when she tried to do the same stunts as Knievel?
My big brother built a 5 foot tall wooden jump for skate boards and then tuanted the neighbor hood kiddies into jumping it with their big wheels. Much blood was shed.

Sadly, no big wheel for me :( I had a tricycle with training wheels

I won't even go into the forts they built, including real snake pits and trap doors. Oh, and the Put Put course they built. Strap - the hide and seek game that if you got caught, you got the belt....The 1970s ruled for kids. Outside from 9 am until 6 pm without a parent in sight, lol.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Loreleli said:
I had a tricycle with training wheels
That's a lot of wheels.


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Loreleli said:
I had a tricycle with training wheels
Yee gods! Just how bad is your sense of balance?


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Yee gods! Just how bad is your sense of balance?
Apparently Improving...

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Myself, I'm thinking of getting myself "The Spock".
Go me, I got the obscure Walken movie reference!










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Some establishments, including the U.S. Post office here in Missoula, MT, flew their flags at half mast for him for a day or two. I know he was born in *******, MT, but didn't think he stuck around. Thought most of his stuff was in the more popular areas of the country.



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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Ha. I had to look Knievel up on Wikipedia to figure out what got bleeped out there. That's funny.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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Goodbye to one of our childhood heroes. Knievel is jumping motorcycles from cloud to cloud now.

injijo said:
Go me, I got the obscure Walken movie reference!
Hehe, I LOVED that movie.



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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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injijo said:
Go me, I got the obscure Walken movie reference!
I was referring to being launched out of a starship torpedo tube into a planet.

Now your gonna have to explain to me what your reference was.


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I was referring to being launched out of a starship torpedo tube into a planet.

Now your gonna have to explain to me what your reference was.
Go watch the movie I linked in my last post, and you'll know exactly what he was talking about.


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Re: Evel Knievel dies at 69
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In honor of his death tonight I was flying as high over the center of Shattrath as I could get and dismounting, then casting slow fall as close to the ground as I could get.

I only died twice. Once when I moved forward a little when I hit the "ceiling", causing me to miss the center of the city, and splatting on the roof, and once when I tried to pop in the middle of the the energy creatures body and forgot to take into account my third person perspective.




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