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No arguments on his earliest pro titles. However, like I said in my previous post, he started out in MX. He won five Loretta Lynn Amateur Nationals MX titles starting at age 9, (Her Hurricane Mills Dude Ranch and track is about 40 miles from me.) and was riding MX much earlier than that first title. ;) As for him getting signed to Suzuki, you can see why he's been so loyal to them where other guys often jump ship for bigger $$$ contracts. |
The only dirt bikes I ever own are Suzuki's.
Will gladly ride a Kawasaki, just have never owned one. Might take a Yamaha for a test-spin, but would not own one. You would not ever see me riding any POS honda ever though. |
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I LIKE that....sponsors on Coliseum walls during Gladiator contests. B-D 000 surgical silk, Band-Aid, Jack Daniel's, Acme Casket Co., Purina LION Chow, and Lilly MORPHINE come to mind as logical sponsors.... :D :chuckle: QUOTE] Might want to add Olympia Beer to the list. His first steam rocket was made with the plan to use Oly beer for the liquid. Mike |
Olympia beer SUCKS.
Even being "Dirty Harry's" beer of choice in all those Clint Eastwood movies does not make it cool. Figures that fool Knievel would drink that slop. |
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Odds are that he was just sponsored by them and only drank really high quality beer like Hamm's, Shafer's or Weideman. :eek: Most of the athletes sponsored by Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar, and other energy drinks empty those cans and pour in water so that they will be seen on camera with their sponsor's product. I often see them doing that very deed in the garages and pits of motocross and road racing teams. (I don't watch the "left turns only" asscar series, but I suspect they do the same thing.) |
I got an Olympia Beer shirt at a seconds outlet back when I was in high school. At the time the schools were starting to get pricky about what was said on shirts, and many of my friends were sent home to change because of the objections to their shirts. I wore my Olympia shirt for three years and never even got looked at funny. No one other than my fellow beer can collectors had ever even heard of it. :D
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Shaefer and Weidemann are even worse than Olympia.
Definite second-rate pi$$-water brews, right up there with other trash like Goebel, Drewrys, Heileman's, Meister Brau, Keystone, Old Milwaukee (smells like DEAD roadkill), Carling Black Label, and Blatz. For a LONG time, the majority of the second-rate trash brews all came from the Stroh Brewery in Detroit. I think they got their water straight from the grossly OVER-polluted Detroit River. It would explain the extreme UN-drinkability from hideous stench and flavor. The only worse beer than those listed above is Buckhorn. That stuff is second-rate SEWER WATER, not fit for consumption by any PLANT or Animal ! Honest-to-BADNESS make you RETCH disgusting flavor. One of the brews that used to be a "Cheap" garbage brand that is actually great due to return to the "Classic 1960's and earlier" formula is Schlitz. It is kinda hard to find, but now that it is it's own brand and NOT made by the SLOP Stroh Brewery of Detroit, it is really good stuff at a reasonable price. It tastes like a very smooth mild ale, that has PLENTY of flavor. |
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Which is exactly why I listed them. ;) |
I STILL say that FOOL Knievel YANKED-THE-LEEVER prematurely during that foolhardy Snake Canyon River Gorge jump in that POS Sky-Cycle.
Nothing short of in-cockpit camera evidence will EVER convince me any different. He "screwed the pooch". |
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What's up, GH? New spoon? Too much on topic stuff going on around here so you felt like you had to stir up some s*it or just fantasize about it some more? An 18 month dead thread is the best you can do? |
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Nah. Just wait a year or two. Google is working on an app for that. |
LOL.
I have been posting too much rocketry-related stuff lately and needed to re-hash some smarminess toward that Evel CLOWN and HAD to start an April Fool's Day PRANKIN' thread. |
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Don Webb, a local television and radio broadcaster in south Florida (he lived on the same block as my late Aunt Jane, in Coconut Grove in Miami) once recounted a game of golf that he played with Evel Knievel. In one of the water traps, some coots (water birds somewhat like ducks) were swimming. As they were playing, Evel kept looking at the coots and wondering out loud if they would make good eating. After a few moments, he said to Don, "I'm gonna shoot some of them!", and then proceeded to pull a sawed-off shotgun out of his golf bag. Don managed to talk Evel out of it, pointing out that discharging a firearm within the Miami city limits was illegal unless it was for self-defense. Also: A late co-worker of mine, Dorothy Waggoner, met Evel in Whitefish (it might be White Fish), Montana, where she and her brother Harry (also now deceased) ran a dry-cleaning establishment before they moved to Alaska. It was frequented by many celebrities (they knew Jim Nabors and Carol Burnette well) who had/have homes there. Well: One day when we were working at the parking authority at Fairbanks International Airport, she was telling me stories about the various celebrities they'd met. I asked her about Knievel (recalling his "guaranteed results" hunting guide service in that area that he once got arrested for, because he led his clients into Yellowstone National Park [he claimed he didn't know he'd crossed the park's boundaries, but the judge didn't believe him]). Dorothy's happy countenance changed instantly at the mention of his name, and she shouted, "Evel Knievel was an ARSE!" (but using the American pronunciation of that word instead). Then: After describing his petty crimes, she mentioned an incident in which Evel had come to pick up clothes that he had dropped off at their store to be dry-cleaned. As he paid Dorothy at the counter, he looked at her expectantly, but she just processed the transaction in a polite, ordinary manner. He turned to leave, but then he stopped, turned to face her again, and then asked her, "Don't you want my autograph?" She replied, "No." Then he asked her, "Do you know who I am?" "Yes," she responded, "And I still don't want your autograph." He let the matter drop and left. |
Good for her !
he may have been King of the 'spectacle' stuntmen, but he was also the KING of all Douchebags. Too bad that guy he beat up with the bat did not seek ambush-style physical retribution/vengeance upon him. He desesrved a D-Town (Detroit) style BEET-DOWNN. In any legitimate dictionary an illustration of the word "Rectum" features a picture of this DIRTBAG. |
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Hahahaha.... that's funny right thar... I like "Super Dave" Osbourne better anyway... LOL:) OL J R :) |
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I had kinda forgotten about that until I took a tour at Graceland a few years ago and saw several of Elvis' costumes on display, many of which could have passed for Evel's outfits. Doug . |
In the STUNT department, I rate Evel ABOVE "STUPOR" Dave Osbourne.
At least SOME of Evel's stunts were successful. STUPOR Dave's NEVER work. As a PERSON, Stupor-Dave wins dands-down. Evel was a total POS. |
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Some years ago I had heard (on a TV program about the relatives and descendants of historical figures) that "Super Dave" Osbourne's real name is Bob Einstein, and that he is actually related to Albert Einstein (given that many current-day politicians are related [such as former Vice President Cheney and President Obama being cousins, for just one example], I'm not surprised). Super Dave and Albert both even work/worked in the same field--physics--although Super Dave's physics demonstrations often go awry (frequently with a little help from Fuji Akahito, his stunt co-ordinator)... :-) |
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Evel Knievel even had a royal scepter, and Elvis may have had one, too. I suppose it's possible that they may have mimicked each other either subconsciously or knowingly (but secretly). Both being southerners who rose from poverty to fame and fortune by their own efforts, I wouldn't be surprised if they admired each other's achievements, even if they never met (which they may have--I don't know). This phenomenon has even "worked in the other direction," so to speak: The astronauts--especially the original Mercury Seven--were not infrequently compared with knights (due to their public and societal obligations as well as their work). This comparison even moved Queen Elizabeth II to want to confer knighthood upon Alan Shepard (the first American in space, of course), after he commanded the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission. At the time he was on tour in Great Britain, acting (if I recall correctly) in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre group. When she expressed her desire to knight him, an aide told her that he couldn't be knighted because he wasn't a British subject. Instead, they created the status of honorary knighthood, and she made him an honorary knight. |
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Rectum? Darn near killed him! |
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My brother always say's this. Where is this from? |
It's from some old coot/geezer.
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