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re: Fight Club: Fight a historical figure

Posted on 1/19/18 at 10:03 am to
Posted by HogX
Madison, WI
Member since Dec 2012
5065 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 10:03 am to
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He was 78in tall when the average height was 65.


Dude was supposedly freakishly strong too.

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"No little of Lincoln's influence with the men of New Salem can be attributed to his extraordinary feats of strength. By an arrangement of ropes and straps, harnessed about his hips, he was enabled one day at the mill to astonish a crowd of village celebrities by lifting a box of stones weighing near a thousand pounds." (Interrupting Herndon's account again, on page 154 of Ward H. Lamon's "The Life of Lincoln", one reads "Lincoln has often been seen in the old mill on the river bank to lift a box of stones weighing from one thousand to twelve hundred pounds."


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Posted by Bustedsack
Member since Dec 2017
4387 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 10:05 am to
Aureilus Maximus


Posted by kook
Berrytown
Member since Sep 2013
1902 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 10:06 am to
Danny Devito for a warm-up, then Helen Keller for the main event
Posted by X123F45
Member since Apr 2015
27480 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 11:41 am to
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By an arrangement of ropes and straps, harnessed about his hips, he was enabled one day at the mill to astonish a crowd of village celebrities by lifting a box of stones weighing near a thousand pounds.


If it was secured to his hips and forearms, that's basically a leg press. And 1k ain't shite.
This post was edited on 1/19/18 at 11:42 am
Posted by El Magnifico
La casa de tu mamá
Member since Jan 2014
7017 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 12:52 pm to
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he was enabled one day at the mill to astonish a crowd of village celebrities by lifting a box of stones weighing near a thousand pounds." (Interrupting Herndon's account again, on page 154 of Ward H. Lamon's "The Life of Lincoln", one reads "Lincoln has often been seen in the old mill on the river bank to lift a box of stones weighing from one thousand to twelve hundred pounds."
I call bullshite
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
15360 posts
Posted on 1/19/18 at 1:49 pm to
I’m calling bullshite on that lanky tyrannical piece of shite.
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