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 He'll Jump the Pearly Gates - Evel Knievel Passes
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Legendary motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel, and the first extreme sportsman, passed away today at the age of 69. CNN Obit
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strange but not a stranger
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Didn't he and some rapper just settle their lawsuit? Mr. Knievel being the plaintiff.
He was a staple of the 70s.
RIP
Big Dog! Big Dog! Bow Wow Wow!
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I remember when he was THE big deal, back in the mid-70s.
The childhood friend Exnihil never had.
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Fabulous and Sparkly!
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For my seventh birthday, my parents gave me my first watch: an Evel Knievel watch. I wasn't a big fan--and I often suspected my parents of getting it for me to encourage me to be interested in "boy" things; nevertheless, that gave him a special place in my heart.
Requiescat in pace.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
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He doesn't live that far from me. I used to love this guy when I was a kid.
RIP Evel Knievel
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This is sad another legend from my childhood gone.
I remember a couple of years ago I was helping my brother dig a drainage ditch by the barn for my dad at the old homestead when we uncovered an Evel Knievel action figure we had lost when we were kids,and the childhood memories came back of when our favorite uncle who had recently passed at the time had bought us one each for christmas and how we used to play with them.
It's just to bad we didnt find the motorcycle.
RIP Evel you were one of a kind.
I tried to rip their soul out.I tried to make them forget Superman.
But they won't.
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Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
Didn't he and some rapper just settle their lawsuit? Mr. Knievel being the plaintiff.
He was a staple of the 70s.
RIP Kayne (or however you spell it) West. Evel sued him over the use of his image on one of West's albums or in a video.
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69 isn't very old - but that guy must have had some good luck in addition to skill to not bite it at 39.
Holy Cats of Egypt!
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Watching a documentary from 2005 with a lot of great footage and Evel doing most of the storytelling himself. Absolute Evel, aired on The History Channel this weekend. Glad I caught it. Brought back a lot of childhood memories of watching his jumps on TV, especially the Snake River attempts.
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Oh man, who in their 40's/50's (now) DIDn't fly a bike off a ramp because of Knievel?
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