Posted on 07/11/2013 1:25:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Most Interesting Man in the World, meet your match.
On Sunday, Twitter user Matthew Barrett created something of a sensation by linking to the obscure Wikipedia biography of the British army officer Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart. His tweet -- "This guy surely has the best opening paragraph of any Wikipedia biography ever" -- has been retweeted more than 3,200 times over the past several days.
So just how mind-blowing is the introduction? Judge for yourself:
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 - 5 June 1963), was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II, was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor wouldn't amputate them. He later said "frankly I had enjoyed the war." [2]
On Twitter, some are simply in awe, while others are pointing out that the rest of the bio is pretty stellar too:
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.foreignpolicy.com ...
An eyepatch and a moustache? The manliness is overpowering!
He has me shaken AND stirred!
He Kept Calm & Chived on - KCCO
His favorite bar had human ears nailed to the wall. He would ride a grizzly bear to this bar to enjoy his favorite libation: a ‘Brain Seizure.’
In the movie someone should’ve made about him he could’ve been played by Tom Selleck!
When you click on the link, a popup covers the material and will not go away unless you “sign up.” No thanks.
I read his bio on Wikipedia.
I’m pretty sure this gentleman was a hitherto unknown series of Terminator.
I can’t do much about that but go to the Wikipedia page.
It doesn’t say what kind of beer he drinks....
The British Chuck Norris?
Doesn’t compare to Harry Flashman’s record.
Dude was pretty hard core.
wikipedia his name.....very interesting gentleman
Sometime, if you Google the title, you can get the article without signing up.
Sometime, if you Google the title, you can get the article without signing up.
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“Stay thirsty, my friends.”
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