My gawd. No second chance at Snake River.
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
I remember when he was being interviewed by Jim Rome and was asked why he would perform a stunt where he knew he had a 50% chance of dying and he replied “Do you know who I am?”
Classic.
RIP Evel “Freaking” Knieval
109 posted on
11/30/2007 2:02:57 PM PST by
Gator101
(Don't tase me, Bro!)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
110 posted on
11/30/2007 2:03:22 PM PST by
StoneWall Brigade
("A nation which dose not remeber what it was yesterday dose not know where it is today... R.E. Lee)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
After one particular police chase in 1956 in which he crashed his motorcycle, Knievel was taken to jail on a charge of reckless driving. When the night jailer came around to check the roll, he noted Robert Knievel in one cell and William Knofel in the other. Knofel was well known as “Awful Knofel,” so Knievel began to be referred to as Evel Knievel. The nickname stuck.
—Wikepedia
117 posted on
11/30/2007 2:20:33 PM PST by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
121 posted on
11/30/2007 2:29:06 PM PST by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
To: Tulsa Ramjet
That’s sad.
He was a good guy. He did crazy things but he was very down to earth. He was an old fashioned guy that couldn’t resist a dare that required some stones.
Hope he’s in heaven ... .
R.I.P.
124 posted on
11/30/2007 2:35:26 PM PST by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
He was truly amazing. Did unbelievable jumps. He’s on the big jump now.
To: JRios1968
“Do you know who the hell I am?” Evel Knievel ping.
A true legend.
}:-)4
128 posted on
11/30/2007 2:38:35 PM PST by
Moose4
(Wasting away again in Michaelnifongville.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet; Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Allegra; pax_et_bonum; Eaker; TheMom; anymouse; ...
Who’da thought Evel would leave us in so mundane a manner?
RIP, Mr. Knievel. This child of the ‘70s will miss ya.
129 posted on
11/30/2007 2:46:53 PM PST by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: qam1
To: Tulsa Ramjet
Great Evel quote from an interview with Huddlin' motorcycle shop:
Huddlin’: Did you ever have fear making those jumps?
Knievel: Of course, but you do it. When you see a kid with a T-shirt that says, "No Fear" you're looking at a dingbat. You wouldn't need a brain if you didn't fear things.
Courage is overcoming your natural fear, not denying the existence of the fear. The guy was a character and one of the great embodiments of American spirit
To: Tulsa Ramjet
RIP. He’s crossing the biggest canyon of ‘em all.
138 posted on
11/30/2007 2:55:13 PM PST by
pogo101
To: Tulsa Ramjet
142 posted on
11/30/2007 3:05:16 PM PST by
rockrr
(Global warming is to science what Islam is to religion)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
No more like him. He kind of makes today's X-treme Supports seem not so X-treme.
Apparently I got to meet the guy when I was about 1 year old. He asked my dad to design a rocket engine for the Snake River Canyon jump so from what I am told he was actually at my house.
144 posted on
11/30/2007 3:17:28 PM PST by
Daus
To: Tulsa Ramjet
RIP to a childhood hero.
May God bless Evel Knievel and his family.
To: Tulsa Ramjet
152 posted on
11/30/2007 5:29:06 PM PST by
WV Mountain Mama
(Every time engineers build something idiot-proof, man builds a better idiot.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet; MikefromOhio
Probably my favorite Evel moment was when he went on Jim Rome’s radio show. The conversation, naturally enough, turned to the Snake River jump, and Evel allowed as how it’d been figured he had a fifty-fifty chance of getting killed in that stunt.
Rome asks, more or less, “Well, if you knew you had a coin-flip chance of getting killed doing that jump, why’d you do it?”
Evel replies, just as calm and matter-of-fact as you please (and this is a direct, word-for-word quote):
“You know who the hell I am?”
155 posted on
11/30/2007 6:52:29 PM PST by
RichInOC
(...R.I.P.)
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160 posted on
11/30/2007 7:49:48 PM PST by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
169 posted on
11/30/2007 10:05:32 PM PST by
wardaddy
(former shrew tamer who has given up and decided to be subservient)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
Rest in peace Evel; you were the best.
172 posted on
11/30/2007 10:30:55 PM PST by
afnamvet
(Duncan Hunter in 08)
To: Tulsa Ramjet
I had him autograph (in paint) the gas tank of my Honda 750 back in 1972. I sold the bike with a new tank installed, I kept the original, and still have it.
174 posted on
12/01/2007 1:37:08 PM PST by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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