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RobertSwanderson
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:15 pm 
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A thread celebrating Evel Knievel.

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Here is the full George Hamilton biopic from 1971. It's a featured movie in YouTube's film collection.

http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=8elyxNqFIEE

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Hugh
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:33 pm 
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I'll have to watch that.
I haven't seen it since I was a kid. Right smack in the middle of the Evel Knievel craze!
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Hugh
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:34 pm 
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I'll steer clear of Viva Knievel though. I saw that once, around the same time, and still feel queasy.
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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:35 pm 
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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:36 pm 
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What kind of parents name their son Evel, especially with a last name like Knievel?

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:42 pm 
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He was born Robert Craig Kneivel.

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RobertSwanderson
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:43 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
What kind of parents name their son Evel, especially with a last name like Knievel?


Well... if you would WATCH THE MOVIE...

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After a 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" ("awful" rhyming with "Knofel") so Knievel began to be referred to as Evel Knievel ("Evel" rhyming with "Knievel"). He chose this misspelling because of his last name and because he didn't want to be considered "evil".
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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:08 pm 
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We were just talking about him and watching Youtube videos yesterday about him.

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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Who's more of a badass? Evel Knievel, or Chuck Norris?

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Bubbles
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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Well, Chuck Norris has a third fist hiding under his beard, so I'll have to go with Norris on this one.

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Hugh
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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I'd say at this point in time, Chuck's more badass.
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Bubbles
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:40 pm 
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Well, Knievel is dead. That certainly counts against him. I was never alive for Evel Knievel's height of badassdom, but I would still have to say Norris is the more badass. Norris actually has martial arts skills and is pretty well built, Knievel's claim to fame was just putting his own body on the line, which I just do not see as being particularly badass. I really do not see any competition here.

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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Hugh wrote:
I'd say at this point in time, Chuck's more badass.


Norris was born two years after Knievel.

So when he was five, Knievel probably could've whipped Chuck Norris' ass.
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Hugh
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:46 pm 
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Bubbles wrote:
I was never alive for Evel Knievel's height of badassdom,

God I'm old.... :sigh: :cry:
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RobertSwanderson
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:50 pm 
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Hugh wrote:
Bubbles wrote:
I was never alive for Evel Knievel's height of badassdom,

God I'm lucky.... :yay: :dance:


Fixed.
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Simon
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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This man was a legend when I was a boy. I had tons of fun sending an action-figure Knievel through SKULL CANYON!!!!

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Knievel versus pseudo-sasquatch? Nothing could be finer. :lol:
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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:19 pm 
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Bubbles wrote:
He was born Robert Craig Kneivel.


A factoid which I first heard from my babysitter when I was around 7. That's what happens when your babysitters are a family of bikers....

I have lots of childhood Evel Knievel memories.

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:21 pm 
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I used to have this:

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I remember seeing commercials for that. Looked almost as cool as the Easy Bake Oven!

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
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That meddlin kid wrote:
Bolgani Gogo wrote:
I used to have this:

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I remember seeing commercials for that. Looked almost as cool as the Easy Bake Oven!


That is really cool. I wish some company would bring that back so I could buy one.
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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:43 pm 
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Didn't we do this thread before? Where is my post about my action figure with Evel in a pith helmet?

And that movie was posted about before. Same thread, I think.

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 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:58 pm 
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Since all of Norris stuff is made up and TV/movie oriented, I've got to go with Knievel being the bigger bad ass.

After breaking his pelvis the SECOND time, Knievel insists on walking out of Wembly Stadium.


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Bubbles
 Post subject: Evel Knievel
PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 10:11 pm 
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Hm. That is impressive.

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