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Old 09-26-2007, 09:55 AM   #1
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Happy Birthday Jack

http://www.jacklalanne.com/biograph.html

93 years old today, and could still kick my butt!

Scroll down to the middle of the page - Nice ride for a geezer!
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Old 09-26-2007, 09:59 AM   #2
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

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1954 Age 40: Swam the length of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge underwater with 140 pounds of equipment, including two air tanks… an undisputed world record.

1955 Age 41: Swam handcuffed from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, CA.

1956 Age 42: Set a world record of 1,033 pushups in 23 minutes on "You Asked for It, a TV Show with Art Baker.

1957 Age 43: Swam the treacherous Golden Gate Channel, towing a 2,500-pound cabin cruiser. This involved fighting the cold, swift ocean currents that made the 1 mile swim a 6 ½ mile test of strength and endurance.

1958 Age 44: Maneuvered a paddleboard 30 miles, 9-½ hours non-stop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore.

1959 Age 45: Completed 1,000 pushups and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hours and 22 minutes. "Happy" is born and The Jack LaLanne Show goes nationwide

1974 Age 60: Swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf, for a second time handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat.

1975 Age 61: Swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater, for a second time handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat.

1976 Age 62: Commemorating the "Spirit of '76", swam 1 mile in Long Beach Harbor, handcuffed, shackled and towing 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.

1979 Age 65: Towed 65 boats filled with 6,500-pounds of Lousiana Pacific wood pulp while handcuffed and shackled in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan.

1980 Age 66: Towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida filled with 77 people for over a mile in less than 1 hour.

1984 Age 70: Handcuffed, shackled and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 boats with 70 people from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary for 1 ½ miles.
This dude is really into S&M while he swims. Creepy. And some of this stuff is impossible.
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Old 09-26-2007, 10:06 AM   #3
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

He actually visited my school when i was in 10th grade.... (3 years ago)
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Old 09-26-2007, 04:36 PM   #4
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

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when i was in 10th grade.... (3 years ago)
I was in the 10th grade 25 years ago......
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Old 09-26-2007, 05:31 PM   #5
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

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I was in the 10th grade with Cain and Able......
Fixed.
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Old 09-27-2007, 03:02 AM   #6
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Fixed.
What I really should have said was:

I was in the 10th grade when Silver was still shitting in his pants.... wait...that could have been yesterday....
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Old 09-26-2007, 02:57 PM   #7
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Sounds like one hell of an interesting guy.
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Old 09-26-2007, 08:13 PM   #8
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

nice... its great that we have such honest working citizens in here that would correct the truth for us young'ins (and stoke i'll spell that dang word any way that i freaking choose - Spelling Nazi!!!!)
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Old 09-26-2007, 08:14 PM   #9
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oooooo.. Stoke... can we hear the stories about having to walk 40 miles to get to school every morning in the snow uphill both ways? And did you REALLY have to dodge dinosaurs?
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Old 09-27-2007, 03:00 AM   #10
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did you REALLY have to dodge dinosaurs?
DODGE them? Hell no. We put saddles on them bee-atches and rode them to school.
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Old 09-27-2007, 09:44 AM   #11
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lol riding dino's... were camera's invented by then or do you have like a stone etching or something? or are we just expected to take your word for this?
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Old 09-27-2007, 09:47 AM   #12
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It was probably recorded on a cave wall somewhere with some vegetative based pigment....
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Old 09-27-2007, 11:32 AM   #13
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sweet... Amy's new mission to prove Stoke lived back when Dinosaurs ruled the Earth.
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Old 09-27-2007, 11:53 AM   #14
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Re: Happy Birthday Jack

Well of course he did...he lived back when the dinosaurs were an up and coming species with everything to prove!

The real trick is finding when stoke DIDN'T live...
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Old 09-27-2007, 12:54 PM   #15
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The real trick is finding when stoke DIDN'T live...
Stoke did not live the first 3 years that Sam lived.
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