He was reported to have spoken nine other languages fluently, and with dozens of others he is said to have had at least basic knowledge.
I'm currently teaching myself Portuguese in preparation for our move to Brazil, so I'd love to have this man's physical brain's ability to learn a language like he did so I could knock out a lot of the groundwork in one day. Additionally, he also had in-depth knowledge of ethnology, archaeology, numismatics, and astronomy. From the website I'm plagiarizing right now, "He was such a well-known linguistic genius that when he died, people all over Europe vied for his skull."
- Doc
Yeah, being a great linguist would be an awesome choice too. Linguistic ability often goes hand in hand with great musical ability--especially in the case of great opera singers, because they often need to be conversant in several languages.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison
MeDotOrg wrote:So whose physical abilities would you experience for a day?
John Holmes's.
how about John Dough? Horst Schultz? Mo Ka Wang? or perhaps just - Masanobu Soto?
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Markk wrote:I thought of that, but I think it would hurt to much to cut it down to size.
Hah, I see what you did there. :-)
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Wow, I had no idea who this was...that dude is scary. LOL..man, I googled him. and at first I saw he dead lifted 500 pounds and thought big deal! , then I saw my mistake that it was 500 kilos...1102 pounds, half a ton.
Markk wrote:Edit...watch that last link...his eyes were bleeding and he was out of it...even the next day he was a mess...unbelievable.
Yeah, his final lift ended up causing a brain bleed.
There's a good documentary on him called "Eddie - Strongman." It has this awesome part in it when he has to take a plane. He gets to his seat, looks at others on the row, kind of shrugs and says "sorry." Had me cracking up.
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
