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Title: Robert Wadlow, the Tallest Man in the World
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Published: Oct 6, 2008
Author: Turtle
Post Date: 2008-10-06 18:08:33 by Turtle
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Poster Comment: I was in Alton, Illinois over the weekend and stopped to look at the statue of Robert Wadlow in the park across from the dental school. He was 8'11" tall and weighed 490 pounds when he died at 22, from an infection in his ankle. Strangely, he never entered puberty.
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#1. To: Turtle (#0)
Never entered puberty? Man, he would have been a big 'un when his hormones started working!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He could have been a (cough) "movie star", by dropping the "low" from his name.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese
LOL!!!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It gets more competitive every day...
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
His pituitary problem prevented him from ever entering puberty. I wonder if he had the mind of an 11-year-old at age 22.
Freepers: hearts full of hate and cowardice, and skulls full, to quote a favorite saying of one of their favorite cowards, of mush.
Lord Acton
#2. To: James Deffenbach (#1)
#3. To: Flintlock (#2)
Lord Acton
#4. To: Flintlock (#2)
Common first names for surname Wodsworth:
William Wodsworth
#5. To: Flintlock (#2)
He could have been a (cough) "movie star", by dropping the "low" from his name.
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