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Thread: Muhammad Ali, RIP
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Golden Key
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# 1468
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The great boxer, activist, and reputed founder of rap has died.*
I don't know what is said when a Muslim dies, but may he be welcomed into Paradise.
*Based on his old habit of speaking in rhythmic verse--"I'll float like a butterfly, and sting like a bee", etc.
-------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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May he punch the light out of deceased suicide bombers of all ilk, who, expecting virgins, undoubtedly won't be expecting him!
An interesting personality, very much part of the 60s and the 70s. He was always there, doing this or that. And most of it rather loudly.
May he rumble on in pleasant jungles, according to his belief.
-------------------- Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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quote: Originally posted by Wesley J: May he punch the light out of deceased suicide bombers of all ilk, who, expecting virgins, undoubtedly won't be expecting him!
Except he's in heaven; they're in the other place.
-------------------- "I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
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jacobsen
seeker
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quote: Originally posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe: quote: Originally posted by Wesley J: May he punch the light out of deceased suicide bombers of all ilk, who, expecting virgins, undoubtedly won't be expecting him!
Except he's in heaven; they're in the other place.
Not necessarily, if they acted in good faith. Was it George Forman who said on Radio 4 this morning that MA's room in Heaven would be next to God's master bedroom?
-------------------- But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy The man who made time, made plenty.
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Nicolemr
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# 28
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RIP
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Sioni Sais
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Bigger than boxing, bigger than sport and bigger than celebrity. As he said, he was the Greatest.
-------------------- "He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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mdijon
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# 8520
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quote: I’ve wrestled with alligators, I’ve tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I’m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean, I make medicine sick.
May it serve him well in his next encounters.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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The Greatest will always be the greatest.
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Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote: Originally posted by Sioni Sais: Bigger than boxing, bigger than sport and bigger than celebrity. As he said, he was the Greatest.
And so, so pretty.
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Squirrel
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He was one of the first sports personalities in the USA to really take what was at first an unpopular stand and have the balls to stay with it.
-------------------- "The moral is to the physical as three is to one." - Napoleon
"Five to one." - George S. Patton
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Egeria
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Yes, and a lot of people who criticized him at first came to respect him for it.
Not just a great athlete, but principled. And funny and smart. We'll miss him.
Rest in peace.
-------------------- "Sound bodies lined / with a sound mind / do here pursue with might / grace, honor, praise, delight."--Rabelais
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rolyn
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quote: Originally posted by Squirrel: He was one of the first sports personalities in the USA to really take what was at first an unpopular stand and have the balls to stay with it.
Indeed. Certainly worth repeating and something I'll remember him for, myself not being into boxing much.
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