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Not a bad choice. Traipsing about the Aussie top end on horseback mostly. Droving, station manager, prospecting, horse racing, drinking, professional hunting, horse breaking, living off the land..... That was all before he packed up and shipped off to try his hand in Papua New Guinea!!!
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Jeremiah Johnson,even though fictional,I would loved to have lived during that period and experienced all those adventures.
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Winston Churchill....he did it all, and usually had a good cigar in his mouth while doing it.
Proudly representing oil companies, defense contractors, and firearms manufacturers since 1980. Because merchants of death need lawyers, too.
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Jeremiah Johnson was the movie name for a real man. John 'Liver Eatin' Johnson. His life is told in the book 'Crow Killer' you can get it from Amazon.
The stuff in the movie was toned down from what Johnson really did. He was an incredably BAD ASS. I can't beleve anyone would what to have lived his life. Do you really want to find your wife and baby butchered and wind up eating biscuts and Indian liver? Spend 20 years waging war on the Crow Nation from Canada to Mexico? Prolly not.
Thor never had to do any of that.
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Too old to suffer fools
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Winston Churchill....he did it all, and usually had a good cigar in his mouth while doing it. Excellent choice !
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I'd like to be Abe Lincoln with a sense of humor and then say "SIKE!!!" I joke. 
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The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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A few come to mind.
Marcus Aurelius - emperor at the height of Imperial Rome's power and an all around cool guy
Any of eleven of Jesus' disciples - just not Judas. Yeah, I know, they mostly came to bad and painful ends but it would be worth it to see and hear things first hand.
Chuck Yeager - WWII ace, broke the sound barrier, another all around neat guy.
Thomas Jefferson - too many reasons to list.
Most any Sioux warrior in the late 1700's - early 1800's when the horse culture was at its height and the white man was just a rumor.
Lao Tse, supposedly the author of the Tao te Ching.
Pericles - Grecian counterpart to Marcus in Greece's golden age.
Me - if I could start over on a particular night in Sept. 1970 and go from there.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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Catherine the Great's horse.
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Hey tex, hows the ankle doing? Any better? Well earlier the doc asked how bad the pain was on a scale of one to ten and I said 'seven'. It's maybe 6.5 at the moment. Thanks for asking.  To further the thread-jack... Is "ten" options for the amount of pain you're in not give you enough choices; such that you have to add the ".5" to "6". As one that is "in the biz". Nothing annoys me more when asking pain level than "X.5/10" Really? Wait I take that back, someone saying "12/10" as their pain level, that annoys me more.
If anything I state appears to be medical advice, I am not a doctor; be sure to contact your family physician before making any changes in your medical regimine.
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I would be me. I am a legend in my own mind.  Heck, I have messed up my own life well enough I don't need to mess up someone who if famous.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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Harry Truman
There would only be the United States of Earth.
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
MOLON LABE
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Know fat, know flavor. No fat, no flavor.
I tried going vegan, but then realized it was a big missed steak.
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That is actually funny, Chuck Norris wants to be me! Now I actualy thought of being John C. Holmes,(Johnny Wadd) cause he got lots of women, but I don't think I would like having a smaller "wang" 
"The 375HH is the greatest level of power you can get for the investment in recoil." (JJHack)
79s and losttrail, biggest waste of air.
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Harry Truman
There would only be the United States of Earth. NAH! There would be the Kingdom of "Canada" and we would allow a USA area for the rest of you. 
"The 375HH is the greatest level of power you can get for the investment in recoil." (JJHack)
79s and losttrail, biggest waste of air.
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You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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Trump Won!
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Member: Clan of the Turdlike People.
Courage is Fear that has said its Prayers
�If we ever forget that we are one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.� Ronald Reagan.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
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Why? Since you started posting predictions you've made 25,000+ his equal...
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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Teddy Roosevelt for me.
Go to Harvard for a year, fight in a war and survive, win a Nobel Peace price, become President of the US, kill a lot of stuff with cool rifles. Have you read "River of Doubt?" I was going to say Roosevelt too, but...he had a LOT of heartache in his life. He was a cool dude though.
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