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Offline Tachyon

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Alton
« on: March 31, 2008, 06:19:57 PM »
Apparently Alton Illinois is not only home to the world's tallest Dino Allsman, but it was also home to the world's tallest man, period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pershing_Wadlow
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Re: Alton
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2008, 06:30:57 PM »
People used to kick him in the ankles because they thought he was walking on some kind of stilts under his pants.

*This piece of trivia provided by my 7th grade history teacher.
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Re: Alton
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2008, 08:31:24 PM »
That probably didn't help him stay alive, as his brace dug into his leg and caused his eventual death.
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Re: Alton
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2008, 08:44:19 PM »
OMG, Fark got haxed!
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Re: Alton
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2008, 06:51:10 AM »
1.  ...and what does that have to do with Alton?

2.  it's April Fool's Day...i thought Fark always pretended to be haxed on April Fool's day.
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Re: Alton
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2008, 07:02:07 AM »
Quote from: rbcp on March 31, 2008, 08:44:19 PM
OMG, Fark got haxed!

Oh.  Whoops.  Wrong thread.
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Re: Alton
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2008, 04:49:30 PM »
Don't move it to the right one or anything
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