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Title: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Boost on May 06, 2008, 04:06:39 PM
Whats goin on here ???
(http://www.sandowmuseum.com/sandowlift.gif)
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: titusisback on May 06, 2008, 04:10:22 PM
Solid dude. He must be on bee pollen
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: JohnnyVegas on May 06, 2008, 04:10:49 PM
Whats goin on here ???
(http://www.sandowmuseum.com/sandowlift.gif)

Well, if you look real, real close you will see that you cannot see the ENDS of the plank.......  ::)

Solid dude. He must be on bee pollen

Did they have D-Bol back then???
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: titusisback on May 06, 2008, 04:12:50 PM
I call bullshit; the bar bends wrong way! Those people must be made out of aluminum
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: JohnnyVegas on May 06, 2008, 04:18:01 PM
I call bullshit; the bar bends wrong way! Those people must be made out of aluminum

There are 18 adults, one child, and a dog on that plank-why is is bending UPWARDS?


If everyone averaged 100#, that would be 2000# total, no fucking way!
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Moosejay on May 06, 2008, 04:22:01 PM
I am sure most of you know who Sandow was...famous strong man...billed himself as strongest in the world...but  he was not. Much of what he did was entertainment and not based on reality
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Ursus on May 06, 2008, 04:22:18 PM
1. it looks like a poster for a circus or summat. look at the hairy boy etc.

2. its only a poster for gods sake.

3. it doesnt bend upwards its the shape of the stone.

4. its only a poster
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: dr.chimps on May 06, 2008, 04:32:02 PM
1. it looks like a poster for a circus or summat. look at the hairy boy etc.

2. its only a poster for gods sake.

3. it doesnt bend upwards its the shape of the stone.

4. its only a poster
Hmm. I think the lad is in blackface. And Sandow was with Flo Ziegfeld (the ent. empresario) for years, so I would assume the others are also in this troupe and this is just a publicity shot.

/i could be dead wrong, tho
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: m8 on May 06, 2008, 04:32:13 PM
1. it looks like a poster for a circus or summat. look at the hairy boy etc.

2. its only a poster for gods sake.

3. it doesnt bend upwards its the shape of the stone.

4. its only a poster

"hairy boy"? looks like a black man to me.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Ursus on May 06, 2008, 04:42:33 PM
i thought he was one of those really hairy peopl...not mexicans the ones in the guinnes book of records.

his face and hair look funny.

yes a publicity shot.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Moosejay on May 06, 2008, 04:45:19 PM
Hmm. I think the lad is in blackface. And Sandow was with Flo Ziegfeld (the ent. empresario) for years, so I would assume the others are also in this troupe and this is just a publicity shot.

/i could be dead wrong, tho

No, pretty much your words ring true
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Tapeworm on May 06, 2008, 04:47:46 PM
Isn't that Jack Torrence and Grady Walker at the back?  Good times.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: the_swami on May 06, 2008, 06:49:24 PM
all drugs LOL
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: dr.chimps on May 06, 2008, 07:02:34 PM
Isn't that Jack Torrence and Grady Walker at the back?  Good times.
Nice one. Maybe Lloyd will set us up with a few?  ;)
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: TrueGrit on May 06, 2008, 07:08:37 PM
the pic is genuine. he was very strong
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Disgusted on May 06, 2008, 07:39:50 PM
There are 18 adults, one child, and a dog on that plank-why is is bending UPWARDS?


If everyone averaged 100#, that would be 2000# total, no fucking way!

It's not bending upwards  ::) it's sagging in the middle you dumbass.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: arce377 on May 07, 2008, 12:39:58 AM
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Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Tapeworm on May 07, 2008, 04:34:36 AM
Nice one. Maybe Lloyd will set us up with a few?  ;)

White man's burden, doc.  White man's burden.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: dr.chimps on May 07, 2008, 04:41:49 AM
White man's burden, doc.  White man's burden.
Haha. You are on, today. Have one on me.  :)
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Triple-H_2005 on May 07, 2008, 05:58:39 AM
Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd. ;D
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: fathead on May 07, 2008, 06:00:18 AM
the kid sitting down on the left is in blackface!!
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: TrueGrit on May 07, 2008, 06:01:38 AM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=213808.0;attach=250336;image)

He big boss. He big genius. He design your mind, your brain.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Moosejay on May 07, 2008, 06:58:30 AM
Unfortunately, Sandow passed away from what was reportedly syphilis...although others have tried to romanticize his death by avering that he died shortly after lifting a car out of a ditch.

He lived a lonely and loveless life to the end...and his family refused to erect a headstone at his burial site.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: dr.chimps on May 07, 2008, 07:14:46 AM
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=213808.0;attach=250336;image)

He big boss. He big genius. He design your mind, your brain.
Good catch. If pressed, maybe my favourite movie.  :)

"I'm not in the business. I am the business."

/back when she was awesome and not batshit crazy 
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: 240 is Back on May 07, 2008, 07:19:32 AM
I call bullshit; the bar bends wrong way! Those people must be made out of aluminum

The peolpe back then were made of some anti-gravity material.  Scientists still aren't sure.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: j3di3 on May 07, 2008, 07:32:42 AM
that picture has obviously been photoshopped
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: TrueGrit on May 07, 2008, 07:38:29 AM
that picture has obviously been photoshopped

It's real. He also squatted with it, ten times.

Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Moosejay on May 07, 2008, 07:39:58 AM
that picture has obviously been photoshopped

Not shopped.

I recal seeing this photo 30 years ago...no shopping then.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: TrueGrit on May 07, 2008, 07:41:56 AM
Good catch. If pressed, maybe my favourite movie.  :)

"I'm not in the business. I am the business."

/back when she was awesome and not batshit crazy 

(http://www.brmovie.com/Images/Characters/Gaff/BR_Gaff_Is_Enigmatic.jpg)

It's too bad she won't live! But then again who does?
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: El Diablo Blanco on May 07, 2008, 07:42:23 AM
I am sure most of you know who Sandow was...famous strong man...billed himself as strongest in the world...but  he was not. Much of what he did was entertainment and not based on reality

Isn't that what bodybuilding is?  Chick always states that it isn't how much you lift but how much you look like you can lift.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Stark on May 07, 2008, 07:44:39 AM
Well, if you look real, real close you will see that you cannot see the ENDS of the plank.......  ::)

Did they have D-Bol back then???


hahhahahah that was funny :D
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Tapeworm on May 07, 2008, 08:14:25 AM
Good catch. If pressed, maybe my favourite movie.  :)

"I'm not in the business. I am the business."

/back when she was awesome and not batshit crazy 

"What's a tortoise?"  :P

Interestingly, Ford and Scott hated one another and fought daily about the direction the film should take.  It's one of Ford's few roles that could have been better served by another actor IMO.  Daryll Hannah, as usual, should be seen and not heard.  Hauer totally stole the show.  The only man ever to out-spooky Walken (and again in The Hitcher).  My only real complaint is that they never answered whether robots do, in fact, dream of electric sheep.

Who's the actress?  What's her story doc?
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: BB on May 07, 2008, 11:25:19 AM
This could be a Back-Lift photo, one of those odd lifts one doesn't see all that much anymore. Basically, a platform is built across a few saw-horses, then it is loaded with baby elephants, safes, people.... Anything that is interesting, and will make a good show.

The lifter then gets under the platform and tries to lift and support the weight using his full body.

If you look at old records, you'll all types of crazy poundages being lifted in this lift(3000-4000lbs) regularly. Noted strength historian Dave Willoughby believed that a practiced strength man should have a back lift atleast 13 times his shoulder press. 


:).
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: no one on May 07, 2008, 11:42:55 AM
Whats goin on here ???
(http://www.sandowmuseum.com/sandowlift.gif)

if you look closely you'll see our very own Vince Goodrum sitting in the front row.
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: dr.chimps on May 07, 2008, 11:47:38 AM
"What's a tortoise?"  :P

Interestingly, Ford and Scott hated one another and fought daily about the direction the film should take.  It's one of Ford's few roles that could have been better served by another actor IMO.  Daryll Hannah, as usual, should be seen and not heard.  Hauer totally stole the show.  The only man ever to out-spooky Walken (and again in The Hitcher).  My only real complaint is that they never answered whether robots do, in fact, dream of electric sheep.

Who's the actress?  What's her story doc?
Hmm. The new, new 'director's' cut of the movie has a 3-hour documentary on the movie. A fan like me found it fascinating. The actress is Sean Young, in a still taken from the Deckard/Rachael interview at the beginning of the movie. Amazing what they can do with cgi these days, but everything in BR was done without such technology and it's dystopian world still holds up today. An Art sci-fi movie; not many of those around.     
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Team Diver on May 07, 2008, 11:56:52 AM
Are you all blind??!! Those are fake people!
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Banner on May 07, 2008, 12:00:49 PM
all drugs LOL

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Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: swilkins1984 on May 07, 2008, 12:07:07 PM
All that strength and he got killed from the strain of pulling his car out of a ditch? That pic is fake
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: titusisback on May 07, 2008, 12:17:00 PM
Are you all blind??!! Those are fake people!

I already pointed out those are aluminum people
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Team Diver on May 07, 2008, 12:43:13 PM
I already pointed out those are aluminum people

Sorry, you were absolutely right then!!
Title: Re: Story behind famous Sandow pic
Post by: Tapeworm on May 08, 2008, 03:27:11 AM
I already pointed out those are aluminum people

Skin Jobs, eh?  I'll have to check out the new director's cut.