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If so how would you describe him?
My dad saw him sitting in a hotel bar once when he was on a business trip. Said his hand made the beer can look like a salt shaker.
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I met him at the Silverdome in 1987. He was a big dude.
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Saw him a few months before he died. He did not look well at all, and really didn't wrestle.
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this thread is useless without graphic evidence.
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If so how would you describe him?
My dad saw him sitting in a hotel bar once when he was on a business trip. Said his hand made the beer can look like a salt shaker.
You mean, besides onlyme? 8)
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I had the honor of seeing him wrestle at the LA Sports Arena in the late 80's...
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Heard the man could down 60 12oz beers like nothing
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I met him at the Silverdome in 1987. He was a big dude.
My cousin went to that one. I couldn't go... :'( :'(
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HE WAS GOOD IN HONEYCOMBS CEREALS COMMERICAL!
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seemed like a nice guy in real life.
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My cousin went to that one. I couldn't go... :'( :'(
I had backstage passes cuz my moms friend was a ring girl or something. I met a few of the wrestlers, Andre was sitting down but he still looked huge.
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i was at LAX airport when i was just a kid. my brother and i spotted andre and ran up to him. " andre the giant, andre the giant, can we have a autograph? " . his reply was a thunderous " NOOOOOO " . what an asshole.
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one of the greatest athletes of all time. was undefeated for many many years. and nobody could slam him until hogan got lucky.
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i was at LAX airport when i was just a kid. my brother and i spotted andre and ran up to him. " andre the giant, andre the giant, can we have a autograph? " . his reply was a thunderous " NOOOOOO " . what an asshole.
he's an asshole for that? maybe you're an asshole and he just didnt' like you?
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i was 8
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i was 8
So you were an asshole at a young age.
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So you were an asshole at a young age.
yes.
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I met him but it was after he was alive.
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You mean, besides onlyme? 8)
Haha lets see if he decides to share his story about the time he challanged Andre to an "all you can eat" Buffett at the Hungry Lion.
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as opposed to channeling andre now that he's dead? :o i met bruno samartino and ivan putski back in the 80's.
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Arnold met him.
(http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/1474/andrewiltarnold4zr.jpg)
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Arnold met him.
(http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1753/arnolddwarfedrj7.jpg)
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Boooobbbbbyyyyyyy!!!!!
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Arnold met him.
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_kK2QxSiL4ZM/R97Cupen5MI/AAAAAAAALZY/toj3tS5_dtM/s1600-h/Andr%C3%A9Roussimoff%26WiltChamberlain%26ArnoldSchwarzenegger.jpg)
(http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/1474/andrewiltarnold4zr.jpg)
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Arnold met him.
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_kK2QxSiL4ZM/R97Cupen5MI/AAAAAAAALZY/toj3tS5_dtM/s1600-h/Andr%C3%A9Roussimoff%26WiltChamberlain%26ArnoldSchwarzenegger.jpg)
(http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/1474/andrewiltarnold4zr.jpg)
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Only through TV and the internet. He was a nice guy.
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Yes, my old school took some of us to a WWF match as a reward for something that I can't remember. Well, Andre was hanging around the entrance to the arena, some kids saw him and badgered him into coming over for a second. He was brusque, but nice enough.
He was comically huge, the one thing that stands out in my mind was the size of his hands, he rested a hand on a fellow's shoulder, and it looked like a bunch of bananas.
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I met William Shatner.
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holy SHIT
Andre to the Right.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/mabrowndog/Misc%20001/GiantAmongUs.jpg)
(http://www.trashcity.org/ARTICLES/pics/cac2004c.jpg)
(http://ttp://www.ddtdigest.com/features/buchanan/pictures/giant001.jpg)
(http://www.ddtdigest.com/features/buchanan/pictures/giant003.jpg)
(http://www.ddtdigest.com/features/buchanan/pictures/giant004.jpg)
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The little guy above is 200+ pounds.
(http://www.dory-funk.com/andre-100.jpg)
The andre the giant documentary is great.
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"andre" looked like a pile of giant shits.
::)
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(http://www.geocities.com/hchong78/jigsaw.jpg)
fav wrestler when i was a kid.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/mabrowndog/Misc%20001/GiantAmongUs.jpg)
Normal 33cl can lol.
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"andre" looked like a pile of giant shits.
::)
He is probably sorry in his grave that he didnt look like a bodybuilder so he could please your homo fantasies ::) ::)
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Am I the only guy who wonders what his penis looked like?
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Am I the only guy who wonders what his penis looked like?
One time when Andre where at a pub drinking these guys wanted to armwrestle him but ANdre only wanted to be left alone..
Anyway they kept on bugging him and bugging him..
So after a while andre left the bar, went outside, spotted their car, flipped it upside down and left.
Then the police came and they didnt believe the guys when they said a "giant flipped over their car" lol.
Well it went almost like that, from the documentary =)
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Couple of good tales about andre i ve heard
Theres some classic tale of him rolling into his hotel in teh early hours drunk mortal and falling asleep in teh foyer. When the staff went to await him he was out cold and obviously moving him was out of the question so they took the sheet used to cover the piano in the lounge, draped it over him and placed a "please walk around" sign in front of him, lol.
Then the one hogan recounts when its was andres b day and they were touring japan on a coach. Hogan bough him a case of six bottles of wine as a present and according to hogan, an hr later the bus stopped. Hogan thought it was strange as they had miles to go but it was because andre needed a piss after drinking all SIX bottles!
According to hogan andre wrestled that night as if he'd been drinking water all day.
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Couple of good tales about andre i ve heard
Theres some classic tale of him rolling into his hotel in teh early hours drunk mortal and falling asleep in teh foyer. When the staff went to await him he was out cold and obviously moving him was out of the question so they took the sheet used to cover the piano in the lounge, draped it over him and placed a "please walk around" sign in front of him, lol.
Then the one hogan recounts when its was andres b day and they were touring japan on a coach. Hogan bough him a case of six bottles of wine as a present and according to hogan, an hr later the bus stopped. Hogan thought it was strange as they had miles to go but it was because andre needed a piss after drinking all SIX bottles!
According to hogan andre wrestled that night as if he'd been drinking water all day.
LOL,
yes there are some Crazy drinking storys in the documentary ;D
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"Back in 1979, my mom worked at a hotel as a receptionist where all the wrestlers stayed when they came into town to wrestle. This one day Andre the Giant came up to the desk to sign himself in and my mom commented on his necklace. It was gold and silver with his name on it and it made a choker on him bless his heart. My mom said to him "What a cool necklace!" Andre replied as he started taking the necklace off, "Here, you can have it. You want it?" Well my mom hurriedly shook her head no and gave her word of thanks. It was about 3 months later when Andre was back in town for another match. Upon his visit, he approached her and reached into his pocket as said with a big grin "This is for you," then handed her a bracelet that looked exactly like his necklace only with her name on it. She told me he put it on her any everything. She gave the bracelet to me as I am a huge Andre fan. She said he was really sweet and he was a true gentleman. He did not forget the good comments and the good people. His heart was just simply too big for his body.... RIP Andre. We miss you!
~ Shortypie Amy "
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I used to work for Capitol wrestling and one night at Nassau Colesium in NY i was approched by a gentleman telling me his 8 yr old son was nearly blind and wanted to meet a wrestler. I took the child backstage and standoing there was Andre. He called the young boy over to him, gave him autographic, picked him up in the air, played with him for 5 mins. Needless to say yhis little boy was in his glory. Not only was Andre big in size, but his heart was bigger than his body. He loved people. ~Fred
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I met him when he was in his NWA days. I used to see him in town because my dad was friends with Johnny Walker who was Mr Wrestling 2 and Andre often traveled around with 2 at times.
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I had backstage passes cuz my moms friend was a ring girl or something. I met a few of the wrestlers, Andre was sitting down but he still looked huge.
Nice. I did get to Wrestlemania in 2007 when it was at Ford Field. Wasn't too bad...would've been a lot more fun if I was about 15 years younger.
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Nice. I did get to Wrestlemania in 2007 when it was at Ford Field. Wasn't too bad...would've been a lot more fun if I was about 15 years younger.
I went there as well. Took my nephew. It was ok, kind of funny seeing Vince get his head shaved.
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i wonder what his shit looked like, i bet he was a legendary toilet clogging machine
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i wonder what his shit looked like, i bet he was a legendary toilet clogging machine
supposedly a friends mom cleaned up his shit at a hotel. Most toilets couldn't handle his weight so he'd shit in the bathtub.
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supposedly a friends mom cleaned up his shit at a hotel. Most toilets couldn't handle his weight so he'd shit in the bathtub.
bullshit
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My dad is a retired wrestler he knew Andre well.
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My dad is a retired wrestler he knew Andre well.
Excellent pic Karl. I hope that is nicely framed.
/just cracked me one off ;D
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i have a buch of old pics of my old man lying around
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My dad is a retired wrestler he knew Andre well.
Pretty sweet midriff.
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not to sound stupid but whats that
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not to sound stupid but whats that
The cutoff shirt.
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oh ya LOL thats kinda gay. But that was the 70's I guess
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oh ya LOL thats kinda gay. But that was the 70's I guess
Lol, cool pic though.
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thanks
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I met him after he was alive...so dont know If that counts...
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/just cracked me one off ;D
Beat me to it (my favorite line on getbig)
I remember the guys on "The Man Show" giving Andre a "Most Manly" type of award and beginning it with, "Our Most Manly Man ironically comes from the least manly of all countries...France"
I'm sure that Andre would have gotten killed in MMA because he has "no ground skills" or so seems to be the conventional wisdom among "cage fighters"
I actually got to see Andre face to face in 1987 at the Capital Center...I wanted to shake his hand but didn't get a chance.
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My dad is a retired wrestler he knew Andre well.
There is a debate going on at celebheights.com as to the TRUE height of Andre The Giant. He was no more than 7'0". Some say 6'11.5". How tall was your dad in that picture? That will give us a good idea of Andre's TRUE height. thanks.
Dan
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six two my dad said Andre was about seven one.
Beat me to it (my favorite line on getbig)
Thank you
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hulk hogan has also mentioned how andre, being too large for the tiny hotel rooms in japan, would be forced to shit on the bed when he got too drunk to correctly position himself in the bathroom
great stuff
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hulk hogan has also mentioned how andre, being too large for the tiny hotel rooms in japan, would be forced to shit on the bed when he got too drunk to correctly position himself in the bathroom
great stuff
A man who shits himself on the bed. ::)
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i remember when Andre and myself were competing in a thumb wars tournament against each other! You should have seen the look on Christie Brinkley's face when Andre begged her to lick his asshole. Me and Don Knots couldn't stop laughing.
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i remember when Andre and myself were competing in a thumb wars tournament against each other! You should have seen the look on Christie Brinkley's face when Andre begged her to lick his asshole. Me and Don Knots couldn't stop laughing.
So hows the diet going keith? :D
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So hows the diet going keith? :D
Keith is busy laying down the tracks for the new GNR album.
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Keith is busy laying down the tracks for the new GNR album.
Haha ;D
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my nieghbor is bigger than andre was,my neighbor is called giant silva,you mma guys know who im talking about,hiswife is only 5ft 4 so it looks really funny when they are together in pathmark shopping on the weekends
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hulk hogan has also mentioned how andre, being too large for the tiny hotel rooms in japan, would be forced to shit on the bed when he got too drunk to correctly position himself in the bathroom
great stuff
Very nice
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Very nice
:D
he loved the tiny japanese girls, too. he was crazy for that stuff ;D
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my nieghbor is bigger than andre was,my neighbor is called giant silva,you mma guys know who im talking about,hiswife is only 5ft 4 so it looks really funny when they are together in pathmark shopping on the weekends
Prove that he is your neighbor.
I think andre had bigger hands though =)
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i don't know if it has been brought up yet but Andre was considered (next to Haku) as the toughest, legit guy in the business
So, even in the time when Billy Robinson and other legit "hookers" were still running- andre and haku were the top tough guys
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i don't know if it has been brought up yet but Andre was considered (next to Haku) as the toughest, legit guy in the business
So, even in the time when Billy Robinson and other legit "hookers" were still running- andre and haku were the top tough guys
How you think he would fair against Lesnar? Both in their primes.
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How you think he would fair against Lesnar? Both in their primes.
seriously, i think they would both beat the shit out of lesnar, if they were in their respective primes.
haku could DEFINITELY beat the shit out of lesner
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seriously, i think they would both beat the shit out of lesnar, if they were in their respective primes.
haku could DEFINITELY beat the shit out of lesner
Lesnar is a real fighter though, those two were just make believe fighters.
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Lesnar is a real fighter though, those two were just make believe fighters.
in my eyes, Lesnar still hasn't beaten anyone
he beat a jobber in K1
he wasn't convincing (in my eyes) against Herring
He has a GREAT amateur career
HAKU is a legendary tough guy ask ANYONE in the know
modify: he beat that jabroni in K1, my bad
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in my eyes, Lesnar still hasn't beaten anyone
he lost to a jobber in K1
he wasn't convincing (in my eyes) against Herring
He has a GREAT amateur career
HAKU is a legendary tough guy ask ANYONE in the know
:D
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:D
fixed
my bad
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ill post a pic or 2 of the giant when he walks by or i see him at pathmark when im shopping
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ill post a pic or 2 of the giant when he walks by or i see him at pathmark when im shopping
Bookmarked. Can't wait for the pic...