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(Road Runner @ Sep. 18 2010,05:30) A Frenchman who lost all his limbs in an electrical accident will attempt to swim the English Channel on Saturday.
He must have some tounge....!
RR.
He actually managed to do it in 13 hours and a half. He had thought to be able to do it in about 24 hours.
By The Associated Press
PARIS - A Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated swam across the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached.
Philippe Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours €” and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half.
"I did it, I'm happy, I'm so happy, I can't believe it, it's crazy," he told France-Info radio, sounding giddy on arrival late Saturday.
Three dolphins joined him for a while.
"We took that as a sign of good luck," the swimmer's father, Gerard Croizon, told The Associated Press.
Philippe Croizon set off from Folkestone on the British side of the English Channel and arrived near the French town of Wissant. At the narrowest point, the crossing is about 34 kilometres.
Croizon's specially designed leg protheses, which end in flippers, allow him to propel himself through the water. His truncated upper arms go through the motions of the crawl, and he breathes through a snorkel.
The swimmer lost his arms and legs after suffering an electric shock in 1994 as he stood on a ladder adjusting his television antenna, which touched a power line.
Croizon made headlines in 2007 for parachuting from an airplane. He wrote a book about his experiences called "J'ai decide de vivre" (I Decided to Live.)
Maybe I sound insensitive but its not the case at all. I do care! But if I had to live my whole life based on how everyone might be sensitive to me.. I would not be living my life as I want it. So you can accept me and my flaws as I am or you can't.
Could be missing from the Church of England forums from now on.....
The spiritual head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Rowan Williams, backed gay people becoming bishops on Saturday as long as they remain celibate, risking more divisions within the Church on the issue.
Ladyboys next..? It would bring a whole new meaning to the phrase de-frocked bishop!
RR.
(In the UK bishop is used as an oblique reference to a cock.)
Pedants rule, OK. Or more precisely, exhibit certain of the conventional trappings of leadership.
"I love the smell of ladyboy in the morning." Kahuna
still far from 2000 posts, I thought this thread would make it long time ago. I guess we all got bored with it.
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
"Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction." ~ Anton Myrer
We lost this thread's leading poster and there went the motivation.
Maybe I sound insensitive but its not the case at all. I do care! But if I had to live my whole life based on how everyone might be sensitive to me.. I would not be living my life as I want it. So you can accept me and my flaws as I am or you can't.
Well, I had a little nigger and he wouldn't grow no bigger,
So I took him to the Wild West Show,
And he fell out the window and he broke his little finger,
So he couldn't play his old banjo,
Fare thee well, fare thee well
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm goin' to Louisiana for to see my Susi-anna
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day.
I hid behind the barn down on my knees,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day,
When I thought I heard a chicken sneeze
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day.
It sneezed so hard with a whooping cough
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day,
That she sneezed her head and her tail right off,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day.
Fare thee well, fare thee well
Fare thee well my fairy fay
For I'm goin' to Louisiana for to see my Susi-anna
Sing Polly Wolly Doodle all the day.
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
"Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction." ~ Anton Myrer
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