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How bad ass is your grandpa?

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skiierman
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this is mine during his career of tractor pulling, before picking up mini sprint cars, driving one of the most famous tractor pullers, the sassy massey. 1979-1985

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how bad ass is your grandpa?



Dec 22 2010 12:03AM
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corona
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mine's dead

asshole
Dec 22 2010 12:04AM
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skiierman
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and here's his cover shot...

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Dec 22 2010 12:05AM
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TaySwift
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i don't know if this is bad ass or not, but my grandpa faught with the german army in world war 2. He fought to protect germany, not to kill jews. if that's not cool enough, he died at 107 years old
Dec 22 2010 12:05AM
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skiierman
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your grandpa died at 107? did you guys skip a generation of birth or something?
Dec 22 2010 12:07AM
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Ducky.
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WW2 Vet. German Army, Captain of a Panzar division. KIA in Stalingrad
Dec 22 2010 12:08AM
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TaySwift
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well my dad is 58, im 14. it's kinda fucked
Dec 22 2010 12:08AM
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eldridge
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totally dead
Dec 22 2010 12:08AM
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dave44
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not my grandpa, but thought it was relevant

Dec 22 2010 12:09AM
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JamesR
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He used to stack gooks 5 feet high in Korea and use them as sand bags.
Dec 22 2010 12:13AM
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Mezmerize19
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Owned a limo company in NYC and we cant watch a movie made before 1970 without him saying he drove one of the actors.
Dec 22 2010 12:18AM
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TaySwift
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give him a fist bump for me when you see him next
Dec 22 2010 12:18AM
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m.brus
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He owned a potato farm. thats pretty badass
Dec 22 2010 12:20AM
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Hansel.
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My grandpa rolled off the side of an aircraft carrier in Korea.
Dec 22 2010 12:21AM
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[tk]
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ha not that badass at all. he pulled tractors. it's still way cool though

mine was the head engineer of the viking lander sent to mars

my other one has ran over 100 marathons, and still runs to this day. ran the new york marathon. #1 in his age group, +70. he is 83
Dec 22 2010 12:23AM
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whegrodamus.
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Helicopter pilot. Purple Heart in Nam. Mormon.
Dec 22 2010 12:28AM
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DockEllis
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My friend's grandpa packs balls of ground beef and eats it raw as he drinks whiskey straight. He is a huge badass
Dec 22 2010 12:28AM
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PowSkierCO
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My grandpa had a petting zoo with tigers and spider monkeys. it was near Patterson NJ. Dawney Park or something like that, he use to own. Downy Park maybe.
Dec 22 2010 12:30AM
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skiierman
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one of the many things he's done including serving his time in the armed services but there's some in here, including yours, that seem to be equally as bad ass.
Dec 22 2010 12:34AM
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introvert
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He used to race motorcycles.
Dec 22 2010 12:34AM
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XtRemE11
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my grandpa was one of the top 5-10 people designing and working on the hiroshima bomb.

he patented and designed a type of jet engine.

was the head of the experimental weapons and aircraft program at edwards airforce base. also was in charge of testing the atmosphere to find out what kind of bombs the russians were experimenting with. he was really good friends with chuck yeager, got to hang out with him all the time.
Dec 22 2010 12:39AM
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gr4
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took shrapnel in the ass from a kamikaze on his destroyer in ww2. didn't want the purple heart because he thought it would make him a pussy. skied pow at wolf creek everyday when he retired from being a judge. front flipped a cornice at 73 years old.
Dec 22 2010 12:40AM
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Arabian.
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My grandpa fought in the Korean war and WWII. He loves country music and talking about meeting Johnny Cash. I've played a guitar that Johnny Cash played that ma Grandpa owns. He now lives in California and hates on hippies all day.
Dec 22 2010 12:40AM
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skiierman
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your grandpa is fucking awesome.
Dec 22 2010 12:42AM
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TaySwift
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same , mine was in the 312th Artillery Division. didn't die
Dec 22 2010 12:46AM
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skiingperson1
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DICKTOWEL!
Dec 22 2010 12:47AM
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Jamestown
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My grandpa was the first American to climb Mt. Fuji after WWII.
Dec 22 2010 12:49AM
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Tolz
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My grandpa took this picture; he captained a B-29 in WWII and, when the photographer got scared because of the flak, Grandpa took his camera and started snapping pictures. This one ended up on the cover of Life Magazine.

http://oldlifemagazines.com/the-1940s/1944/december-04-1944-life-magazine.html
(Pic and Link thing isn't working for me.)
Dec 22 2010 12:50AM
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SPECK
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my grandpa invented the ski-doo and the sea-doo. no lie
Dec 22 2010 12:53AM
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sugarloaf
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never met my grandpa on my mom's side. he sounds badass though. flew B52 bombers in WWII. got shot down over germany and was a prisoner of war there for a while. tried to escape 3 times, made it out once but then turned himself back in cause he had no way of surviving otherwise. died in his 40s of cancer
Dec 22 2010 12:56AM
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all-i-do-is=ski
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my grandpa worked on the farm and fixed tractors and took care of the cows n shit, not bad ass but hes got lots of good stories

other grandpa was a helicopter pilot

Dec 22 2010 1:01AM
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skiierman
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even then man, your grandpa would have been over 50 giving birth to your dad... meaning he was 70 when your dad graduated HS.
Dec 22 2010 1:02AM
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Kellso
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my grandpa was in one of the most notorious biker gangs in minnasota... he is basically part of the hells angels the lovers club the eagles and many more he has many stories about kidnapping murders ect...
Dec 22 2010 1:03AM
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HKizzle
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I lost mine to cancer before I was born, but mine drove ambulances in Europe. In WW2. At night.
Dec 22 2010 1:07AM
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blatt
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Mine was the first American to attain a medical and law degree
Dec 22 2010 1:09AM
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TaySwift
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okay i joke he was on like 100, when he died, 7 is just an awesome number
Dec 22 2010 1:12AM
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Kellso
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is that not from grand torino?
Dec 22 2010 1:17AM
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ReignMan
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ATTENTION:
My Grandpa killed a nazi (he was jewish) that had pretty much destroyed half his family. Fleed to America. Some how managed to become a citizen and join the army. Went back to germany and helped fight WW2. In this he was shot in the thigh and stabbed in the back by a bayonette then blown up by a morter. He made it home and then 32 years later died from smokeing ciggies. My grandpa could WW3 your Grandpas ass.
Dec 22 2010 1:22AM
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Kellso
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your grandpa was an amazing man... BUT my grandpa could murder your grandpa dispose of his body and get away with it my grandpa was and still is a badass
Dec 22 2010 1:26AM
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corona
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this is your grandpa?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Armand_Bombardier

cause that's cool
Dec 22 2010 1:32AM
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Master_Debater
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i know how u feel but worse...mines 65...im 15
Dec 22 2010 1:33AM
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ReignMan
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mine 59 im 15. thatsss not fucked. whats fucked is my grandpa is 17 years older then my dad. and died 15 years ago.
Dec 22 2010 1:43AM
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skiingperson1
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same here, well im 13 and hes 57
Dec 22 2010 1:47AM
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TaySwift
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old man stee, ahahah
Dec 22 2010 1:48AM
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Rockhound
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my grandpa was a Japanese interpreter and code breaker for the US army in WWII, and was part of the 442nd regiment, the most decorated US army regiment ever.
Dec 22 2010 1:56AM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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One of my grandpas was best friends with Roger Maris, I have tons of memorabilia thats probably worth a fortune now. My other grandpa was a troop transport boat driver in WWII, he fought in the pacific so I bet he saw some gnarly shit go down...
Dec 22 2010 2:07AM
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Stembray
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Sorry ladies and gentleman my grandpa is a big deal. First of all, my grandpa's last name is WIENER. Um.. all I've got to say is game. set. match.. Second, for everyone who ski's at Mt. Hood in Oregon, the run Stormin' Norman at Timberline is named after him; he was one of the first lift chair operators and is best friend's with the owner. PLUS, he was an agent for the CIA, but actually before it was called that so i dunno. And he served in WW2, Cold War, and was a boss judge. Proud to be his grandson
Dec 22 2010 2:10AM
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TaySwift
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did he kill hitler too?
Dec 22 2010 2:17AM
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tuna.
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how badass is my grandpa? he started the fake moustache hipster movement.

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as for my other grandpa, he yelled at the watiress at red robin for not hanging his coat up for him and often tells my grandmother to get back in the kitchen.

Dec 22 2010 2:17AM
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Stembray
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No, but he fucked Taylor Swift.
Dec 22 2010 2:21AM
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TaySwift
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ye  my asshole is really loose so i wouldn't have felt it, tell him i say hi
Dec 22 2010 2:22AM
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