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#skywire: Nik Wallenda Walks Across Grand Canyon

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Jun 23, 2013.

  1. joe

    joe Active Member

    Life is on the wire. Everything else is just waiting.
     
  2. MTM

    MTM Well-Known Member

    I just wonder what the reaction would be if instead if praising Jesus, he praised Allah with each step he took.
     
  3. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Huh? You know he was working without a net or a tether, right?
     
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  4. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Yeah. I mean, he could have fallen, sure. I guess what I meant was, I didn't expect him to.
     
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  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    For anyone who never saw Karl Wallenda fall to his death:

     
  6. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Not sure if you could actually bet on it, or if the oddsmaker I saw just posted it for fun, but I think it was something like....He'll live -30000, He'll die +50000000. Something crazy.

    Karl Wallenda was like 73 years old. Nik is in his 30s, I think. The general expectation was that he'd be successful.
     
  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Would love to know what the O/U for time was.
     
  8. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Good question. I didn't see an official one, but the guesses I heard most frequently revolved around the 25-minute mark, give or take a few.
     
  9. novelist_wannabe

    novelist_wannabe Well-Known Member

    I kept wondering how much God -- or Joel Osteen -- was getting for product placement.
     
  10. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Uh, no it's not. Doesn't replay.
     
  11. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Last night it did show the replay.

    Now you have to go to YouTube.
     
  12. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    When was the plunge in Brazil? I know he died from a plunge in Puerto Rico in 1978.
     
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