Wolfgang Hasenmaier
05-09-2009, 01:31 PM
Want to share some tall tales with my iron brethren
André the Giant
"André the Giant was very strong," William Goldman once recalled. "I was talking to an actor who was shooting a movie in Mexico. What you had to know about Andre was that if he asked you to dinner, he paid, but when you asked him, he also paid. This actor, after several free meals, invited Andre to dinner and, late in the meal, snuck into the kitchen to give his credit card to the maitre d'. As he was about to do this, he felt himself being lifted up in the air..."
"When he had me up in the air," the actor recalled, "he turned me so I was facing him, and he said, 'I pay.' Then he carried me back to my table where he set me down in my chair like a little boy. Oh yes, Andre was very strong."
The actor? Arnold Schwarzenegger.
André the Giant: Provocation
André the Giant was incredibly strong, and equally gentle unless provoked. On one occasion, he was approached in a bar by four drunk men intent on proving their manliness. When André declined an invitation to fight, they continued to taunt him. eventually, having lost his temper, André chased his tormentors onto the street.
When they reached their car (parked in front of the bar), they jumped in and promptly locked the doors. Rather than break a window or door, André reached down, gripped the vehicle beneath the door, flipped it over on the sidewalk (onto its roof), and left its occupants to explain to skeptical police that an angry "giant" had come along and overturned their car!
André the Joker
"André the Giant once invited Arnold Schwarzenegger to a wrestling arena in Mexico where he was performing in front of 25,000 screaming fans, and, after he'd pinned his opponent, he gestured for Schwarzenegger to come into the ring. So through the noise, Schwarzenegger climbs up. Andre says, 'Take off your shirt, they are all crazy for you to take off your shirt. I speak Spanish.' So Schwarzenegger, embarrassed, does what Andre tells him. Off comes his jacket, his shirt, his undershirt, and he begins striking poses. And then Andre goes to the locker room while Schwarzenegger goes back to his friends. And it had all been a practical joke. God knows what the crowd was screammg, but it wasn't for Schwarzenegger to strip and pose. 'Nobody gave a s#%t if I took my shirt off or not, but I fell for it. Andre could do that to you.'"
André the Giant
"André the Giant was very strong," William Goldman once recalled. "I was talking to an actor who was shooting a movie in Mexico. What you had to know about Andre was that if he asked you to dinner, he paid, but when you asked him, he also paid. This actor, after several free meals, invited Andre to dinner and, late in the meal, snuck into the kitchen to give his credit card to the maitre d'. As he was about to do this, he felt himself being lifted up in the air..."
"When he had me up in the air," the actor recalled, "he turned me so I was facing him, and he said, 'I pay.' Then he carried me back to my table where he set me down in my chair like a little boy. Oh yes, Andre was very strong."
The actor? Arnold Schwarzenegger.
André the Giant: Provocation
André the Giant was incredibly strong, and equally gentle unless provoked. On one occasion, he was approached in a bar by four drunk men intent on proving their manliness. When André declined an invitation to fight, they continued to taunt him. eventually, having lost his temper, André chased his tormentors onto the street.
When they reached their car (parked in front of the bar), they jumped in and promptly locked the doors. Rather than break a window or door, André reached down, gripped the vehicle beneath the door, flipped it over on the sidewalk (onto its roof), and left its occupants to explain to skeptical police that an angry "giant" had come along and overturned their car!
André the Joker
"André the Giant once invited Arnold Schwarzenegger to a wrestling arena in Mexico where he was performing in front of 25,000 screaming fans, and, after he'd pinned his opponent, he gestured for Schwarzenegger to come into the ring. So through the noise, Schwarzenegger climbs up. Andre says, 'Take off your shirt, they are all crazy for you to take off your shirt. I speak Spanish.' So Schwarzenegger, embarrassed, does what Andre tells him. Off comes his jacket, his shirt, his undershirt, and he begins striking poses. And then Andre goes to the locker room while Schwarzenegger goes back to his friends. And it had all been a practical joke. God knows what the crowd was screammg, but it wasn't for Schwarzenegger to strip and pose. 'Nobody gave a s#%t if I took my shirt off or not, but I fell for it. Andre could do that to you.'"