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5th May '13 8:54:02 AM LoonShia

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29th Apr '13 8:09:12 PM damus2300

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so awesome he had his own section made!

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: For starters: [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p5.html Everything he ever did, ever.]] Well, if you want specifics...
** He was once shot in the chest just before a campaign speech and [[PocketProtector was saved by the copy of the speech and his glasses case in his jacket pocket]], but went ahead and ''gave the speech with a bullet wound in his chest.'' The opening line of his speech was "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." (This was a reference to the "Bull Moose Party", a nickname for the Progressive Party that TR organized and ran under in 1912.)
*** To elaborate a bit further - he'd assessed his own injury by realizing that, because he wasn't bleeding from his mouth, he wasn't mortally wounded. The speech he gave lasted ''an hour and a half'' with the opening line shown above. The bullet passed through both his eyeglass case and the folded-up speech, so it didn't penetrate very far. Given that [=McKinley=] and Garfield had both died not from their assassins' bullets but from surgical complications, Roosevelt reasoned that it was safer to tell his doctors not to remove the bullet but just leave it in place. He was right.
** He once killed a cougar. In a knife fight.[[hottip:*:He had the knife, not the cougar. Although I wouldn't put it past him to teach one how to fight with a knife]]
*** "Theodore Rex" tells more: "Last Winter, in Colorado, he had leaped off his horse into a pack of hounds, kicked them aside, and knifed a cougar to death. What a great fight that had been!" That feeling in your gut is the undeniable truth that you will never be a fraction as awesome as Teddy. Or it's possibly the ghost of Teddy, kicking and punching you in the gut because you aren't even at least making an attempt to become that BadAss yourself.
** His crossing of the River Of Doubt, after which it was renamed ''The River Of Unquestionable Certainty.''
*** And then to the "Roosevelt River".
** His boat was stolen once; he built another boat and hunted the thieves down. Instead of shooting them in the middle of the woods, he hauled them to town for court, going 40 hours without sleep. He read Tolstoy to keep himself awake.
*** Even better: when he finished reading Tolstoy, Roosevelt literally forced one of the robbers to lend him a book that ''he'' had been carrying. The guy who'd tried to get away with robbing TR was now forced to "volunteer" his book for his intended victim's reading leisure. This--on top of arresting him--pretty much means that Teddy completely and utterly humiliated the robbers.
** After he received letters from army cavalrymen complaining about having to ride 25 miles a day for training, in response, Teddy rode horseback for 100 miles, from sunrise to sunset, at 51 years old, effectively rescinding anyone's right to complain about anything, ever again.
** During his time in the badlands he once walked into a hotel when a drunken cowboy was shooting up the bar-room with [[GunsAkimbo a pair of revolvers]]. The drunk noticed him, called him "Four eyes", and said that "Four eyes is going to treat." Theodore ignored him and sat down at the bar, but the drunk came over to him, gun in each hand, and repeated his command. Theodore then said "[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Well, if I've got to, I've got to]]," and KO'd the drunk in three punches.
*** AwesomenessByAnalysis: as an experienced hunter and military man, he fully understood alcohol will ruin a shooter's accuracy, and also that holding two guns even as your hands tremble from drunkenness is even worse.
** Before he became president, while he was away on a hunting trip, someone hired a man named Paddock to either scare him off his land or just shoot him off it. When Teddy came back and found out that Paddock had been hired to kill him, he personally went to Paddock's house and told him "I understand you have threatened to kill me on sight. I have come over to see when you want to begin the killing.” Obviously, the threats ended then and there.
** Saving FOOTBALL!! (See IvyLeague)
** [[http://www.governor.nd.gov/theodore-roosevelt-rough-rider-award How about creating a group of people so badass that an award is named after them?]]

26th Apr '13 12:26:21 PM Tuckerscreator

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29th Mar '13 5:51:16 PM Eagal

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In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed {{Badass}}, and is often portrayed as ''[[MemeticBadass even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[BlasphemousBoast explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a LargeHam, in keeping with his [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[MoreInformationThanYouRequire THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.[[note]]Kermit's son, also named Kermit, would also have adventures, but as he was a {{CIA}} agent these tended to be rather more CloakAndDagger affairs that involved, among other things, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax overthrowing the democratically electedgovernment of Iran and installing the Shah as an absolute monarch]]. Hey, it *was* the ColdWar![[/note]]

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In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed {{Badass}}, and is often portrayed as ''[[MemeticBadass even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[BlasphemousBoast explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a LargeHam, in keeping with his [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[MoreInformationThanYouRequire THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.[[note]]Kermit's son, also named Kermit, would also have adventures, but as he was a {{CIA}} agent these tended to be rather more CloakAndDagger affairs that involved, among other things, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran and installing the Shah as an absolute monarch]]. Hey, it *was* the ColdWar![[/note]]

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In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed BadAss, and is often portrayed as ''[[MemeticBadass even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[BlasphemousBoast explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a LargeHam, in keeping with his [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[MoreInformationThanYouRequire THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.[[note]]Kermit's son, also named Kermit, would also have adventures, but as he was a {{CIA}} agent these tended to be rather more CloakAndDagger affairs that involved, among other things, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax overthrowing the democratically electedgovernment of Iran and installing the Shah as an absolute monarch]]. Hey, it *was* the ColdWar![[/note]]

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In case it wasn't clear by now, he was made of pure, condensed BadAss, and is often portrayed as ''[[MemeticBadass even more so than he already was]]''. ''Within his own lifetime'', historian Henry Adams ''[[BlasphemousBoast explicitly compared him to God]]''. In fiction, he is frequently portrayed as a LargeHam, in keeping with his [[BoisterousBruiser boisterous]] nature and public persona. At her wedding, his daughter, Alice, stated that "My father wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening." But she was giving as good as she got: Alice was a notorious handful, rambunctious, and known to the press as "Princess Alice." Her father had earlier snarked, "I can either run the country, or attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both." Teddy also had a son whom he named Kermit ([[MoreInformationThanYouRequire THAT SHOWED HIM]]) who joined him on some of his expeditions.[[note]]Kermit's son, also named Kermit, would also have adventures, but as he was a {{CIA}} agent these tended to be rather more CloakAndDagger affairs that involved, among other things, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax overthrowing the government of Iran and installing the Shah as an absolute monarch]]. Hey, it *was* the ColdWar![[/note]]

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