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** The next conqueror of course was [[Badass Israeli|Moshe]] [[Eyepatch of Power|Dayan]]. He didn't ride in, but he didn't stop to remind people that he was not riding in the way Allenby did, which is really too bad. Perhaps he hadn't heard of the custom or wished the credit to go to the IDF.
*** In the second case he should have had a man chosen by lottery as representative. It would have been too cool a [[Badass Boast]] not to remember.
* [[Useful Notes/Indonesia|Gajah Mada]], before his campaign to unify the archipelago, made this oath to his queen: ''"If the external territorities of Majapahit are lost, I will not taste any spices. And until I have conquered Malaka, Seram, Tanjungpura, Haru, Pahang, Dompo, Bali, Sunda and Palembang... I will ''never'' taste any spices."'' And, he actually ''succeeded'' and even expands the territority of Majapahit into the whole archipelago that will be known as Indonesia.
* In 1990, 18-year-old Hugh Gallagher wrote [http://www.hughgallagher.net/neurofuzzy/essay.html his college application essay], which is one long, massive (and slightly surreal) [[Badass Boast]]. It reads in part:
{{quote| Occasionally I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.}}
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