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The Most Interesting Man In The World: For Realsies (1 Viewer)

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That's Peter Freuchen and his wife Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, in a photo taken by Irving Penn. Freuchen is a top candidate for the Most Interesting Man in the World. Standing six feet seven inches, Freuchen was an arctic explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist. He participated in several arctic journeys (including a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland), starred in an Oscar-winning film, wrote more than a dozen books (novels and nonfiction, including his Famous Book of the Eskimos), had a peg leg (he lost his leg to frostbite in 1926; he amputated his gangrenous toes himself), was involved in the Danish resistance against Germany, was imprisoned and sentenced to death by the Nazis before escaping to Sweden, studied to be a doctor at university, his first wife was Inuit and his second was a Danish margarine heiress, became friends with Jean Harlow and Mae West, once escaped from a blizzard shelter by cutting his way out of it with a knife fashioned from his own feces, and, last but certainly not least, won $64,000 on The $64,000 Question. An anecdote about Freuchen, courtesy of Frank Chimero:

It was so cold that even inside his cabin, even with the small coal stove, the moisture in his breath condensed into ice on the walls and ceiling. He kept breathing. The house got smaller and smaller. Early on, he wrote, two men could not pass without brushing elbows. Eventually after he was alone and the coal -- "the one factor that had kept the house from growing in upon me" -- was gone, he threw out the stove to make more room inside. (He still had a spirit lamp for light and boiling water.) Before winter and his task ended and relief came, he was living inside an ice cave made of his own breath that hardly left him room to stretch out to sleep. Peter Freuchen, six foot seven, lived inside the cave of his breath.
I mean, come on! His third wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale, was no slouch either. She was a teacher, artist, editor, expert on world cuisine, and a top fashion illustrator.

 
Sorry, my friend but pretty sure it is Porfirio Rubirosa.

a Dominican diplomat, race-car driver, and polo player. He was an adherent of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was also rumored to be a political assassin under his regime.[1] Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy, for his jet setting lifestyle, and his legendary sexual prowess with women. Among his spouses were two of the richest women in the world
Famously, his attraction lay not only in his mesmerising charm but his bedroom prowess — and his remarkable physical endowment. Along the Riviera and in the nightclubs of Paris and Manhattan, Rubi was known as 'Toujours Pret' — always ready — and the large peppermills in Parisian restaurants came to be known as 'Rubirosas' in homage his impressive appendage.
 
Peter Freuchen

A woman offered to bite off Peter Freuchen's toes. He declined. Instead, he chopped them off with shears and a hammer.

Peter Freuchen was trapped under a blizzard. He cut out his way with a knife. The knife was made from his own feces.

These are not tall tales. These are not fake Chuck Norris facts. Peter Freuchen was not the Most Interesting Man in the World. He was a Jewish Danish Arctic explorer, who had to survive glacial Greenland winters. On one occasion, he had to keep wolves away from his makeshift igloo by... singing.

Freuchen did make it out (be it without a leg) and went to... Hollywood. There, a movie was made based on a book he wrote. That movie was the Oscar-winning "Eskimo", starring the previously-profiled Ray Mala. Oh, and Freuchen had a part as well. He played the villain.

After that, it was back to Denmark, but World War II broke out. So Freuchen joined the Danish resistance, was captured by the Germans, but managed to escape to Sweden.

With the war over, Freuchen made it back to America, where... he became one of the first winners of the famed game show, "The $64,000 Question".

Did we mention that he stood 6'7", with a long beard and a pegleg?
 
Peter Freuchen

A woman offered to bite off Peter Freuchen's toes. He declined. Instead, he chopped them off with shears and a hammer.

Peter Freuchen was trapped under a blizzard. He cut out his way with a knife. The knife was made from his own feces.

These are not tall tales. These are not fake Chuck Norris facts. Peter Freuchen was not the Most Interesting Man in the World. He was a Jewish Danish Arctic explorer, who had to survive glacial Greenland winters. On one occasion, he had to keep wolves away from his makeshift igloo by... singing.

Freuchen did make it out (be it without a leg) and went to... Hollywood. There, a movie was made based on a book he wrote. That movie was the Oscar-winning "Eskimo", starring the previously-profiled Ray Mala. Oh, and Freuchen had a part as well. He played the villain.

After that, it was back to Denmark, but World War II broke out. So Freuchen joined the Danish resistance, was captured by the Germans, but managed to escape to Sweden.

With the war over, Freuchen made it back to America, where... he became one of the first winners of the famed game show, "The $64,000 Question".

Did we mention that he stood 6'7", with a long beard and a pegleg?
Did he also drive a honda?
 

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