Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Bob Marley is half white. The famous reggae icons father was a white naval officer, a fact that Bob was always embarrassed of.
Marley went the rest of his life hiding his biracial background and resenting his father for abandoning him.


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Steve Buscemi was helping clean up New York after 911.
Once a member of the New York Fire Department, it wasnt difficult for Buscemi to jump into action after 911 and help his old squad clean up the city and ensure everyones safety for a week. Buscemi even shirked all media coverage and publicity of his kind acts.


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Sylvester Stallone got his start in porn. Before he was running up stairs in Philadelphia, Rocky Balboa was the brilliantly named Stud in the 1970s pornographic movie The Party at Kitty and Studs.

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Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" using only 50 different words.
Dr. Seuss produced one of his most popular works on a bet that he couldnt write a whole book in 50 or fewer words.
Seuss won the bet by using only 50 different words in Green Eggs and Ham.
The only word in the book that is more than one syllable is anywhere.



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Woody Harrelson's father was an assassin. Charles Voyde Harrelson, actor Woody Harrelsons estranged father, was a hitman convicted of killing a federal judge.
Even more scandalous, he also claimed to have killed President John F. Kennedy.


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Famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth is a trained sniper.
Despite her old age, Dr. Ruth has been dispensing frank sex advice since 1980, but even more shocking is that the 4' 7" therapist was trained as a sniper at the age of 16 as a part of an underground Jewish military organization.
"Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded", the 85-year-old boasts.


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Natalie Portman is a Harvard grad published in two scientific journals.
Not only did she graduate from Harvard University with an A.B. in psychology in 2003, but two of her papers can be found published in scientific journals.


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Christopher Walken was a lion tamer.
At the age of 15, Walken joined a travelling circus and trained as a lion tamer. As a cat-lover,
Walken described the jobs appeal to his teenage self as too good to pass up.


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This one's kind of obvious.

Nicolas Cage got acting lessons from his pet octopus. Nicolas Cage has never been one for normalcy. Rather than hire an acting coach, the star opted to study the movements of his pet octopus

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Samuel L. Jackson once held Martin Luther King Jr.s dad hostage. When he was still a student at Morehouse College in 1969, Samuel L. Jackson joined a group of students holding the trustees hostage in order to demand reform in the curriculum and governance. One of these trustees was Martin Luther King Sr.

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Home Depot has been supplying tactical and target gear for years. I believe they made the stocks for the H&R M-12 rifles, they refitted sewer pipes to almost every Mosin and called them barrels, you can walk through their garden section and make a ghillie suit, the sell the highly sought after Krylon in virtually every color on earth, and the tool room is full of Ninja stuff.
 
New match on a shoe string budget. Why don't you come down and shoot the match sometime. I'm sure you can give us all a lesson or two and show us how a Pro does it. You do actually shoot right?

I'd love to do that! It's not that far from me, and yes, I do shoot occasionally.
like everyone else, not as much as I'd like to.