Talk:Manute Bol

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Contents 1 Someone needs to fix his stats. 2 My bad! 3 Celebrity Boxing 4 Manute is the man 5 New home 6 WikiProject class rating 7 "an encore"?

[edit] Someone needs to fix his stats.

There's not a chance that a 7'7" weighs only 200. Even a 6'7" who weights 200 would need to be pretty lean.

[edit] My bad!

Manute may be the originator of the phrase "my bad." (See blog post by Geoffrey Pullum at http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002693.html) Someone may want to do a little further research and incorporate this into the article. --Andy M. 12:53, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm one of those fans that loved watching 7'6" Manute Bol drain the trey. Good luck finding a citation on it.

One Mississippi 17:46, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Celebrity Boxing

Manute Bol was on that celebrity boxing show in 2002, fighting William "Refrigerator" Perry:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321624/

Worth a mention? SkipSmith 02:41, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Um, yea... tis already mentioned. 172.130.44.98 06:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, I see it now. Thanks. SkipSmith 07:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Manute is the man

I was actually at his last game in Charlotte. He was knocked out of bounds - I thought he was going to end up in the upper deck with his long strides.Cooltiger92 02:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

When I was a kid we used to play a game called "Manute Pole." One person took one of those long poles with a net used to clean a swimming pool, and defended the basket against everyone else's shots. Good times. SkipSmith 02:34, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New home

For those who care, Mr. Bol now lives in Olathe, Kansas. I work for a utility provider and met him.

Yes, and he has 2 bodyguards.

Thank you.

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 15:51, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "an encore"?

Why is this in the section headings? Bash Kash (talk) 01:49, 26 December 2007 (UTC)