TEDDY ROOSEVELT

Rank: Tom Olav Rokne
Nominated by: Olav Rokne
AwesomeOff: June 2009
Total Points: 76830

Adventurer, intellectual, author, soldier, cowboy, policeman, historian, America’s youngest president was all of these and more. An avid bibliophile with a photographic memory, Teddy Roosevelt loved to fight in the boxing ring and to hunt big game. Although he shot and killed hundreds of endangered animals, he also provided for greater environmental protection regulations than almost any other president. He was a man of many contradictions, but seemed to live life on a grander scale than is possible for even the most awesome among us.

In 1912, While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, a saloon keeper named John Schrank shot him. Teddy Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt.

His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "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."

The man was a total badass whose genius intellect was only matched by the speed of his trigger finger and the force of his right hook.



Teddy Roosevelt was voted MORE AWESOME than:

Chewbacca


The Couch Dress


Moustache Balaclava


Shaved Ball Cap


Giant Nintendo Controller


Jesus Christ


Meat Suitcase


Unibrow


Theo Jansen's Art


Theo Jansen's Art


General Lee 01


Crop Circles


Mock Apple Pie


Robocop on a Unicorn


Roller Derby


Freerunning


Dwight K. Schrute


Miracle On Ice


President Obama


The Hamburger Bed


Flying Spaghetti Monster


Badass Mountain Men


Beer Maids


Hedgehogs


WAKE n' BACON


Zombies


Space Invader Invasion


Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator


The Brick Testament


Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton


Captain James T. Kirk


The Man with No Name


Banksy


Octo-Stache


Peekaru


Queen of the Mist


Deja Vu


Ultra Slow Motion


Troy Hurtubise's Inventions


Troy Hurtubise's Inventions


The Viking Helmet


Johnny Cash


Stinky Cheese


James Earl Jones Counts to 10


Death Star


Chindogu


Tiesto


Library of Congress


Notorious B.I.G. Doll


Rasputin


Che Guevara


James Earl Jones Counts to 10


Death Star


Death Star


Mermaids


Male Emperor Penguins


Rockin' Steady


Indy's Whip


Literal Video Versions


Chuck Norris vs. Bruce Lee


Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka


Hunter S. Thompson


Emperor Norton


Jesus Riding A Dinosaur


Teddy Roosevelt was voted LESS AWESOME than:

Nikola Tesla


Aurora Borealis


Library of Congress


Library of Congress


Image Credits
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Source: Public Domain
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Source: Public Domain
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Source: Public Domain
Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RoughRiders.jpeg
Word on the Street

Rank: Schultz onetwobri
onetwobri commented ( about Teddy Roosevelt ) on 6/14/2009
Some Fast Facts about Teddy Roosevelt:
  • Roosevelt began every day by wrestling his entire cabinet and throwing them out the window.
  • When Rejected by the Mainstream Republican Party, Roosevelt created the "Bull Moose" party. Initially, only moose were allowed to join, as Roosevelt admired their solid, stubborn nature, their hatred of trusts, and their ability to legally have sex with female moose.
  • Later, party membership would be open to anyone who could grow antlers
  • The "teddy bear" was named after Teddy Roosevelt because of his love of bear meat and the fact that he was covered in fur
  • Teddy Roosevelt originally built the American Museum of Natural History as a kind of lepidopterist's "killing jar." But instead of butterflies, he put dinosaurs inside and starved them until they were skeletons
  • Roosevelt was originally from New York, but he shat Pennsylvania
  • Roosevelt died fighting an old lion and was buried in Mount Rushmore, where his gigantic, fossilized face stares out over the country he beat into shape to this very day.
(John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require)

Rank: Tom Ivan Awesomeoff
Ivan Awesomeoff replied to onetwobri on 6/14/2009
If John Hodgman said it, I believe it

Rank: Schultz onetwobri
onetwobri replied to Ivan Awesomeoff on 6/14/2009
could you fix the format of my comment so it lists the fast facts? like..... -blah blah blah (enter) -blah blah blah

Rank: Tom Olav Rokne
Olav Rokne replied to onetwobri on 6/14/2009
Wow! John Hodgman knows a lot about Teddy Roosevelt.

Rank: Schultz onetwobri
onetwobri replied to on 6/15/2009
thanks ivan!

Rank: Pepper Patrick Moniz
Patrick Moniz replied to onetwobri on 6/16/2009
And this is the most pertinent fact, Teddy Roosevelt fathered Chuck Norris!

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