2 Seconds from glory

[olij999]

Oddly enough I found the book last week when moving some books around, I thought I'd lost it. It's sitting on the shelf now, taunting me to finish reading it.

You haven't finished it? That means you haven't read the last chapter, entitled "Amazing Facts". Loads of interesting stuff - King Arthur was black, as were the Vikings, Plato, Shakespeare and many others, which had passed me by. And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

[orbtastic]

Oh wow, I've a treat in store.

[ALI]

And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

If he was any slower he'd be going backwards.

Post up his 'prologue', I and many others would love a read at I it.

[jameswilson]

Oddly enough I found the book last week when moving some books around, I thought I'd lost it. It's sitting on the shelf now, taunting me to finish reading it.

You haven't finished it? That means you haven't read the last chapter, entitled "Amazing Facts". Loads of interesting stuff - King Arthur was black, as were the Vikings, Plato, Shakespeare and many others, which had passed me by. And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

There's a cult of black supremacists in New York who believe that too, Louis Theroux did a documentary on it something like 12 years back for one of his Weird weekends things on the BBC. If you search it up on youtube you'll find what I mean. Think they were called 'the Israelites.' Ironically while the other black supremacist groups he met were fairly aggressive and standoffish these guys were quite friendly and amusing in parts. They showed British history books with pictures (drawings I'll point out) of the guys rowing boats into Britain with dark faces and immediately took that as proof that the guys who conquered England were black. I haven't seen the documentary in many years but the memory of this Israelite leader going 'OH COME ON MAN! ARE YOU ON CRACK!' when Louis says 'come on these are just pictures,' will remain with me forever.

[crusader]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1wGVJaFgVE

Louis Theroux bit on the Israelites starting at 22:50

[bobethe]

That disgusting, racist pornography surely cannot be from that book? HA HA HA - that's not only weird it's gross, however more so a "Dream" - the grandiosity of BS is overwhelming - maybe he did have sex with one white girl and that's "his side of it" - she was wanted it in the rear, lol - thirsting for an orgy, and NO, He wasn't talking about dessert, i thought he was at first, HA HA HA.

It's sad, I gotta get this though, i mean, it's good, it's hilarious, however, HE WAS A VERY NICE GUY, WELL SPOKEN WHO BOUGHT MY COUSIN A DRINK AND TOLD HER "you know who i am? I got the fastest hands in the world" (she also dated Nicki Scarfo aka Little Nicki) But this is the "DREAMS" of some horny racist that never got laid

[handsofstone]

Oddly enough I found the book last week when moving some books around, I thought I'd lost it. It's sitting on the shelf now, taunting me to finish reading it.

I just had another read through this thread ,i want more

[BW3007]

Oddly enough I found the book last week when moving some books around, I thought I'd lost it. It's sitting on the shelf now, taunting me to finish reading it.

You haven't finished it? That means you haven't read the last chapter, entitled "Amazing Facts". Loads of interesting stuff - King Arthur was black, as were the Vikings, Plato, Shakespeare and many others, which had passed me by. And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

There's a cult of black supremacists in New York who believe that too, Louis Theroux did a documentary on it something like 12 years back for one of his Weird weekends things on the BBC. If you search it up on youtube you'll find what I mean. Think they were called 'the Israelites.' Ironically while the other black supremacist groups he met were fairly aggressive and standoffish these guys were quite friendly and amusing in parts. They showed British history books with pictures (drawings I'll point out) of the guys rowing boats into Britain with dark faces and immediately took that as proof that the guys who conquered England were black. I haven't seen the documentary in many years but the memory of this Israelite leader going 'OH COME ON MAN! ARE YOU ON CRACK!' when Louis says 'come on these are just pictures,' will remain with me forever.

that was amazing, I remeber theroux going through a list of several historical gfigures and they were justv ticking them all off, apart from one (name escapes me now), great viewing.

[chinny]

Just discovered this thread. come on Orb, give the people what they want!

[jameswilson]

You haven't finished it? That means you haven't read the last chapter, entitled "Amazing Facts". Loads of interesting stuff - King Arthur was black, as were the Vikings, Plato, Shakespeare and many others, which had passed me by. And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

There's a cult of black supremacists in New York who believe that too, Louis Theroux did a documentary on it something like 12 years back for one of his Weird weekends things on the BBC. If you search it up on youtube you'll find what I mean. Think they were called 'the Israelites.' Ironically while the other black supremacist groups he met were fairly aggressive and standoffish these guys were quite friendly and amusing in parts. They showed British history books with pictures (drawings I'll point out) of the guys rowing boats into Britain with dark faces and immediately took that as proof that the guys who conquered England were black. I haven't seen the documentary in many years but the memory of this Israelite leader going 'OH COME ON MAN! ARE YOU ON CRACK!' when Louis says 'come on these are just pictures,' will remain with me forever.

that was amazing, I remeber theroux going through a list of several historical gfigures and they were justv ticking them all off, apart from one (name escapes me now), great viewing.

My memory for certain things is crazy and I think this is one of those situations (having not seen the doc in at least 5 years) but I'm fairly sure the one name that they said was White was Oliver Cromwell.

[handsofstone]

I was thinking about this today and thought it deserved a bump just incase anyone missed it the 1st few times

[rpms]

You call that going into detail? It sounds like a pub lunch.

Pubs need to step up and put chocolate custard banana split with cream filling on the menu.

this is fantastic stuff, truly.

Great thread resurrection !
Although I`m now very hungry and also have a little lazy `un

[reggaereggae]

Pubs need to step up and put chocolate custard banana split with cream filling on the menu.

this is fantastic stuff, truly.

Great thread resurrection !
Although I`m now very hungry and also have a little lazy `un

Black people invented banana split.... According to Meldrick Taylor

[orbtastic]

I found my copy after moving stuff around the house earlier in the year so will read back to where I left it (or if I'm feeling a bit masochistic, start from scratch) and update.

[Taansend]

Cheers for reposting this lads

[Grilling Machine]

Tom Jones? Black.

[Controversial]

Tom Jones? Black.

Ha yeah I was going to post that. Its the curly hair apparently, afro like. I can't believe I missed this thread before, will wait in anticipation for the updates.

[pimp]

I mentioned this in the "boxing books" thread on here but I'm now halfway through Meldrick Taylor's autobiography and I cannot believe what I am reading.

Has anyone read this? I must admit I had no idea it existed, and wondered why it was only available from his website. After reading 2 chapters I know exactly why it's only sold via his website.

Do not under any circumstances buy this book, it is possibly the worst book I've ever read in my entire life. It's easily the worst written book I've ever attempted to read. It cost me nearly $40 and I've half a mind to ask for a refund.

The book starts off thanking everyone, and mentions how much time his friend (the guy you paypal the money to) spent

"checking" the book and helping him write it. Well all I can say
is, his friend must be a f*cking idiot who is blind to boot. I have never read such an incoherant mess as this. Every page is littered with spelling and grammatical errors, it constantly switches tense, even mid sentence at some points.

The book is split into chapters which make absolutely no sense, each "paragraph" is a series of very short sentences, like a child has dicated what he ate for lunch i.e. For lunch I had soup. Then I had bread. Then I drank water. Then I went to play. It was good. I liked it.

It talks about the Chavez fight in one chapter which ends with a ridiculously incoherant rant about Richard Steele which makes no sense (I have tried to read it ten times now, it still looks like he's just written down 20 words that describe Steele and not attempted to join them together in any way), then there's 2 rambling chapters about his holiday and business and then another chapter on the Chavez fight, which more or less repeats the previous chapter but leaves out the Steele rant.

Some chapters are only a page and a half long. Halfway through the book he just randomly mentions when he was born and that he has 3 siblings, then carries on talking about what he was talking about in the previous sentence.

Nearly every page shoehorns God into it, and he randomly throws in bible quotations into every chapter.

I will pick out my favourite bits and type them in, see if it makes sense to any of you.

If the book wasn't $40 with shipping, I would say go get a copy because you will get some entertainment out of it. The people leaving the book testimonials on his website must be either high on crack or on the payroll.

Haha great start to the thread, proper tickled me

[banjo]

Given that most sports autobiographies are pretty bland, this seems a bit more interesting and comical.

[jamesmcdonnell]

Oddly enough I found the book last week when moving some books around, I thought I'd lost it. It's sitting on the shelf now, taunting me to finish reading it.

You haven't finished it? That means you haven't read the last chapter, entitled "Amazing Facts". Loads of interesting stuff - King Arthur was black, as were the Vikings, Plato, Shakespeare and many others, which had passed me by. And the final page is entitled "Prologue".

There's a cult of black supremacists in New York who believe that too, Louis Theroux did a documentary on it something like 12 years back for one of his Weird weekends things on the BBC. If you search it up on youtube you'll find what I mean. Think they were called 'the Israelites.' Ironically while the other black supremacist groups he met were fairly aggressive and standoffish these guys were quite friendly and amusing in parts. They showed British history books with pictures (drawings I'll point out) of the guys rowing boats into Britain with dark faces and immediately took that as proof that the guys who conquered England were black. I haven't seen the documentary in many years but the memory of this Israelite leader going 'OH COME ON MAN! ARE YOU ON CRACK!' when Louis says 'come on these are just pictures,' will remain with me forever.

The 12 tribes of Israel I think you're on about.

[Dixonian]

Ok, just some random sections. I promise I am not making it sound worse than it is or intentionally typing it badly, this is verbatim (exactly as it is in the book, word for word).

From the opening section (!):

"My kids have always been my inspiration who live through and looks up to me to give them the direction and guidance to be best God created them to be they are go my to do great things in their life. I can one day brag about them and say they are mine, because they are wonderful human beings.

I have a lot of people to thank to helping me undertake this tall task it took a lot of time in patience. My two lovely sister Maureen and Stacey, who type and prepare for hours without compensation who didn't mind at all, and was happy to assit me. I really appreciate it so much. Thank y'all.

Individual Spiritual Brother if the Faith, who also help me type and prepare my manuscript, I owe a lot of Thanks to them, they encourage me to finish the book and assist on every level.

High priest Haradapyah and his son Haradapyaba 13 Sheild General Shamarawn and to the nation of Israel. I say Shalam Kayashla rise Israel.

I would really like to thank my good friend and partner, Gumersinda Vidot [the dude I paid via paypal], and his lovely daughter, Alaina Leslie, who helped me prepare the book for printing, it took a lot of time and work. I appreciate their patience and diligence constantly going over the manuscript, finding and correcting errors [really? more work required I think!]. They are both part of my team and will play an important role and take part in my success"

Christ. Did Imran Sarwar write it!?

[lefty]

Ok, just some random sections. I promise I am not making it sound worse than it is or intentionally typing it badly, this is verbatim (exactly as it is in the book, word for word).

From the opening section (!):

"My kids have always been my inspiration who live through and looks up to me to give them the direction and guidance to be best God created them to be they are go my to do great things in their life. I can one day brag about them and say they are mine, because they are wonderful human beings.

I have a lot of people to thank to helping me undertake this tall task it took a lot of time in patience. My two lovely sister Maureen and Stacey, who type and prepare for hours without compensation who didn't mind at all, and was happy to assit me. I really appreciate it so much. Thank y'all.

Individual Spiritual Brother if the Faith, who also help me type and prepare my manuscript, I owe a lot of Thanks to them, they encourage me to finish the book and assist on every level.

High priest Haradapyah and his son Haradapyaba 13 Sheild General Shamarawn and to the nation of Israel. I say Shalam Kayashla rise Israel.

I would really like to thank my good friend and partner, Gumersinda Vidot [the dude I paid via paypal], and his lovely daughter, Alaina Leslie, who helped me prepare the book for printing, it took a lot of time and work. I appreciate their patience and diligence constantly going over the manuscript, finding and correcting errors [really? more work required I think!]. They are both part of my team and will play an important role and take part in my success"

Christ. Did Imran Sarwar write it!?

[Boxerbeetle]

Ok, just some random sections. I promise I am not making it sound worse than it is or intentionally typing it badly, this is verbatim (exactly as it is in the book, word for word).

From the opening section (!):

"My kids have always been my inspiration who live through and looks up to me to give them the direction and guidance to be best God created them to be they are go my to do great things in their life. I can one day brag about them and say they are mine, because they are wonderful human beings.

I have a lot of people to thank to helping me undertake this tall task it took a lot of time in patience. My two lovely sister Maureen and Stacey, who type and prepare for hours without compensation who didn't mind at all, and was happy to assit me. I really appreciate it so much. Thank y'all.

Individual Spiritual Brother if the Faith, who also help me type and prepare my manuscript, I owe a lot of Thanks to them, they encourage me to finish the book and assist on every level.

High priest Haradapyah and his son Haradapyaba 13 Sheild General Shamarawn and to the nation of Israel. I say Shalam Kayashla rise Israel.

I would really like to thank my good friend and partner, Gumersinda Vidot [the dude I paid via paypal], and his lovely daughter, Alaina Leslie, who helped me prepare the book for printing, it took a lot of time and work. I appreciate their patience and diligence constantly going over the manuscript, finding and correcting errors [really? more work required I think!]. They are both part of my team and will play an important role and take part in my success"

Christ. Did Imran Sarwar write it!?

What ever happened to Imran/Bill/Robot?

[Dixonian]

Christ. Did Imran Sarwar write it!?

What ever happened to Imran/Bill/Robot?

Think he got banned for his extreme homophobic views.

[olij999]

The problem with the book (or rather, one of its many problems) is that it is so bitter sweet. It is inadvertently funny throughout (e.g. page 159 where he attacks well-known historian David Hasselhoff's position on slavery). But the more I read back over it, the more it is just really sad that Taylor should be in this position.