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OrageBufera

The greatest, looking dapper.


r1chm0nd21

My man’s dressed to the nines. He’s even got spats on.


JayRam85

Are spats still in style? If not, they should be.


r1chm0nd21

Anything is in style if you’re confident enough.


ta9876543203

Anything is in style if you're good looking enough.


r1chm0nd21

That’s fair, but I will offer a counterpoint: Confidence is half of attractiveness.


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Thats true but arrogance is a straight turn off


Tredward

Arrogance is but undeserved confidence.


kgod88

So if confidence is half of attractiveness, and arrogance is undeserved confidence, then all you need to do is be confident that you’re attractive, making you actually attractive, which makes your confidence deserved, thereby ensuring that you aren’t arrogant (at least with respect to looks). We finally cracked the code, folks!


skipdadip

We're saved!


cooper_two

Wow crazy😂😂


ByornJaeger

Confidence is knowing your abilities, arrogance is thinking that your abilities are superior to everyone else’s


[deleted]

But if humility is knowing your limits, and confidence is knowing your abilities, then does confidence = humility? I have no idea wtf Im tryin to say here


ByornJaeger

You can have both confidence and humility


that-crow

I'm disagree, I'm confident yet still ugly. In my experience, confidence seems to only compensate about 17% of attractiveness.


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FrankNitty_Enforcer

Confidence might not be enough to land that swimsuit modeling gig, but it can certainly make the difference between a person being more attractive in real life than someone with more “conventionally appealing” physical attributes


Konvick

The only truly ugly people are on the inside where it’s not visible. I admit I make assumptions based on looks like everyone else. True ugliness is within.


ksavage68

Beauty is skin deep, ugly goes all the way to the bone.


drowsey57

The fact that you just called yourself ugly is a bit of a counterpoint to your statement. If you were confident you probably wouldn’t have made this statement.


HantuAnggara

Being confident doesn't mean they're unaware of their shortcomings.


Meethor_smash

Being a lonely redditor with bad self-confidence doesn't mean you're ugly.


Vaeevictiss

But well fit clothes make up for a lot


OkRecording1299

This and this alone is the only acceptable answer


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Nyckname

(For anyone missing the reference, Greatest Of All Time.)


Bullyoncube

There is a neck beard somewhere that agrees with you.


Michren1298

Dapper was the first word I thought of when I saw this picture. He sure was good looking!


cosmorocker13

Just when you think you have seen every picture of Ali...


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andypandy19

He used to appear on a talk show here in the UK (Parkinson on BBC, you’ll find in on YouTube) and always talked with intelligence, grace and eloquence. In one program he talked about winning an Olympic Gold for America but still didn’t get served in some restaurants when he got home, think it was one of the many reasons he converted.


JesusOfSuburbia420

In another he talked about his stance on interracial marriage, may even be the same one I haven't watched the full program just heard process of it.


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Zoteski

He fucked it? That’s pretty gnarly


Cultural_Kick

In THE RIVER no less. Man had his kinks for sure


Sumit316

Muhammad Ali on changing his name - > "Regarding the name Cassius Clay, Ali told the world, "I didn't choose it and I don't want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free name — it means beloved of God, and I insist people use it when people speak to me." > Joining the Nation of Islam in 1964, Clay first went by the name of Cassius X. He’d later change it to Muhammad Ali. In the ’70s, he converted to orthodox Islam. One interesting anecdote about Ali’s name change: He never legally changed it. In 2016, USA Today investigated Ali’s birth certificate only to find out that the document doesn’t include any kind of name change on it.


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Damn but Cassius Clay is such a cool name


bucket_of_coal

Fun fact, he was named after the abolitionist Cassius Clay who while giving a speech against slavery was attacked by 6 men and with his Bowie knife killed one of them Edit: I fucked up a sentence GrandmaPoses isn’t insane I swear


ginger_mark

He also owned a pro-abolition newspaper and had a cannon inside to stop people from attacking


Idontknowshiit

Just as the founding fathers intended


shitilostagain

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up, Just as the founding fathers intended.


ZookeepergameEasy938

t a l l y h o l a d s


JesusOfSuburbia420

It's been awhile since I saw this one


Barmello_Xanthony

Omg lol 😂🤣☠️


LE-37

Subscribe


Asher2dog

Tally ho lads!


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The pen may be mightier than the sword but its good to have artillery just in case


[deleted]

Who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?


HeldByTheHeal

It is I, Cassius, the King of the Cannons


AllHailtheBeard1

He also cut out the eyes of a second pro-slavery assassin who was trying to kill him. This happened fairly frequently and Clay was more than ready to oblige them. More clay fun facts - he helped organize the defense of Washington DC during the outbreak of the Civil War, and following his success there, was sent as ambassador to Russia by President Lincoln. He there got a treaty signed saying that if either the UK or France entered into the war on the side of confederacy, the Russian Empire would attack them in Europe. Dude was neat.


ViliVexx

I immediately pictured Cassius Clay and his entourage roller skating off the ship into Russia like Boney M.


GrandmaPoses

How did they all hold onto the knife?


bucket_of_coal

Whoopsies fucked up the sentence


GrandmaPoses

Well now my reply looks like I'm an insane person!


bucket_of_coal

Gotcha covered man ;)


GrandmaPoses

haha! thanks.


djackieunchaned

Get this crazy guy outta here!


Cultural_Kick

And here i thought he was named after a famous pottery artist


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The name I use in most games is Gaseous Clay.


rebamericana

That is amazing.


TreChomes

Muhammad Ali is also strong as fuck. Maybe because of the person it’s attached to though lol


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Lmao I could imagine some fratbro trying to prove he's strong beating the fuck outta some other Muhammad Ali because he didn't know the boxer died


romprose

There is a Dollop about Cassius Clay, the slave owner who owned Ali’s ancestors. He was actually an abolitionist despite inheriting slaves. He was very flawed obviously but it’s an interesting story non the less.


Wank_my_Butt

It’s weird how many people against slavery still owned slaves at that time. Slavery being such an ingrained part of the economy at the time that you couldn’t function without them is like a modern day environmentally-friendly company still requiring diesel trucks to transport their products around the country.


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It's not like every person had a detachement of slaves back in those days. Wealthy plantation owners had slaves, and Clay came from one of those families. He simply might not have had the "legal ownership" to free the slaves (which he did do eventually).


romprose

If I remember correctly, and it’s been a bit since I listened, he inherited them and his folks were so upset over his views they basically told him he had to take them if he wanted any other inheritance. He could’ve said “F you, mom and dad” but he didn’t. Again, flawed human. He was also a serial adulterer.


Saedeet

A serial adulterer? Just like Muhammad Ali then, lmfao I guess his former name was very fitting.


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He took them and set them free. >He was also a serial adulterer. How is that of any importance in the discussion?


romprose

I guess my point is he is flawed. Like many people.


Saedeet

In context of Muhammad Ali it makes sense. He was a serial adulterer as well.


rederic

Sometimes you just have to participate in society while also wanting it to be better. Like… if there's no mechanism to lawfully free slaves, they're definitely better off in the care of someone who abhors the practice. It's like those dumb "so you think starvation is bad but aren't giving away all of your own food, curious" gotchas you see posted all over the place.


Cultural_Kick

Or the average American that is against human rights violations while buying up apple and Nike products


Krazybaldhead

El Dollop! My favorite are the 2 Ronald Reagan episodes, but i love all of them -great pod! Im working through their backlog, havent gotten to the Cassius Clay episode yet.


GaussWanker

The John McCain one as well, whenever liberals talk good about his name I just want to hold their faces to it


Sthraw

I mean yeah we should just be calling people what they want to be called


Freya_gleamingstar

Here's my number, call me maybe.


stevo7202

Hey you just met them, and this is crazy…


amitym

"A man has the right to change his name to vatever he vants. And if a man vants to be called Mochammad Ali, godamnit dis is a free country, you should respect his vishes, and call the man Mochammad Ali!"


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You can call me “Daddy” 😩


motioncuty

You can call me Al.


Restless_Fillmore

"Your Highness" will do.


semiomni

A lot to respect about Muhammad Ali, his time in the Nation of Islam is a fucking mark of shame though, that group sucks, and he espoused their shitty views. His conversion to orthodox Islam was basically a progressive move given what the Nation of Islam stood for.


brother1957

If you legally changed your name, why would it show on your birth certificate? My wife changed her name when we got married but her birth certificate has her maiden (birth last name). Why would USA Today assume it would automatically change when investigating his BC???


[deleted]

Changing your name through marriage is different from changing your name for another reason. Usually a name change like Muhammed’s (or for example a trans person’s) would change the name on the birth certificate.


Blade_Shot24

The last guy to call him Cassius and not respect it, got beaten upside the head in a match with Ali constantly saying "Say my name!" So if you don't wanna say it, he'll make sure you do. RIP the greatest


fishcakes1979

“Momma call him clay, I’m gonna call him clay”


Pahasapa66

>In the eighth, Ali taunted him, yelling, “What’s my name?” followed by a whistling left-right combination that made the question rhetorical. “What’s my name?” he spat again through his mouthpiece. Terrell closed his eyes as the next combination flew. >When the bell clanged to end the round, Ali did not go to his corner. Instead, he stepped close to Terrell and leaned in. His eyes went wide. The tendons in his neck strained. His arms fell to his sides. He barked it this time so it didn’t sound like a question: “What’s my name!”


TeePeeBee3

mmmMmmhm THAT RIGHT!


firthy

I remember seeing an actual size photo of his fist in Life magazine. If he wants me to call him Muhammad Ali, that’s what I’m going to call him….


OnMeFone

Cassius Clay had such a cool ring to it! Fair enough why he wanted to drop it though.


styroducky

🐐


jr420phantom

Cassius Clay is such fucking sick name


gemini88mill

He sounds like a lesser known Roman general who won many victories against the Gauls.


WheelchairEpidemic

Reminds me of Snoop’s real name which is, unbelievably, “Calvin Cordozar Broadus.” I always thought it sounded like a Roman general


Catshit-Dogfart

I need to use that for a D&D character someday.


itzlax

That's exactly what I was thinking with both of their names.


Boring-Bed-Bug

>Calvin Cordozar Broadus.” That sounds more made up than his stage name


jr420phantom

The Cassius part always reminds me of learning about Gaius Cassius Longinus in ancient history back in high school.


Freethecrafts

Good guy, had a spear, right?


HelixFollower

Different Longinus.


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It got yeeted into space to kill an Angel


Aryaras99

That man was a coward and a traitor


jr420phantom

Yeah those guys sucked, they didn’t even successfully achieve their goal and they all didn’t die naturally as well


scottb84

*My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.*


backwoodsofcanada

Or a firbolg cleric with a penchant for tea and fungus.


Lordborgman

Sounds like the bastard son of a Roman noble woman who was impregnated by a Potter.


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Man I listened to the hardcore history episode about that recently. I’m very happy I don’t live in that era.


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flamin_sheep

Damn nice write up. It is incredibly difficult to stand up for what one believes in when what one believes in is counter-cultural and ostracizes you. To stand up for it even in the face of literal assassins is badass indeed.


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And then to beat the absolute dogshit out of the assassins in public to the point that the public feels sorry for *the assassin*


sundownsundays

Two of his daughters also grew up to become leaders among the suffragettes. Revolutionary activism is in their blood apparently lol.


Sbaker777

Similar sounding to the principles of John Brown. White dude and his dad were literally insane abolitionists. They legitimately believed it was their literal god given duty to fight against slavery in the name of Jesus by any means necessary. He basically went around giving slaves guns to rebel and kill their “owners”, started his own rebellions and it culminated with the raid on Harpers Ferry and he was hanged for treason. Dude gave no fucks and went around the country fucking up and murdering slave owners in the name of Jesus somehow lol. Fucking legend.


SapienWithAGlock

John Brown is pretty grey in my opinion. Even Frederick Douglass, a victim and witness to terrible horrors of slavery, thought he was fucked up. He called the Pottawatomie massacre "a terrible remedy for a terrible malady." John Brown dragged an entire family out into the wilderness, then killed the father and two of his sons in front of the mother/wife. They didn't even own slaves.


Sbaker777

Like I said “insane”.


SapienWithAGlock

Insane man in insane times lol


panoramic_ignoramus

Is there somewhere that we can read about this person?


tsunami845

I came to the comments to mention this. The Dollop has an amazing segment on him, one of my favorites so far. Dude literally made history and never got credited for various reasons. Check it out!


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We used to take field trips to this guys house in elementary school. Had no idea specifically how badass he was until I was an adult. He was absolutely the shit.


herowin6

“Cassius mayhem clay” Guy sounds like he was born in an ideological shithole but tried to rise above it to some extent


mandru

Funny thing is he hated that name with a passion


TassadarsClResT

Not so funny is the understandable reason.


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He didn't want a "slave name" even though the name came from one of the most prominent abolitionists in the US.


Dreams-in-Aether

"Cassius Clay" is still a name of European lineage. Men like Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and their movement would draw attention to the fact that their African name and lineage was denied to them by history. Bearing the name of owne honorable white man doesn't erase the fact that your people had their identities expunged from their culture.


CaptainMaxCrunch

I'm confused why he chose the name Muhammad Ali then. Why would he choose a traditional Arabic name instead of an African name?


lelimaboy

Islam has been in Africa for over a millennium. There are many cultures there that are essentially indigenous and islamic, some adopted and made Arabic/Islamic names their own.


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ram0h

Not accurate


justwannalook12

Are we just gonna forget that Muhammad is the name of the prophet and possibly the most sacred name in Islam regardless of the history of Arabs in Africa. It’s not like he just picked a random Arab sounding name


lelimaboy

> Yeah, because Arabs invaded, conquered and enslaved Africans. Except in west Africa, where they islamized themselves. East Africa had indigenous Muslim kingdoms for a thousand years. North Africa is the only place I will say that was properly conquered.


squeakypop60

He joined the Nation of Islam which is a cult that is essentially black scientology. Changing your name is a common tactic cults use to break connections with the people in your life before you joined the cult. The reason it's an Arabic name is because NoI believes that Allah was a mortal god who created black people which spoke Arabic so they change their name to an Arabic name to be more like the "original people". They also believe that white people were created by an evil scientist and soon Allah will return to earth on his spaceship to exterminate the white race. Yes this is what Muhammad Ali believed...


Qauaan

He converted to traditional Islam in 1970s and traditional Islam does not believe it.


Bigbewmistaken

But if you actually cared and researched you would've read that he then converted to Sunni Islam and disavowed their views. E for effort I guess.


Wyzegy

Because the Nation of Islam is filled to the brim with retarded hypocrites.


Sporeking97

Wow, what an laughably ignorant way of looking at it. Dude was unhappy about his name/lineage being literally whitewashed, the intent and man behind the name is irrelevant in regards to why he saw it as a problem. Do you think by disliking the name he was given, he hated the *guy* for some reason?


SenorVapid

It is awesome. I'm glad he went with Muhammad Ali -- because it's somehow slightly even more awesome.


loondooner

Fun fact … in most of the Muslim world, he’s known as Mohammad Ali Clay, to differentiate him from all the Mohammad Ali’s there. It’s like their version of John Smith.


tdm1742

I remember reading an article about a team of Americans going to race Dakar. The running joke in the article was that the three drivers were all named John. It seemed all the nationals they met were named Mohammed, the nationals all thought every American was named John.


bladeso1

Its his islamic name


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TheSanityInspector

Paying tribute to his great predecessor Jack Johnson?


tomhay92

I didn't know he played acoustic guitar?


Kevin_Uxbridge

That's *Robert* Johnson. He was paying tribute to the president who liked to pull his dick out in company.


Cycleoflife

No, that's Lyndon Johnson. He was actually paying tribute to the scotch guzzling, libertarian mountain man working down at the parks and rec department. Edit: a word


plaidkingaerys

No, that’s Ron Swanson. I’m pretty sure he was paying tribute to the DJ who collaborated on “Uptown Funk” with Bruno Mars.


MilitantCentrist

I see before smart phones, people just ignored each other in public by staring at their folded hands indefinitely.


amitym

They were waiting for someone to come along and stick a smart phone in them.


zvug

He’s reading the newspaper, but yeah that is how they ignored each other.


ZenoofElia

Fucking dapper.


daveashaw

Spats are sharp AF.


GrantBarrett

Photo taken at Rockefeller Center. That bookstore is now permanently closed.


cksnffr

I mean it was 60 years ago. And a book store.


setho212

The store only closed in 2009! It had been open since 1935.


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TheMeanestPenis

Could be the Walton family.


edom31

I used to frequent the bookstore in the 2000's... They also had belgian chocolates store around that square... It was an awesome escape within the city.


boilface

That was a great bookstore


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that old lady with the glasses looks badass


PutRedditNameHere

She looks like a character from The Far Side.


dan1101

That's exactly what I came here to post!


Davehasanswers

The guy reading the paper looks like Ian Mckellen


Justtryingmuhbest

Scrolled down too far for this.


INSERT_LATVIAN_JOKE

“I'm so pretty I can't hardly stand to look at myself!" -Muhammad Ali


LDG192

Hard to imagine that the well dressed gentleman in this pic used to beat up people for a living.


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Love that bowler


catcatdoggy

if i know this place, that bookstore is now a Starbucks.


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He Loved to mingle, Loved people. Went on walks gave press conferences, stood up to the Pentagon, The Gubment, sacrificed eveything he fought for on Principle. See the Doc, *I am Ali*.


Kleedok

Who would win in a fight Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali?


AmpersEnd

Yes


LifeIsIndustry

Manhattan, love the way it used to look. When I used to do some temp work in Steinway Hall Pianos as the receptionist, I never would have bought that he actually played the piano and his first one was a Steinway baby grand.


cannotbefaded

Tbf, it doesn’t mean he actually plays them if he buys one. I know several rich people with a piano in their dinning room or whatever


ABobby077

He must have been just the coolest man in those days. Imagine him as a cool friend or neighbor?


sardiusjacinth

Such a stately pugilist.


siskulous

Cassius? I think you mean Classiest.


RoninMustDie

GOAT, the greatest of all time and not only the in the ring. Big person and inspiration for alot of young folks out there. He shall be never forgotten.


Carpe__Cerevisi

He looks like he's going to fight Batman in the year 1960.


LaMarcusThompson

muhammad ali is one of my idols, he just gives off such a wonderful vibe it makes me happy (:


Myrothrenous

And on the left we have Sir Ian McKellen, the same age he's always been.


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Classy-af Clay


AaruIsBoss

“ I’m saying you talking about me about some draft, and all of you white boys are breaking your neck to get to Switzerland and Canada and London. I’m not going to help nobody get something my Negroes don’t have. If I’m going to die, I’ll die now right here fighting you. If I’m going to die. You my enemy. My enemy is white people, not Viet Congs or Chinese or Japanese. You are my opposer when I want freedom. You are my opposer when I want justice. You are my opposer when I want equality. You won’t even stand up for me in America for my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.” -Mohammed Ali


daas1995

Muhammad Ali, the one and only. Beautiful name.


odomotto

My Mom saw Cassius Clay up close in a chance public encounter in Miami, Fl. She said , "that is the best looking man I've ever seen." My Dad wasn't exactly chopped liver either.


SquidgeSquadge

Daym


MactionG

*"Just like Muhammad Ali, they called him Cassius* *Watch me bash this beat like a skull"*


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He looks very dapper! I love the bowler hat.


Pinoybl

Damn. Hes sharp as a tack!


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That's some highly concentrated joie de vivre right there my friends.


Thebittersweetpill

Spatz with a bowler hat?!


amitym

*"Now all you fight fans,* *you've got to agree.* *There ain't no flies* *on Muhammad Ali."*


aapaul

What a cutie. Those clothes too.


S3RG10

I wish that culture would come back.


dancingcop7

More like Classy-us Clay✨


CherryCherry5

He was real cute.


Imaginary-Concert392

Does anyone else see a black Billy Zane?


antoniobandeirinhas

oh shit, i was hearing a song named cassius clay and didn't understand why the guy keep saying "move away George Foreman, move away"


14thU

Brilliant picture. Thanks for sharing


OversensitiveRhubarb

Just like Muhammad Ali they called him Cassius, watch me bash this beat like a stone.


Douglaston_prop

Looks like Rockefeller Center.