Rasputin

I might be able to answer your question if I knew who the hell Rasputin was.

 

Wolf, please take the time to look things up before making a public display of your ignorance.

Frankly, I'm more impressed by the way he weaseled his way into the royal inner circle than by any rumors about his death. Who says religion is good for nothing!

 

Why the fuck should I look something up just because someone mentions it? My hunger for knowledge isn't tha hungry. I doubt you would have looked it up if you hadn't known what it meant.

 

Actually, I probably would have looked it up. But fine, you choose to remain ignorant of world history and are too lazy to perform a simple Google search but not too lazy to proclaim your lack of knowledge to the masses, that's your Personal Life Choice and we should all respect that.

And since you clearly missed the point, I wasn't insisting that you look shit up. I was suggesting that you not go around describing your ignorance in such prideful detail.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Exaggeration!

 

Well, the guy was reputed to have magical powers, but what you described is REALLY unlikely...

 

I'm no expert on the guy, but any huge, ultra tough Russian priest is one cool guy in my book. Hell, I just plain admire anyone who can take a whole heap of punishment, and still be left standing (in figurative if not literal terms anyway).

 

Rasputin was a crazy guy. I want to join his religion.

Wolf: if you don't have information or a semi-meaningful comment to post, then don't. Saying "I don't know what this is about, and I am not going to research it" does not merit a post, go on to the next thread.

 

This is a bit eerie, because I was just reading about Rasputin. I'm sure he would like that. The thing I like best about the old bastard is that he was a smelly, goatlike lecher, and he still got just about any woman he pleased, including all manner of noblewomen. It's been suggested that even the Czarina was one of his bedmates, but that is uncertain. As to any mystical powers, I think it's certainly possible that he had them. The escape from the river story isn't as far out as one might think; remember Houdini? In other news, Wolf is being an idiot again...what a surprise.

 

i've read these vampire fiction books where they used Rasputin as one of their main characters... don't remember the name of the series... the writing wasn't that great, but it was a new premise to have Rasputin be a vampire, and that was how he survived his death... they actually included alot of famous people for the characters, including Natasha, as opposed to Anastasia, Mozart, and John Wilkes Booth...

 

Khilisti? Werent those the bad guys in the wingman series?

 

Oh! I read one like that years ago. "I, Vampire", by Michael Romkey. Not exactly high literature but I found it a most enjoyable read nevertheless. Is that the one? You say it was a series? I must investigate....

 

Rasputin's "magic" was probably a form of deep relaxation techniques. He was able to stop the hypoglycemic kid from bleeding to death by calming him down, presumably through trances, although he probably doped the kid up on some narcotic as well.

If he knew that much about relaxation and healing etc., I don't doubt he knew how to slow his own bleeding enough to give him time to get out of a box.

Sigurd, why are you surprised, it happens every day in Hollywood. And with the Czarina, he saved her son numerous times. There HAVE to be some extra perks that go along with that.

 

yeah, it was I, Vampire. there's like three more books after that... it gets weirder and weirder... and the main character stops being a good guy...

 

I wasn't surprised. I said that it amused me, not that I was surprised.

 

he was also the size of a small house. that could have something to do with it

 

Isnt he made up. I think your thinking of the green giant. you know"HO HO HO Green Giant." Not that i remember him drinking liters of vodka,but he did have a soft spot for green beans and other related veg a tables. Also has a bastard son, the little green giant. BUt wheres the mom Giant????? Kind of riscay (spelled wrong) for a 50's commercial where family values is everything.