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  1. 01-31-2013, 08:59 AM #1
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    The Big Kahuna

    A Hawaiian surfer has just broken the record for surfing the biggest wave in Portugal.

    In a slice of the Atlantic Ocean he says is "known as a place of death, not of riding waves" according to the Time.com, pro surfer Garrett McNamara may have broken his own world record.Monday, January 28, in the waters off Nazare, Portugal, the Hawaiian surfer McNamara wrangled what multiple sources are reporting as a 100-foot wave.
    Once the wave height is verified, he will have broken his own world record. McNamara surfed a 78-foot wave at the very same rocky coastline in 2011.
    The Big Kahuna.

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  2. 01-31-2013, 11:25 AM #2
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    With most of it's coast facing the Atlantic, Portugal is ideal for this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HUGH View Post
    With most of it's coast facing the Atlantic, Portugal is ideal for this.
    You been there?
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  4. 01-31-2013, 12:31 PM #4
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    That is one of the most impressive feats I have ever seen. It rates right up there on the big nads meter with the guy who jumped from 120,000 feet.

    I hope I'm wrong but if he continues to try to break this record he is gonna get killed real bad.
    We never had weather like this before they started messing around with that internet stuff.
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    Possibly true, I never heard of getting killed real good.
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  6. 01-31-2013, 08:46 PM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by kb2vxa View Post
    Possibly true, I never heard of getting killed real good.
    I have. Death by Big Boobs or OD'ing on sex.
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    I have a few questions about that.
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    Yeppers. (OUCH!)

    That'll leave a mark.

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    Some men are gluttons for punishment, some women are just gluttons.
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