World’s strongest man dead at 104

I doubt I’ll live to 104 and my obituary won’t begin like this:

Joe Rollino once lifted 475 pounds. He used neither his arms nor his legs but, reportedly, his teeth.

Rollino wasn’t even felled by old age. He was killed by a minivan — a fucking Windstar! — while crossing the street in Brooklyn. Here’s the deceased circa 1915 at age 10, already displaying a winning form:

Rest in peace, Joe.

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