And then there was the guy with the Budweiser watch and gold nugget ring.

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Old Spice Guy was then accepting questions from regular Joes and celebrities with HUGE Twitter followings that the Old Spice Guy answered in videos.

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Then there's the guy who always drives around with a full water bottle.

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He played it smart, aligning himself in the 1960s with factions led by Ayatollah Khomeini, then becoming the go-to guy after the revolution.

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Benny wasn't like a great friend of Tom's or anything but he was the guy who on occasion would have lunch with Tom and then report back to the rest of us.

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Then almost overnight I was a guy who woke up and looked at a map with his friends saying where do you want to go today: Cambodia or Indonesia?

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It appears to both of us that this company is trying to wriggle out of any liability by sending a guy over to give the chest a rub down with sandpaper and then okay it.

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Then, while I was in the car with my mom one day, we saw a guy hitchhiking.

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"When a guy came around and sprayed the solution on my Kleenex and then couldn't light it with a blowtorch, I was sold, " recalls Branson.

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"The comments you get most frequently are people saying, 'wow if this guy can do it with one leg, if he can get in that good a shape then I have no excuses with two legs, " says Sundquist.

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