{"id":4140,"date":"2016-06-05T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/05\/muhammad-ali-once-trolled-a-public-speaker-with-an-electric-pencil-sharpener\/"},"modified":"2016-06-05T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T00:18:00","slug":"muhammad-ali-once-trolled-a-public-speaker-with-an-electric-pencil-sharpener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/05\/muhammad-ali-once-trolled-a-public-speaker-with-an-electric-pencil-sharpener\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Ali once trolled a public speaker with an electric pencil sharpener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f106678%2f9f9bc0a2974a435d9343adee84479547\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/CJoJ9J6yd0kJcFwTOAwnB8hIVM4=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F106678%2F9f9bc0a2974a435d9343adee84479547.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Muhammad+Ali+once+trolled+a+public+speaker+with+an+electric+pencil+sharpener&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F04%2Fmuhammad-ali-pencil-sharpener-tweet-story%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F04%2Fmuhammad-ali-pencil-sharpener-tweet-story%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This man&#8217;s tale of a bizarre encounter with Muhammad Ali is a 20-tweet long epic well worth the read.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @ThatBoysGood, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/739132446109794304\">recounted the story<\/a> on Saturday, once drove to an Ali event hoping for an autograph and a photo. 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