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Zathras

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Reply #50 on: March 27, 2009, 11:55:01 PM
::Picks up the unconscious unicorn and waits for Swamp::

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Reply #51 on: March 28, 2009, 01:16:21 AM
I do have four children, two of which can be directly linked to my DNA.

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Reply #52 on: March 28, 2009, 01:50:19 AM
Dang it!  Guess you're safe then.


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Reply #53 on: April 13, 2009, 12:55:06 AM
threadomancy!
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I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?

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Reply #54 on: April 13, 2009, 03:53:56 AM
An atheist Chatholic priest - that's something cooler than a crazy fake emperor though.

Speaking of religious non believers, I nominated L. Ron Hubbard


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Reply #55 on: April 13, 2009, 04:34:24 AM
Quote from: slic on April 13, 2009, 03:53:56 AM
An atheist Chatholic priest - that's something cooler than a crazy fake emperor though.

Speaking of religious non believers, I nominated L. Ron Hubbard

Dude, L. Ron Hubbard is way less cool than the Atheist Catholic Priest. I mean, both of them sucked in terms of hypocrisy, but Scientology's done a lot of damage, where I don't think we can argue the priest did.

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Reply #56 on: April 13, 2009, 04:38:10 PM
Agreed.  Battlefield Earth is in my top five favorite novels, and I've enjoyed other things he's written as well, but as a human being, Hubbard's among the most contemptible men who ever lived.

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Reply #57 on: April 13, 2009, 04:41:34 PM
I have a feeling that in a few years or decades, a time capsule will be uncovered with a message from Hubbard laughing at all the dumb scientology people, it having all been just an experiment

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Reply #58 on: April 13, 2009, 04:47:39 PM
Quote from: Bdoomed on April 13, 2009, 04:41:34 PM
I have a feeling that in a few years or decades, a time capsule will be uncovered with a message from Hubbard laughing at all the dumb scientology people, it having all been just an experiment
I wouldn't be surprised.  It's common knowledge (to anybody with any sense, i.e., non-Scientologists) that he invented the "religion" to make money, but he was already an asshole before that ... a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur.

(My source is L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman? by Bent Corydon and L. Ron Hubbard Jr.)

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Reply #59 on: April 13, 2009, 07:18:03 PM
Quote from: stePH on April 13, 2009, 04:47:39 PM
a pathological liar with delusions of grandeur.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, right. *looks defensive!*


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Reply #60 on: April 13, 2009, 11:48:24 PM
I'm a bit lost in this game - I agree with all of you - I just think a jerk of a man to hoodwink that many people with what is so incredibly obvious as phoney - well it's not much different than a priest who stands in front his flock, takes their tithes and lies to them day after day after day - just a matter of scale.

But to get this back on track - I nominate Clifford the Big Red dog - slightly cooler than Hilter's dad and Che Guevera and not quite as cool as Oscar Wilde



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Reply #61 on: April 15, 2009, 05:31:35 PM
Thor Heyerdahl  He gets bonus points for being named Thor.


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Reply #62 on: April 15, 2009, 05:34:07 PM
I was going to submit Jackie Robinson in honor of the 62nd anniversary of his breaking the color barrier, but he's way cooler than everyone else on the list.


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Reply #63 on: May 06, 2009, 07:05:04 PM
Ok, moving this to the realm of people who are actually cool.  Time to take a huge leap forward.

I nominate Jack Benny.  Not only did he have the famous skit for Your Money or Your Life, but he also refused to stay at a hotel because they wouldn't let Eddie Anderson stay there.  His on and off screen personalities were near polar opposites.


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Reply #64 on: May 07, 2009, 12:57:25 PM
I'm pulling a Jack Benny.  I turned 38 at my last b-day.  I've jumped ahead to saying I'm 39.  I figure if I get there early I can dig in and be 39 for the rest of my life.

If we're at Jack Benny, we have to go to George Burns.  Before Jack died these two would bust on each other constantly. 


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Reply #65 on: May 07, 2009, 01:34:24 PM
Jack never made George laugh, and it was a big deal.  If anyone is interested, I can try to find the stories.  They are fascinating.

George definitely was cooler, he played GOD!!!


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Reply #66 on: June 27, 2009, 03:32:14 PM
Gracie Allen.

From the Wikipedia article:  George Burns attributed all of the couple's early success to Allen, modestly ignoring his own brilliance as a straight man. He summed up their act in a classic quip: "All I had to do was say, 'Gracie, how's your brother?' and she talked for 38 years. And sometimes I didn't even have to remember to say 'Gracie, how's your brother?'


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Reply #67 on: June 27, 2009, 07:33:44 PM
George said his most important job was to not crinkle the script pages while he was playing opposite of her.


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Reply #68 on: June 27, 2009, 10:56:33 PM
Quote from: Zorag on May 07, 2009, 01:34:24 PM
Jack never made George laugh, and it was a big deal.  If anyone is interested, I can try to find the stories.  They are fascinating.

George definitely was cooler, he played GOD!!!

I think my favorite Burns/Benny story is about a party; I believe it was at Benny's.  The party was turning out to be rather dull, so Benny asked Burns, "Do you think it would liven things up if I came downstairs playing the violin with no pants on?"  Burns said something like "that's a great idea.  Do it."  Benny went upstairs to carry out the plan, and while he was up there, Burns announced:

"In a couple of minutes, Jack's going to come downstairs, with no pants on, playing the violin.  Pay no attention to him."  :D

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