Author Topic: Coolest person ever (Read 28709 times)

Zathras · **on:** March 16, 2009, 03:58:28 PM

New game:

Who's the coolest person ever? Now, before anyone jumps straight to someone like, say, The Hoff (not the coolest ever, but way up there), here's the trick:

You must pick someone just cooler than the last choice. For instance, if the latest entry was Scott Baio, you could go to Jason Bateman, but not all the way to Henry Winkler.

Feel free to justify your reasons, and to SHOUT DOWN someone who either jumps too far ahead or lists someone less cool.

To start things off, the first name on the list is.....

Alois Hitler. I started very, very low to give other people a chance to move the list.

eytanz · **Reply #1 on:** March 16, 2009, 04:10:09 PM

Ok, I will bite:

Pepo (Euphemia) Gveseliani.

I don't know if it's a real person or not, but at least one source claims that he was Stalin's cousin. Which isn't a particularly cool thing to be, but at least he wasn't Hitler's dad.

Raving_Lunatic · **Reply #2 on:** March 16, 2009, 06:53:03 PM

Bdoomed · **Reply #3 on:** March 16, 2009, 10:30:15 PM

psh. i think Alois is cooler.

Talia · **Reply #4 on:** March 16, 2009, 10:55:12 PM

I guess I will be waiting a long time to say "me" since I am cooler than anyone, ever, in all creation, real or imagined.

Bdoomed · **Reply #5 on:** March 16, 2009, 10:59:51 PM

i agree

Raving_Lunatic · **Reply #6 on:** March 16, 2009, 11:05:04 PM

*thread suddenly has no reason to exist*

Zathras · **Reply #7 on:** March 16, 2009, 11:12:29 PM

Ok, in the beginning, we can take decent sized steps. But when we actually start getting to a level that people might argue, we'll need to slow it down.

My next selection:

Alexander IV

gelee · **Reply #8 on:** March 16, 2009, 11:28:45 PM

Quote from: Zathras on March 16, 2009, 11:12:29 PM

My next selection:

Alexander IV

Carloman I

Zathras · **Reply #9 on:** March 17, 2009, 02:26:31 PM

Alright, time to modernize a bit.

Bernade Slade

gelee · **Reply #10 on:** March 17, 2009, 11:43:06 PM

Good one. I'll have to give this some thought.

Darwinist · **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2009, 02:32:41 AM

Marty Kroft

Poppydragon · **Reply #12 on:** March 18, 2009, 07:11:14 AM

Gerry Anderson

Corydon · **Reply #13 on:** March 18, 2009, 12:29:56 PM

George Plimpton.

stePH · **Reply #14 on:** March 18, 2009, 03:28:38 PM

Carson Kressley

Swamp · **Reply #15 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:15:10 PM

Rachel Ray

Zathras · **Reply #16 on:** March 18, 2009, 06:24:58 PM

Richard Moll

Ocicat · **Reply #17 on:** March 18, 2009, 10:40:01 PM

Okay, back to a little less modern:

Tycho Brahe

Planish · **Reply #18 on:** March 19, 2009, 04:20:57 AM

Nevil Maskelyne - another astronomer with a lunar crater named after him, but his surname sounds cooler. Oh, and also took part in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiehallion_experiment

Zathras · **Reply #19 on:** March 19, 2009, 03:55:46 PM

Christopher Columbus. He'd be cooler, but he got lost.

Ocicat · **Reply #20 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:35:01 PM

I'll one-up you with a two-fer:

Erik the Red, the actual first European to sail to the New World (in the form of Greenland). And his son, Leif Ericson, the first European to set foot on the actual continent of North America.

They're less famous than Columbus but undoubtedly cooler. Partly because they did it for real before he came later and took the credit, partly because they never got lost and thought they were in frikken India, but mostly just because they were Vikings.

Poppydragon · **Reply #21 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:49:24 PM

Brendan the Navigator, not only was he a monk but he allegedly sailed across the Atlantic in a the 6 century in a leather coracle. Even the Vikings would have been hard pushed to do that

Zathras · **Reply #22 on:** March 20, 2009, 04:11:45 AM

The original eco-terrorist: Johnny Appleseed.

Swamp · **Reply #23 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:51:42 PM

Meriwether Lewis

Zathras · **Reply #24 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:56:57 PM

William Clark