Saturday Fun Post - Dead People

Email Print posted by Verified1 04/19/2008 04:49:40 AM EST

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With Due Credit to Ihavenobias Who Thought Up The Friday Fun Post Topic.

OK Folks,
 
Instead of reading endless bickering posts about the gonads, or lack thereof, of our favorite politicians, here's some weekend relief...
 
Name FIVE people from history you would most love to meet. While most of us could name 20 or so, for this post you can only do 5.
 
Yes, they have to be dead.
 
Reasons for your choices? That's optional. It'll be interesting to see who you pick. Heroes, villains, anyone you'd like to ask a few hundred questions of.
 
Here are mine:
 
1. Col. Aaron Burr 
 
2. William Penn
 
3. Saul/Paul of Tarsus
 
4. Florence Nightingale
 
5. Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh)
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Lawl. (none / 0)
I'll do GROUPS of five. YOU HAVE NO RULE AGAINST IT XP

Politicians~
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler

Activists~
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Austin Powers(LULZ)


Villains
Khaled Al-Asad
Imran Zahkaev
Doctor Evil

by PresidentTyler on 04/19/2008 07:55:04 AM EST

Dead People (none / 0)
Ha Tyler, I love it when you are literal...the assumption is that they had to had once actually been alive. What would you ask Hitler?

by Verified1 on 04/19/2008 01:50:28 PM EST

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explain please... (none / 0)
Who are these guys?

Khaled Al-Asad
Imran Zahkaev

by yturks on 04/19/2008 07:09:12 PM EST

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Thanks (none / 0)
I should've asked that but didn't.

by ihavenobias on 04/19/2008 09:23:15 PM EST

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Let me hide my disdain for first person shooters. (none / 0)
...That damn Call of Duty game.

by jazzchic on 04/19/2008 10:59:12 PM EST

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I'm behind the times (none / 0)
I was never big into first person shooters, even though I knew they can be a lot of fun.

My gf and I bought a used gamecube a few months ago. Today we randomly went into a Gamestop and I randomly looked a Sonic The Hedgehog game.  I found a used copy that had 7 Sonic games, including the original (and parts 2, 3 and so on) with the original graphics, etc.

The funny thing is, my GF is more excited about it than I am. And she's not a video game nerd by any stretch. Playing it right now in fact...I can hear the "ching" every time Sonic hits a coin.  Ah, the good old Sega Genesis days...

by ihavenobias on 04/19/2008 11:04:54 PM EST

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Without really thinking about this at all (none / 0)
and in no particular order:

1)-Thomas Jefferson
2)-Kurt Vonnegut
3)-Jesus (for all practical purposes I'm an atheist so I don't believe he was a magical man. But I would to hang out with him and pick his brain)

Ok, I'm too short, but I told you I haven't really thought about it, plus I just woke up like 15 minutes ago.  If I go with another author, it would be

4)-Mark Twain.

If I went with another religious figure, I'd go with creator of Mormonism

5)-Joseph Smith. I'd be incredibly interested to see if I could figure out if he ACTUALLY believed in his BS or if he knew it was total BS and he just wanted to get laid.

by ihavenobias on 04/19/2008 11:22:11 AM EST

Joseph Smith (none / 0)
Great list. Hmmmm....Smith....now THERE'S a guy I'd like to meet, although I used to work with psychiatric patients, so I suspect I know the type. Not sure I'd be able to keep my composure around Jefferson - what a nasty SOB he was.

by Verified1 on 04/19/2008 01:46:59 PM EST

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Confusion? (none / 0)
I think he means Thomas.  Not George.

by ProfRich on 04/19/2008 11:17:11 PM EST

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Kurt Vonnegut (none / 0)
There was an exibit up at the Lilly Library of Rare books and Manuscripts in Bloomington Indiana last summer and I think thru the fall. I think they may have an extensive collection of his books and perhaps some belongings in case you are ever in town you should check it out:)

http://www.indiana.edu/~lib lilly/index.php

by chrisandyasemin on 04/19/2008 07:05:45 PM EST

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Thanks (none / 0)
Two of my coworkers are from Indiana and we've talked a fair amount about Vonnegut.  I'm pretty sure one of them is somehow connected to the Vonnegut family in some way.

He's my favorite author. It's a little cliche at this point to be a fan of his, but so what. A friend recommended him many years ago, I checked him out and was instantly hooked.

Best Vonnegut quotes?

Here is my favorite, followed by some other good ones:

"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. =Kurt Vonnegut

And here's a quote Dave will love: Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. -KV

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.-KV
 

by ihavenobias on 04/19/2008 09:30:39 PM EST

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Vonnegut on the Gulf War (none / 0)
I remember hearing a radio interview w/ Vonnegut several years ago. He talked about the horrible assault by the US Air Force on the retreating Iraqi tanks as they were trying to get out of Kuwait after being defeated by the US. He spoke of his feelings of shame and the feelings of the US airmen when the Iraqis were melted alive in their tanks. Does anyone else remember that interview? It was deeply moving. If anyone understood the horror of such an inferno, it would surely have been Vonnegut.

by Verified1 on 04/19/2008 10:37:44 PM EST

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hmmm... (none / 0)
(Musicians)

Woody guthrie....

Robert johnson....

Jimi hendrix....

John Coltrane....

Charlie Parker....

(politicians)

Abraham Lincoln....

John F. Kennedy....

Thomas Jefferson....

Thomas paine....

Ben Franklin....
 

by Bungle on 04/19/2008 07:17:14 PM EST

Woody Guthrie (none / 0)
Indeed.  That would be an interesting one.

by Spencer on 04/19/2008 09:20:07 PM EST

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Bungle's Musical Taste (none / 0)
Is outstanding.
 
I'm also interested to see people putting JFK on their list. Never would have expected that.

by Verified1 on 04/19/2008 10:41:54 PM EST

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I'd have a few q's/requests for these fine folks. (none / 0)
Alexander Pushkin

Charles Mingus

Galileo Galilei

John Lerro

Jack Teagarden

(I almost put Florence Nightingale on my list; Her and Juliette Gordon Low got displaced by men. Such is life.)

by jazzchic on 04/19/2008 11:15:34 PM EST

Jack Teagarden (none / 0)

Jazzchic, this is why this old party game is always fun for me. You hear names you haven't thought of in years. Jack Teagarden - a great one. Thanks for that reminder and bringing his music back into my life.

I tried to google John Lerro who I never heard of. All I could find was some fellow who rammed ship into a bridge, causing the death of many. Is that who you are talking about?

Florence N. really was a remarkable woman and I don't understand why she is not spoken of more often that she is. Her accomplishments in so many areas of science have made a huge difference in the lives of us all. And wow the intellectual company she kept - it would be a LONG conversation with her. This photo was obviously post-Scutari. Nightingale

by Verified1 on 04/20/2008 02:03:40 PM EST

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Mayday, Mayday (none / 0)
Yes, John Lerro was the captain of the Summit Venture which was the 'feather on the camel's back' of the Skyway bridge collapse. How he never committed suicide in the life he had after the disaster, is a wonder. It is one thing to 'cause' a disaster, but then to be vilified for the rest of your life (after being cleared) in the community you live in is another.

The Mayday call is one of the most chilling things I have ever heard. I couldn't find a working link to the recording online today though. Hmm.

by jazzchic on 04/21/2008 03:08:12 PM EST

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Sunshine Skyway Bridge (none / 0)
jchic, I did a quick Wiki search and was surprised to learn that 3 times as many people died from suicide on that bridge as were killed in the collapse. Interesting how we are horrified by many sudden deaths but the live/deaths of those suicide victims no doubt are tragic stories as well.

by Verified1 on 04/25/2008 02:55:56 AM EST

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