Who's the coolest person ever to live?

[Bossy Monkey]

Yeah yeah yeah, Jesus, Gandhi, Elvis, Mary Magdelene, King, Sinatra, Chuck Berry, the Dalai Lama, John Lennon, Isadora, Quentin Tarentino (Wait! That's "Who THINKS he's the coolest person ever to live?"), all those guys sure. I'm still going with Reverend Al Green. Argue with me!

[Melodybe]

1. Bob Marley was pretty cool.

[mark414]

2. Afrika Bambataa

[Tektonik]

19. I second that, wait no

I gotta go with the members of Kraftwerk. Hey Planet Rock would be nothing w/o the hook sampled from Kraftwerk.

[salvorhardin]

3. Well...

Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough were hip. Does that count?

[johnnie]

4. I'll give you a hint

Johnnie<--------------------------

[ScooterTramp]

9. How could you be cool? You look like Alfred E. Neumann.

[johnnie]

25. Who doesn't?

Alfred E is king. :)

[ScooterTramp]

28. Erm, he is nice, I suppose.

but * looks like him.

[johnnie]

31. That's even more reason to like him :)

[ScooterTramp]

43. Icky!

[Abelman]

90. Don't let them bring Alfred down!

Abelman: MAD subscriber for eight years and counting!

[ScooterTramp]

5. Me! I revel in my coolness.

[jerryster]

6. Coolest person ever.....

Steve McQueen

[xmas74]

76. He grew up the town over from my old town.

[otohara]

7. David Bowie

very cool.

[gollygee]

37. I vote for David Bowie too

even in a mullet he's cool

[blue neen]

8. Keith Richards.

Cool personified.

[qnr]

10. Roald Amundsen {cough} n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

29. or Robert Falcon Scott nt

[qnr]

30. I know, it was hard to choose one or the other n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

66. You realize of course that we're both going straight to hell for this?

Our proper use of nt / n/t doesn't extenuate sufficiently.

[qnr]

73. That will require some "Endurance" on our part (had to put Shackelton in)

[Catchawave]

11. David Letterman

First name that came to my head!

I'm sure there are others if I think about this some more :)

[XNASA]

12. Henry Miller

[hickman1937]

13. I'm going with Neal Cassady, and Anne of Cleves.

Neal Cassady was the Beat generation, and Anne of Cleves married Henry the Eighth and, not only lived to tell the tale, but ended up with a whole pile of money, jewelry, and estates.

[kskiska]

83. Neal was the King of Cool

[two gun sid]

14. I wonder how cool Al Green was with those hot grits....

blistering his ass?

[Floogeldy]

15. Jimi Hendrix

[deutsey]

16. Bill Hicks.

[Spinzonner]

17. Zaphod Beeblebrox

http://www.sadgeezer.com/hhg/zaphod.htm

[Rowdyboy]

18. Tallulah Bankhead....

A few of her choicest quotes...

"Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know, I've been using it for years"

"I can read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. Now thats what I call a liberal education"

"Its the good girls that keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time"

On her deathbed, sick with pneumonia, her last discernible words were "...codeine, bourbon...."

[whirlygigspin]

35. mirror mirror on the wall....who's the coolest of them all?

[MollyStark]

20. Mr Rogers

He was so uncool he was cool.

[benny05]

45. Thought of him too

The other would be Frmr NC John R. Edwards and his family.

[Bok_Tukalo]

21. Michael Rennie

[Rick Myers]

22. Zappa, HST, Henry Miller, George Clinton

[arwalden]

23. Cary Grant... or William Powell

[imenja]

39. good choices, but I might favor Powell

because he has that cool quality without Grant's devastating good looks.

[arwalden]

41. Yep... Powell Was A Bit Odd Looking...

... but he was so cool that you didn't even notice. Even Jean Harlow... would could have had ANYONE she wanted, chose Powell.

[Turn CO Blue]

91. You beat me to it with Cary Grant

Intelligent, suave, talented, funny and very handsome. He had amazing charisma!

[stpalm]

24. me

[ScreamingMeemie]

26. My husband, MrG...no one compares.

:hi:

[ScooterTramp]

55. Erm, and I'm sure you aren't biased in the least?

[deadparrot]

27. RFK. nt

[Spirochete]

32. I done told you once before..

Me. ;)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

33. either Charlie Chaplin or Woody Guthrie

depends what day of the week you ask me

[bigwillq]

34. Vanilla Ice

LOL! :silly:

[gizmo1979]

36. Jack Nicholson

hands down the coolest dude to ever walk the planet.

[whirlygigspin]

40. booyeah

http://www.killsometime.com/Soundboards/Soundboard.asp?Soundboard=Jack-Nicholson

[imenja]

38. alive today: Samuel L Jackson

Cool doesn't mean great though. It just means cool.

[whirlygigspin]

42. try this at home not at work!

http://www.killsometime.com/Soundboards/Soundboard.asp?Soundboard=Samuel-l-Jackson

[imenja]

48. talk about knocking down someone's image

[AngryAmish]

44. Johnny Cash - The competition is closed

Please reply to other threads.

[dbt]

92. What AngryAmish says!

[chaska]

46. No doubt about it - Yul Brenner....

Born in Russia, highly educated, danced like a pro, played a mean guitar (really!), sang well, great body, and was just a highly original, highly individual person. And god, he was gorgeous (this from the straightest guy on the planet)!

[H2O Man]

47. Muhammad Ali.

Someone once wrote that if people wanted to show aliens the best of human potential, they would use Ali as the example. I really liked that description. Matter of fact, I wish I made it up myself.

[vince3]

53. Joe Frazier...

Joe said a couple years ago that "they try to say that I only won one of the fights with Ali. But if you look at Ali now, I think I won all three." No offense to Ali, or you either, of course, H2O. I just used to like boxing.

[H2O Man]

93. It was sad

how bitter Joe was. I think that he got over it, to a large extent. Ali has the same neurological disorder that his father and Howard Cosell had. Thousands of Americans deal with it. Frazier made that ugly comment to a Sports Illustrated reporter, and after he did, a number of boxing people who love both Muhammad and Joe did an intervention.

If you read Ali's beautiful book, "The Soul of a Butterfly" (2004) you find that although he deals with a serious physical ailment, his mind is 100% clear. He is a kind and gentle man. He speaks well of Joe, and apologizes for the mean-spirited things he said about Frazier when they were foes in the ring.

Did boxing add to Ali's physical problems? I don't think anyone could argue that having men like Frazier, Liston, Foreman, Shavers, and Norton hitting you is healthy. But the most common damage boxers sustain is a form of dementia praecox; it has a high comorbidity with mood disorders and substance abuse. You may be aware of Joe's fairly recent problems with DWI and physical aggression. Odd as it may sound, but he has far more of the classic symptoms of taking too many punches.

[HEyHEY]

49. Oscar Wilde is a contender

[-..__...]

50. Dennis Hopper, John Belushi, George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay.

... Joe Pesci, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Nicholson, Buddy Guy, George the Animal Steele, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Walken, B.B. King, Lemmy, Danny DeVito, James Dean, Steve McQueen, Chuck Yeager,...

[WI_DEM]

51. The Cast of "The Brady Bunch"

They must be cool because they always said "cool", "far out" and had far out fashions and hair styles. Yeah, the Brady's!!!!

[Maddy McCall]

52. Dean Martin.

He epitomized cool. :D

[tinfoilinfor2005]

54. Bogart.

Without a doubt.

[Algorem]

56. James Coburn.

[Algorem]

57. Don Van Vliet.

[HughBeaumont]

100. ELLLLA GURU!!

[mitchum]

58. Lenny Bruce

[Algorem]

59. Jim Carrey.

[NMDemDist2]

60. Voltaire or possibly Benjamin Franklin n/t

[The Flaming Red Head]

70. Definitely Francois-Marie Arouet

or Ben Franklin. How about both.

Ed. Because My spelling skills suck.

[NMDemDist2]

71. I'd love to have dinner with either one

Jefferson would be high on my list too......

then there's the whole bunch from Athens....

too many cool people to choose just one

[The Flaming Red Head]

78. Do you remember the show meeting of the minds?

I wish they would bring that back.

[NMDemDist2]

87. I DO

am I showing my age LOL

[dxstone]

61. Another Vote for Bowie!

Cool-O-Meter Meltdown!

either that, or that new Nazi pope... that guy's chillin' like a villain...



D X Stone
"I LOVE horror movies, man... I just don't want to LIVE in one."

more unforgivable cruelty at
http://presidentevilonline.com

[Algorem]

62. Adam cuz he got some first.

[Algorem]

63. Mark Twain.

[Ladyhawk]

69. Twain was definitely too cool for his time. He's too cool for our time.

:D

[Algorem]

64. Fran Lebowitz.

[Bossy Monkey]

65. You got multiple personalities? You put up 6. (Kidding!) nt

[Blue-Jay]

67. Dizzy Gillespie, hands down.

[HughBeaumont]

68. George Burns

Isaac Hayes
Muhammad Ali
Crispin Glover

[blockhead]

72. chuck

[Algorem]

74. Nanook of the North.

[Wapsie B]

75. James Dean.

He's got to be on the list somewhere.

[otohara]

77. Got That Right

damn cool James Dean was -

[Algorem]

79. Icetray Compton

[Algorem]

80. Refrigerator Watts

[kskiska]

81. Lord Byron

Aristocratic, incredibly handsome, but born with a club foot, he created the concept of the 'Byronic hero' - a defiant, melancholy young man, brooding on some mysterious, unforgivable event in his past. Byron's influence on European poetry, music, novel, opera, and painting has been immense, although the poet was widely condemned on moral grounds by his contemporaries.

He was bisexual, and hinted at an incestuous relationship with his half-sister. He woke up one morning to find himself famous for "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" and became the darling of London Society. Indebted, with an unsuccessful marriage (and child) behind him, he left England in 1816, never to return, and spent his time roaming the Continent with Percy Bysshe Shelley a band of other poet friends and lovers. He burned out early, though, dying after personally financing the Greek civil war. He was denied burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.

[2bfree]

82. Bill Clinton

:)

[JanMichael]

84. Albert Camus.

Period. He was one cool customer.

AND his death is especially ironic...he died in a car wreck that I've heard he didn't want to take....he hated cars, he thought dying in one was the greatest of trageties...

[Algorem]

85. Fur Warehouse Holmes

[Algorem]

86. Igloo Jackson

[saltpoint]

88. Some contenders:

Alcibiades
Lillian Hellman
Miles Davis
Lou Reed
Cesar Geronimo
Red Cloud
Yo Yo Ma
Emmylou Harris
los Ninos Heroes (of Chapultepec Castle)
Nina Simone
Julian Hawthorne
Nick Drake
William Butler Yates
Janis Joplin

[aePrime]

89. Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston, Esq.

[kodi]

94. sir richard francis burton

explorer, linguist, swordsman, and author.

[Bo]

95. BOGEY

...of course

[Darth_Kitten]

96. Moll Cutpurse

:evilgrin:

heh heh...

[Algorem]

97. I never heard of this Moll Cutpurse.And,frankly,it sounds made-up.

[Darth_Kitten]

99. One link..........

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9053257

[Seabiscuit]

98. For me it has to be: my baby boy!

He is soooooo cool!

[NoSheep]

101. Bob Dylan, of course ;)