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Feb 6th, 2009 05:41 PM
10,000 Volt Ghost
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Originally Posted by BLEU View Post
Paul Lynde. He pushed his 20-somthing paramour out of his hotel window to his death and no one cared.



I love his quips when he was on Hollywood Squares
Anouncer - "A group of geese is a gander. Paul, what is a group of chicken?"
Paul - "A Bucket"

Anouncer - "When a man falls overboard you yell MAN OVERBOARD! What do you yell if a woman falls over?"

Paul - "Full speed ahead"
_____________________________

I also look up to John C Reilly.
Feb 6th, 2009 03:39 PM
Dimnos Tadao with his Bronson look is my new hero.

Feb 6th, 2009 03:30 PM
Kitsa True story.

When I was a kid, there was this famous marine biologist I looked up to. I wanted to be a marine biologist more than anything (this was before I realized my health problems meant I could never scuba dive). I memorized books on marine biology. When I was 8 or 9, my grandmother wrote a letter to this scientist and asked her to autograph a copy of her autobiography for me.

Not only did she do that, but she sent me a whole package of stuff, including several letters, autographed pictures and a shark's tooth. The book inscription read, "All the best to (Kitsa), hoping to meet you some day." The letters invited me to write her if I ever had any questions about marine biology.

I spent years fretting over what could possibly be worthy enough to write to this woman. I finally found a shell fragment and sent it to her asking if she could ID it. I reminded her of who I was and reassured her I was reading like crazy so I could be a marine biologist too. She wrote back, ID'd the shell, said of course she remembered me and I could call or write anytime, and maybe I could come visit her college someday and sit in on a class (this was a very big deal to an 11 year old nerd).

Fast forward a year. This is still before internet. I somehow work up the guts to call the number she gave me. I'm thinking it'll go through to a secretary who will take my number and have my idol call me back. In my naive little brain, I'm sure that's how it'll go down. I call, and am horrified when her voice..the voice of the FAMOUS MARINE BIOLOGIST LADY HERSELF...picks up on the first ring and says, "Yes, hello, what?"

I stammered something about being the little girl who wrote to her and sent her the shell fragment and uh uh uh and basically my mind went blank.

She sounded extremely annoyed and said, "Are you a student? What is your email address?"

uh, uh, uh. I'd never heard of an email address. They must have been starting some barebones email in colleges around that time or something. I stammered that I didn't have one, and somehow she tersely ended the call and hung up on me.

I was absolutely mortified. Anything I'd ever gotten from her I gathered up and put into my proverbial "shattered dreams" box. A few weeks later I found out I needed surgery, my physical activities were forever severely curtailed and none of it mattered anyway.

I wouldn't call or email her now if you paid me. I done been scarred.

Moral: never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed.
Feb 6th, 2009 03:08 PM
BLEU Paul Lynde. He pushed his 20-somthing paramour out of his hotel window to his death and no one cared.
Feb 6th, 2009 03:20 AM
kahljorn unfortunately most of the people i like a lot are assholes or crazy so it's hard to look up to them ;/ its more like i look at them.
Feb 4th, 2009 07:52 PM
b_squared Your eyeroll humbles me hickman. Thank you.
Feb 4th, 2009 04:38 PM
HickMan Must of had a shitty childhood
Feb 4th, 2009 04:20 PM
b_squared Chuck Jones
Fritz Freeling
Ray Harryhausen
Stan Winston
Rick Baker
Jim Henson
George Lucas (before he turned to the dark side)
Steven Spielberg
Capt. Kirk and Picard ( Kirk because he was a slut and Picard because he wasn't)
George Carlin
Richard Jeni
Matt and Trey (south park)
JRR Tolken
TH White

None of these guys marched for freedom, attempted world peace or cured diseases (but Kirk probally caught a few)
As a kid the only person(s) that I looked up to was someone to take me away or make me laugh.
Feb 2nd, 2009 08:19 PM
executioneer space ghost
Feb 2nd, 2009 05:24 PM
Zomboid What a pretentious fag.
Feb 2nd, 2009 04:04 PM
Guitar Woman pfft, Lovecraft.
Feb 2nd, 2009 10:52 AM
Dimnos
Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitar Woman View Post
I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.
Unless he is getting tbagged by a Mark Twain or Lovecraft action figure, what you have is a piece of crap.
Feb 2nd, 2009 10:46 AM
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Feb 1st, 2009 11:55 AM
Fathom Zero
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Originally Posted by Guitar Woman View Post
I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.

That man is a godsend to high-school english students.
I was always an Aldous Huxley cat in high school.
Feb 1st, 2009 11:52 AM
HickMan
Feb 1st, 2009 11:18 AM
McClain Kevin Sorbo
Feb 1st, 2009 03:28 AM
Supafly345 Seanbaby
Feb 1st, 2009 02:42 AM
Fathom Zero Mark Hoekstra
Bill Hicks
Nicholas Negroponte

and countless other philanthropists, philosophers, and makers.
Feb 1st, 2009 12:44 AM
Big McLargehuge
Quote:
Originally Posted by wikipedia
Lem singled out only one American SF writer for praise, Philip K. Dick - see the 1986 English-language anthology of his critical essays, Microworlds. Dick, however, considered Lem to be a composite committee operating on orders of the Communist party to gain control over public opinion, and wrote a letter to the FBI to that effect.
Feb 1st, 2009 12:33 AM
Big McLargehuge Stanislaw Lem!!
Jan 31st, 2009 11:40 PM
Misdemonar Misdemonar
Jan 31st, 2009 11:15 PM
moonlightkisu Darren Hayes
Liam Sullivan from "Shoes"
Stephen Colbert
Dave Chappelle
Adam Sandler
Jay & Silent Bob
Jan 31st, 2009 09:50 AM
Blue Fox george
jesus
me
Jan 30th, 2009 07:03 PM
Kitsa In no particular order

Joey Ramone
Clint Howard
Ken Kesey
Richard Hell
Lillie Langtry
Margaret d'Anjou
Mary Tudor (Henry VIII's sister, not his daughter)
my great-grandmother
Margot Frank
Eugenie Clark
all residents of Magdalen Asylums
...and of course my favorite goalie Pascal Leclaire.
Jan 30th, 2009 06:35 PM
Guitar Woman I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.

That man is a godsend to high-school english students.
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