5 people you want to meet?
My ELA final is a 6 page essay on 5 people you want to meet dead or alive. I want to choose really good and impressive people. I dont want Martin Luther King or George Washington. Everyone knows who they are. I want people who my teacher will be impressed with me choosing. I already have one. My first one is Temple Grandin. I need 4 more. Any ideas?
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I'd love to meet Hans Moravec. He seems like my kinda dude.
Pol Pot, Stalin, Jim Jones, Grover Norquist, Saint Paul.
Psychopathic Whackos are much more interesting.
Well, if it were me:
Gary Larson, Weird Al Yankovic, Max Cannon, Lewis Black, and Thurston Moore
They each have very interesting ways of offering commentary on existence and living in society. It would be interesting being able to sit down and chat with them. Probably individually though. Not sure it would work too well all at once.
Tori Black, Bobbi Starr, Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, and Belladonna.
Because what could go wrong if you put me in a room with five pornstars?
Kerry Thornley, Rupert Murdoch, Jim Henson (I just want to hear him swear), Klaus Nomi, Lady Gaga
Dashiel Hammet, Hunter S. Thompson, Lord Byron, Robert E. Lee, Robert Heinlein, personally.
You could do the paper on the five people you want to meet just so you can do something horrible to them. LMNO's psycho list would work great for that.
Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, H.L. Mencken, Enrico Salizar, Joe Biden.
Quote from: LMNO on July 20, 2010, 03:26:51 PM
Because what could go wrong if you put me in a room with five pornstars?
I accidently South Filth contemplating it. :oops:
Ben Franklin, Nietzche, Saladin, Haruki Murakami, Thomas Paine.
Also, 5 people I've met who have been very worthwhile and inspirational to know (Present company excluded)
Al Fern, K. Brown, Kaye Glass, H. Biller, J. Slack
Each of the lists seems to have a sort of theme to it, so mix it up:
Pol Pot, Weird Al, Jenna Haze, Klaus Nomi, and Joe Biden.
THAT would be a fucking interesting meetup.
I actually did briefly meet Weird Al once a few years ago. But I had a cold and I didn't want to get the poor guy sick on tour. He was very nice and cordial.
Why waste time meeting heroes? They aren't that much better than you - lots were just in the right place at the right time.
If I had a chance to meet any 5 people, I'd wanna meet 5 beautiful single girls. :mrgreen:
Because maybe they're interesting to talk to, or some stupid shit.
Quote from: Sigmatic on July 24, 2010, 12:44:19 AM
Because maybe they're interesting to talk to, or some stupid shit.
This post gave me a wicked case of deja vu.
As far as the 5 people, let me get back to you.
Zarathustra (because I've always found Zoroastrianism interesting)
Kevin Barry (My namesake. I was born during a surge of Irish patriotic namings) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barry
Bruce Dickinson and/or Steve Harris (Maiden is my favorite band. Dickinson would probably be easier to talk to, from what I gather)
Mikhail Gorbachyov
and....
I don't know yet.....
Countess Constance Georgine Markiewicz. I hate to double up on both Socialists/Communists as well as Irish revolutionaries from the 20th Century, but I realized everyone else on the list was a dude. She was the first chick that popped into my head. And she was a bad ass, despite the fact that she was both a Socialist and married to a count, and nobility in her own right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markiewicz#Marriage_and_early_politics
Albert (http://books.google.com/books?id=s8gJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=related:ISBN0691006008&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false) and Lucy Parsons (http://www.iww.org/culture/biography/LucyParsons1.shtml), Juan Pujol Garcia (http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pujol.html), Mark Twain, Terry Pratchett
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
ummm Richard Feynmann maybe.
Though if I'm allowed generics, I'm going for 5 really super awesome people I didn't know yet.
George Carlin, Warren Zevon, Alan Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Wait.
What's been done to HIM?
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2011, 08:11:47 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Wait.
What's been done to HIM?
:lulz:
I was wondering that but was afraid to ask.
I don't think Manson is bat shit crazy, I think he's a fucking evil genius.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 05, 2011, 08:16:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2011, 08:11:47 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Wait.
What's been done to HIM?
:lulz:
I was wondering that but was afraid to ask.
I don't think Manson is bat shit crazy, I think he's a fucking evil genius.
If he was a genius, he wouldn't have gotten caught.
He's a charismatic psychotic, who arranged a bunch of senseless murders, and then went to jail to get buggered by other psychos.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2011, 08:17:46 PM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 05, 2011, 08:16:20 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2011, 08:11:47 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Wait.
What's been done to HIM?
:lulz:
I was wondering that but was afraid to ask.
I don't think Manson is bat shit crazy, I think he's a fucking evil genius.
If he was a genius, he wouldn't have gotten caught.
He's a charismatic psychotic, who arranged a bunch of senseless murders, and then went to jail to get buggered by other psychos.
I can see that argument as well. I just mean he isn't drooling, rubber room nuts. Does that make sense?
By "Done to him" I meant being held up as some kind of Messianic Antichrist, whose Svengali like influence stole innocent Hippy kids away from their loving, mid American homes and families, and turned them into his own apocalyptic Army of mindwiped killbots.
I would like to meet Eddie Vedder, Neil Gaiman, Ghandi, Jesus and Buddha
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:45:22 PM
By "Done to him" I meant being held up as some kind of Messianic Antichrist, whose Svengali like influence stole innocent Hippy kids away from their loving, mid American homes and families, and turned them into his own apocalyptic Army of mindwiped killbots.
Which is an interesting way of saying "he collected a raft of damaged goods, fed them acid for several months, and then pointed them like a gun."
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 05, 2011, 08:51:07 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:45:22 PM
By "Done to him" I meant being held up as some kind of Messianic Antichrist, whose Svengali like influence stole innocent Hippy kids away from their loving, mid American homes and families, and turned them into his own apocalyptic Army of mindwiped killbots.
Which is an interesting way of saying "he collected a raft of damaged goods, fed them acid for several months, and then pointed them like a gun."
I only said I thought he was interesting. I'm not holding him up as some sort of moralis examplar for a generation of misunderstood Hippys!
eta;; Yes, I did totally make up " moralis examplar".
Quote from: kingyak on October 05, 2011, 07:50:54 PM
George Carlin, Warren Zevon, Alan Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain
Damn good list. :lol:
ETA: My list of people to meet: Vlad Tepes, Ivan the Terrible, Hermann Goering, Caligula, and Socrates.
You guys are looking at this all wrong. You seek enlightenment, you seek answers, you seek intellectual stimulation.
I want to meet Lee Harvey Oswald.
Fuck who else I'd like to meet. I'd make so much bank on finding out who shot JFK that famous people would want to meet me.
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on October 06, 2011, 03:43:39 AM
You guys are looking at this all wrong. You seek enlightenment, you seek answers, you seek intellectual stimulation.
I want to meet Lee Harvey Oswald.
Fuck who else I'd like to meet. I'd make so much bank on finding out who shot JFK that famous people would want to meet kill me.
fixt.
Aerton Senna, Bob Marley, Ginni Callahan, Steve Vai, Jesus
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 08:06:11 PM
Quote from: Roaring Biscuit! on October 05, 2011, 07:34:41 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 05, 2011, 05:15:27 PM
Harry Patch, Alan Moore, Tesla, Saladin, Terence McKenna.
But if you ask me next week, it will probably be a completely different list, and might contain Charlie Manson.
you know you could always write to Manson, I've heard he's quite diligent in answering fan mail
xx
edd
I'm not really a Manson 'Fan' as such, but I do find him interesting, in that he is a rare example of a living, breathing "Demonised man". He is unusually self aware and intelligent too, as regards exactly what has been done to him. Hardly a danger now though. Not sure if he ever was much of a danger really. Took all the blame though, despite not being convicted of actual, you know, . . murder.
Well I don't think anyone in their right mind would be an actual fan, although if you fancy getting some fucked up hate mail and requests for pornography, he's your man.
... for some reason I feel like writing to Manson is probably
exactly like writing to The Good Doktor Roger Howl; you get exactly what you deserve...
I want to meet Doctor Who!
Tennant, probably. As long as he got a working Tardis and zany adventures!
Syd Barrett, Frank Zappa, Alex Harvey, Ozzy, Bob Calvert.
That's my Rock Star list. Better get a wriggle on with that, seeing as Ozzy is the only one who could be classed as "Still alive".
If I hadn't met Rob Plant already, he'd be on the list too.
I want to have coffee with both god and satan.
At the same time.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 06, 2011, 07:39:34 PM
I want to have coffee with both god and satan.
At the same time.
I wouldn't like to get in between those two if they start to kick off. . . . . . . . . Oh, Srsly? For real? . . . .It appears we are already embroiled in some kind of Good vs Evil morality bollocks between these two anyway. I hope you get your wish Khara. Those two fuckers won't know what's hit them. (Might I suggest a little something to spike their coffee with?)
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/active%20ones/newer%20gifs/lsd.jpg)
Quote from: BadBeast on October 06, 2011, 09:06:35 PM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 06, 2011, 07:39:34 PM
I want to have coffee with both god and satan.
At the same time.
I wouldn't like to get in between those two if they start to kick off. . . . . . . . . Oh, Srsly? For real? . . . .It appears we are already embroiled in some kind of Good vs Evil morality bollocks between these two anyway. I hope you get your wish Khara. Those two fuckers won't know what's hit them. (Might I suggest a little something to spike their coffee with?)
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/active%20ones/newer%20gifs/lsd.jpg)
Hey now, I never said I wanted to drop acid with them :lulz:
Besides, I'm sure satan is into "bath salts" yanno....
Quote from: BadBeast on October 06, 2011, 09:06:35 PM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 06, 2011, 07:39:34 PM
I want to have coffee with both god and satan.
At the same time.
I wouldn't like to get in between those two if they start to kick off. . . . . . . . . Oh, Srsly? For real? . . . .It appears we are already embroiled in some kind of Good vs Evil morality bollocks between these two anyway. I hope you get your wish Khara. Those two fuckers won't know what's hit them. (Might I suggest a little something to spike their coffee with?)
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/active%20ones/newer%20gifs/lsd.jpg)
Willing to bet it's been done to God, at least once.
Evidence:
(http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/seminar/2001/Home/lae/platypus2.jpg)
Quote from: Luna on October 06, 2011, 10:57:50 PM
Quote from: BadBeast on October 06, 2011, 09:06:35 PM
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus.... on October 06, 2011, 07:39:34 PM
I want to have coffee with both god and satan.
At the same time.
I wouldn't like to get in between those two if they start to kick off. . . . . . . . . Oh, Srsly? For real? . . . .It appears we are already embroiled in some kind of Good vs Evil morality bollocks between these two anyway. I hope you get your wish Khara. Those two fuckers won't know what's hit them. (Might I suggest a little something to spike their coffee with?)
(http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/ChuckFukmuk/active%20ones/newer%20gifs/lsd.jpg)
Willing to bet it's been done to God, at least once.
Evidence:
(http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/seminar/2001/Home/lae/platypus2.jpg)
Absolutely. Someone in the design department it seems, has a sense of humour. And I suspect Satan is more of a cocaine man myself.
eta; Khara, whatever happens, it should be an interesting morning. :D
No, no, you've got it all wrong. God and Satan hang out at the pool hall and make bets on what Job will do if he's reamed hard enough. They're both alkies.
I'd rather drop acid with Padmasambhava and GIGGLES.
I know Krishna rolls nicely with Acid.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/Bollocker/Krishna.jpg)