Who was the coolest person who ever lived?

[brainshrub]

Poll question: Who was the coolest person who ever lived?

Based on this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2270004#2270279

Vote now! All the cool people are doing it... so should you!

[Wat_Tyler]

1. Wilde, Oscar.

Do you really need to ask?

[Redneck Socialist]

2. How could you forget Lou Reed?

Shame on you! x(

[redsoxliberal]

3. I almost voted third party

DAVID ORTIZ!!!

(ended up going with John Lennon... Roger Waters also got consideration.)

Honestly though:
David Ortiz
John Lennon
Roger Waters

[JohnKleeb]

7. I may be a Baltymore fan during the reg season

but as a lifelong yankee hater, it brought a smile to my face to see Papi lead the charge in the comeback against the yanks.

[redsoxliberal]

12. yeah man

WHO'S YOUR PAPI???

SHEFF: WHO'S YOUR DEALER?????


WOW... I don't think anyone understands how jubilant Boston still is... there are people who keep givin high fives because "we finally won it!" Pehaps everyone else has moved on... we really havent yet, and won't.

incidentally:
http://www.406club.net/RedSox.wmv

[JohnKleeb]

4. Jesus

:D how cool can you be, rising from the dead, none of those others did that heh.

[pres2032]

44. amen! i agree!

can't beat changing water into wine either

[AccessGranted]

5. James Bond 007 - All of Them!

Now that's coolness hahahaha!

[neohippie]

6. I was thinking Ben Franklin

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"

I think Ben had it right, and that whole electricity thingy too!

[Justin54B20L]

48. Not to mention that he was one hell of a playboy for his time.

[maveric]

8. I'll say it again. Timothy Leary.

Brilliant and ultra-fuckin-Cool.

[Racenut20]

9. Will Rogers

[FizzFuzz]

10. Margaret Sanger

teaching birth control, having the courage to speak not only about sex education in 1912 (Amazing!!), but about how it impacted women's freedom, at a time when women didn't even have the right to vote!

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/AboutMS.htm
"Margaret Sanger's work as a visiting nurse focused her interest in sex education and women's health. In 1912 she began writing a column on sex education for the New York Call entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." This experience led to her first battle with censors, who suppressed her column on venereal disease, deeming it obscene. Increasingly, it was the issue of family limitation that attracted Sanger's attention as she worked in New York's Lower East Side with poor women suffering the pain of frequent childbirth, miscarriage and abortion. Influenced by the ideas of anarchist Emma Goldman, Sanger began to argue for the need for family limitation as a tool by which working-class women would liberate themselves from the economic burden of unwanted pregnancy."

[HCeline69]

11. Robert Anton Wilson

That's absolutely true.

[Ivan Sputnik]

13. Are there no cool women?

How about Amelia Earhart, Mother Jones, Cleopatra, Janis Joplin . . .

[brainshrub]

15. I only had 10 options.

Besides, "cool" is an attitude as well as a societal designation. Mother Jones was cool, but she wasn't "cool".

You dig?

[FizzFuzz]

31. Hey I nominated Margaret Sanger. She was damn cool!! n/t

[Hillaryin08]

14. Stevie Nicks

That is one cool chick. I wish I could of spent one night as her vagina. She had every hot guy out there.

[brainshrub]

16. Ooookay.

Whatever.

[donheld]

18. OMG

:puke:

[Taverner]

22. What if we just get to be her personal assistant?

Those of us who know our gossip know what I mean ;)

[mitchum]

50. A friend of mine working as a photographer's assistant...

saw Stevie's PA perform that particular "service"

[FizzFuzz]

33. You bring one of the few women to this list and then reduce her to THAT?

Gee, I'd be thinking more of her contribution to music, songwriting and the late 70's fantasy-rock genre, rather than her cuntribution to gossip mills.

[BlueJazz]

17. Monk,Coltrane,Byrd,Brown

[mark414]

19. Miles Davis

[Taverner]

20. John Kleeb

I say we at DU try to get Kleeb on the "People Magazine's Most Intriguing People" poll...

[JohnKleeb]

35. oh come on man, don't do that

Jesus is way cooler than I am, and besides, my life is so bland, really I am a shy guy who needs a girl.

[crimson333]

21. I am almost

positive the answer is MEB-)

[48pan]

23. Arthur Fonzarelli! n/t

[Flammable Materials]

24. OMG OMG OMFG YOU LEFT OUT *JESUS* U CHRIST-HATER!!!1!ONE

:evilgrin:

[Osamasux]

25. James Dean should be on the list

[KittyWampus]

26. Mark Twain

[democracyindanger]

27. Benjamin Franklin

Founding father, inventor, party animal.

[OneBlueSky]

28. Louis Armstrong . . . aka "Pops" . . .

influenced every genre of popular music in the 20th century . . . and did things with a horn that no one has duplicated to this day . . . also toked up every day, and once offerd the King of Sweden a packet of Swiss Kris (a laxative) at a state dinner . . .

now THAT's

[mahatmakanejeeves]

29. The man who was frozen in the glacier on the Italy-Austria border.

But wait. There have been several instances of that.

frozen glacier italy austria border man

[Guaranteed]

30. Jimmy Buffet.

:D

[FizzFuzz]

32. Patti Smith

pioneer of punk. Poet. Playwrite. Songwriting genius. Buds with Robert Maplethorpe, William S Burroughs and the Dalai Lama.

My personal favorite CD's are Dream of Life and Gone Again.

[RagingInMiami]

34. I'll cast my vote for Frank Sinatra

That guy was ice.

[personman]

36. Bruce Lee

I sure wouldn't want to tell him he wasn't (were he alive, even at 60 he could probably beat me like a drum).

[karlrschneider]

37. Galileo.

Or maybe Freud. Dr. Ruth? Kubla Khan? Rasputin? Philo Farnsworth??
ARRGHH what a question!
:eyes: :D

[nevergiveup]

38. my Grandpa

[FizzFuzz]

39. Angela Davis

[mtnsnake]

40. Eric Burdon

[FizzFuzz]

41. Grace Slick and Janis Joplin

[PassingFair]

42. Lincoln, Babe-raham

[lpbk2713]

43. Mark Twain

He lived a life I wish I could have.

[Az]

47. Gotta go with Twain

Though Oscar Wilde is an interesting choice.

[SKKY]

45. Herman Hesse...

...but I also think Caleb Carr is pretty dope as well.

[Spirochete]

46. Me

hehe

[mitchum]

49. Robert "Baby, I Just Don't Care" Mitchum

Lester Young was a contender, though