NFT: Who is your vote for the coolest dude in the last 100 years

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Real Life: Elvis

I change mine.


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How about:

Woody Guthrie

Allen Ginsberg

George Carlin

Maynard G. Krebs

John Lennon

But I would throw in Clark Gable and Cary Grant.

And it ain't even close.

Namath was pretty fuckin cool

is ever close on BBI.

when it comes to lists and opinions.

My family had a hunting lodge in in rural Columbia County, New York. Lime Rock race track is a few miles away and Paul Newman used to race cars up there. My uncle was was a prominent real estate guy up there, constantly meeting and schmoozing with people. So he's in a hotel bar in a small town up there and starts talking to this guy at the bar. He had no idea that it was Paul Newman, but they really hit it off, maybe because Newman liked that my uncle didn't know who he was.

He calls up to the mountain to tell my aunt that he's bringing home a guest for dinner. An hour later he shows up and my aunt, my cousin and I were stunned that he had Newman with him. When my cousin told my uncle that it was Paul Newman the actor, my uncle responded that he thought "he was an up and coming race car driver". Newman stayed for 4-5 hours, had a bunch of cocktails, and became lifelong friends with my uncle. He visited the lodge several times after that, any time he was over at Lime Rock. Very, very cool guy to be around. Incidentally, he was a surprisingly little guy.

Jimi Hendrix

How cool must that have been. Newman seemed like a great guy.

In comment 13082052 pjcas18 said:

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is ever close on BBI. when it comes to lists and opinions.

I find that stuff irritating too; that somehow it's an obvious choice or there's nobody closed makes no sense

and the original James Bond Sean Connery

In comment 13081664 chris r said:

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guy is dull as a bag of rocks.

So you've hung out with him to know what he's really about?

Or are you one of those fucking morons who thinks he knows what someone is like based on soundbites given to the media?

Oh -don't answer that question about being a moron, we all know you already are...

Of the names not listed.

gets my vote. Elvis runner-up.

In comment 13081887 manh george said:

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Astaire.

That's a good one!

Humphrey Bogart all come to mind.

Simo Hayha

more mentions.

And analogously, Toshiro Mifune.

In comment 13081681 Modus Operandi said:

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After the first two posts. Correct answers are: Steve McQueen Paul Newman Humphrey Bogart ...in that order.

+1

It has to be Ted Williams.

Have the other guys flown the Space Shuttle AND prior to that walked on the Moon?

His heart rate never went above 90 during any of his 6 launches.

He smuggled a pastrami sandwich into space on his first mission.

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think of Churchill.

and caught the votes for Clint.

Great calls with some of the non-obvious military and space/aviation choices.

In comment 13081310 Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy said:

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"You get to hang with him for one Friday night/Sat morn"... Eddie Murphy in his prime out in LA during the 80s.

Norm Macdonald said after SNL's 40th party that in a room of rock stars, Murphy was the biggest rock star. And that while he is still the funniest guy in the room, unlike most comedians, he isn't driven by a pathological need to make jokes and can be totally chill.

Read either of his memoirs "The Kid Stays In The Picture" or "The Fat Lady Sang" or watch any of his short lived 2003 Comedy Central cartoon series Kid Notorious to see why

Tim.

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John Lennon - not much of a man - left his wife and kid, with nothing when he had a ton of cash - and was pretty much a wussy.

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gone way too early

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Among the unmentioned, JFK Jr. was a cool dude.

How old people rock n rollers r the #1 choice.

May not be the #1. But still lol.

I'm the only one who said Bill Gates?

$50+ Billion donated you fucking idiots

Particularly David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, John Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, Bill Murray, and Tom Waits.

But to me, being the smartest guy on the planet is pretty cool, so in lieu of naming myself (that would be pretty egotistical), I'm going with Albert Einstein. If you think he doesn't quite make the 100 year cut because the publications of his special relativity was in 1905 and general relativity was in 1916, then how about Richard Feyman.

Today's "smartest guy on the planet award" goes to Ed Witten for his M-Theory, which is the first mathematically sound "theory of everything" to be published. But to see hims speak (and hear his voice), he would seem to be the opposite cool. Which makes him all the more cool.
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In comment 13082414 Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy said:

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How old people rock n rollers r the #1 choice.

So, in other words, you have no idea who Frank Zappa was.

In comment 13082415 Osi Osi Osi OyOyOy said:

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May not be the #1. But still lol. I'm the only one who said Bill Gates? $50+ Billion donated you fucking idiots

Oddly hostile post, osi. "Coolest" means having a certain affect or way about you. It does not mean "greatest"

In comment 13082230 GiantsUA said:

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John Lennon - not much of a man - left his wife and kid, with nothing when he had a ton of cash - and was pretty much a wussy.

Feel the same way about Lennon. Not an appealing fellow.

Deserves mention

Murphy.
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Todd Beamer. What he did was remarkable...

David Bowie, not even close IMO.