So many to choose from, including actors, athletes, businessmen, etc.
I thought of a few great choices, including a quiet gun slinging actor turned director.
But I would vote for Dean Martin. Smooth and graceful(even when performing goofy physical comedy). Great singer (I prefer him to Sinatra, but I admit this is personal taste and not objective). Can dance, with impeccable comic timing.
And the dude just had crazy charisma. Goldie Hawn said that she cracked up in the clip below because she was so nervous to be in the presence of man she found so attractive.
So, who is your choice? And only give 1!
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You broke the rule! But good choices.
what are you, a Princeton trustee? :-)
Don't worry, the hottest chick of the last 100 years thread will be posted tomorrow.
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I read this quickly as "Eleanor or Teddy Roosevelt" and thought that this guy was on to something...
what a sycophant
Clark Gable
Cary Grant
And then there's:
Hov
The Rock
Clint Eastwood (again)
Steffon from SNL
Jon Snow (book version, not emo show version)
Lady Mormont (come at me bro)
Least cool dudes (somewhat lighthearted version):
Brian Williams
Tony Romo
Michael Irvin
Dez Bryant
Greg Hardy
etc.
Darren Sharper
Hov
The Rock
Clint Eastwood (again)
Steffon from SNL
Jon Snow (book version, not emo show version)
Lady Mormont (come at me bro)
Least cool dudes (somewhat lighthearted version):
Brian Williams
Tony Romo
Michael Irvin
Dez Bryant
Greg Hardy
etc.
Darren Sharper
Did you read the OP? Only put one!
The "fundamentally kind and humane" characteristics were what had me put him first. If I had another pick I'd have said Gregory Peck for the same reason.
But I suspect older folks don't understand why people from my generation think Jay-Z belongs on the list. And, quite frankly, my younger brothers would put Drake on this list but I think he's a total cornball. Why is that? Or am I just over-generalizing? (I guess I've become a little bit of a Belieber recently.)
Also add Usher and Justin Timberlake to the list.
and if you dont think that you yourself are the coolest guy around you gotta problem.
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no way, he is a first class a-hole hothead (I know someone who used to work for him and it's well-known that he is a POS) and the fact that he wears hideous suits doesn't make him cool either.
That was, apparently, a poor attempt at humor
Do you mean Joe Willie Namath?
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Bonus points for:
*Serving in WWII
*Having a long successful ollywood marriage
*Starting a massively successful charitable food product company
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My second thought was Steve McQueen
*Bonus points for his first name
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One name I didn't see mentioned that could at least be included in the discussion was Warren Beatty
Effing good pick. He was supposedly witty as hell on his feet in Parliament. Had a huge ongoing feud supposedly with a certain "Lady Astor." A least there's a legend about their verbal repartee.
He said something that set her off, to which she responded:
"Winston Churchill, if you were my husband I would poison your tea!"
His comeback for trumps:
"If you were my wife, I'd drink it!"
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
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Officer on US destroyer during Korean War
Helicopter pilot
Fighter pilot
Test pilot
Flew on first Gemini mission
Flew to the Moon - Apollo 10
Commanded & walked on Moon - Apollo 16
- 9th man on Moon
- 1 of only 3 to go to the Moon twice
Commanded first Space Shuttle flight (only astronaut to fly on first flight of a two different manned spacecraft):
Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut, becoming the first person to make six space flights over the course of 42 years of active NASA service,[1] and is the only person to have piloted, and been commander of, four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo Command/Service Module, the Apollo Lunar Module, and the Space Shuttle.
In 1965, Young flew on the first manned Gemini mission, and commanded another Gemini mission the next year. In 1969, he became the first person to orbit the Moon alone during Apollo 10. He drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon's surface during Apollo 16, and is one of only three people to have flown to the Moon twice. He also commanded two Space Shuttle flights, including its first launch in 1981, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1974–1987. Young retired from NASA in 2004.
After graduating from Georgia Tech in 1952, Young entered the United States Navy through the Navy ROTC and was commissioned on June 6, 1952, as an ensign.[2] He served as fire control officer on the destroyer USS Laws until June 1953 and completed a tour in the Sea of Japan during the Korean War. Following this assignment, he was sent to flight training. In January 1954, he was designated a Navy helicopter pilot,[2] and after receiving his aviator wings on December 20, 1954, he was assigned to Fighter Squadron 103 (VF-103) for four years, flying F-9 Cougars from USS Coral Sea and F-8 Crusaders from USS Forrestal.
After training at the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in 1959, Young was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland for three years. His test projects included evaluations of the XF8U-3 Crusader III and F-4 Phantom II fighter weapons systems. In 1962, he set two world time-to-climb records while flying his Phantom II, attaining 3,000 meters (9,843 ft) from a standing start in 34.523 seconds and 25,000 meters (82,021 ft) from a standing start in 227.6 seconds.[2] He also served as maintenance officer of Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143) from April to September 1962.[1]
Fellow astronaut Charles Bolden described Young and Robert "Hoot" Gibson as the two best pilots he had met during his aviation career: "Never met two people like them. Everyone else gets into an airplane; John and Hoot wear their airplane. They're just awesome".[9] Young retired from the Navy as a Captain in September 1976, after completing 25 years of active military service.
He has logged more than 15,275 hours flying time in props, jets, helicopters, and rocket jets; more than 9,200 hours in T-38s; and 835 hours in spacecraft during six space flights.
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That dude has it all.
Great choice.
Steve McQueen
Paul Newman
Humphrey Bogart
...in that order.
Lol.
Surprised no one mentioned, both were good race car drivers. That's pretty cool.
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LOL
Silky Smooth
That's the huge difference for me. By most accounts Newman was as cool, classy and confident in his personally life as on screen. While McQueen would rival anyone on screen for being cool by many accounts personally he was insecure, hard to work with, and his personal life was generally a mess.
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LOL
Ok you got me. Poorly worded. - Best two answers already posted. Besides all their other achievements, surprised no one mentioned they both were accomplished race car drivers.
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Ok you got me. Poorly worded. - Best two answers already posted. Besides all their other achievements, surprised no one mentioned they both were accomplished race car drivers.
I was just busting your balls, it was in the post almost immediately above yours. You were probably posting and didn't see it, but it is a habit on BBI list threads to say "I'm surprised no one said X....." when X has been named multiple times.
That is like superhero cool
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This guy has to be in the conversation.
I would vote Sinatra very high, because of his extraordinary musicality combined with charisma. Dino ranks high. Newman. Bobby Darin probably would have if he lasted longer.
But I am having trouble not putting Fred Astaire ahead of them all. And I think there should be black or Hispanic on the list, but I am still working on that in my brain.
I would vote Sinatra very high, because of his extraordinary musicality combined with charisma. Dino ranks high. Newman. Bobby Darin probably would have if he lasted longer.
But I am having trouble not putting Fred Astaire ahead of them all. And I think there should be black or Hispanic on the list, but I am still working on that in my brain.
Sidney Poitier
That is like superhero cool
Kennedy's are not COOL. Successful, interesting, powerful and as in JFKs case historic, but not cool. They are too brash, in your face to be cool.
John Wayne DEFINITELY NOT COOL. His whole persona was a fabrication. He cried like a pussy not to be sent into WWII, yet made a career out of playing WWII heroes.
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Woody Guthrie
Allen Ginsberg
George Carlin
Maynard G. Krebs
John Lennon
when it comes to lists and opinions.
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.
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
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...
That's a good one!
And analogously, Toshiro Mifune.
Steve McQueen
Paul Newman
Humphrey Bogart
...in that order.
+1
His heart rate never went above 90 during any of his 6 launches.
He smuggled a pastrami sandwich into space on his first mission.
Great calls with some of the non-obvious military and space/aviation choices.
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.
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I'm the only one who said Bill Gates?
$50+ Billion donated you fucking idiots
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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So, in other words, you have no idea who Frank Zappa was.
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"
Feel the same way about Lennon. Not an appealing fellow.
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