Coolest human being ever to live

[Bossy Monkey]

I really wanted to leave Jesus off. I mean, sure he took care of the wine for one wedding at Cana, but was he cool? (What's that sound? Thunder? Uh-oh!) Still, I wanted an outside chance that somebody other than Other would win, so I figured I'd better put him on there.

This poll is for entertainment (or at least silliness) purposes only. I promise you won't go to hell for voting against any deity, prophet or avatar.

EDIT: Replaced Aretha with Sinatra. Though I loved (I mean LOVED) all the other suggestions, and though Sinatra was an orifice, I still figure he's more likely to get traction than anybody else suggested (except maybe Clinton) and am almost out of editing time.

[fishnfla]

1. thomas jefferson

the only and only american who was a true renassaince man

[freetobegay]

2. Other

My father.

[Cush]

3. ABBA, just for the hell of it

:evilgrin:

[rooboy]

6. Late into the evening at a party with those chicks would be great...

you could get them to do their "dancing queen" number... Jesus would be ok, but I reckon he'd get all philosophical by midnight, and even if he told you the secret of life you'd be too drunk to remember it in the morning.

[Whitacre D_WI]

4. Seriously, dude.

There ain't no topping water-into-wine.

I mean, I could get WINE out of the TAP?!

What could possibly be cooler than that?

[koopie57]

5. Mr. Rogers

eom

[Bossy Monkey]

7. Quick sub-poll: Should I replace Aretha with Mojo Nixon?

Inspired by rooboy's comment about drinking with Jesus. (Of course there's always Jello Biafra, but come on!)

Edit: was the Dalai Lama, but he's got a vote now

[chaska]

8. Billy Bob Thornton.

No doubt about it.

[MrBenchley]

11. What a great performance in The Alamo!

Don't pay attention to the critics or the box office...go see Billy Bob's Davy Crockett! Magnificently written and acted (even though there are flaws in the rest of the film).

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Other: Gilles Villeneuve

And for a Brazilian diehard Senna fan, that's saying something!

[m-jean03]

14. Diehard Senna fan?

Enjoy those herbal laxatives, eh?}( :7

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. Huh?

Is there a herbal laxative called Senna???

[m-jean03]

22. Yup --

:7 :7 Quite popular. It's now the primary ingredient in Exlax, actually.

It's second after the Brazilian guy in a Google search -- da Silva right?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

46. Yeah

Gee, Senna a laxative? This is just wrong. It should be called Prost.

[m-jean03]

51. Well, look at it this way-

Most people are very appreciative of the effects of laxatives:D :D

[Bossy Monkey]

10. The correct answer and the inspiration for the poll (BTW):

Archaeologist and documentary god John Romer, at this time telling all about Byzantium on the Discovery Times channel. (Presumably they ran out of wall-to-wall Saddam programming and had to fall back on material from their days as the late, lamented, and ought to be brought back Discovery Civilization channel.) God I'm such a nerd! :P

[porkrind]

12. Carl Sagan

I can think of lots of people in this class. They are all liberals, too.

[ForrestGump]

13. The King of Cool!

Of course...

[More Than A Feeling]

15. How could you forget Bill Clinton?

Playing the sax on MTV? Smacking down Newt Gingrich? Forming coherent sentences? I'd better stop before I get more depressed at how far we have fallen.

[Bossy Monkey]

18. Welcome to DU prayforsane!

I didn't forget him, exactly. Just think of him more as the legendary policy wonk than as being cool in the conventional sense. Good thought, though.

Great username, by the way.

[candy]

16. The Voice

Frank Sinatra,no contest!

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Your wish is my command (hope you didn't already vote Other) n/t

[candy]

20. Sinatra

Yes,I had already voted under "other".

How can a guy not be cool when he sings a song about Kermit the Frog and it make sense?

[Bossy Monkey]

23. Well I'll vote for him on your behalf

and your Other vote will do duty for John Romer.

PS: Welcome to DU!

[candy]

26. Thanks for your nice welcome.

I'm still stumbling around here.

How do you access your own posts if they are more than 24 hours old? I don't log on every day and can't quite figure it out.

[Bossy Monkey]

31. Well, you can bookmark them

Unfortunately, the Search function costs the admins money, so you have to be a donor to use it. However, you can donate very little (as low as a dollar, as I recall)

To bookmark, scroll to the top of the thread and click on the link that says, "Bookmark this thread." To view the bookmarked threads, back out to the Lobby, scroll up to the top, click on Options, then click on "View your bookmarks."

For threads that you started, you can sort the board by author and find yours that way.

In the long run, you can google democraticunderground and your username, but this takes a couple-three weeks and anyway your username being a regular word, you might not find this too satisfactory.

[candy]

33. Thanks

I'll try the bookmarking and make a donation to keep things simple for this feeble little mind.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. My husband!

:hi:

[phoebe]

24. Love.

n/t

[phoebe]

25. Kindness and compassion

n/t

[BurtWorm]

27. Lou Reed

[kodi]

28. has to be that frozen guy they found in the alps from 5,000 bce

actually, he was killed by hiliary clinton, or so i'm told.

[khashka]

38. He's my choice too :)

And yeah you're right, Bill and Hil had him killed after he found out about the cocaine smuggling thing. It's true! I saw the Falwell video where he explained it all.

Khash.

[Catshrink]

29. Sweetness....

[Ratty]

30. Benjamin Franklin

Of any historical figure I know about, Benjamin Franklin most deserves the title "Cool."

[LastKnight]

32. ghandi was cool... but...

the son of god has got to be a pretty cool gig... i mean, could it get any better? i mean, except for the whole 'crucify him' stuff he sounded like a pretty popular guy.

-LK

[TahitiNut]

41. I thought we were all God's children.

:shrug: Go figure.

[Van Helsing]

34. Me.

Oh yeah, you all know I'm that cool!

[AlFrankenFan]

35. Paul Wellstone

No question about it :)

[everdene]

36. Julia Child

n/t

[OneBlueSky]

37. Louis Armstrong . . .

revolutionized American popular music . . . smoked pot every day . . . offered the king of Sweden some "Swiss Kris" laxative (which he also took every day) . . . now how cool is that? . . . :)

[Blue_Tires]

39. Michael Caine

i can only hope i'm half that cool when i'm his age

on a personal note, i'd like to put in a word for a long-lost friend of mine named Sean Lawson (from Sacramento)...GREATEST pick-up artist i've ever seen...i lost track of how many girls he could date at one time...lol

[Earth_First]

40. john jerome garcia

n/t

[Raenelle]

42. In a PC moment, I voted Buddha, but now I've had 2nd thoughts

John Lennon was pretty f**ing cool.

[hippiechick]

43. Paul Newman

a celebrity with a social conscience, long before it was 'a fad' to be so.


:hippie:

[havocmom]

44. Ben Fanklin,

without a doubt

[WillyBrandt]

45. Very easy: Johnny Cash.

[Redneck Socialist]

47. Second the Johnny Cash

with Lou Reed as a runner up.

[Mobius]

48. Bono

eom

[Shopaholic]

49. Tie vote: Johnny Cash & Warren Zevon

[ProudGerman]

50. George Clinton

Is there any other mofo even half as cool as him?

[m-jean03]

52. Alan Alda of course

Duh! :7

[Steven_S]

53. Paul Newman...

Cool hand Newman

[dbt]

54. John R. Cash oh HELL yeah!

Although I must point out once again:

Earl Scruggs is God.

:evilgrin:
dbt