Heroes and people you look up to

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

1) Don Adams
2) Shemp Howard
3) Bob Hoskins
4) Ed Asner
5) Caroline Rhea
6) Bob Newhart
7) Carl Jung
8) Locke Cole
9) Alfred Hitchcock
10) John Leguizamo
11) Dave Chappelle

[Dr. Boogie]

Really? John Leguizamo before Dave Chapelle? And Caroline Rhea before Alfred Hitchcock?

[Tadao]

My mirror.

[Grislygus]

Shemp sucked

[Guitar Woman]

Hunter S. Thompson
Franz Kafka
Jack White
Robert Plant
Edgar Allen Poe
John Entwistle
Tim Schafer
Stephen Colbert
Yahtzee Croshaw
Layne Staley

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

After #3 there wasn't a particular order. Just what came to me. What are yours Doctor?

[Guitar Woman]

I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.

That man is a godsend to high-school english students.

[Kitsa]

In no particular order

Joey Ramone
Clint Howard
Ken Kesey
Richard Hell
Lillie Langtry
Margaret d'Anjou
Mary Tudor (Henry VIII's sister, not his daughter)
my great-grandmother
Margot Frank
Eugenie Clark
all residents of Magdalen Asylums
...and of course my favorite goalie Pascal Leclaire.

[Blue Fox]

george
jesus
me :)

[moonlightkisu]

Darren Hayes
Liam Sullivan from "Shoes"
Stephen Colbert
Dave Chappelle
Adam Sandler
Jay & Silent Bob

[Misdemonar]

Misdemonar

[Big McLargehuge]

Stanislaw Lem!!

[Big McLargehuge]

Lem singled out only one American SF writer for praise, Philip K. Dick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick) - see the 1986 English-language anthology of his critical essays, Microworlds. Dick, however, considered Lem to be a composite committee operating on orders of the Communist party to gain control over public opinion, and wrote a letter to the FBI to that effect.
:lol

[Fathom Zero]

Mark Hoekstra
Bill Hicks
Nicholas Negroponte

and countless other philanthropists, philosophers, and makers.

[Supafly345]

Seanbaby

[McClain]

Kevin Sorbo

[HickMan]

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071211/deathwish_l.jpg

[Fathom Zero]

I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.

That man is a godsend to high-school english students.

I was always an Aldous Huxley cat in high school.

[ujifujimoto]

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[Dimnos]

I have an Edgar Allen Poe action figure.

Unless he is getting tbagged by a Mark Twain or Lovecraft action figure, what you have is a piece of crap.

[Guitar Woman]

pfft, Lovecraft.

[Zomboid]

What a pretentious fag.

[executioneer]

space ghost

[b_squared]

Chuck Jones
Fritz Freeling
Ray Harryhausen
Stan Winston
Rick Baker
Jim Henson
George Lucas (before he turned to the dark side)
Steven Spielberg
Capt. Kirk and Picard ( Kirk because he was a slut and Picard because he wasn't)
George Carlin
Richard Jeni
Matt and Trey (south park)
JRR Tolken
TH White

None of these guys marched for freedom, attempted world peace or cured diseases (but Kirk probally caught a few)
As a kid the only person(s) that I looked up to was someone to take me away or make me laugh.

[HickMan]

Must of had a shitty childhood :rolleyes

[b_squared]

Your eyeroll humbles me hickman. Thank you.

[kahljorn]

unfortunately most of the people i like a lot are assholes or crazy so it's hard to look up to them ;/ its more like i look at them.

[BLEU]

Paul Lynde. He pushed his 20-somthing paramour out of his hotel window to his death and no one cared. :love

[Kitsa]

True story.

When I was a kid, there was this famous marine biologist I looked up to. I wanted to be a marine biologist more than anything (this was before I realized my health problems meant I could never scuba dive). I memorized books on marine biology. When I was 8 or 9, my grandmother wrote a letter to this scientist and asked her to autograph a copy of her autobiography for me.

Not only did she do that, but she sent me a whole package of stuff, including several letters, autographed pictures and a shark's tooth. The book inscription read, "All the best to (Kitsa), hoping to meet you some day." The letters invited me to write her if I ever had any questions about marine biology.

I spent years fretting over what could possibly be worthy enough to write to this woman. I finally found a shell fragment and sent it to her asking if she could ID it. I reminded her of who I was and reassured her I was reading like crazy so I could be a marine biologist too. She wrote back, ID'd the shell, said of course she remembered me and I could call or write anytime, and maybe I could come visit her college someday and sit in on a class (this was a very big deal to an 11 year old nerd).

Fast forward a year. This is still before internet. I somehow work up the guts to call the number she gave me. I'm thinking it'll go through to a secretary who will take my number and have my idol call me back. In my naive little brain, I'm sure that's how it'll go down. I call, and am horrified when her voice..the voice of the FAMOUS MARINE BIOLOGIST LADY HERSELF...picks up on the first ring and says, "Yes, hello, what?"

I stammered something about being the little girl who wrote to her and sent her the shell fragment and uh uh uh and basically my mind went blank.

She sounded extremely annoyed and said, "Are you a student? What is your email address?"

uh, uh, uh. I'd never heard of an email address. They must have been starting some barebones email in colleges around that time or something. I stammered that I didn't have one, and somehow she tersely ended the call and hung up on me.

I was absolutely mortified. Anything I'd ever gotten from her I gathered up and put into my proverbial "shattered dreams" box. A few weeks later I found out I needed surgery, my physical activities were forever severely curtailed and none of it mattered anyway.

I wouldn't call or email her now if you paid me. I done been scarred.

Moral: never meet your heroes, you'll only be disappointed.

[Dimnos]

Tadao with his Bronson look is my new hero.

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii285/tadao_mockery/Human/IMG_63501.jpg

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Paul Lynde. He pushed his 20-somthing paramour out of his hotel window to his death and no one cared. :love


:lol :love

I love his quips when he was on Hollywood Squares
Anouncer - "A group of geese is a gander. Paul, what is a group of chicken?"
Paul - "A Bucket"

Anouncer - "When a man falls overboard you yell MAN OVERBOARD! What do you yell if a woman falls over?"

Paul - "Full speed ahead"
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I also look up to John C Reilly.