The 20 Greatest Americans

El_Kabong

Kenny Olav wrote:

Wilfred Brimley

ahhhhahahahahaha

christie's uncle looks just like wilfred brimley and it's funny how she gets when i make a joke or impersonation (especially the diabetes commercials)


and her step dad looks like jerry garcia and is even missing 1/2 of his pinky

Byrnzie

El_Kabong wrote:

have you read the iron heel?

great list, btw, the kabong abides

I've not read 'The iron heel'. I've read 'John Barleycorn', 'Martin Eden', and 'The Star Rover', along with bits and pieces about his Yukon days.

kenny olav

El_Kabong wrote:

ahhhhahahahahaha

christie's uncle looks just like wilfred brimley and it's funny how she gets when i make a joke or impersonation (especially the diabetes commercials)


and her step dad looks like jerry garcia and is even missing 1/2 of his pinky

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/moomanbrimley1.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a255/ComicSutra/diabeetus.jpg
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k151/musetteanddrums/DIABEETUS.jpg
http://www.kleptorecords.com/ridetheblinds/diabeetus.jpg
http://www.toadking.com/6x9=42/diabeetus.jpg
http://p-images.veoh.com/image.out?imageId=user-fffoff219.jpg&version=4

Flannel Shirt

Kenny Olav wrote:

Wilfred Brimley
Andrew Jackson
Kirk Cameron
William Henry Harrison
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Robert Alphonso Taft
Mancow
Chris Daughtry
Bob Hope
Jaws
L Ron Hubbard
John D Rockefeller
James K Polk
Tucker Carlson
Dr. Phil
Brigham Young
Bob Uecker
The Burger King
Dick Armey
and of course
Barbara Bush

Awesome.

I laughed so hard when I read "the burger king", I shat meself.
Thanks.

my2hands

El_Kabong wrote:

have you read the iron heel?

great list, btw, the kabong abides

the dude abides

my2hands

Byrnzie wrote:

Off the top of my head, and in no particular order:

Henry Miller - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Miller
Allen Ginsberg - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerouac
William S Burroughs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S_Burroughs
Mark Twain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_twain
Thoreau - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoreau
Whitman - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_whitman
Chomsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky
Hunter S Thompson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S_Thompson
Mohammed Ali - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Ali
Jack Johnson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_%28boxer%29
Bob Dylan - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
Thomas Jefferson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson%2C_Thomas
Robert Johnson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson_%28musician%29
Eddie Vedder - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vedder
Charles Bukowski - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
Robert Kennedy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kennedy
Bill Hicks - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks
Malcolm X - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X
Jonhhy Cash - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash

did you forget MLK jr, or does he not make your list?

ArmsinaV

John Wayne.

Eliot Rosewater

ArmsinaV wrote:

John Wayne.

Here he comes. Here comes John Wayne. "I'm not going to cry about my Pa. I'm going to build an airport... Put my name on it." Why, Michael? So you can fly away from your feelings?

Abookamongstthemany

El_Kabong wrote:

ahhhhahahahahaha

christie's uncle looks just like wilfred brimley and it's funny how she gets when i make a joke or impersonation (especially the diabetes commercials)


and her step dad looks like jerry garcia and is even missing 1/2 of his pinky

Damn you!

Let's not even get into your family...



and very funny, Kenny.

Byrnzie

my2hands wrote:

did you forget MLK jr, or does he not make your list?

I didn't forget him. I weighed up MLK, Malcom X, Huey Newton, W D Dubois, Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin, and figured that Malcolm X had a far greater and effective influence than all the others.
But feel free to disagree, and and I'd love to hear peoples reasons for disagreeing. This is, afterall, why I began this thread.

Byrnzie

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

Damn you!

Let's not even get into your family...



and very funny, Kenny.

Nothing like a domestic to brighten up the M.T!

Ahnimus

They should be judged against the moral zeitgeist of the time.

Abookamongstthemany

Byrnzie wrote:

Nothing like a domestic to brighten up the M.T!

my2hands

Byrnzie wrote:

I didn't forget him. I weighed up MLK, Malcom X, Huey Newton, W D Dubois, Eldridge Cleaver, James Baldwin, and figured that Malcolm X had a far greater and effective influence than all the others.

very interesting

what makes you say that? sell me on it

floyd1975

This whole thread is full of worthless lists. Seriously, how can a list of great Americans be taken seriously when it doesn't include me?

Abookamongstthemany

zstillings wrote:

This whole thread is full of worthless lists. Seriously, how can a list of great Americans be taken seriously when it doesn't include me?

I know, right? My list included you but I didn't post it 'cause I didn't wanna give you a big head.

Eliot Rosewater

zstillings wrote:

This whole thread is full of worthless lists. Seriously, how can a list of great Americans be taken seriously when it doesn't include me?

Well, to be honest I was thinking about including you on my list but your location is working against you. Not a lot of great Americans in Washington these days.

Byrnzie

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