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Who is your hero?

Okay, I have pretty low standards, I guess, but my perennial hero is Al Bundy. No matter how bad life gets, how low he sinks, how much his family and neighbours despise him, he just does his own thing, speaks his mind, and gets his small pleasures where he can.

Yay for Al!

Oh, and honourable mentions to Nelson, Churchill, Darwin, Shakespeare and Lord Byron.

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I'll be the first to say it - Diablo! :-)

Ringo

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Byron was a pirate to the core, just in the wrong age and setting. He shagged his own sister, fergoodnesssakes!

And Nelson was pretty badass too.

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johnny cash jumps to mind first. your discription of al bundy would fit the man in black pretty well. he turned all of his mistakes into cool by doing what he wanted, when he wanted, how he wanted.

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My father, followed closely by my mother. Two entrepreneurs who invested countless hours doing what they each did best before they retired...and they still had the time, love, and patience to raise a brat like me.

Do you mean Lord Nelson, Willie Nelson, Nelson Mandela, or the blond twins band, Nelson?

ScottieK

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Benjamin Franklin
Chesty Puller
Chojun Miyagi
Sam Houston
Jim Bowie
William Katt

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did myspace bring this up?

I listed:
Thomas Jefferson
My parents
Steve Guttenberg
Nick Lachey

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Good choice. "Let's rock".

Mine are Tony Soprano and Allen Iverson.

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Jake,
You got anything planned for 20k?

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this should be it's own thread.

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my grandfather

and Brody Bruce

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this should be it's own thread.

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of course he does ... that's why he took a couple weeks off.

he was preparing

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david byrne. he's so weird. but so cool.

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Do you mean Lord Nelson, Willie Nelson, Nelson Mandela, or the blond twins band, Nelson?

ScottieK

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Ricky.

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Admiral Horatio Nelson.

OBVIOUSLY! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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diebitter,

David Blaine.

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diebitter,

David Blaine.

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because the guy gets more ass than a toilet seat? or the magic thing?

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the real Larry David

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the real Larry David

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1) Abe Lincoln.
2) The men of the 101st Airborne in WWII, who held their position in the woods of Bastogne during that brutal winter, with few supplies.
3) Anyone who kicks an angleshooter in the nuts.

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Ronald Reagan!!

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I can't tell if this is a gimmick account or a funny coincidence that really isn't a coincidence.

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1) Abe Lincoln.
2) The men of the 101st Airborne in WWII, who held their position in the woods of Bastogne during that brutal winter, with few supplies.
3) Anyone who kicks an angleshooter in the nuts.

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Nice list, what about those who charged the beaches of Normandy?

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-mom and dad
-richard feynman

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Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Doyle Brunson, Zach de la Rocha, Hugh Hefner.

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1) Abe Lincoln.
2) The men of the 101st Airborne in WWII, who held their position in the woods of Bastogne during that brutal winter, with few supplies.
3) Anyone who kicks an angleshooter in the nuts.

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Nice list, what about those who charged the beaches of Normandy?

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Although storming a beach in the face of machine gun fire certainly takes courage, I think that hunkering down in a freezing foxhole day after day, without warm clothing or much food, while having to face random, terrifying artillary attacks takes much more fortitude.

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I bet I could guess which would be your favorite Band of Brothers episode. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Swede

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Although storming a beach in the face of machine gun fire certainly takes courage, I think that hunkering down in a freezing foxhole day after day, without warm clothing or much food, while having to face random, terrifying artillary attacks takes much more fortitude.

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im not taking ANYTHING away from any of those people. But what other choice did they have?

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I love Al Bundy too. As he says, every day he doesn't kill himself is a slap in the face to his enemies.

I also love Gandhi. And Bruce Lee. Ideally I'd like to be GandhiLee, or Brucegdanhi, who sometimes preemptively kicks people in the face in case they might not be peaceful.

I also like Henry Miller, and in a way that probably nobody will understand and I will catch unnecessary crap for, French author(not Canadian singer) Celine, and for some of the same reasons, Raymond Carver.

Currently, I admire Vitali Klitschko a lot, who has always been 100% in support of his brother and his brother's boxing career and just retired instead of taking 7 million bucks just to walk through a fight he said his leg was too injured to fight his best in. He could have just taken a walk and collected 7 million. Instead he doesn't sound sorry for himself particularly, kept his integrity at the cost of those millions, and is 100% behind his brother backing his career going for the same heavyweight title. Very cool family wise. Those guys have stuck together the way family should, for a long time now. It's also pretty cool that he's a very bright guy, a doctor, yet still became a world champion boxer. Not many people have that kind of versatility, to say the least and a half.

And I admire the many women I've read about who have set up local and international organizations to protest the treatment of women in foreign countries, especially Muslim ones where they are generally treated terribly and no one seems to give a damn, even us. Some of these women working there face violence and terror the way we back here face traffic jams, and really have nowhere to turn if things get rough. It's a very noble cause and they have 20 times the guts I do.

I also admire Koichi Tohei, an aikido master who from his books and other people's accounts of him seems to have had truly a hell of a good and healthy yet still humble attitude toward life.

And in a small way I even admire Conan O'Brien, who brought a personality type into public acceptance that was never there before or particularly acceptable.

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dewey tomko is pretty awesome