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I was watching the Absolut ad where they appropriate a lot of icons to sell their vodka and it got me to thinking, even though I agree with thier choice-

Who is the man. The man's man. The man who's just as cool as you wish you where, the manly man. Take the poll, make your suggestions and obvious jokes about what the question suggests.

Heff.

Nuff' said.

I don't follow. Liquor ads are banned here, so I don't get the Absolut ones. Link?

Edit: Oh, and no Rock Hudson? :p

I don't follow. Liquor ads are banned here, so I don't get the Absolut ones. Link?
Don't worry about it. The ad was just what got me to thinking about it and you're not going to care either way (the ad had Steve McQueen in it as 'Absolut Man')

I dont like Clint Eastwood. As for who I'll vote for? Undecided.. Hmm.

Don't worry about it. The ad was just what got me to thinking about it and you're not going to care either way (the ad had Steve McQueen in it as 'Absolut Man')

Well, it's settled then.

Edit: Oh, and no Rock Hudson? :p
Dammit, I was actually floating on the last entry, had he come to mind I would have put him up there. He deserves to be.

Dammit, I was actually floating on the last entry, had he come to mind I would have put him up there. He deserves to be.

More than Samuel L. Jackson, at least. He isn't cool or manly, he's just demented.

Where is Mohummad Ali: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. "

Where is Mohummad Ali: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. "
Heh.
Muhammad Ali: "I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my
hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark"

Yea, he would get my vote.

Ali could smack talk anyone and beat up anyone.

One of my favorite CDs is I Am the Greatest, as it is the pinnacle in smack talk.

My initial response was that 'actual' men, that is someone who was a demonstrable bad-ass would sort of sully the list, but both Dean and McQueen won races, Bruce Lee was of course an actual bad ass and didn't merrily play one on tv and in the movies, so that's not true. I would say that they had to have acted the bad ass in a movie, but then Ali did act in a movie. Albeit as himself, but that's because he's a bad-ass.

So here's what I'm left with for a defence for not putting Ali on the list-he is such a bad-ass that he actually lies above the category in a classification of one, Ali, that has no contest. And that's why he's not on the list.

Bogie: Classic Man

Chuck Norris

Steven Seagal.

Steven Seagal.
Seriously?

Steven Seagal.
Personally I hate him, but I can see where you're coming from.

I was watching the Absolut ad where they appropriate a lot of icons to sell their vodka and it got me to thinking, even though I agree with thier choice-

Who is the man. The man's man. The man who's just as cool as you wish you where, the manly man. Take the poll, make your suggestions and obvious jokes about what the question suggests.
Bletch, none of the above. Stephen Hawking, all the way...smartest carbon-based lifeform we know of, plus he's got that robotic exoskeleton with a lazer cannon that can write his name across the moon. The only reason he hasn't used it is because everybody KNOWS that the moon belongs to Stephen Hawking.

Bletch, none of the above. Stephen Hawking, all the way...smartest carbon-based lifeform we know of, plus he's got that robotic exoskeleton with a lazer cannon that can write his name across the moon. The only reason he hasn't used it is because everybody KNOWS that the moon belongs to Stephen Hawking.
This is probably going to end up being the best answer this thread will get. Even though I'm going to stick with my Steve McQueen answer.

*takes a drag*

The Man. Ah, yes. His identity is not clear to me yet.

Steven Seagal.

*points and laughs, if you're being serious*

Robert Mitchum or Lee Marvin

The answer is obviously Chuck Norris.

Robert Mitchum or Lee Marvin
Crap and crap. Both I had intended to put on the poll but when I got around to making it I couldn't remember. It's hard to have a 'The Man' poll and not have Robert Mitchum on it, or Lee Marvin. Good call, you've shamed me.

Seriously?
Well, my first choice would have been John Wayne, but Steven Seagal wasn't even on the list, and I use to love to watch him bust some Aikido moves! :D

Bletch, none of the above. Stephen Hawking, all the way...smartest carbon-based lifeform we know of, plus he's got that robotic exoskeleton with a lazer cannon that can write his name across the moon. The only reason he hasn't used it is because everybody KNOWS that the moon belongs to Stephen Hawking.
Hehehe! [ slaps self on the forehead! ] Damn! How could I have missed that!

Johnny Cash, obviously.

it's a disgrace that noone mentioned him before now.

Crap and crap. Both I had intended to put on the poll but when I got around to making it I couldn't remember. It's hard to have a 'The Man' poll and not have Robert Mitchum on it, or Lee Marvin. Good call, you've shamed me.
Hard to have a 'The Man' poll anyway.. So many men who could be entitled to having the honour of being 'The Man'.

*takes a drag*

The Man. Ah, yes. His identity is not clear to me yet.
"The Mysterious Shrouded Dominion of The Former Smoking Man?"

I can kinda understand the "Frightening" Economy, but "Excessive" Freedom and Civil Rights? WTF, over??

Hard to have a 'The Man' poll anyway.. So many men who could be entitled to having the honour of being 'The Man'.
Let me know when they get to my name. I've got some hitherto undisclosed information which will immediately catapult me to the top of the list! :D

Johnny Cash, obviously.

it's a disgrace that noone mentioned him before now.
Yeah ... he was the Man for sure ... but only if you stated it "The Man In Black!" :)

Yeah ... he was the Man for sure ... but only if you stated it "The Man In Black!" :)
either, both. whatever way he was/is the best.

Hard to have a 'The Man' poll anyway.. So many men who could be entitled to having the honour of being 'The Man'.
This is certainly true to a degree. It's just that I'm always so quick to answer 'Steve McQueen,' and I was intrigued by this notion of classic cool manhood. Which would have made more damn sense if I had remembered Mitchum and Marvin (I was in such a hurry trying to remember Mitchum that I looked up Cape Fear and then without thinking put the first name up, which was Gregory Peck, who's cool but...)

I mean, Steve McQueen (http://media.putfile.com/bullitt) (that's a video for you at work or with slow internet connections...)

(that's a video for you at work or with slow internet connections...)
Excellent my first video on NationStates! My sound was fixed today heh. Yea, pretty damn manly.

Of those on the list, McQueen, because he didn't have to rely on such theatrics as "acting" or "dialogue" to get the point across... and his role in "Hell is for Heroes" where he slices that German soldier up with a butcher's knife (the look on his face sells it.. ice cold) ranks second, just below Borgnine's hobo-smashing sledge hammer tactics in "Emperor of the North Pole" in my book of greatest cinematic killings with blunt or sharp objects, no question.

Although I'm going with Don Rumsfeld in the 70+ category, since Clint seems to have sold out more or less entirely in his old age.. shame. 60's/70's Clint belongs in the Top 5 though, surely.

Excellent my first video on NationStates! My sound was fixed today heh. Yea, pretty damn manly.
I don't like muscle cars and pony cars that much really, but I want a '68 Mustang GT390 Fastback, because damn he makes that look cool...

What 'bout Chuck Heston?
Who can forget this:
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
and of course:
YOU MANIACS. YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.

I mean, Steve McQueen (http://media.putfile.com/bullitt) (that's a video for you at work or with slow internet connections...)
Hehehe! He was great in Bullett, wasn't he. He did all his own driving for that movie, as well as being a race driver on his own time; double-clutching the hell otta that Mustang! Heh!

What 'bout Chuck Heston?
Who can forget this:

and of course:
"It's a madhouse!!!! A MADHOUSE!!!"

Hehehe! He was great in Bullett, wasn't he. He did all his own driving for that movie, as well as being a race driver on his own time; double-clutching the hell otta that Mustang! Heh!
There's a story of one of the drivers from the movie Le Mans, who where all from the race itself, who came out of one of the turns that crests a hill only to have to swerve to avoid a camera man laying in the middle of the track. He came into the pits livid. When he asked where Steve was so he could talk to him about it he was told, "Steve took one of the cameras out to the track to get some footage."

He also did that movie to get his hands on the 908 for the Sebring race. He finished second.

Usopp

Oh ... you mean Hollywood people?

Robert Mitchum pwns them all.

This is probably going to end up being the best answer this thread will get. Even though I'm going to stick with my Steve McQueen answer.
Oh, that's okay. You stick with your Steve McQueen answer. Stephen Hawking will remember.

There's a story of one of the drivers from the movie Le Mans, who where all from the race itself, who came out of one of the turns that crests a hill only to have to swerve to avoid a camera man laying in the middle of the track. He came into the pits livid. When he asked where Steve was so he could talk to him about it he was told, "Steve took one of the cameras out to the track to get some footage."

He also did that movie to get his hands on the 908 for the Sebring race. He finished second.
Way kewl! By all reports he was a relatively modest man despite all that. Maybe I change my vote, yes? :D

Bullett was a great advertisement for Mustangs! Heh!

What about Paul Newman?

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Oh, that's okay. You stick with your Steve McQueen answer. Stephen Hawking will remember.
Hopefully he'll understand. There's something to be said for making a turtleneck look cool...perhaps Hawkings will explain why that is...with math that I won't understand but then he'll break it down for me...

What about Paul Newman?

Cool Hand Luke ... now there was a man's man. Didn't do what authority told him to do, loved his mama, and could play banjo.

Add him to my list with Robert Mitchum.

Hopefully he'll understand. There's something to be said for making a turtleneck look cool...perhaps Hawkings will explain why that is...with math that I won't understand but then he'll break it down for me...
He'll break it down for you, alright. He'll calculate the cube root of that shit, and then build a robot army to jam the results into the stump of your neck after he uses his chainsaw arm to lop your insolent head from your shoulders.

Because that's how Stephen Hawking gets down, baby. He don't fuck around.

And another thing: why the hell isn't Henry Rollins on the list? Any man with a neck thicker than his head should at least make the finals.

This thread needs lyrics ...


Hey

What makes a man?
Is it the power in his hands?
Is it his quest for glory?
Give it all you've got,
to fight to the top
So we can know your story

Now you're a man

A man, man man
Now you're a man

A manny manny man
A man man man

You are now a man
You're a man
Now you're a man

Live it, Live it

What make a man?
Is it the woman in his arms?
Just cause she has big titties?
Or is it the way he fights every day?
....No, it's probably the titties

Now you're a man

A man, man man
Now you're a man-man

Man-man man-man man
Now you're a man

M-A-N, man
Man, man-man man
Now you're a man

Way kewl! By all reports he was a relatively modest man despite all that. Maybe I change my vote, yes? :D

Bullett was a great advertisement for Mustangs! Heh!
Bullitt (with an i) kicked the ass.

He had a quote that I don't remember precisely about Mustangs that was along the lines of, "Only a certain kind of man can really drive a Mustang." And we all know what he meant.

What about Paul Newman?
He's actually won in several sports car events, driving for Nissan. He was out doing some of the driving for the movie Winning (one of my favorite racing movies of all time) and he started turning in lap times that where on par with the professional drivers they had hired. Soon after he was racing in the pro leagues. And unlike McQueen and Dean, this was well past the height of the 'gentleman driver' era and in the professional era. So, yeah, he'd qualify if only because of my clear bias towards race car drivers.

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I had to not include spiritual or movement leaders. But I gots the respect for Bob.

Come on now folks, the guy invented a whole new way to study martial arts, invented a new martial art, revolutionized the way that martial arts competitions in the US wer conducted, studied philosophy and incorporated it into his life and his teaching, was a great dancer, and though he weighed 145 pounds soaking wet he was a bad motherfucker who could kick just about anyone's ass. Hell, he made Chuck Norris admit that Lee was the better fighter in front of Chuck's students!

Also he was a family man, taking good care of his wife, Linda and his two kids and a business man, running his martial arts academy, acting in TV and movies, and earning a good living. He was also one of the first martial arts instructors, if not the first, in the US to teach anyone regardless of race.

Cool Hand Luke ... now there was a man's man. Didn't do what authority told him to do, loved his mama, and could play banjo.

Add him to my list with Robert Mitchum.

Glad it is not just me that admires the machismo of a banjo playing man...

Cool Hand Luke ... now there was a man's man. Didn't do what authority told him to do, loved his mama, and could play banjo.

Add him to my list with Robert Mitchum.
:D

Not to mention "The Great Escape." The dude was righteous! :D

Bullitt (with an i) kicked the ass.

So, yeah, he'd qualify if only because of my clear bias towards race car drivers.
Sorry about the misspelling! :(

[ Dons best Brooklyn accent ] Ah could'a been a driver! I could'a been a contenda! :D

Stuart Pearce: AKA Phycho

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Stuart Pearce: AKA Phycho

http://www.u-reds.com/Images/psycho001.jpg

www.angelfire.com/ apes/marktoogood/pearce.jpg
http://eur.news1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/sp/ap_photo/20051002/all/l1584757.jpg
http://www.soccernet.com/design05/DJ/20050926/pearce_br.jpg

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/61

Harrison Ford

WHO THE MAN? ME THE MAN! erm... sorry but i just wanted to say that :D

:D

Not to mention "The Great Escape." The dude was righteous! :D
Dammit...

The Great Escape was Steve McQueen.

Dammit...

The Great Escape was Steve McQueen.
yes on the bike but he did use a stunt man

Clint Eastwood, without a shadow of a doubt. He's just very cool.

Paul Newman. And he's not even in the poll.

Well, after a lot of thinking, I've decided to go with the OP and vote for Steve McQueen.

Who's the man?
Why, you're the man (http://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/) now, dog!

Bump

I will stick to my original post, and reiterate:

Hugh Heffner is THE man.

Failing that...

Bruce Lee.

Chuck Norris might try to roundhouse kick him in the face......
But Bruce would One Inch punch a hole in Chucks melon, before he could say "Beard".

You need emotional content.
-Bruce Lee.

Who's the man?
Why, you're the man (http://yourethemannowdog.ytmnd.com/) now, dog!
I can't believe that took five pages.

And still no Eugene Levy jokes. That movie must have had no penetration.

Paul Newman. And he's not even in the poll.
If I had included Paul Newman it would have been obvious pandering to him on my part since he's on my 'Rocket to Mars.' (Everyone who wants to do film has that one ridiculous project they are convinced that they are just around the corner from actually doing that is so grandious in scope that we really should know that it's the equivelant to building a Rocket to Mars in our backyard, but we say we're doing it anyway. My Rocket stars Paul Newman, despite the fact that my Vessel of False Hope (the thing that convinces us that the Rocket is real) wants to shift the focus...but anyway)

So I didn't want to pander to the man.

If I had included Paul Newman it would have been obvious pandering to him on my part since he's on my 'Rocket to Mars.' (Everyone who wants to do film has that one ridiculous project they are convinced that they are just around the corner from actually doing that is so grandious in scope that we really should know that it's the equivelant to building a Rocket to Mars in our backyard, but we say we're doing it anyway. My Rocket stars Paul Newman, despite the fact that my Vessel of False Hope (the thing that convinces us that the Rocket is real) wants to shift the focus...but anyway)

So I didn't want to pander to the man.

Honey, I hate to break it to you, but the chances that Paul Newman reads this forum are, well, rather slim. Pander away. :p

Honey, I hate to break it to you, but the chances that Paul Newman reads this forum are, well, rather slim. Pander away. :p
They're about as slim as my Rocket actually launching, so since they sit in the same odds catagory...

...and I didn't think of him. I couldn't think of Robert Mitchum and when the thread originally occoured to me Mitchum was the auto #2. It's just when I came to make the list I blanked, like when you have all those movies you want to see but as soon as you walk through the video store doors you suddenly can't think of a single one...

They're about as slim as my Rocket actually launching, so since they sit in the same odds catagory...
Heh. Interesting logic. o.O

...and I didn't think of him. I couldn't think of Robert Mitchum and when the thread originally occoured to me Mitchum was the auto #2. It's just when I came to make the list I blanked, like when you have all those movies you want to see but as soon as you walk through the video store doors you suddenly can't think of a single one...
There should totally be a word just for that (also including going out for a movie and not remembering any of the list of the 20 desperately-need-to-see films you made just the other day) considering how often it happens.

I can't believe that took five pages.

And still no Eugene Levy jokes. That movie must have had no penetration.
Well, my reply would have been Chris Rock's reply in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back."

"No, you're the man, and that's the problem!"