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Who do you look up to? Who inspires you to be who you are?

Is it a rapper/rocker who gets all the bitches and bling?

Is it a scientist who is trying to save the world with some new kind of fuel?

Is it your parents who work their asses off at two jobs just to feed you?

I don't look up to anyone. My horse is much too tall for that.

I think I am supposed to say Jesus.

Really though, my role model is Mama Cass, I want to grow up and choke on a ham sandwich.

Really though, my role model is Mama Cass, I want to grow up and choke on a ham sandwich.

She didn't choke on a ham sandwich. She died of a heart attack.

Albert Spaggiari. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari) I want to rob banks and shoot communists. His book was also really good.

Kent Hrbek.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Kent_hrbek.jpg

She didn't choke on a ham sandwich. She died of a heart attack.

damn. That doesn't sound half as fun.

hmm......Fass is my new role model.

damn. That doesn't sound half as fun.

It doesn't mean that you can't. I'm sure you could easily arrange such a fate - I ate my first "Subway" sandwich the other week, and those are most certainly lethal.

hmm......Fass is my new role model.

Start queuing.

Albert Spaggiari. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Spaggiari) I want to rob banks and shoot communists. His book was also really good.
Was that bit about his escape accurate? (I mean distracting the judge with a note before jumping out a window and riding a motorcycle to safety).
That just sounds to cool to be true.

stephen hawking and jason statham. hawking is fing smart and statham is a dam good actor.

Was that bit about his escape accurate? (I mean distracting the judge with a note before jumping out a window and riding a motorcycle to safety).
That just sounds to cool to be true.

Yes. I highly recommend his book (Fric Frac: the great riviera bank robbery).

Heres part of a TV documentary about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vdiRFRnm8&mode=related&search=

I ate my first "Subway" sandwich the other week


You.. what?! I can't believe it. Smunkee, you may have my spot in the queue, I'm leaving.

*consoles self with a veggie-patty with honey'n'mustard sauce and a B&J's Half Baked to go*

You.. what?! I can't believe it. Smunkee, you may have my spot in the queue, I'm leaving.

Not that I regret your leaving, but why?

*consoles self with a veggie-patty with honey'n'mustard sauce and a B&J's Half Baked to go*

I have no idea what you just said.

Karl Marx, simply because it freaks people out when I mention that.
I understand your desiers, as I too hope to someday be a German with huge facial hair.

I'm having a hard time deciding between Paris Hilton or Michael Vick.

Karl Marx, simply because it freaks people out when I mention that.

Not sure. Probably the Phantom of the Opera. I love it when I randomly sneak up on people unintentionally. One moment my friend saw me upstairs from downstairs all the way across the school, and the next thing he knew I was standing right behind him. He turned around and jumped when he saw me. That was so fun and I didn't even mean to do that, though I've done the same thing before to other people.

Conan O' Brien.

I'm having a hard time deciding between Paris Hilton or Michael Vick.

Paris Hilton : Looks like a dog.

Michael Vick: Dogfighting Extraordinaire!

The question boils down to: Do you like dogs Ruffy?

Not that I regret your leaving, but why?

You have culinary deficits that are beyond all that is good and just, and I cannot go on thinking of you like I did before now.

I have no idea what you just said.

QED

Paris Hilton : Looks like a dog.

Michael Vick: Dogfighting Extraordinaire!

The question boils down to: Do you like dogs Ruffy?

I can't decide!

I can't decide!

But you must....

Your life depends on it! :eek:

I'm having a hard time deciding between Paris Hilton or Michael Vick.

pick whoever has to serve more jail time.

Brian Setzer, for his guitar prowess. (Also may be god.)

David Lister, because he and his views are cool.

And Various aspects of both my parents, though I don't think the whole pakage of either.

Other honorable mentions go out to Scott Burstein, my former band teacher, and Bob Azadi, my former autoshop teacher, who had HUGE impacts on my life.

It's hard to choose anyone but I think my role model is Robert Anton Wilson.

You have culinary deficits that are beyond all that is good and just, and I cannot go on thinking of you like I did before now.

Why?

QED

Bis dat qui cito dat.

I can't decide!

wait, I saw this on House once!.......I can't remember what they finally did that worked, only the stuff they did that nearly killed the patient. :(

You.. what?! I can't believe it. Smunkee, you may have my spot in the queue, I'm leaving.

*consoles self with a veggie-patty with honey'n'mustard sauce and a B&J's Half Baked to go*

The veggie patty was the only thing I ever ate at Subway. Unfortunately none of the Subways in Vegas have it :(

The veggie patty was the only thing I ever ate at Subway. Unfortunately none of the Subways in Vegas have it :(

I used to have the veggie delight, 6inch on wheat bread with no cheese, and lettuce, tomatoes, banana peppers, black olives, onions, pickles, and Dijon mustard.

Who do you look up to? Who inspires you to be who you are?

Is it a rapper/rocker who gets all the bitches and bling?

Is it a scientist who is trying to save the world with some new kind of fuel?

Is it your parents who work their asses off at two jobs just to feed you?

I have a couple of people who inspire me on various levels. My clutch of friends, for their general silliness. My parents, for their support and determination. Malcolm X, for his spirited fight against racism and oppression, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.

I used to have the veggie delight, 6inch on wheat bread with no cheese, and lettuce, tomatoes, banana peppers, black olives, onions, pickles, and Dijon mustard.

I don't like the veggie delight. I need more protein than that.

Myrth.

wait, I saw this on House once!.......I can't remember what they finally did that worked, only the stuff they did that nearly killed the patient. :(

that episode was on the other week.


they ended up killing her.

the character most missing from that show is the extremely rich malpractice lawyer.

Dead: Ben Franklin, Gandhi

Alive: Noam Chomsky

Dead: Ben Franklin, Gandhi, Bartolomeo de las Casas

Alive: Noam Chomsky

that episode was on the other week.


they ended up killing her.

the character most missing from that show is the extremely rich malpractice lawyer.

yes.

I can't wait for the new season to start, I wanna see who House will abuse when he doesn't have his lackeys around.

yes.

I can't wait for the new season to start, I wanna see who House will abuse when he doesn't have his lackeys around.

those lackeys should be off getting lucrative jobs elsewhere where they wont be abused by their asshole boss.

but because of the vagaries of acting jobs i suppose they will find a reason to return.

they didnt fire the actors did they?

My two role-models are Jack Sparrow and Che Guevara.

I use this mostly to explain why I do not shave.

Ashrita Furman, because he walked for 80 miles with a milk bottle on his head.

Jim Morrison.

Friedrich Nietzche, becasue he invented the philsophical concept of the Superman way before the man of steel came out in comic book, and because he hated the bourgesie in so many better ways than Karl Marx. I do aspire, however, like Karl Marx.

My parents, who were so perfect that they created exactly me:p

My ninth grade English teacher Mr. Stitts (who is also the father of the 2004 olympic gold medalist swimmer Staciana Stitts) becasue he was the first to intrigue me into creative writing and told excelent life stories.

My older brother, because he tells me all the help things about high school, e.g. beer before liquor, never been sicker; liquor before beer, you're in the clear. Not that I drink alcohol but things like that really come in handy.

Any good musician, writer, or athlete is a role model to me in terms of how to perform music, write, or play a sport (genres or sports that I am interested in) but not so much in other things like moral character or hygene:rolleyes:

those lackeys should be off getting lucrative jobs elsewhere where they wont be abused by their asshole boss.

but because of the vagaries of acting jobs i suppose they will find a reason to return.

they didnt fire the actors did they?

I hope not, I have a minor crush on the girl.

My mother and stepfather.

Miyamoto is the runner-up, I guess.

I hope not, I have a minor crush on the girl.

ut o looks like they really are shaking things up

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/house/house-cast-and-crew-unveil-maj-8560.aspx

Jeff Cooper was my role model.

erm.... really depends what mood I'm in. I hold the likes of Thatcher, David Davis, Michael Howard and William Hague in high esteem for having become highly important politicians from Grammar school educations, but equally, I hold some of my teachers in equally high esteem simply for being inspirational.

I have four: Dainton, Pritchard, Pancho and Joycey. Most people have never heard of them.

They're more like gods, actaully.

And Cliff Burton. RIP

Who do you look up to? Who inspires you to be who you are?

Is it a rapper/rocker who gets all the bitches and bling?

Is it a scientist who is trying to save the world with some new kind of fuel?

Is it your parents who work their asses off at two jobs just to feed you?

I don't really have a conscious role model. I have a lot of people I admire, but my goal is just to get through the day.

Nobody really. I just admire different aspects of different people.

If I had to choose one person, I'd say possibly Bob Brown, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brown) the leader of the Green Party in Australia. I'm not really the biggest supporter of theirs but he is a genuinely decent and intelligent guy.

Howard Hughes Jr. A millionaire who was passionate about aviation, so passionate that he loss millions of dollars into every aircraft he built as well as TWA. His social and private life was a mess with divorces, the federal government investigating him etc. I love his passion for aviation though, and I always try to match that with my own passion for aviation. I just wish I had his charm and charisma so I can go out with a different woman every night lol.

It's sad about his downfall though, his O.C.D., Misophobia, Syphilis, as well as his addiction to morphine. It's sad to see such a great man fall so horribly. At least he died on an airplane when they tried to get him to a hospital.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/webpics/Howard_Hughes.jpg

Um... the ideal version of myself?

I don't really have a "role model."

Dylan Thomas.

My role model is the movie version of King Leonidas. Honorable, noble, just, and a total ass kicker, he truly is "the man!!!!"

I look up to the following as role models: Larry Kramer, Malcolm X (before he went all soft-serve peacenik), Optimus Prime and Jesus (whome I admire as a human teacher but do no worship as divine progeny). I realise that there may appear to be some conflict, what with Malcolm X being all "less QQ, more pewpew" and Jesus being all "turn the other cheek, forgive, etc"... I'm fairweather noble. When things are going well I'm all for compassion, but when my back is against the wall I say fight like a mongoose. Kind of "mercy as a luxury item," I suppose, and when threatened one sometimes can't afford the luxury.

John the Savage

John the Savage

Any relation to Michael? :eek:

...per OP ... uhm, sifu, Stewart/Colbert, Gunnar, Gandhi (to a degree), Voltaire (to a degree), Ambrose Bierce (to a degree), Scott Adams (to a degree), Robert Anton Wilson (to a degree), Mike Patton, Matt Boyle, Kevin Moore ... perhaps even a few posters here.

It's hard enough being me that i really don't want to drag anyone else into the whole situation. :p

Any relation to Michael? :eek:


I've the feeling Aldous Huxley was a far superior author.

I've the feeling Aldous Huxley was a far superior author.
I think a quick sample of genetic tissue (if available) of both parties would prove that superiority was pretty much solely in Huxley's corner from the get-go.
*nods*

Bobby Sands.

Wendy O. Williams

Dead: Ben Franklin, Gandhi, Bartolomeo de las Casas

Alive: Noam ChomskyGood choices.

Um... the ideal version of myself?

I don't really have a "role model."I'd totally do him.

Adolf Hitler of course. I want to babble my way from the poorhouse to utter disaster, dodging assasination attempts the way other people dodge leafleters, and leaving a reputation as an utter asshat.

Seriously, I have outgrown role models. I just want to be me.

I don't have role models.. I have influences.

I think picking one person as your "idol" or something is a bit weak.. should build your own character.

Charlie Brown

stephen hawking and jason statham. hawking is fing smart and statham is a dam good actor.

What happens if you get Hawking's acting skills and Stratham's brains?

Really though, my role model is Mama Cass, I want to grow up and choke on a ham sandwich.

If Mama Cass had given that ham sandwich to Karen Carpenter history would have been much different.