List the world's inarguably Greatest People.

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1) Dr. Theodore Geisel
2) Jim Henson
3) Daniel Pinkwater
4) Marvin Gaye
5) Pablo Picasso

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

6) Strong Hulkington

― some dude, Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

lightning bolt sounds like metallica

― Dimension Intrusion, Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:10 (twenty years ago)

7) Shakespeare

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

8) Nietzsche

― ryan (ryan), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

9) Doug Henning

― svend (svend), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

doug henwood?

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

10) doug henwood

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

11) Timothy Treadwell
12) Werner Herzog
13) Takashi Miike
14) Stephen Chow
15) Chuck Berry

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

16) Bonar Law

― pronounced 'boner', Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

17)Walt Whitman

― poet, Thursday, 18 August 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)

18) Luis Bunuel
19) James Joyce
20) Muhammad Ali

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 August 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

21) hayao miyazaki
22) chuck jones
23) charles m. schulz
24) jean renoir
25) tove jansson

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 August 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

is #25 who i think it is?

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 18 August 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

hey, don't steer attention away from jim henson's own private thread!

but chuck jones, muhammed ali, dr, suess, and marvin gaye seconded!

― Werner Herzog Eats His Vegetables (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Thursday, 18 August 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

26) Wayne Gretzky
27) The Dalai Lama
28) Jesus Christ (in spite of what was later done in his name)
29) Hunter S. Thompson

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

30) Nelson Mandela

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

tove jansson = creator of the moomins

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

31) michael tyson

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

31) George Plimpton

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

32) Albert Hofmann

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

33) terry schiavo

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

34) Stevie Winwood
35) the real Huell Howser
36) Tommy Chong

― huell howser (chaki), Thursday, 18 August 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

27) Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
28) Simon Yam
29) Robert Loggia

― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

wait no...37, 38, 39

― gear (gear), Thursday, 18 August 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

40) Grant Morrison

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

41 - Louis Pasteur
42 - Marie Curie
43 - Thomas Edison

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

44. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

45) Jackie Chan
46) Bill Hicks

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

47. Dean Hubbard

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

48. Richard Feynman
49. Jane Goodall

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

50. Don Knotts

― Draw Tipsy, ya hack. (dave225.3), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

51. Anastasia Myskina

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

52. Amy Sedaris
53. Jon Stewart
54. Ichiro Suzuki

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

55. Wangari Maathai

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 18 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

56. John Ritter
57. David Ortiz
58. Peter Gammons

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

59. Isaac Newton

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

60. Paris Hilton

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

61. Yaphet Kotto

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

xpost

61. Ivor Cutler
62. Stuart Hall
63. Oliver Postgate
64. John Motson
65. Nancy Banks-Smith
66. Dan Cruikshank
67. Nina Simone
68. Tim Finney
69. Maggie Cheung
70. Nancy Sinatra

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

71. Isambard Kingdom Brunel
72. Ian Wright
73. Albert Einstein
74. Keith Moon
75. Fyodor Dostoevsky
76. Quentin Blake

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

77. R. Buckminster Fuller
78. Wong Kar-Wai

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

79. TOM WAITS

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

80. Dr. Timothy Leary

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

81. Giovanni Falcone
82. Paolo Borsellino

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

83 Don Van Vliet

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

84. Voltairine de Cleyre
85. Bill Drummond
86. Emma Goldman
87. Guy Debord
88. Jimmy Cauty

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

89 Lucy Parsons
90 Stanislaw Lem
91 Jaki Liebezeit
92 Big L
93 Emperor Norton

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

94. Jack Kirby!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

95) MC Hawking

― M. V. (M.V.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

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110. David Hasslehoff
111. Patrick Moore

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

112. Ben Franklin (for his inventions lending library, post office, etc., NOT his racism or politics)
113. Einstein
114. Lucille Ball

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

115. Scott Ian

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

116. Takeshi Kitano
117. Raoul Vaneigem
118. Rosa Luxembourg
119. Ornette Coleman
120. Li Po

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

121. Mark E. Smith
122. Sun Ra
123. Bob Dylan
124. Bo Diddley
125. Joan Miro

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

126. Baruch Spinoza
127. Man Ray
128. Dorothy Parker
129. Dorothy Hodgkin
130. Jonathan Swift

― I Ain't No Addict, Whoever Heard of a Junkie as Old as Me? (noodle vague), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

131. Manford Fresh
132. Bill Waterson
133. Adam Smith
134. Amy of Amy's Kitchen

― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

135 Adolf Hitler (for his domestic improvements and economic policies, not for his racisim or politics)

[see how stupid that sounds?]

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 18 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

112. Ben Franklin (for his inventions lending library, post office, etc., NOT his racism or politics)

― The Original Jimmy Mod: Kind Warrior (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Ben Franklin started a world war and genocide?

― Outsider Enter Port City (sexyDancer), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

136. Nolberto 'Nobby' Solano

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 18 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

137. Charles Darwin
138. Mendel
139. Jared Diamond
141. Joseph Banks
142. William Colenso
143. Te Kooti
144. Simone de Beauvoir

I don't know about the whole inarguably thing. Don't most people have ideas that seem racist or sexist or just odd with hindsight.

― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

145. angus young
146. la monte young
147. neil young

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

148) mark felt
149) art carney
150) jack benny
151) walt kelly
152) preston sturges
153) sam phillips
154) louise brooks
155) c.s. lewis
156) shulamith firestone
157) matt groening

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

158) Shigeru Miyamoto
159) Yasujiro Ozu
160) Ernst Lubitsch

― Weebot, Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

136. Nolberto 'Nobby' Solano

YES

― F (Ferg), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes, as stupid as it may sound to you Jimmy Mod, Ben Franklin was a bit of a materialist pig and a racist hypocrite traits that I don’t appreciate personally, however, I appreciate his innovation – those mentioned above, and others like the fire department, first insurance company, bi-focal glasses, and on and on…

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

that sounds dangerously close to being an argument

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

I'd suggest George Washington Carver if people who were allergic to peanuts didn't think he was a bitch.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

an argument in favor of ol' Ben, or an argument in general?

For the record, I am not inclined to argue on these boards; I love to debate stuff but here it seems people really latch onto comments and get oh so serious. It's a public forum and I enjoy it and have fun with the interesting and funny things that get discussed. When the Sh-- begins to hit the fan in heated arguments and the name calling starts, I move into lurk mode and watch the action from the sidelines. Too much for me! Give me a funny picture thread or something to keep it light.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 19 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

161. William H. Macy
162. Steve Buscemi

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

163. Christopher Walken

― latebloomer's rectal mocha latte (latebloomer), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

164. Nile Rodgers

― F (Ferg), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

165. Jeff Francoeur

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:07 (twenty years ago)

166. Marcia Cross
167. Chris Marsden
168. Anna Ford
169. William G. Stewart
170. Emma Pollock
171. Richard Roundtree
172. Hazel Irvine

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

Steve Buscemi was a NYC firefighter afore he wuz a actor. I invented fire.

― B. Franklin, Friday, 19 August 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

173. Arthur Brown

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

LOL !!! Ben, you slay me! Who are you ?!?!

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

swastiki-post

Hey, fuck you, bitch. I invented teh fire.

― A. Hitler, Friday, 19 August 2005 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Hitler v. Franklin at the Garden, tix $25 anytakers?

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

175. Alex Trebek

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

Hey, fuck you, Hitler.

fuckin Hitler

fuck him

― B. Franklin, Friday, 19 August 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

176) Sean Connery

― Just some guy, not sean connery, Friday, 19 August 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

177. Siobhan Donaghy

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 19 August 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

178. John Coltrane
179. Miles Davis
180. Bill Evans
181. James Brown
182. Booker T. and all of the MG's

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

183. http://www.monkeysvsrobots.com/mvsrpm/images/music/hoganbootband1.jpg

― Behold I will do a New Thing Chapel JESUS IS LORD (Matt Chesnut), Friday, 19 August 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I hate Jeff Francoeur!

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 19 August 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=picture+of+samuel+beckett/v=2/SID=e/TID=I047_86/l=IVI/SIG=122su4t5b/EXP=1124520871/*-http%3A//www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/beckett2.jpg

"Yea? Well, I never thought much of you people, either..."

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 19 August 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Uh, we lost inarguably at #60, and indeed probably before.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Friday, 19 August 2005

otm

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Friday, 30 October 2015 23:08 (ten years ago)

otm waits

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Friday, 30 October 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)

Daniel Pinkwater was my immediate thought when I saw the thread title.

― JoeStork, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:24 (ten years ago)

184. LEMMY

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 30 October 2015 23:27 (ten years ago)

embarrassing thread tbqf

― marcos, Friday, 30 October 2015 23:30 (ten years ago)

185. Mr. Fred Rogers

He's the first person I thought of when I saw the thread title. Honestly, how has he not been listed here yet??? What a truly wonderful man he was - he's the kind of person that makes me believe humanity may actually be worth something.

― monster mash, Friday, 13 November 2015 12:47 (ten years ago)

I thought the same thing when I spotted this thread. I just assumed he'd been named.

I'm surprised to see that no one regrettably named Cosby at some point in the past.

― Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:25 (ten years ago)

186. Ray Bradbury

― Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:26 (ten years ago)

(I assume that most of the people named itt have probably secretly murdered someone.)

― Puddin' Taint (Old Lunch), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:27 (ten years ago)

187. Otto the Bulldog

― John Dope Assos (Noodle Vague), Friday, 13 November 2015 13:39 (ten years ago)

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