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Who is the GOAT of fame?

doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

In your opinion, who is the most famous person to ever live?

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    And don't say Humphrey Bogart, if you say Humphrey Bogart, I'll scream!

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jesus or Muhammad.

  • 1948_Swell_Robinson1948_Swell_Robinson Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mike Schmidt and Mike Trout

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've thought about this, and I'm going to go with Elvis. It doesn't get any bigger than Elvis!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Santa Claus

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    Santa Claus

    Yes, Santa is famous, but he never owned a pair of blue suede shoes!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:

    @stevek said:
    Santa Claus

    Yes, Santa is famous, but he never owned a pair of blue suede shoes!

    I was gonna say that actor who starred in the movie Casablanca, but i couldn't recall his name.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Elvis is ridiculous famous, his influence is worldwide, and every species of life knows who he is. Thank you, thank you very much.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @doubledragon said:

    @stevek said:
    Santa Claus

    Yes, Santa is famous, but he never owned a pair of blue suede shoes!

    I was gonna say that actor who starred in the movie Casablanca, but i couldn't recall his name.

    Don't say it Steve!

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    has to be jesus christ

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,329 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    has to be jesus christ

    Either Him or Gene Tenace.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
  • spacehaydukespacehayduke Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jordan

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jesus Christ.

  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2021 4:51PM

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  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jesus Christ. This is truly one time it is not debatable. Well...you may debate it but I'd be careful of lightning.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2021 4:44PM

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I still say!

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Oh, oh! I asked my wife who she thinks is the GOAT of Fame and she said Marilyn Monroe. I knew she would pick a woman!

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Tom Brady 🤷‍♂️

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I knew Tom Brady was going to make an appearance on this thread, I'm just surprised it took so long. You guys are slippin!

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    Oh, oh! I asked my wife who she thinks is the GOAT of Fame and she said Marilyn Monroe. I knew she would pick a woman!

    From that response, i already know who your wife's favorite actor is.

    I think your wife would be very angry if she knew you were not allowing others to mention the name of her favorite actor in this thread.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it would be more interesting if we set a date for this one. if we do all time, it would have to be either Jesus Christ or Mohammud.

    what if we held it to say, 1900 forward?

    that would leave us with a pretty interesting debate. you would have those such as
    Gandhi
    Mother Theresa of Calcutta
    Pope John Paul II
    Nelson Mandela
    John Kennedy
    Elvis

    I would hazard a guess that since the turn of the 20th century, the most famous person worldwide would be one with a very bad reputation. I would think it could go to
    Mao
    Hitler
    Stalin

    terrible terrible people, but greatly feared by many and very very famous.

    i would think that most people around the world, including 3rd world countries, would instantly have an image in their heads when hearing the name Adolf Hitler

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Godwin's Law illustrated once again. :)

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,246 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    Godwin's Law illustrated once again. :)

    not exactly. I didn't compare anyone to Hitler, only stated that he is very very famous for very bad reasons.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I believe Hitler was Times Man of the year.

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:

    @stevek said:
    Godwin's Law illustrated once again. :)

    not exactly. I didn't compare anyone to Hitler, only stated that he is very very famous for very bad reasons.

    You're right, in the truest sense of Godwin's Law. :)

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

    I don't know, I'll have to ask my wife who her favorite actor is. Personally, I've always enjoyed seeing Nick Nolte make public appearances, he never disappoints!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Brick said:
    I believe Hitler was Times Man of the year.

    I didn't google it but i think you're right.

    I've read a lot about WW2 and Hitler. There's no "other" side to him. Just mass murdering, glib talking, evil diseased filth.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

    They used to produce cards such as this. A number of those cigarette cards of the past have all sorts of peoples and topics.

    I have a lot of them. Nothing valuable, just bought cheap lots off Ebay over the years when in the mood and i see something cool.

  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

    We already did that. Look up the Tom Brady Master Set. It's pretty popular. ;-)

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @Brick said:
    I believe Hitler was Times Man of the year.

    I didn't google it but i think you're right.

    I've read a lot about WW2 and Hitler. There's no "other" side to him. Just mass murdering, glib talking, evil diseased filth.

    Same thing with Stalin & Mao

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,642 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2021 6:06AM

    @doubledragon said:

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

    I don't know, I'll have to ask my wife who her favorite actor is. Personally, I've always enjoyed seeing Nick Nolte make public appearances, he never disappoints!

    My question to Nick would be why? It would be so much easier to put on something different to get that I’m a weirdo look, something much easier than that red thing to pull all over yourself lol

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:

    @thisistheshow said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I just locked in a bid on ebay for an Elvis card, and I'll fight viciously to win it!

    This just gave me an idea. Our hosts should create a set where you have to collect one card from everyone @doubledragon has started a thread about.

    I don't know, I'll have to ask my wife who her favorite actor is. Personally, I've always enjoyed seeing Nick Nolte make public appearances, he never disappoints!

    I figured maybe she kept mentioning how handsome he was, and you were so sick and tired of hearing it, that you didn't want his name mentioned further. LOL

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe it's CTE from when he starred in North Dallas Forty. LOL

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Another Nick Nolte classic.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I asked my wife who her favorite actor is and her answer is.....

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    I asked my wife who her favorite actor is and her answer is.....

    That's a young Humphrey Bogart in the dance scene from Casablanca.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I asked my wife who her favorite actor is and her answer is.....

    That's a young Humphrey Bogart in the dance scene from Casablanca.

    Well, you can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a woman's man, no time to talk.

  • VikingDudeVikingDude Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭

    Looking at the cast of Fame, I'd have to say Janet Jackson. 25 episodes from 1984-1985

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think Muhammad Ali might be the most recognizable figure in the world. Since this is a Sports Forum I'll go with him

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  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mel Gibson has worn disguises when going out in public. Here, you can clearly see that Mel is wearing the classic fake nose with mustache disguise.

  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @doubledragon said:
    I've thought about this, and I'm going to go with Elvis. It doesn't get any bigger than Elvis!

    And it was very dangerous for him on stage. Girls throwing their hotel room keys, and panties at him. He's lucky he didn't slip and fall or lose an eye.

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @hammer1 said:

    @doubledragon said:
    I've thought about this, and I'm going to go with Elvis. It doesn't get any bigger than Elvis!

    And it was very dangerous for him on stage. Girls throwing their hotel room keys, and panties at him. He's lucky he didn't slip and fall or lose an eye.

    And don't forget the paper cuts he sustained from women giving him their numbers!

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hysterical female adulation, i know that feeling.

    It's brutal i tell ya, brutal. 👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩

  • doubledragondoubledragon Posts: 23,269 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:
    Hysterical female adulation, i know that feeling.

    It's brutal i tell ya, brutal. 👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩👩

    Very interesting indeed, I find women to be very unpredictable and often sneaky. They're always watching and listening Steve.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Brick said:
    I believe Hitler was Times Man of the year.

    That's because Time used to name the person that was biggest newsmaker of the year, regardless of reason. That led to the selection you mention, Ayatollah Khomeini and others. They eventually caved into criticism unable to mentally process the actual criteria for the "award" and stopped naming negative influencers the recipient.

  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,061 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Post-1900, the #1 is Muhammad Ali and it's probably not even close.

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