Who in history are you most like?

Brodirt · Jun 2, 2009

Also, who would you rather be more like and who is your favorite?

I'm most like John Adams

Would like to be more like Jefferson or Napolean or Henry Miller.

My favorite is George Washington, simply because but for his force of will the USA doesn't exist.

blackfoot · Jun 2, 2009

I don't know that I am, but would like to be like Teddy Roosevelt.

marvin100 · Jun 2, 2009

I'd like to be a lot more like Eugene V. Debs or Woody Guthrie (before he lost his mind in a hereditary degenerative mental illness, of course).

kwk285 · Jun 2, 2009

Most like- The typical guy in history that falls under the radar but is very happy with the life I have chosen

Would like to be more like- I really respect Bill Gates. Not for his money but for the way he gets a plan and is very successful in taking the plan to reality. Also, I respect his self awareness. He knows what he is good at and does it well. The things he knows he is weak in, he is smart enough to hire expects in those fields and is even smarter to listen to them.

Obsessed · Jun 2, 2009

I like to think of myself as a synergistic combination of Teddy Roosevelt and Leonardo Da Vinci, with the humility of Gandhi.

ouch · Jun 2, 2009

Obsessed said:
I like to think of myself as a synergistic combination of Teddy Roosevelt and Leonardo Da Vinci, with the humility of Gandhi.

Sorry, Nick beat you to it.

GoldenMonkey · Jun 2, 2009

I'm most like Willy Loman (although a fictional character)
I admire Alexander The Great (pre-crap Colin Farrel movie hype...I've always dug the dude)
I would most like to be like Winston Churchill, and give the ol' V to anyone who doubts me...or Dick Winters...just a dude doing his job, to the best of his ability, and just gettin' on with it.
Now that I think about it, if I could be like anyone, it would want to be like Atticus Finch, yet another fictional character.

ClubmanRob · Jun 2, 2009

I'm probably most like John Wilkes Booth. Not that I want to follow in his footsteps or agree with his views or anything, but I read a biography of him and drew some startling similarities between the two of us. Edgar Allan Poe, Crispus Attucks, and John Carradine all come to mind as well.

blackfoot · Jun 2, 2009

ClubmanRob said:
I'm probably most like John Wilkes Booth. Not that I want to follow in his footsteps or agree with his views or anything, but I read a biography of him and drew some startling similarities between the two of us. Edgar Allan Poe, Crispus Attucks, and John Carradine all come to mind as well.

You sound very ..dark. :biggrin:

nikkuchan · Jun 2, 2009

Obsessed said:
I like to think of myself as a synergistic combination of Teddy Roosevelt and Leonardo Da Vinci, with the humility of Gandhi.

I see what you did there :biggrin:

Bluestaco · Jun 2, 2009

I'm probably most like the first guy in history to eat an oyster.

It is widely conjectured that he had to have been very, very hungry. I disagree. That sucker was just drunk! :biggrin:

The world's first redneck, given a dare.

I know how it must have gone down:

Thag: "Hey, Ug, drink this."
Ug: "It smells a little loud."
Thag: "No. Still good. Drink it."
Ug: "A'aight." (glug, glug, glug)

Ten minutes later:

Thag: "Hey, Ug, eat this squishy thingy."
Ug: [...belch...] "Nnnnoooo. That slimy!"
Thag: "Come on, Ug...I dare you."
Ug: [...hiccup...] "A'aight. Y'all watch this!"

LIke I would, he took the dare. And, of course (like me), he couldn't keep his mouth shut about a good thing, especially with a couple of drinks in him. (He would--like me--blow it again in much the same way when someone discovered hot sauce, fire, and the first redhead.)

Hoos · Jun 2, 2009

I am the Oscar Wilde of wet shaving.

Obsessed · Jun 2, 2009

ClubmanRob said:
I'm probably most like John Wilkes Booth. Not that I want to follow in his footsteps or agree with his views or anything

Thanks for clarifying. :w00t:

(That's certainly not your run-of-the-mill disclaimer!)

nikkuchan · Jun 2, 2009

How can I decide who in history Im like? I know hes a comedian, but Id say Im a lot like George Carlin. I always thought of things similar to the way he did, and also have a lot of morally neutral views and mean-spirited thoughts that are very similar to his older, more disgruntled persona.

However, the people Id like to be like are Fred Rogers and Martin Luther King Jr.

Hanzo · Jun 2, 2009

I am historically most like a slave, serf, , proletarian , lumpen prole, unskilled laborer, underclass person. Who ever the average guy is historically thats me.I don't identify myself in any historical person of note.

The only person I would like to be like is Noam Chomsky. Honest, moral, radical , rational, libertarian socialist, believer in the common man and woman, enraged by injustice.

Walter Sobchak · Jun 2, 2009

I don't know who I am most like in history. I'm too pushy to be Radar O'Reilly, too slow to be The Champ, not sharp enough to be Marie Curie or keen enough to be Doc Ricketts, far too lazy to wear black, much too seedy to wear white. I might be a walking example of the glue. The guys who fill the gaps between all others. History's full of us.

Whew, this is a hard question to answer this late at night. I should sleep on it.

blackfoot · Jun 2, 2009

Bluestaco said:
I'm probably most like the first guy in history to eat an oyster.

It is widely conjectured that he had to have been very, very hungry. I disagree. That sucker was just drunk! The world's first redneck, given a dare.

I know how it must have gone down:

Thag: "Hey, Ug, drink this."
Ug: "It smells a little loud."
Thag: "No. Still good. Drink it."
Ug: "A'aight." (glug, glug, glug)

Ten minutes later:

Thag: "Hey, Ug, eat this squishy thingy."
Ug: [...belch...] "Nnnnoooo. That slimy!"
Thag: "Come on, Ug...I dare you."
Ug: [...hiccup...] "A'aight. Y'all watch this!"

LIke I would, he took the dare. And, of course (like me), he couldn't keep his mouth shut about a good thing, especially with a couple of drinks in him. (He would--like me--blow it again in much the same way when someone discovered hot sauce, fire, and the first redhead.)

Of course, he died two hours later when his buddies dared him to wrestle a saber tooth. After some chest beating, he ran out of the light of the newly discovered fire (Which had burnt most of his hair an hour previously but he hadn't noticed) and was never seen again.

dpm802 · Jun 2, 2009

Brodirt said:
Also, who would you rather be more like and who is your favorite?

I would most like to be Kaspar Hauser .

His biography is inscribed on his tombstone:

"Here lies Kaspar Hauser, riddle of his time. His birth was unknown, his death mysterious."

Jasonian · Jun 2, 2009

I am most like... myself.

Politically, I am most like Thomas Jefferson.

Philosophically, I am most like Plato.

Religiously, I am most like Kierkegaard.

No mold fits two persons.

PhoR · Jun 2, 2009

This is probably a poor quantization of "Who in history", but it's the best I could come up with...

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