Favourite/most respected famous person-ever!

[liam88]

Been chatting to a few people though i'd ask on here;
Who is you favourite/most respected famous person throughout history and what did they do; it can be anybody, anytime, anyplace?
Still thingking of mine :D ;)

[eoinh]

Garret Fitzgerald

[ccfcman]

Ghandi, or Martin Luther King Jr.

[Peadar]

Sir Walter Raleigh - Where would Ireland be today without the humble potatoe!?

[patsh]

I reckon Einstein, Plato, Confucius, Buddah or Mohammed Ali!

[Macy]

Sir Walter Raleigh - Where would Ireland be today without the humble potatoe!?
And smokes!!!!

Too many to list:
Ghandi; MLK; Nelson Mandela; Desmond Tutu; John Hume; Michael Collins; Wolfe Tone; And many more that I can't think off at this time of the morning.

Sporting: Matt Busby; Pat Crerand; Eric Cantona; Lance Armstrong; Sean Kelly

[green goblin]

Big Tom Crean, from the county Kerry. Famous member of Shacklton's expedition and as near to indestructible as a human being can possibly be. The crew, stranded without rescue at the Pole, quickly realised that their survival was directly related to how near they were standing to Crean. In the same way, if I had to pick which celebrity or star I'd want to be marooned on a desert Island with, it'd be Ray Mears, every time.
The rest?
Oh, the the usual suspects... Jesus, Wilberforce, General Booth, Armstrong and Aldrin, Gagarin, Douglas Bader, Marie Curie, Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Hilary and Tenzing, Cousteau, Ali, Pankhurst, Ghandi, Johnny Cash, RJ Mitchell, George Stephenson, Che, Jinky, James Brown, MLK, Mandela... Thing is, you can keep going for hours.

[joeSoap]

Me Mammy of course !!!! :D :D :D

[Peadar]

if I had to pick which celebrity or star I'd want to be marooned on a desert Island with, it'd be Ray Mears, every time.

He'd cut you up and make a canoe out of you.
Survival of the fittest and all that. :D


And smokes!!!!

I thought Micheál Martin invented smokes???
He was definitly in the news about something to do with smokes anyway. :D

[Roo69]

Me Mammy of course !!!! :D :D :D

:D

Could'nt agree with you more ! Defo the person i respect the most in the world

[blobbyblob]

John F Kennedy

[tiktok]

I wouldn't mind chatting to

Leonardo DaVinci or Judas Iscariot

[Lionel Ritchie]

Kirsty Gallacher for her contribution to quality televisual programming.

In fact if there's a most desirable date thread ...I'd go for Kirsty too. We can go swimming to the local municipal pool, I can video tape her slipping on a diving board -slapping off it and the side of the pool on her semi concious way into the water and we can look back at the tape and have a jolly good laugh at how side splittingly, jaw achingly funny it all was -while the medic wires up Kirstys shattered jaw and patches up her split side.

[Peadar]

:D Could'nt agree with you more ! Defo the person i respect the most in the world
How do you know his mammy? :D


I wouldn't mind chatting to Judas Iscariot

Recent research suggests that Judas was a representation for the Jewish people and not actually a person. It was also suggested that Barabas and Jesus were the same person. Loads of the myths purported by Christianity have been exposed as too flawed to be credible.
Sorry I can't back this up with references now but it was on the Discovery Channel.


Kirsty Gallacher for her contribution to quality televisual programming.

Yer man Ed Byrne and his show is worse to be fair.

[max power]

business.....richard branson

music....david bowie

sport.....vinny/digger

life.......former new yourk mayor gulianni ( spelled wrong i think )

[Peadar]

life.......former new yourk mayor gulianni ( spelled wrong i think )

Yeah, it's "York." :D

[Sheridan]

business.....richard branson
Tw@


music....david bowie
Legend


sport.....vinny/diggerNo strong opinion, prefer the latter.


life.......former new yourk mayor gulianni ( spelled wrong i think )
Absolute tw@.

[max power]

i forgot heff......the man :D

[Roo69]

How do you know his mammy? :D

Yer man Ed Byrne and his show is worse to be fair.


:D Great Shout, and to clear things up nicely, i meant my Ma ! :D

I went into see Ed Byrne in the Olympia about 2 weeks and he was absolutey class ! great live preformance and would reccomend it to anyone if they get the chance

[Pat O' Banton]

Most respected person would be James Connolly, maybe would like to have one-to-one with Comrade Che - although I think he would simply consider me a slacker.

[tiktok]

Recent research suggests that Judas was a representation for the Jewish people and not actually a person. It was also suggested that Barabas and Jesus were the same person. Loads of the myths purported by Christianity have been exposed as too flawed to be credible.
Sorry I can't back this up with references now but it was on the Discovery Channel.

Yeah, i've heard the theory that each apostle represents one each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

There's loads of theories flying about, getting more attention since the mid eighties when it was realised that the church had already taken 30 years to translate the dead sea scrolls and Nag Hammadi Gospels.

Judas Iscariot is meant to be a Greek translated Judas Ist (from) Kerioth, which would have referred to a town in Judea at the time, other version is Judas Sicariot (ancient Greek for knife bearer) being misunderstood as referring to a surname by translators (implying he was a revolutionary of some sort).

In any event, it's a periood of history I'm fascinated by, i'll happily pass along my theories while p1ssed in france :D :D

[Schumi]

Loads of the myths purported by Christianity have been exposed as too flawed to be credible.Like the myth of a beardy guy who lives in the clouds and controls everything that happens. :D

[Peadar]

i'll happily pass along my theories while p1ssed in france :D :D

Remind me to meet you early on in the day so then :D
When we're p!ssed we can discuss Hillary Duff again... ;)


Like the myth of a beardy guy who lives in the clouds and controls everything that happens. :D

I don't live in the clouds, just spend a lot of time flying.
Oh, and I shaved this morning...

[ccfcman]

former new yourk mayor gulianni ( spelled wrong i think )

massively dangerous warsupporting republican, our survey said: enh unh!

[green goblin]

Recent research suggests that Judas was a representation for the Jewish people and not actually a person. It was also suggested that Barabas and Jesus were the same person. Loads of the myths purported by Christianity have been exposed as too flawed to be credible.
Sorry I can't back this up with references now but it was on the Discovery Channel.

Oh dear, they're not still flogging this old chestnut are they? :confused: There was a suggestion put out about 30 years ago suggesting a link between Jesus and the ascetic Essene movement, and therefore to the Zealots (Simon and Andrew could possibly have been Zealots, Judas almost certainly so). It was all the rage in theological circles in the early eighties, but has now died a slow lingering death for reasons too tedious to go into here. Surprised that the Disco Channel have run out of "Aliens probed my hole" stories so soon. :D

[ccfcman]

Sir Walter Raleigh - Where would Ireland be today without the humble potatoe!?

In a better place? There'd have been no mass exodus oh and yeah no famine either.

[max power]

Like the myth of a beardy guy who lives in the clouds and controls everything that happens. :D

leave me alone, its only hair !!!!!

[green goblin]

In a better place? There'd have been no mass exodus oh and yeah no famine either.
Too right there wouldn't.
Mind you, the fish n' turnip shop industry would be in a healthier state too.

[ccfcman]

Aye and we'd never had gotten rid of some people too! Henry Ford was one of them!

[tiktok]

It was all the rage in theological circles in the early eighties, but has now died a slow lingering death for reasons too tedious to go into here.

Between you me and Peadar I'm sure we could keep a thread on it going ;) :D

[green goblin]

Aye and we'd never had gotten rid of some people too! Henry Ford was one of them!
Roscarbery's favourite son may well have turned out different though. The entire history of the twentieth century would have been entirely different.

[joeSoap]

massively dangerous warsupporting republican, our survey said: enh unh!
I wouldn't say he was that bad at all actually....
http://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/html/bio.html

[Metrostars]

Surprised noone has mentioned Jesus Christ yet.

I would also like to have a chat with John Lennon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Michael Collins, Franklin Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe.

[ccfcman]

Did JC ever exist outside of a book?

[green goblin]

Surprised noone has mentioned Jesus Christ yet.

I would also like to have a chat with John Lennon, Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Michael Collins, Franklin Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe.
Hey, I did! I'm a good boy!

[Peadar]

Between you me and Peadar I'm sure we could keep a thread on it going ;) :D

I get the impression that he believes in God and all that stuff.
I think that's personal to him so I wont probe him on it. (Excuse the pun in realtion to your alien jibe GG)
We however, could talk about it 'til the cows come home ;)

[Lionel Ritchie]

Did JC ever exist outside of a book?

according to a really preachy book I flicked through ...yes.
BUT according to many scholars of early christian texts -the word we've long associated with Carpenter when describing the profession of his earthly foster pop actually means something closer to Architect which paints JCs upbringing in a completely different light ...poor working folk my ass ...probably roman educated ...possibly roman citizens.

heh anyone remember that bit in Passion of the Christ where they credited JC with having invented the Chair ...feckin' hell -as if the it's a story that needed padding out :D

[ccfcman]

Fancy that, I taught he invented wine!

[green goblin]

Did JC ever exist outside of a book?
The two earliest non bliblical mentions of Christians are by the Roman historian Tacitus writing in AD64 (31 years after Jesus death) and the Jewish historian Josephus wrting at around AD 85 (52 years after Jesus death).

[Peadar]

Roscarbery's favourite son.

Ballinascarthy even.
The Fords originally came from the areas of Somerset-shire and Devonshire in England.

[sylvo]

Diego Maradonna, the scorer of one of the greatest goal's ever in a world cup final's v England.

As for his 2nd goal when he ran and danced around the whole England team that one was'nt bad either. :D

[green goblin]

Ballinascarthy even.
The Fords originally came from the areas of Somerset-shire and Devonshire in England.
...I stand corrected. :)

[liam88]

Jesus, the Pope, Neil Lennon :D

Re. our Mam's of course they will be-which i why i slipped 'famous' into the title. Not having a pop at people family and of course they are famous to us but i meant famous in the common sense of the word because i kniow that most of our most respected people are our Mams, Da's, Bro's, Sisters, granparents, wives, gals etc. :D

[Closed Account 2]

Yuri Gargarin, and the great Bruce Springsteen.

[the 12 th man]

gary oldman,barry geraghty,frank sidebottom & johnny hallyday

[Macy]

Surprised noone has mentioned Jesus Christ yet.
I did, I had Eric picked way back :D

[joeSoap]

barry geraghty,

I take it he's won you a few quid then??

[the 12 th man]

I take it he's won you a few quid then??


he has indeed (cheltenham last year)_,and is a very down to earth person to boot. :)

[Lionel Ritchie]

:D

Doubling the national debt and sending unemployment through the roof? The pin up for ineptitude if ever there was one...

* Challenging the headlock the church had on this wee country -
* the small matter of the anglo irish agreement

I'm not an FG supporter btw -but neither of the above would've happened on the fragrant Charles' watch :rolleyes:

[joeSoap]

he has indeed (cheltenham last year)_,and is a very down to earth person to boot. :)
Likes a bit of a kicking then, does he?? :D :D