OT - If you could be a historical figure…

[Ghost of OM]

Watching a History Channel series on Walt Disney. Got me thinking, if you could be one figure from history, who would it be? Walt had a very interesting life and gets credit for much of what we now know of as animation. Had to be a damn fun life. Also, maybe couldn’t argue with Jimmy Buffett. I’m sure there are other better choices. What say you all?

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Watching a History Channel series on Walt Disney. Got me thinking, if you could be one figure from history, who would it be? Walt had a very interesting life and gets credit for much of what we now know of as animation. Had to be a damn fun life. Also, maybe couldn’t argue with Jimmy Buffett. I’m sure there are other better choices. What say you all?

Kramer! No other choices!

 

[Woodpecker]

Wilt?

 

[84lion]

Jimmy Buffett? Thanks but no thanks. Died too young.

Off the top, I'd say Warren Buffett. Filthy rich, lives humbly, respected and admired the world over. But I would've spent more of his money!

 

[Chumboshifko1]

Watching a History Channel series on Walt Disney. Got me thinking, if you could be one figure from history, who would it be? Walt had a very interesting life and gets credit for much of what we now know of as animation. Had to be a damn fun life. Also, maybe couldn’t argue with Jimmy Buffett. I’m sure there are other better choices. What say you all?

Leslie Nielson as Major Marion, the Squap Fox!!

 

[BobPSU92]

de Soto

 

[WDLion]

Wilt?

You beat me.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

Joe Strummer

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

de Soto

What did he do? Like they wouldn’t have discovered that!

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Historical political figure for me… Gov. William J. LePetomaine!

 

[WDLion]

Leslie Nielson as Major Marion, the Squap Fox!!

So you would like to be a slave owner.
He was a Brigadier General and was known as the Swamp Fox.

 

[WDLion]

de Soto

The car or the explorer?

 

[Tom_PSU]

de Soto

One of my first cars (my grandfather gave it to me) was a used de Soto Adventurer. A 5.7L hemi engine with dual 4 barrel carburetors. Probably got about 8 mpg if I was driving normally. Which I rarely did.

The car came out of the factory with 3 exterior colors. Mine was pink, brown and cream, with some multicolored seating fabric as an interior. I had a pimp mobile before I knew what a pimp was.

My grandmother hated the car and always called my grandfather a fool for buying it. She nagged him restlessly until he bought a black Chrysler with a black interior.

 

[CyphaPSU]

I think I’d like to be one of the unnamed traveling companions of Luke and the apostle Paul as we read about in the New Testament. They went on some pretty wild and adventurous missionary journeys and definitely saw some things well out of the ordinary while proclaiming the greatest story ever told to people who never heard about it before.

 

[Fred8811]

I think I’d like to be one of the unnamed traveling companions of Luke and the apostle Paul as we read about in the New Testament. They went on some pretty wild and adventurous missionary journeys and definitely saw some things well out of the ordinary while proclaiming the greatest story ever told to people who never heard about it before.

Most suffered extreme persecution and gruesome death.

 

[laKavosiey-st lion]

yo

 

[CyphaPSU]

Most suffered extreme persecution and gruesome death.

Many did. And?

 

[LionJim]

Most suffered extreme persecution and gruesome death.

Many did. And?

Can’t be worse than spending time on this message board. jk/

 

[CyphaPSU]

Can’t be worse than spending time on this message board. jk/

The parallel between the two being that regardless of what you want to say, someone is going to tell you that you’re wrong.

 

[Catch1lion]

de Soto

Keith Richards. He sailed with de Soto and he’s still alive .

 

[LionJim]

Myself. If I had been 3% less of an idiot, my life would have been 95% better.

 

[SleepyLion]

I will just continue to be my hysterical self.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Wilt?

I wondered how long it would be before somebody said Wilt.

 

[Connorpozlee]

Benjamin Franklin

 

[HarrisburgDave]

Alexander the Great. Accomplished so much and when he found himself frustrated by a lack of support by his people (they were satisfied with what they had conquered) he checked out on top.

 

[LionJim]

Alexander the Great. Accomplished so much and when he found himself frustrated by a lack of support by his people (they were satisfied with what they had conquered) he checked out on top. Plus, Socrates was his tutor.

Fixed.

 

[WEP6to12]

Watching a History Channel series on Walt Disney. Got me thinking, if you could be one figure from history, who would it be? Walt had a very interesting life and gets credit for much of what we now know of as animation. Had to be a damn fun life. Also, maybe couldn’t argue with Jimmy Buffett. I’m sure there are other better choices. What say you all?

Milton S. Hershey

 

[HarrisburgDave]

Fixed.

No. Aristotle was his tutor, not Socrates.

 

[Chumboshifko1]

yo

Had a Firedome the last year they made DeSoto. Inherited it from an uncle. 413 cross ram manifold.

 

[LionJim]

No. Aristotle was his tutor, not Socrates.

Yes, I misplaced Alexander in the Ancient Greek timeline. You are correct.

Aristotle was Plato’s teacher, and Plato was Socrates’ teacher.

 

[OKLALionsFan]

Henry Kissinger.

 

[HarrisburgDave]

Yes, I misplaced Alexander in the Ancient Greek timeline. You are correct.

Aristotle was Plato’s teacher, and Plato was Socrates’ teacher.

It was Socrates, then Plato, then Aristotle.

 

[Chumboshifko1]

So you would like to be a slave owner.
He was a Brigadier General and was known as the Swamp Fox

Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox, feather in his hat....

Swamp Fox, Swamp Fox took a shat....

 

[LionJim]

It was Socrates, then Plato, then Aristotle.

Again, yes. I need to work on my Greek philosophers, ffs. Embarrassing.

 

[HarrisburgDave]

Again, yes. I need to work on my Greek philosophers, ffs. Embarrassing.

I forgive you my son.

 

[LionJim]

It was Socrates, then Plato, then Aristotle.

I think this is the correct descending order: Socrates, Plato, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Aristotle. I think?

 

[Catch1lion]

.

 

[razpsu]

My cousin, Alan Bean.

 

[psuro]

Hugh Hefner.

 

[ApexLion]

John Holmes?