Legends of life!

[DomanickX]

Hey everybody how goes it?

Well this isn’t a game OR a useless spam thread..
It’s a list, of the greatest people to live.
The way to get your person onto the list is to submit it onto this thread.
Only 15 people will be allowed on the list, and the number of the list means nothing.
They have to be REAL people (sorry biff) and they have to be someone well known, (not your math teacher)
I, (ME THE CREATOR), hopefully Orangey, and one other soon to be chosen, will vote on people to be added to the list,
Orangey as my exact opposite would you please be one of the judges?
And I will pick another when it needs be.

Don’t post on here if you’re going to complain, (unless that’s all you do)

[Christian]

I nominate Roberto Clemente

[DomanickX]

Ok but first we need another judge and MAYBE Orangey to vote yes or no

[Silfedac]

Who in the name of butt is Roberto Clemente?

[Christian]

A kickass Puertorrican baseball player/hero who died in a plane crash with supplies to Africa

[Silfedac]

Why not say Balto then?

[the Scarf]

I'll be a judge!

[Orangey]

I don't see why not, but I'm going to have radically different views as to who goes on the list from most other people. And I'm not sure why we're compiling it.

As an example of my differing views: Just being an impressive baseball player isn't enough to even get you considered to be submitted for the list of people who might go on the list of people who might go on the list. That doesn't get Clemente any points, so we'll have look at his charitable work: he did do some, a good amount even, but others have done much more and better, and done other things that contribute more to society.

Incidentally, he died on his way to Nicaragua, which is in Central America, not Africa.

[Silfedac]

How about Balto?

[Orangey]

First: Dogs aren't people; the only non-human mammals that are people are cats.

Second, they only saved Nome. Woo. If I didn't give it to a man who did philanthropic work intermittently throughout his life, I'm sure as sugar not giving it to a dog that saved Nome. This is a list of the fifteen greatest people ever; we need big.

[Silfedac]

Fine. Martin Luther King Junior.

[the Scarf]

I dunno, I mean. I thought this was more for the underground type people that we've all heard of but don't pay attention too..

[Silfedac]

According to Dom, the criteria are:

• Real
• Well Known
• One of the greatest people who ever lived

I think MLK fits that pretty well.

[the Scarf]

hmm...

[MagicParakeet]

I nominate Roberto Clemente

I second the movement. PNC park, where the Pittsburgh Pirates play, has a statue of him and several other references to him. He was a great player and a greater person.

[Orangey]

Still no. He's not one of the fifteen greatest people ever.

[MagicParakeet]

How come? He is one of the greatest athletes of all time and atempted to save Niceragua after an eathquake. He was a legend.

[Orangey]

Just being an impressive baseball player isn't enough to even get you considered to be submitted for the list of people who might go on the list of people who might go on the list. That doesn't get Clemente any points, so we'll have look at his charitable work: he did do some, a good amount even, but others have done much more and better, and done other things that contribute more to society.

So what if he was a great athlete? If I submitted the most Bifftastic collator, accountant, or car mechanic ever, would they be worthy of being on the list? Hardly.

Additionally, he didn't manage to save anything. You don't get points for trying. If I was to try to cure cancer, but died in the process without providing any salient advances, I wouldn't be on the list.

In conclusion, there's no reason to put him on.

End of story.

[Silfedac]

Fine. Martin Luther King Junior.

[Orangey]

I'm still thinking about that one.

[MagicParakeet]

I beleive this thread leads to a lot of impossibilities. The greatest people are not well known, I'm talking about firefighters and doctors, and some of the most well known people in all of history are not necessarily the greatest candidates, Climente being a prime example. There is really no way this can be logically done and be just at the same time.

[Bandgeek]

Man, for a list of 15 people, why have we only nominated 2? I'll get it going, so Nobody will get on by defalt.

Goerge Washington
Me
Abe Lincon
Me
Weird Al
Me
Chirs Halbeck
Me
Albert Einstein
Me
Chuck Norris
Me
Nelson Mandela
Me
Oysten Badsvik
Me
Tony Asivato
Me
Will Smith
Me
Koji Kondo
And of course.........ME!

[Orangey]

I beleive this thread leads to a lot of impossibilities. [...] There is really no way this can be logically done and be just at the same time.

Okay, let's give up then.

Implicit in the setup is the idea that it's the greatest fifteen people we as a group know of. Yeah, we can't suggest people no one's heard of. Duh. Frankly, I don't know the point of doing this, but if I do it, I want it to be done to the best of my abilities, and that means the absolute best of the people we can think of.

Additionally, please don't complain if you aren't going to suggest how to improve.

@ Bandgeek: Okay, now make a case for each of those people.

[MagicParakeet]

How to improve, can't really. I think it would be best if everyone made a list of their 15 heroes and compare. Wait, I did just improve it.

[Silfedac]

Maybe it would be easier to make a list of the 15 worst people? I'll get it started:

Thomas Midgley

Hitler

[the Scarf]

I withdraw my offer as a judge...its too hard...

hitler is definitely on the worst person list.

[MagicParakeet]

Even though Hitler was a tool, WW2 changed the world mostly for the better. My heroes Ralph Bayer[sp], Stan Lee, and Mel Gibson moved here because of being European Jews. Kinda weird desping Hitler for killing my great uncles Wayne and Allen, and still thankful for deciding to start Dub Dub Duece.

[Silfedac]

But Thomas Midgley? Eh?

[MagicParakeet]

what about him? What did he do?

[Silfedac]

Thomas Midgley

I linked it once already, and I'm too lazy to do it again.