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[Sadken]

Seems like the US and all the USanians take shots from all sides these days and we all forget all the fantastic stuff to come out of the capital of the world.

I was on a train back from Liverpool the other day and started thinking about all my favourite American people. These are they:

(No order)
Kurt Cobain
Vincent Gallo
Charlie Kaufmann
Prince
Jack Nicholson
Dennis Hopper
Marlon Brando
Christina Ricci
Andy Warhol
Jackson Pollock
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Eazy E
Jerry Seinfeld
Bill Hicks
Madonna
David Cross
Bob Dylan
Common
Mos Def
Talib Kweli
David Byrne
Elvis
Ghostface Killah
Chuck D (although, as a white bloke with jewish family he probably wouldn't be too keen on me judging by what his book has to say)
Flava Flav
Sly Stone
Zach Braff
Kelis
Curtis Mayfield
Marvin Gaye
Otis Redding
Quentin Tarantino
Christopher Walken
Sean Penn
Matt Parker
Trey Stone
Charles Schultz
Matt Groening
John Fante
Charles Buckowski
Hunter S. Thompson
Andre 3000
That bloke Lazlow from Grand Theft Auto
Bob De Niro
Al Pacino

[extoere]

YOU LEFT LOONRAVIN' OFF YER LIST!!!!!!
HOW COULD YOU!!!!!!!

cheers,
ex

[justcolleen]

And me!

Colleen

[moonraven]

Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau

[dyak]

And Jimi Hendrix!

Wow, no political telenovela on this thread?

[moonraven]

Whitman and Thoreau were two of the most political guys to set foot on this planet!

[Truman]

Martin Luther King Jr.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Art Speigleman
Fredrick Douglas
Bernie Sanders
Steve Jobs
Thomas Edison

[Sadken]

Can't believe I forgot Jimi and MLK

Also like to add:
Colleen
Art Speigleman
Harvey Pekar
Frank Miller
Alan Moore
Arthur Lee
Afrika Bambaata
Beck
Jeff Buckley
Dr Dre
Ice Cube
MC Ren
Wayne Coyne
Jack White
Dr. Sam Beckett
Al
Ziggy
Mr Perfect
Brett Hart
Shawn Michaels
The Undertaker
Ric Flair
HHH
Hulk Hogan
Evander Holyfield
Frank Black
Stephen Malkmuss
Dr Seuss
The Ultimate Warrior
MC Paul Barman
MF Doom
Dangermouse (DJ)
Fat Arnold
Will Smith (as the Fresh Prince)
Carlton
Jake (from California Dreams)
Brian Wilson
Dennis Wilson
El-P
Neil Young
Stevie Wonder
Ray Charles
Groucho Marx
Oliver Hardy
Howard Hughes
Rosa Lee Parks
Frank Sinatra
Sammy Davis Junior
H.O.M.E.R. S.I.M.P.S.O.N.

[Sadken]

And Jay-Z
And Nas

[Twisting in the Wind]

Jimmy Carter
FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bobby Kennedy
Dorothy Day
Janis Joplin
Grace Slick
Billy Graham
Helen Keller
Dorothy Parker
Kurt Vonnegut

[distiller]

Here are a few more I like:

John Singer Sergeant
Emily Dicinson (sic) stupid text censor
Martha Graham
Helen Keller
Charles Sanders Peirce
Louis Armstrong
Wright Brothers

[Guy Courchesne]

Dave Barry (retired as of today)

[The Overcoat]

Here's my list

Avril Lavigne
Pamela Anderson
Romeo Dallaire
Shania Twain
Nelly Furtado
Estella Warren
Shannon Tweed
Keanu Reeves
Celine Dion
Alanis Morissette
Peter North
Bryan Adams
Neil Young
Jim Carrey
Natasha Henstridge
Jennifer Tilly
Sarah McLachlan
Leonard Cohen

[Roger]

Some of the names listed surprised me: Helen Keller an Usanian? I thought she was only a NATURALISED American born in Switzerland? And Bob Dylan?
Most names I didn't recognise, though.

My favourite ones are:
- extoere my friend;
- Dave Barry the satiricist;
- John Steinbeck author of "Grapes of Wrath, "Travels with Charlie"
and a lot else;
- James A. Michener author of many historic novels;
- the guys that formed the BeeGees
- the guys that formed the Simon & Garfunkel band
- J.F. Kennedy;
- Martin Luther;
Not a lot, and I could surely go on for a little while, but that's an honest beginning.
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[Guy Courchesne]