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jajdude
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 Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: Greats who are dead |
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Johnny Cash and Warren Zevon
Many others of course...
recently? |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:50 am Post subject: |
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Not recent but
Alexander the,
Catherine the,
Frederick the
just off the top of my head.
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applesandshanana
Joined: 09 May 2007
Location: Michigan
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John Lennon
Elliott Smith |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Merv Griffin, RIP  |
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Ody
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
| Merv Griffin, RIP |
' bit of a tribute here. |
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merlot
Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Location: I tried to contain myself but I escaped.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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With respect, that's a pretty broad dead club. Most people are dead. I tend to think about the great people who lived their lives and received no recognition of greatness.
But, in keeping theme with the post--the first people that come to my mind (besides the obvious like Michelangelo, etc.) are Jim Morrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert S. De Ropp ... I can�t continue because there are so many.
Reminds me of an essay by RWE; to paraphrase:� To be great is to be misunderstood.� (from his essay Self Reliance).
My response to this post is about as refined as the question itself.
How about--who are the living greats? And how do we define "great?" Is it humanitarian endeavors, art, exceptional entrepreneurs, etc?
How about the great family man or woman who raises the most valuable crop on this earth--our youth.
I'm rambling. I do this when I don't have a specific subject to focus on.
By the way, I am great in my own special way as is everyone on this planet.
To be great do you have to be famous? I don't think so. |
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safeblad
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Shakespeare |
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merkurix
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Location: Not far from the deep end.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Greats who are dead . . . .
The Grateful Dead?
Sorry couldn't resist. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| merkurix wrote: |
Greats who are dead . . . .
The Grateful Dead?
Sorry couldn't resist. |
Most of them are alive. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Shannon Hoon. I still think he was the greatest vocal talent of my generation. |
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SuperFly
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Shannon Hoon. I still think he was the greatest vocal talent of my generation. |
I saw Blind Melon in Cinci, Ohio right after their first album was released. It was a great show. *Those were the days*
Favorite album: Nico, favorite song: John Sinclair (Composer: John Lennon) |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| SuperFly wrote: |
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| Shannon Hoon. I still think he was the greatest vocal talent of my generation. |
I saw Blind Melon in Cinci, Ohio right after their first album was released. It was a great show. *Those were the days*
Favorite album: Nico, favorite song: John Sinclair (Composer: John Lennon) |
I like Vernie. That was my fav song for a long while. Nico was a great disc, though. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Great Scott! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Allen Ginsberg
I met him in Toronto less than a year before he died and he seemed like your everyday kooky university professor, deep, quiet, careful with his words, civil.
His answers to my questions were unsatisfying and trite. I was expecting illumination and something special.
Oh well. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| Leslie Cheswyck wrote: |
Not recent but
Alexander the,
Catherine the,
Frederick the
just off the top of my head. |
You forgot Alfred |
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