Earnest Hemingway had alot of real adveturers
Seeing the 'cool' thread......
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RW, a few personal observations.
E. Hemingway blew his brains out. Not cool.
Little known are the facts that his father and his only brother also committed suicide.
@@@ He was pretty cool BEFORE he blew his brains out. There were 5 (count 'em, five) suicides in his family over 4 generations.
JFK-he was the pretender to the throne.
Joe Jr. was supposed to be the pres., but that didn't work out.
Not cool.
@@@ No, he was in succession to the throne. People wore hats before JFK, but he didn't like hats so everybody stopped wearing hats. Everybody wanted to be like JFK. Like Clark Gable not wearing an undershirt. Fruit of the Loom about went under as a result of that.
FYI, I'm from Hyannis, Mass.
@@@ I'm impressed.I knew some folks from Nantucket and the Kennedy's weren't well liked among the social set there.
OK, rockets, you've got me.
I worked for one of the original Mercury astronauts for a few years.
Those men had balls! They were HERO'S!
Mods, banish me if you must, but it's the truth.
@@@ They sure were my heroes. I even collected their coins out of the potato chip bags. Maybe Yuri Gagarin was a commie but he was one cool commie with large cujones. And when you look at Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon, there is a mysterious trench between the prints where something was dragging the ground.
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OLDNAVYMCPO
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Some of my personal heroes would include Bill Jordan, Skeeter Skelton, Jeff Cooper, Gunny Hathcock, Col. David Hackworth, Gen. Singlaub and every MOH recipient. All for different reasons and the list by no means complete.
fideau
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Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Oh yeah.
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen
Oh yeah.
Steve McQueen
gaucho1
Member
Some........but not all........
Actors play parts written for them in a script. They are empty vessels filled with someone else's cool. The dude who wrote for Steve McQueen was the one who was cool.
Musicians are not far behind. Sports guys? In a gladiator kind of way. Until they're worn out. Then they get tossed to the lions.
T.R. was an aristocrat who created the persona then used his considerable wealth to make it the truth.
I suppose if I had enough money, I could convince people that old, fat and balding was also cool. Wait, Alfred Hitchcock already did that...
Musicians are not far behind. Sports guys? In a gladiator kind of way. Until they're worn out. Then they get tossed to the lions.
T.R. was an aristocrat who created the persona then used his considerable wealth to make it the truth.
I suppose if I had enough money, I could convince people that old, fat and balding was also cool. Wait, Alfred Hitchcock already did that...
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Biginge
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Lorenna Bobbitt. She had the coolest name for the works she was famous for!
gaucho1
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She certainly wasn't afraid to cut down a "barrel."I wonder if she likes Snubbys?....................
To me Humphrey Bogart was a really good actor but the pictures of him and his personal revolvers made him cool.
Some guys just have it, Willie Mays in baseball from the pics of him playing stickball with the neighborhood kids in NY to the stories of how he became the focus of the room when he walked into the All Star Game locker room. Charisma that cannot be taught.
Cool Americans have to include the Maverick achievers in many fields, the Thomas Jeffersons, Kit Carsons, Daniel Boone, Parker Ackley John M and Johnathon Browning and many others.
Some guys just have it, Willie Mays in baseball from the pics of him playing stickball with the neighborhood kids in NY to the stories of how he became the focus of the room when he walked into the All Star Game locker room. Charisma that cannot be taught.
Cool Americans have to include the Maverick achievers in many fields, the Thomas Jeffersons, Kit Carsons, Daniel Boone, Parker Ackley John M and Johnathon Browning and many others.
