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Not too many rules on this.

a. Must be alive
b. No ILXOr's (to prevent nasty flame wars developing)

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

I'll start by nominating

Stephen Fry and Owen Wilson.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

gandhi

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh shit sorry

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Who's Stephen Fry?

Owen Wilson seems like a good candidate.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ahmed Johnson

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

i bumped into stephen fry on my lunch hour last week but i didn't recognise him.

who is owen wilson?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

er.. the dalai lama

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

who is ahmed johnson?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

owen wilson is the dude from beach boys innit

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I don't like religious icons.

(xx-post)

I don't know who's Ahmed Johnson either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if I like Owen Wilson but this could just be noseism.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno what Brian Blessed does, but he has a cool name.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I mean BRIAN BLESSED.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

He does a lot of SHOUTING.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Who's Stephen Fry? who is owen wilson

This enterprise is doomed to failure.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Find a person that everyone on ILE has heard of

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Surely we're are doomed to failure in a world where the LEx lives, he doesn't know who anybody is. Before we can succeed in this quest we must KILL THE LEX.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

He does a lot of SHOUTING.

Okay, I think I like him.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, what about William Shatner? Surely everyone knows who he is, and likes him.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Russell Brand.

xpost colliding with Stephen Fry, who's 6ft 5, and not recognising him? only if you don't know who he is and all that!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

Jackie Chan

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

genesis p. orridge

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

Russell Brand is the silliest suggestion yet. I still think he is a cockfarmer, as I suspect do many other people.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Russell Brand's a fantastic guess. How about Jeffrey Archer and Ian Huntley?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

i hate william shatner!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

who is jackie chan?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Who's Russel Brand?

Genesis P. Orridge is some sort of musician, right? I have no positive or negative opinion on him.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

i have asked who brian blessed is before, i'm not sure if anyone answered seriously, but i have forgotten, i don't know who he is either

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you hate William Shatner, Lex?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/topstory/sports/edwards_eddie880228getty.jpg

― Sir Tehrance HoBB (the pirate king), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

if you don't know who russell brand is you are lucky indeed

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like comedians.

anyone even tangentially related to the world of comedy is doomed to failure as i HATE THEM ALL.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed is great, especially as a football pundit (yes, really, UKGTV had him during the world cup, where he just went on about train timetables and the like when the game was a bit crap).

I have no opinions at all on Owen Wilson, but I remain eternally fascinated by his nose, and I don't *dislike* him.

I think UK/US/other bits of the world/whatever mindspace Teh Lex occupies will be the downfall of this thread.

multiple xpost - Lex, you're serious about "who's Jackie Chan?"

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Jane Horrocks

Dan Castellaneta (sp?)

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

OK, lets get down to who we all really like.

Lauren Laverne
Ant and Dec
Jayne Middlemiss
Richard Orford
Beth Orton

This is about them as a person, not necessarily about their art or whatever, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Can we assume that The Lex doesn't actively dislike all the people he's never heard of and they can therefore still be included until someone who's heard of them vetoes them?

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ahmed Johnson is a boxer inn'e.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Lex, what have you got against comedians?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

I dislike Dan Castellaneta after he started making Homer sound more like Scooby-Doo.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Lex dislikes Beth Orton doesn't he, the mad fool!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

Lex, what have you got against comedians?

how dare they try and tell them when to laugh amirite?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

You're just Lex-baiting now aren't you? (xpost to people naming z-listers)

(also, hello Americans!)

Incidentally, Lex, have you heard of Google? It's terribly helpful for finding out who people are.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

brian blessed is a football commentator then? i don't like him then.

no, i have not heard of jackie chan, is she american?

i kind of like lauren laverne. everyone else on mark's list is a bit meh.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

brian blessed is a football commentator then?

YOUR BRILLIANT MIND IS SADLY INCORRECT.

I will be unhappy about this for the rest of year :(

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

no, i have not heard of jackie chan, is she american?

Okay you're playing at it now.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Jackie Chan's first album pisses all over 'Boys For Pele' gotta say

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like comedians because they're not funny! none of them make me laugh! ever! if you are going to be a comedian YOU SHOULD BE FUNNY.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Lex, William Shatner is not a comedian.

Lauren Laverne
Ant and Dec
Jayne Middlemiss
Richard Orford
Beth Orton

I have no idea who these are... Except that Beth Orton sang on some William Orbit record, or am I wrong?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed is a hairy actor with a booming voice,the football commentating was just a side line last summer.

no, i have not heard of jackie chan, is she american?

omg,wtf etc etc

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed has the horriblest feet I've ever seen and is therefore vetoed.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

does anyone really dislike beyoncé?

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

Right: Result.

Currently running, until someone says "I no like"

xpost~~Brian Blessed~~
Lauren Laverne
Jane Horrocks

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

(also, hello Americans!)

Indeed, hello non-Brits!

xpost, yeah, me (re Beyonce)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

I am here to say "I no like Beyonce"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost

Dalai Lama, Eddie 'The Eagle' and Genesis P.Orridge haven't been vetoed yet.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

No-one's said "I no like Jackie Chan" yet.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

how can you not like beyoncé? :(

i have googled jackie chan, i didn't know it was a man! he has a girl's name. i have never watched a martial arts film in my life, how am i supposed to know about him?!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://base58.com/ilx/brianblessed.jpg

"BOLD AS BRASS ON THE EDGE OF THE AREA BALLACK TURNS....AND SCORES! BY MY LUSTFUL BLADE HE IS TRULY A NATION IN ONE MAN, DARE YOU DEFY ME CLIVE??"

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Jackie Chan's first album pisses all over 'Boys For Pele' gotta say

You fool, that's Alanis Tikaram.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like martial arts so i veto jackie chan

i also veto eddie the eagle

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

The shorter member of Black Lace

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

Right: Result.
Currently running, until someone says "I no like"

No, it has to be someone "everyone on ILE likes", not someone who people don't have opinions over because they don't know her. Otherwise you could pick your aunt Fanny.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago)

You can't veto people you don't know!

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

I no like aunt Fanny

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Charlie Watt, whatever sins of mediocritude the Rolling Stones have committed over the last 30 yrs, drummer Charlie always seems like an okay chap.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Dalai Lama, Eddie 'The Eagle' and Genesis P.Orridge haven't been vetoed yet.

I vetoed the first and the last.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

Lex, I never saw a Jackie Chan movie either until a couple of years ago but I knew about him since the mid 90's, Don't you read newspapers/magazines, watch tv, surf the net etc?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

b-b-but Jackie Chan is FUNNY. It's not all about teh martial arts (OK, it is, but in a funny way. Oh, hang on, you don't like people who are meant to make you laugh either)

xpost to The Lex

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

i don't like any of the rolling stones

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Eddie The Eagle was a LOSER and I haet losers

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Tuomus

Fair point, it's just that then everyone has to then say "I like Lauren" to get some concensus.

OK, it's "I no like" or "I no no"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I see what you're doing here, Lex.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

oh i have seen a martial arts film actually! crouching tiger hidden dragon. i really really liked it! but jackie chan wasn't in it.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

everyone likes Kylie Minogue

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

raymond

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hang on, Lex, you veto Jackie Chan because you don't like martial arts films, except the only one you've actually seen was something you really liked.

Arctic Monkeys syndrome, anyone?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but CTHD was meant to be a different kind of martial arts film wasn't it, that's why i saw it in the first place! arty not actiony. i don't like action films. except the x-men.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

Russell Brand's a fantastic guess. How about Jeffrey Archer and Ian Huntley?

:-D

My own suggestion would probably be...ooh, Sir Ian McKellen?

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

john goodman

― dream torture (blood bitch), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

mckellen and minogue are the two best suggestions so far, i can't imagine anyone hating either!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

nah, they both suck.

― dream torture (blood bitch), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

Do you know what it's different *from*, exactly? Having never seen any others? (CTHD, that is)

By the way, there was some Lauren Laverne dislike over on the "TV personalities worse than Alex Zane" thread. So, even though she is wonderful, I think she has to go, because there are people on ILX who don't like her.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

mckellen's as much a comedian as Shatner

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

raymond

lol

― estela (estela), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago)

Evryone must like John Goodman.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Lexbot: "who's John Goodman?"

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:21 (eighteen years ago)

i was just about to ask ailsa! no idea in the slightest.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

Do we have to actively DISlike someone to veto them, or is indifference enough?

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say actively dislike would be the criteria to veto them.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:25 (eighteen years ago)

I've hated Ahmed Johnson since the "Harlem Heat 2000" debacle!

Actually, I hated him in the first place...

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Kylie Minogue's voice nor her videos. So veto her.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

ailsa, LLaverne not gone yet: Has to be an active veto.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Her videos are her art, but her voice is part of her person, so fair enough.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Hugh Laurie
Warwick Davis
James Earl Jones

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff Stelling (as suggested on the Alex Zane thread) seems pretty righteous to me, of course if people are just gonna be like 'he's to do with football so I hate him by definition' then I guess that's out as well

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

norm macdonald

― estela (estela), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

Spede Pasanen.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

Spede Pasanen killed my father

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, sorry, I forgot it's supposed to be about living people. Therefore I nominate:

Vesa-Matti Loiri

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god Brian Blessed as a football commentator would be the greatest thing ever. GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

He's pointed to the penalty spot?! But that's an OUTRAGE!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

but ailsa said upthread he WAS a football commentator.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

but he wasn't wearing what he was wearing in the photo i posted so it doesn't count

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't say he was a football commentator. I said he was a part-time pundit during the World Cup. He sat on a sofa with some other non-footballing pundits (and Barry Fry) and talked entertaining bollocks.

I maintain, as per the other thread, that anyone who knows who Jeff Stelling is would like him. On that basis, I would want to nominate Sid Waddell* as well, but that'll get shouted down all round

*For the Lex: he's a darts commentator, working class hero and inventor of Jossy's Giants**

**For the Lex, pt2: it's a kids TV programme. About football. It was on before your time and you wouldn't like it anyway. It was brilliant.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

I no like ~~aunt~~ Fanny
-- ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (gerry...), November 13th, 2006 11:05 AM.

Fixed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

LIES

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

some of my best friends are fannies

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure we did this before and the answer turned out to be Bill Murray.

The Garfield movies have happened since then, of course.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

beryl from dr c.'s work

― estela (estela), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

I did not know that Sid invented Jossy's Giants, this can only get better if you tell me he wrote the theme tune as well

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ned Beatty, funny sometimes (superman movies), but serious sometimes (deliverance, showboat)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer... Bristow's only 27."

Sid Waddell's a good shout.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them

I second Sid too, but probably a little too parochial.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

who is beyoncé?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

David Attenborough

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

it's a kids TV programme. About football. It was on before your time and you wouldn't like it anyway. It was brilliant.

I hate football, but I still thought it was brilliant.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Palin

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

That guy off the Antiques Roadshow with the wobbly jowls and the funny laugh.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

You aren't the Lex though (xpost to FP)

Ewan McGregor? (this is not an answer to who Rumpie is talking about)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

can we have kylie and just boot tuomas off instead?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.filmstudies.emory.edu/gromit.jpg

― C J (C J), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'll second Grommit.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think we have to veto fictional characters though, don't we? (I know it's not a rule, but c'mon, it's so open to abuse)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, all right.

Are we allowed politicians? I'll toss Nelson Mandela into the ring, then (figuratively speaking).

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Lisa Simpson.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

also they have to be alive so fictional/cartoon/model characters aren't eligible

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I detest Owen Wilson, the bendy-nosed prick.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

there are better Wilsons than him inc. Wilson from Dad's Army, Jocky Wilson Says and maybe the hot Wilson sister from Wilson Phillips.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

I want Brian Blessed to host a children's show, like Blue's Clues.

"Whaaat's THIS? a CLUUEE!?!?".

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Wrinklepaws

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

who the hell doesn't like phillip schofield?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Gordon the Gopher.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

Me, I detest the little fucker.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny Depp
George Clooney

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Both bastards.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Richard E Grant
Tommy Chong
David Jason

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'll veto David Jason for every crap ITV drama he's been involved in.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Giant Haystacks.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

He's dead, therefore ineligible.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, way to break it to me, Ailsa.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

i veto Richard E Grant

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

You should put that on a T-shirt.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

It was nearly ten years ago. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I too am often surprised by people being dead that died before the invention on ILE, which is my main source of dead celebrity news these days.

(xpost)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Julie Walters

― C J (C J), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone who thinks Richard E Grant is universally liked is as detached from the real world as someone who doesn't know who Jackie Chan is!

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

erm, fuck off?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Tom Baker
Michael Caine

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Michael Caine.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Not a lot of people know that.

― C J (C J), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Alan Alda

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody's rejected Wrinklepaws yet, do we have a winner?

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Lauren Laverne.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I want Brian Blessed to host a children's show, like Blue's Clues.
"Whaaat's THIS? a CLUUEE!?!?"

I would watch this.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Wrinklepaws disqualified (see rules).

Lots of people haven't been vetoed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Laverne vetoed here

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Are we any closer to a conclusion yet?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

yeah we're going for kylie and booting out tuomas. easiest way.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure how this will translate across the pond, but for the Americans...Walter Cronkite.
He's awesome.
Does Lex know who he is?

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Alan Alda seconded

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Veto Alan Alda.
Second Walter Cronkite.
Alternately I'd like to nominate Jon Stewart.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Veto Kylie! Sorry, but she's just too squeaky clean.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard of "Walter Kronkite", I think from a film that had Ben Stiller in it. Walter Skronkite more like.

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't heard of walter cronkite, no.

did anyone veto david attenborough? i thought that was a good choice.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

no one hates andy dick, right?

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

nathalie, obvs

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

oops

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus, am I right?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

he's alright with me

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

all religious icons vetoed!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

i thought he's dead

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh but he resurrected

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

but then went back to heaven (so died again kinda?)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Is Howard Cosell still alive?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Boxing commentator = he can fuck off.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._MacArthur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wellstone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Didion

― and what (ooo), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

errol morris

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

I nominate Peter Lorre

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

http://www.ncgub.net/Graphics/Daw%20Aung%20San%20Suu%20Kyi.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

i'll second didion (and i imagine some others would, too)

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Douglas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Braxe

― and what (ooo), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

how about david lynch?

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Bachelet

― and what (ooo), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin

― and what (ooo), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit i was gonna nominate david zucker but

Zucker, a longtime liberal Democrat, switched to the Republican Party in 2004 due to his concerns about national security and voted for President George W. Bush. A campaign contribution search shows his only contribution to the Republican party or candidates was a $2647 contribution to clubforgrowth.net, a website dedicated to hosting a few political videos including his initial anti-Kerry video. On Oct 10, 2006, The Drudge Report published a link to a political ad that Zucker produced which was featured on Youtube. The ad was intended for use by GOP organizations, but was considered somewhat controversial by GOP Strategists. In a quote from a Drudge Report exclusive:

In the ad, Zucker, producer of SCARY MOVIE 4, recreates former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's 2000 visit to North Korea. During the visit, Secretary Albright presented North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il with a basketball autographed by former NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

The actress, Adele Stasilli-Fernandez, playing Secretary Albright is shown presenting Kim Jong Il with the Michael Jordan basketball, painting the walls of Osama bin Laden's Afghanistan cave and turning a blind eye to suicide bombers. In one scene, her skirt rips as she changes the tire of a Middle Eastern dictator's limousine.

One GOP strategist said "jaws dropped" when the ad was first viewed. "Nobody could believe Zucker thought any political organization could use this ad. It makes a point, but it's way over the top."

― and what (ooo), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

david lynch doesnt have a chance in hell

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I was actually thinking that wasn't an answer to this, but dudes, Jim Henson!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

In order to solve this puzzle tried to think of someone who could turn his or her face into a heart. The closest I could come was Judge Reinhold, the actor.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

that there wasn't

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Me. Everybody likes me. RIGHT?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

sadly, Jim Henson is disqualified too.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

(I can hardly be called ILXor nowadays so Rule #2 doesn't apply. And maybe Rule #1 doesn't either -- how would YOU know, anyway?)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kropotkin

Friendly anarchist with cool beard.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Lemmy Kilmeister

Norm MacDonald

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

c'mon who doesn't like Peter Lorre?!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

a. Must be alive

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

oh sorry

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

alive in our hearts not being good enough?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

flat eric

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

i was going to say steve mcqueen but i forgot that he died.

Norm MacDonald

We found out a motnh or two ago there are people on here who hate norm macdonald with a passion.

i know. it makes no sense.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Lily Tomlin

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Dead people are so much easier to like than the living ones.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

this thread will never suceed. no matter who's name you say, someone's going to claim to hate them just to be an ass.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Vaclav Havel

NELSON MANDELA, beeyotches!

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I already nominated Nelson M! Do we take that as seconded?

If not, I second Lily Tomlin.

― surfer_stone_rosa (surfer_stone_rosa), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe someone doesn't like Alan Alda. No-one's vetoed Ewan McGregor yet either.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

alan alda talks too much

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

bob newhart?

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I like Alan Alda in M*A*S*H but beyond that I don't know a lot about him.

I saw him in a movie once asking for "a piece of burnt meat" so the ILX rare steak police won't like him.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

He's an excellent chat show guest, and just seems very very likeable and articulate (or, if you prefer, he talks too much)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

RZA

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Fozzie Bear

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

ailsa's smarter than me

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care for Kylie either BTW. A hearty second to Suu Kyi though.

Michael J. Fox? Surely even the Lex can't deny him despite him playing a guitar in Back to the Future. Chris Farley? (How far are you willing to take this "no comedians" thing, Lex?) Stevie Wonder? And I figure I'll throw this out, not knowing how long it'll last: Angelina Jolie.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh crap, I forgot about the "alive" thing wrt Farley. David Spade then?

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

I second, or third, Nelson Mandela.
And Aung San Suu Kyi.

If it was done by country, I think Cronkite would win here.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pacsignatures.com/online/image.php?productid=771

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Too eager to please.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Hogan = dud

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'll second Ewan McGregor, he was totally unpolished and wry and awesome in his motorcycle trip documentary.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

John Travolta? Dustin Hoffman? (No problem with Ewan McGregor either.)

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Luis Bunuel
Jean Renoir

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Mandela, aye
Cronkite, aye

NO SCIENTOLOGISTS

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Gob Bluth

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Howard Hesseman

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Anthony Bourdain

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

oh I never did actually nominate Alan Rickman here after it went accidentally to the other thread. him then.

veto Hoffman. not dislike, but not like either.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

hoffman seems like a prick.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

everyone likes lebron james, right?

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

I can get behind Lebron, his Nike commercials are great.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

I love Joan Didion, but not all ILXors do. there's a disagreement about her happening on ILB.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

~~Boxing commentator~~ Basketball player = he can fuck off.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

aye to MacGregor, Mandela, Didion, Cronkite (Bunuel and Renoir aren't both still alive are they?)

no fucking way to any athletes or scientologists

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

James Cromwell?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

former MN Vikings quarterback Tommy Kramer

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

I've never seen an Alan Rickman movie! He sounds cool though. I'm not sure I've ever read Joan Didion. I had to look up who Lebron James is. I don't follow basketball. I don't know whether that counts against him or not. I'll suggest Wayne Gretzky though.

(I like Mandela for the most part and am certainly glad apartheid fell. But ANC people did use some brutal tactics, which were openly endorsed by at least Winnie Mandela.)

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

dude, you haven't seen Harry Potters?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Nope.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

People seriously, it's Nelson Mandela.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Roméo Dallaire

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Sundar - check out his IMDB page and tell me again that you have never seen one of his movies. i have doubt.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dolly Parton

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

People seriously, it's Nelson Mandela.

Yeah, that works. My vote cast.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I checked his filmography before I made my comment. I don't see enough movies.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

horseshoe, some people (crazy, deranged people) don't like huge breasts.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

xpost (Alan Rickman's filmography, obv.)

Even evil breast-haters can't deny "Jolene," I hope.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

ewan macgregor = actor, he can fuck off too

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

but it costs a fortune to look that cheap!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

I like the concept of Dolly Parton better than the reality, usually.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

That concept (giant breasts that sing awesome songs) is pretty unfuckwithable, though.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

in reality she has big breasts and sings awesome songs! I love her.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

isn't it rumored that anyone from her hometown in Tennessee who wants to go to college gets the unofficial Dolly Parton scholarship?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

National hero, icon, and all that yes, but is Mandela actually likeable? Something about his "meet everyone remotely famous who comes to South Africa" irks me. He's even had Kate fucking Moss doing lines in his bog.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'll second Dolly Parton, at least until somone decides singers are like actors and can all fuck off regardless of individual merit.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

If it's a "worthiness" thread then yes but come on, we're made of lesser stuff than that!

I still can't see what's not to like about Jackie Chan.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

is Mandela actually likeable

I feel a little ridiculous saying this, considering his stature, but he's completely adorable.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i'm so sorry, i was just responding to the "athletes can fuck off" bit

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Well he does smile a lot.

xpost

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'll veto Mandela. Turning a blind eye while your mates and wife murder innocent people irrespective of how just your struggle is = dud.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, gear, I was just using "actors" as shorthand for "whole group of people" in general - I should have used "athletes" as well so as not to appear dismissive of a poster rather than a concept. My point, clumsy as it was, that dismissing whole groups of people = cheating slightly. In fact, Travolta nearly transcends the Scientology thing. Nearly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

I really didn't want to say it but, yeah, Nelson Mandela was married to someone who openly advocated necklacing. I want to get behind him (especially considering how trivial most of my nominations are) and I know I'm judging a desperate struggle against oppression from a position of privilege but he's not my first choice. I'll vote for Suu Kyi first.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

willy nelson

― estela (estela), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Vetoing someone because of stupid shit his spouse said while he was rotting in jail: C/D?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Classic

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

what's this with somebody not liking Brian Blessed? this is madness.

anyhoo,

Paul Reubens
Ric Flair
Luiz Guzman
Tracy Walters
J.D. Salinger
the Burger King
Edward James Olmos
Conan O Brien
Harrison Ford
Helen Mirren
La Parka
Jet Li
Chow Yun Fatt
Kyle Maclachan

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I love Agent Cooper, but Kyle MacLachlan kind of grosses me out these days.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I still can't see what's not to like about Jackie Chan.

You do a Pepsi Commercial = You can fuck off.

This venture seriously needs its own board if its going to be done effectivley.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

hoffman seems like a prick

I've heard quite the opposite, such as the time he was visiting friends who own a pub in Catterick and helped out in the bar as it was so busy.

Bourdain, no doubt a great chef but likeable? I don't think so.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Re: Dolly Parton -- I vote for her as well. I'm not sure of an unofficial scholarship for kids from Pigeon Forge, TN, but she's got the Imagination Library or something that gives lots of free books to little kids. Yay Dolly.

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

the prick was probably stealing their tips

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Vetoing someone because of stupid shit his spouse said while he was rotting in jail: C/D?

No, I'm vetoing him because of his involvement in Umkhonto we Sizwe or Spear of the Nation if you prefer.

If he's allowed then let's have Gerry Adams as well, why not.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Doubt it, there's no tipping in English pubs.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

paul reubens had that dicey underage erotica snafu w/jeffrey jones
ric flair seems like a douche
luiz guzman is one note
tracy walters? do you mean the actor tracey walter?
j.d. salinger: not enough info
the burger king: crepey
edward james olmos: keitel alleged he was child abuser, that's enough for me
conan o'brien: shames the irish
harrison ford: nice emoting, oldie
la parka: not sure what he has over other wrestlers
jet li: no jackie chan, then there'll be no jet li
kyle maclachlan: he seemed nice back in the early days, now he's kind of smarmy

i can't argue with chow yun fat or helen mirren

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

edward james olmos: keitel alleged he was child abuser, that's enough for me

seriously? that breaks my heart a little.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sure it was paranoid delusions, it was keitel. olmos alleged he was nuts, which is enough for me.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Bourdain is not likeable, but I figured he had some of that Howard Stern mojo going on. "Oh yeah, Bourdain, what an asshole -- he's great!"

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Pee-Wee Herman is one of my least favourite things ever.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I know enough about the history to weigh in properly on Mandela, but regarding the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, I don't think it's inherently ignoble to start up an armed resistance to an unjust regime.

xpost: re: Olmos, oh good.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

i'm afraid this is getting close to the point where someone like michael rapaport will win due to a split vote.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

(Note to self: don't ever read another thread like this again.)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Few phrases can make me cringe like the phrase "Howard Stern mojo" makes me cringe.

― researching ur life (grady), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I veto Michael Rapaport on behalf of Lili Taylor.

Also: Lili Taylor.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't veto Mandela per se (though aldo did, which is all it takes) but what was his stance on those kinds of tactics? (I am curious and don't know.) How aware was he of them?

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

i saw rapaport at a mcdonald's once. he talks just like that in real life. i kept waiting for him to punch a woman or something, but he didn't.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

la parka: not sure what he has over other wrestlers

he dresses like a fat skeleton

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it's inherently ignoble to start up an armed resistance to an unjust regime

With the benefit of hindsight and agreeing with the side who 'won', I can totally agree with you.

In which case I give you Gerry Adams.

Senior member of a violent terrorist organisation, who killed civiliansI don't think it's inherently ignoble to start up an armed resistance to an unjust regime. and the armed oppressor in similar orders of magnitude. Eschewed the active aspect to lead the political wing, while refusing to condemn the armed ones for killing civillians. Became an accepted and respected politician in the parliament he sought to destroy. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

xpost to Sundar - he was the man who actively exhorted the ANC to start violent struggle at the All-In African Conference of 1961. He modelled it on Irgun, who were completely indiscriminate who they killed.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I won't say he wasn't aware of them; I'm certain that's unrealistic. He did speak out against them even though he was originally arrested because he was running a (justified IMO) terrorist organization.

This thread is supposed to be "just a bit of fun" and I'm getting super worked up over it for no good reason. Also aldo's intervening xpost seems to have had characters stripped out of it by the HTML checker because chunks of it make no sense.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, if you're not reading because of what I've said, read my first post again: "irrespective of how just your struggle is". I am in no way saying he didn't do the right thing, but a fuck of a lot of innocent people (both black and white - I mean you don't blow up a factory without killing workers) died in the process.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure what part of any of my posts don't make sense Dan.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I see now. Remove the second "irrespective of how just your struggle is" and it works.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

I was actually looking at "Senior member of a violent terrorist organisation, who killed civiliansI don't think it's inherently ignoble to start up an armed resistance to an unjust regime. and the armed oppressor in similar orders of magnitude." which might be an accidental copy in a bad spot?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Mel Brooks?

no one's vetoed Lily Tomlin, tho I suspect there are Britishers who wouldn't know who she is.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh and I guess she's an "actor" and "comedian" OH NOES

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

You can say "The Lex", everyone else does.

(PS I'm over my little hissy fit and now have one (1) perspective.)

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

if I'd meant Lex I would've said "certain idiots"

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

she's annoying.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

Gob Bluth

-- stoked for the madness (crucial.bonu...), November 13th, 2006.

I was going to suggest Jason Bateman but I've been plugging that show FAR too much on here lately.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that was the bit I meant. Remove "I don't think it's inherently ignoble to start up an armed resistance to an unjust regime." and not what I said. Beer fingers, and not checking copying.

Anyway, I'm out.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

everyone likes brett favre, right? he's like a kid out there.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

heh. Tom Brady: this dude is so modest!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

fuck jocks

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

john peel

― ^@^ (map), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

a. Must be alive

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Matt Groening!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

he had that one hippie band play the closing credits live that time. bleargh.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

yo la tengo?

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

wait, everyone likes ice cube, right? Ice Cube practices what he preaches, he continues to live in South Central Los Angeles and he puts his money into projects that improve the neighborhood.

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

shitty rider

― ^@^ (map), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

I like Cube but 'cmon - Black Korea, Cave Bitch...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

were he alive still, phil hartman would've been a lock for this, i think

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

oooh what about little superstar

― ^@^ (map), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

COME ON PEOPLE
http://www.pcusa.org/today/archive/images/mrrogers.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Too eager to please.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Who he?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

a. Must be alive

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

who hates Mel Brooks?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

what about Joan Cusack?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

i like peter lorre

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Responsible for getting The Clash back on movie soundtracks = dud.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Joan? My eyes are fucked.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

I loathe Joan Cusack. Cannot fucking act, isn't all that attractive either. Not half as charming as her fans make her out to be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

no one's vetoed Lily Tomlin, tho I suspect there are Britishers who wouldn't know who she is.

That goes for about half the thread now (says the woman who nearly nominated Sid Waddell)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

linda lavin

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

YES

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

who hates Mel Brooks?

I worked on a movie once where we wanted to film on his street in Santa Monica and he didn't have the common courtesy, not to mention the professional courtesy, to try to work with us.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

bitch stole a coffee from me in the starbucks queue xpost

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Bob Newhart? Everybody here seems to love him (me too)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

he had that one hippie band play the closing credits live that time.

Sonic Youth

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

The people that some of you seem to think are "universally likable" are blowing my mind. Also, people who are dismissing entire segments of the population on the basis of their own personal neurosises and failures and insecurities can go fuck off (I see what you did there).

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

The fact that Matt Groening and Jason Bateman have just slid on by on this thread and NELSON MANDELA erupted an argument is also blowing my mind.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ally, Tom Brady was a joke!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

I second John Stewart. Also Joan Cusack. Do you non-Americans know and love them, too?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

el hadji diouf!

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Nelson Mandela. Too eager to please.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

IVAN FUCKING CAMPO

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

i like diouf based solely on what you've (gareth -xpost) said about him here and there.

DIOUF.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

brad dourif

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

You may want to do a *tiny* bit more research than that, geoff.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Monday, 13 November 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

The Daily Show is on a cable channel over here, and Joan Cusack's in some popular films, I believe.

Can't speak for anyone else, and I wouldn't go as far as loving them, but I like them both.

xpost - I veto Diouf on spitting and wife-beating, but Gareth does a good job of making him sound better than that

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

hating is much easier, eh? I bet we could easily agree on someone to hate.

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

yes i think so, nude spock

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

I do agree that some of what Nude Spock has done in the past is fairly objectionable, but 90% of his posts in the last several months have been pretty benign, so I don't always understand when certain longtime posters go all apoplectic at the mere sight of a Uri Frendimein or Butt Dickass post.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

visco
He is my african brother but since i know him as a very goog football player i never surport him because of his entire behaviou. So rude, ponporse, proud and all the bad conduct that will disgrase his family.Diouf say goodbye to sport.
Gareth J Jones Droylesden
It's a horrid thing he did, I was so reviled by it. Can this nasty man not be sent back to Senegal.

Ally McMinn Allerton
Does anyone think he actually has a problem ? Yes spitting is disgusting but it can become a habit, I started spitting at school when I was 12 and even now I spit through habit, it can be embarassing at times but I can't stop, so I catually feel sorry for El Haji in a way.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really understand why anyone goes all apopleptic on an internet msg board.

anyway I nominate, uh, Jonathon Winters (is he still alive?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.africafoot.com/album/albums/userpics/10003/diouf_senegal.jpg

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jake Gyllenhaal

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Statistically, based on the number of positive posts, I'd guess the two most popular guys on ILE are Boris Johnson and that dude from The Secret Machines. ^_^

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

JAKE GYLLENHAAL IS VRITUALLY THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF A DOUCHEBAG.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm vetoing Jon Stewart's smug face

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

But what about Jon Stewart's contrite shoulders?

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I just don't like his fake laugh when he overly humors a guest.

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

and what of his self-satisfied smirk?

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

JAKE GYLLENHAAL IS VRITUALLY THE TEXTBOOK DEFINITION OF A DOUCHEBAG.

Is it an open book test in Douchebaggery 101 or do you have to, you know, memorize shit and stuff?

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

wait a minute, did porkpie really veto some guy, but let dioufy pass?

― -- (688), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

doofus had already been vetoed I thought

I'm vetoing Campo too, on account he plays for Bolton and has shit hair

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

Gareth has never actually said anything about Diouf other than 'i think he is good' tho?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

James Burke
"Mr. Wizard" Don Herbert
Jonathan Katz
H. Jon Benjamin
Marcia Wallace

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Admirable, too. And spitting's a bit of a laugh. Diouf

xpost, obviously

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Joan Cusack? Did I miss something?

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

Bernie Mac
Will Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith
Vivica A. Fox
Kimberly Elise
John Legend
Dave Chappelle
Russell Simmons
Jay-Z
D.L. Hugley
Rashida Jones
Ellen Cleghorne
Tim Meadows
Maya Rudolph
Method Man
Dwayne Wade
Lebron James
Carnell Lake
Anfernee Hardaway
Magic Johnson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Muhammed Ali
George Foreman
Barack Obama
Deval Patrick
Cornell West
Henry Louis Gates
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Chinua Achebe
Terence Howard

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Admirable, too. And spitting's a bit of a laugh. Diouf
xpost, obviously

-- ailsa (ailsa.watso...) (webmail), Today 5:33 PM. (ailsa) (tracklink) (later)

youre like the anti-christ, where christ is me.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Cornell West

was in the dreadlocked starfleet command in the 2nd matrix movie, no go.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

Nona Gaye
Gina Torres
Audra McDonald
Cicely Tyson
Ving Rhames

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Those aren't my opinions. I was quoting Gareth.

xxpost

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

in my opinion, those were your opinions

― the Adversary (but, still, a friend of yours) (Uri Frendimein), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

(I was the one who vetoed Diouf for spitting and violence)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

Dave Chappelle should do it, no?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

actually, on the spitting I was paraphrasing Gareth, not quoting exactly. Still, I think Diouf is a horrible man, My actual opinion from that thread:

He's a lazy, thuggish, moronic, selfish man who isn't even that good a player. In what way is that good?
-- ailsa (ailsa_watson7...), March 12th, 2005 7:08 PM. (ailsa)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Bernie Mac - charlies angels 2, ugh
Will Smith - big ears
Jada Pinkett Smith - short
Vivica A. Fox - dancing with the stars
Kimberly Elise - no argument
John Legend - er
Dave Chappelle - awesome
Russell Simmons - no moguls on this list!
Jay-Z - linkin park
D.L. Hugley - that sitcom he did isn't so good
Rashida Jones - ok
Ellen Cleghorne - looks better when considering the current snl cast
Tim Meadows - the tim salmon of snl cast members
Maya Rudolph - she's alright
Method Man - i prefer redman
Dwayne Wade - he's no lebron
Lebron James - i nominmated him but i guess he's out because he's an athlete
Carnell Lake - ok
Anfernee Hardaway - i'd vote for little penny
Magic Johnson - adulterer!
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - weed
Muhammed Ali - ok
George Foreman - ok
Barack Obama - morbius: "he's a con artist!"
Deval Patrick - ok
Cornell West - the matrix films, no
Henry Louis Gates - ok
Toni Morrison - good
Maya Angelou - better
Chinua Achebe - ok
Terence Howard - yes

― gear (gear), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

Cornel West = too chummy with Tavis

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

Bernie Mac - eh, sure
Will Smith - no fucking way
Jada Pinkett Smith - absolutely not
Vivica A. Fox - no
Kimberly Elise - who?
John Legend - no
Dave Chappelle - yes
Russell Simmons - double yes
Jay-Z - eh
D.L. Hugley - nah
Rashida Jones - who?
Ellen Cleghorne - no
Tim Meadows - no way
Maya Rudolph - no
Method Man - sure. he seems kinda like a jerk though.
Dwayne Wade - who?
Lebron James - no
Carnell Lake - who?
Anfernee Hardaway - who?
Magic Johnson - maybe
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - YES (jock exception)
Muhammed Ali - is he still alive? if so, sure
George Foreman - nah
Barack Obama - no
Deval Patrick - who?
Cornell West - NO (rap albums are inexcusable)
Henry Louis Gates - no
Toni Morrison - maybe
Maya Angelou - so annoying
Chinua Achebe - no
Terence Howard - maybe

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

(gear - smoking weed disqualifies someone?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Maya Angelou"

bitch owes me money

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Having big ears disqualifies someone?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, I think Dave Chappelle is pretty hard to dislike.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

Toni Morrison - good
Maya Angelou - better

^^^ wtf

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

i vote for rita moreno or billie jean king. ANYONE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH RITA MORENO OR BILLIE JEAN KING!!!!?????

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

I love Rita Moreno.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Charles Barkley

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

Michael J Fox and Angelina Jolie have yet to be vetoed, unless someone vetoed all actors. Wayne Gretzky too, unless all athletes have been vetoed.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

anyone who says they have a problem with rita or billie is just being silly.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

wait, what about eartha kitt? who the hell hates eartha kitt?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't veto Michael J but I wouldn't say I actually LIKE him. Apart from the first BTTF movie, he's never been in anything that was really that great.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Light Of Day was awesome!

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

conner smedley.

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just thought of James Earl Jones, and then noticed that Mark C had nominated him way upthread. No one vetoed him. C'mon: JAMES EARL JONES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm down with Eartha.

Jolie is a buffoon.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

plus, he kinda had a little billie jean king thing going on in light of day:

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00004RYWR.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1132056191_.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

JEJ's cool. Best monologue in "Matewan".

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

it is good that ailsa likes dioufy too. i think people are slowly coming round

― -- (688), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

it really should be lebron james, guys

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Too eager to please.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

isnt james earl jones a republican

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

sold his soul to big telephone

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

joan jett!

― joan jett's actual real g/f (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

ooh good one!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

Rodney Bingenheimer! who wouldn't find him loveable?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've never heard of him but based on that name I love him already!

― Darramouss (Denton Price), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

he's the "Mayor of Sunset Strip"/longtime LA hanger-on/KROQ DJ/sad, aging hipster
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0230512/Ss/0230512/Rodcropped.jpg

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

fuck a imdb image

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0230512/Ss/0230512/Rodcropped.jpg

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

That's the coolest mayor ever! Ken Livingstone can go bollocks.

― Darramouss (Denton Price), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

patrick stewart

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

Patrick Stewart is 5'10". I don't like that height.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

JEJ is out for those fucking condescending cell phone ads.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

joan jett!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

Midge Ure

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

He's made a whole career out of being recognised as the one who didn't get any recognition for LiveAid, which is a bit twattish.

Jarvis Cocker?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

Jarvis is a LEGEND I love Pulp! I saw him on the tube once.

― Darramouss (Denton Price), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

The difficulties in this thread are numerous.

First, the figure must be 'known' to every ILxor, yet cannot be a member of our community. This one limitation alone reduces the possible candidates to 100% celebrities - entertainers, sports figures, politicians and their ilk. And only the most visible of these.

Next, we do not actually know any of these people. We know their reputations, their public faces, their public gaffes, their personas. It is all quite artificial and heavily mediated.

Although we may accurately enough know and admire their public accomplishments (or deplore them) our 'liking' for them can never have the slightest bit of depth or meaning. It only means we think they have a nice manner or a pleasant smile or something equally shallow - with pure imagination making up about 95% of the content of that 'liking'.

So, I nominate George W. Bush. He's one heckuva likeable guy, dontcha know? Folksy. Warm. Genuine. Not too stuck up. And not afraid of "hard work" either. I must have heard him praise "hard work" a million times! What's not to like?

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

THANKS FOR POINTING THAT ALL OUT

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, gbx, but getting caught up with celebrities is like having lots and lots of imaginary friends. Although this does make for some fabulous imaginary tea parties!

More tea, Cameron? And do tell me all about this, uh, kabbala, Madonna! Ooops! Did I pronounce that correctly? Ving, you bad boy, you were laughing at me weren't you? Be that way, you lug, I love you anyway!

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, gbx, but ~~getting caught up with celebrities~~ posting on ILx is like having lots and lots of imaginary friends.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

we need a tea party with all our greatest nominees:

Jackie Chan, Nelson Mandela, Brian Blessed.

We can film it and sell t-shirts, too!

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think when ilx moves i'm going to try that "hide out in the store after in closes" maneuver and slip away

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Not a very good analogy, gbx. When I post on ILx, actual people post back. My relationship with Nelson Mandela or Lily Tomlin is a bit more tenuous than that.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

Kim Grimstich!

― youn (youn), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

no canadians

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

For shame! And to think they call this place "I Love Everything"!

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny Cash

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

Walter Cronkite is still holding strong here.
Not a bad word about him has been posted.
Will he trump Mandela? It's a wait and see, folks.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not as fond of Mandela thanks to some nice things he said about Fidel in the late eighties and early nineties, but I won't protest.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

Judy Dench?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

i, not y.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, I think she's great, so screw you.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to ruin the fun, but I don't like Cronkite. He's gotten mighty self-righteous in his old age. Putting him on the same page with Mandela? Not even close.

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

but what about eartha kitt?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

i think rita moreno wins it all though. who hates rita moreno?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

How 'bout this fellow:

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/bryan-ferry.jpg

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago)

Not Eartha Kitt.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:24 (eighteen years ago)

how about christopher walken

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

luna, you hate eartha kitt?

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Judi Densch is great but her habit of showing up to deliver two lines in every movie produced over the past decade has become tiresome.

Stevie Wonder (herpes thing could be a bit of a liability)
Robert Wyatt (too red?)
Peter Falk?
Sean Connery?
John Waters?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

I don't hate her, but she ain't my favorite.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

I dislike rita moreno.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago)

muhammed ali is a good choice, probably.

sporty spice
robert crumb
kristin hersh

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:17 (eighteen years ago)

oh and surely no one truly hates gerald ford?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

muhammed ali is a good choice, probably.

Misogynist, opposed to interracial marriage, acted like a twat when he met Rocky Marciano.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 08:44 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I don't like religious icons.

What if that icon is wearing tits?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:13 (eighteen years ago)

Throw my vote in for Walken!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:35 (eighteen years ago)

Bruce Lee makes more sense than Jackie Chan

― spectra (spectra), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

but deadr.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to give the impression that I'm on her street team or anything (since I brought her up in the first place), but is there anyone who could have anything against Aung San Suu Kyi?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Considering that no-one has heard of her, no.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, but most people have heard of her, we just can't remember her name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

no-one hates robert crumb???

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago)

His new book contains a drawing of Air under the title "German musicians"

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago)

i would be shocked if anyone hadn't heard of aung san suu kyi!!!!!

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

I know! David Byrne's wife played her in a movie!

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago)

was she the chick in 'rush hour 2'?

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

i would be shocked if anyone hadn't heard of aung san suu kyi!!!!!

I wouldn't, though. She doesn't get out much.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'll veto Sean Connery on the grounds that he advocates domestic violence.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost: hahaha.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'll second Stevie Wonder, but I'd like to repeat - DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

I'm thinking along the lines of folk who I'll shed a tear for when they die.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

i don't care for either of those much. don't dislike particularly either but ech.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Gordon Honeycombe

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

don cheadle

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

I would be shocked if anyone hadn't heard of aung san suu kyi!!!!!

Yes but you do understand why you're unlikely to get a lot of support for the position of Arbitrar of Fame?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago)

lets face it, this isn't going to happen is it.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dan's list is screwed if there's a single racist on ILE (and you know what, I suspect there might be).

Noel Fielding, anyone?

I'd like to veto Angelina Jolie. She's insane, has terrible taste in men, makes poor films and is VASTLY overrated ion the looks department.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Not Noel Fielding. I am that person that doesn't like The Mighty Boosh. At all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

robert crumb hates himself

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Stephen Fry was never actually vetoed from what i can tell.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed got vetoed for having horrible feet! This is on a par with vetoing Jada Pinkett Smith for being too small!

Someone's going to veto Stephen Fry for smugness/stupid Twinings Tea adverts, aren't they?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:16 (eighteen years ago)

A bit harsh I suppose, but you have to see his feet. Seriously. You couldn't sit in the same room as someone with those feet.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

No, they're not. I might resurrect Barry if anyone says bad things about Stephen Fry.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

That person's not going to be me, btw, I'm just going by the spirit of the rest of thread.

GIS-ing for Brian Blessed feet doesn't do very much. I'm intrigued now. What films should I watch to witness this?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

stephen fry is a bit rubbish

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

~~stephen fry is a bit rubbish~~

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

stephen fry is really, really, really rubbish

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Blessed guest-presented City Hospital the other week when I was off work. They had a segment in which a podiatrist had a look at his feet - one assumes as an example of HOW FEET SHOULDN'T EVER LOOK.

He's had problems all his life with flat feet not ideal for someone who does so much walking. I think he also broke his feet in a parachute jump at some point. Anyway, they're seriously fucked up disfigured feet and it's frankly amazing that he managed to climb Everest (oldest man to do so and without oxygen!) on them.

I'm happy to unveto him as long as he keeps his boots on.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

i know you're busy RJG, but why/how?

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

i said elsewhere i think Fry does grate a bit as a presenter but not enough to be really unlikeable

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

stephen fry is a bit hack-y now and then.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Brian Blessed has never reached the summit of Everest - despite three attempts. For that - and for even trying in the first place - vetoed.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

You can't veto someone for TRYING to do something awesome! God, you lot are hard to please.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ok I was just being mean, I'll unveto my veto. (Though I still think trying to climb Everest is a massive dud.)

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Blessed's most veto-able thing is being Boss Nass in Star Wars.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha, I'm going to make everyone cave under pressure until Brian Blessed wins because he is awesome, bad feet and ridiculous ambitions aside.

(or maybe not)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

Gordon's alive?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

stephen fry; the stupid persons idea of a clever person innit (i nicked that from some x mas stocking filler thing)

― pscott (elwisty), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

o come on, for a mainstream tv presenter he is clever -- more so than, say, paxman or (especially) john humphreys.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

john humphrys is one of the worst

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

Estelle Getty, Colin Fry, Emma Bunton, Jake Shears. All nice inoffensive people surely?

I love Stephen Fry.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

fry is smug, yes, and sort of slimey, at times

he's fine, really, just a bit repellent

on the telly, he does (or is) what people want him to do (or be), probably

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Rodney Mullen - how could anyone hate Rodney?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

He is also likeable, clever or not. He's not elitist about his supposed intellectualism, I don't find him sneering or condescending, and he can be "clever" about anything from farting to neo-classicism, and witty with it.

No-one's claiming he's the greatest cleverest human being ever to have lived or anything, but within the limitations of this thread, he's a decent shout as someone I imagine it would be difficult to dislike. (xpost, unless you're RJG)

(xxpost haha, I thought about nominating Emma Bunton last night!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

The obvious winner is the girl form EastEnders on Strictly Come Dancing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/strictlycomedancing/contestants/louisa.shtml

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

No, she has no chin.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Are there two Jake Shears'?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody gonna veto Rodney Mullen?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Me. Skateboarders aren't proper people.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

(not really, I have no opinion either way, because i just had to look him up)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps Laurie is more likeable than Fry (if only for being a little less exposed)

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

He's gonna be vetoed by a crazed Daewon Song fan, anyway.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Laurie is almost God-like for House MD alone, but I'll veto him for that godawful Ben Elton movie about IVF treatment.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

inconceivable!

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, that was the book.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Baby! That was it! (the book was quite funny, the film a great big stinking heap of keech)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

So, do I win?

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

good point - that is the worst British film ever, and this is saying something. (xpost)

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Are there two Jake Shears'?
-- Andrew Farrell (afarrel...), November 14th, 2006.

haha otm

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: John Goodman

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Christopher Walken

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Bill Murray

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

i veto christopher walken because he was in that fatboy slim video which may have been a good video but it was a crap song and he is tainted by association

i veto john goodman because i don't know who he is

i veto bill murray because HE REALLY REALLY REALLY PISSES ME OFF

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

the presence of bill murray in a film is like this massive flashing warning sign that the film is going to be shit and of use only to men undergoing mid-life crises

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Ewan McGregor

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

oh well i'll veto him for goodness sake

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Vaclav Havel

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: bob newhart

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

Larger Than Life is not shit

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

You make Jackie sad! Look he's working for UNICEF and everything!

http://www.unicef.org/vietnam/delevering_specch_in_Phap_Van_pagoda.jpg

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

jackie chan is the BONO of martial arts! (except er good and stuff)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

bob newhart, john goodman - annoying sad sacks.

I was going to nominate Chappelle upthread but didn't want to cry when someone shot him down. Ilx is mean and I do love Dave so.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I second Dave Chappelle
Not vetoed: Lili Taylor

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Sally Thomsett!:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/images/400/manaboutthehouse.jpg

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

I love Ellen Degeneres

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Billie Jean King

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Joan Jett

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Actually she was vetoed.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: Peter Falk

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Not vetoed: don cheadle

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

jon did not give a reason for vetoing joan jett. (but this might make me cry as well)

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

There are others who weren't vetoed, but either I don't like them or I haven't heard of them.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

not being vetoed =! being liked

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Peter Falk seconded.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, it's Sally Thomsett. Lock thread.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Well, somebody's gotta speak up and say they don't like them.
I don't know who Sally Thomsett is.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

so far out of the people mentioned on this thread, still in the running, I like:

Peter Falk
Brian Blessed

The rest I do not like

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

barely know who Peter Falk is. Never heard of Brian Blessed.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Well, somebody's gotta speak up and say they don't like them.
I don't know who Sally Thomsett is.

No, no, it's done. It's Sally Thomsett. Well done, everybody.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

don't know who that is. Surely a prerequisite for liking someone is having heard of them

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

the presence of bill murray in a film is like this massive flashing warning sign that the film is going to be shit and of use only to men undergoing mid-life crises

What, even Ghostbusters?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.kambricrews.com/Photos/Mr.%20Barker%20001.jpg

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

sexual harrasser.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

dogs don't count as people.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Don Cheadle.

I mean c'mon people. Don Cheadle is a great guy and a quality actor and he didn't lead a nation of oppressed people to freedom, so he's probably not associated with bloodshed and political missteps, like Mandela and Gandhi (those bastards!).

C'mon. Don Cheadle.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

barely know who Peter Falk is

COLUMBO!!!!

Also teh kid's uncle or grandad or whatever in The Princess Bride.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I said barely.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

So, PJM, when exactly was it that you knew Thomsett had it "in the bag", so to speak?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Don Cheadle it is.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Check out that smile. You can't resist that smile:

http://www.cinemafusion.com/images/uploads/familypre2.jpg

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Paula Wilcox ffs!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

How about Lech Walesa?
I also heart Vaclav Havel.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Don Cheadle invented Skynet which plunged the world into machine vs man global conflict.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

No he didn't! Shit.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

that's a vote for, surely.

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

You're the kind of person that attacks soap opera actors on the street, aren't you.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Paula Wilcox? No, I say Toyah Wilcox.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Don Cheadle has not been vetoed because he is not Joe Morton.

Don Cheadle: not that other black dude.

This is the slogan that will cary him forward to victory.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Lech Walesa is a homophobe so I veto him. Vaclav Havel is a good call, quite probably one of the few politicians who'd have a chance, or will mark s veto him because of his love of Zappa?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who Sally Thomsett is.

Sally Thomsett is the one on the left.

I think I have always known it, Michael. It just took a while to come to the surface.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like him but Don Cheadle's shite accent in 'Ocean's Eleven' alone is enough to disqualify him.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I hope RZA wins.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Vaclav Havel then?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Bob Carolgees?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe people can nominate celebrities whose fame is a bit more transatlantic? (This goes for both USers and UKers.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

we only export unlikeable people to the States tho

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

i like rachel weisz

― benrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

joe morton >>>>>> don cheadle btw

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

joe morton
?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://blog.yam.com/emixe/2ab803e8.jpg

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Joe Morton
?

Other than Terminator 2, I've only seen him in Speed and Brother From Another Planet.

WTF with Blues Brothers 2000?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

joe morton was who mr.they-all-look-alike up there was confusing with don cheadle

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I can see this haunting me for a while.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Joe Morton was the voice of Darth Vader. Ledge?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

;_;

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Crying face is my favorite.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

peter falk it is.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait, jel "dud"ed cobumbo Columbo - S/D

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

clearly the answer is:

http://angryhamster.com/images/pictures/carrot_top3.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

haha, am glad i wasn't on this thread when beyonce was suggested.

maybe we should just try to find a cat that everyone on ile likes instead.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Nice big full screen picture for the boss walking past there - "Gerry, I'm not even going to ask!"

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes confusing two black actors can be a lot like confusing two white actors.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

THE COOKIE-EATING CAT

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

How about Laura Graham? Do you have Gilmore Girls over there?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

you hate on bee, emsk?

ilx is trippin'

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

bee = beyonce? YES she is dreadful, like mosquito buzzing around ear.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

:( just don't listen to her talk in interviews and you're okay. her voice is fantastic plus she's bootylicious. :)

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

NO, the voice is the worst part. the music is just meh, but the voice is horrible horrible. i've never heard her talk in an interview, just sing. i have no opinion on her bootyliciousness, i don't really mind what she looks like so long as i don't have to HEAR her.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Carrot Top seconded.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Berke Breathed
Charles Schultz
Garry Trudeau
Bill Watterson
Walt Kelly
Jack Kirby

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

i hate breathed

josh hates schultz

all rightwingers hate trudeau

some defensive ex-twee fuck will hate watterson

some ultramodernist contrarian nerd will hate on kirby

kelly is overrated

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Laura Graham?

Lauren! :)

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Schultz Kelley and Kirby are all dead.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

the next person who fingerwags at a post cuz it doesnt fit their lil rules is gonna end up ineligible for being dead

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Carrot Top still in the running!

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

The Gilmore Girls are just so wrong.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

oops, Lauren.
xpost
wrong?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe not wrong exactly, I just don't understand the appeal.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Gilmore Girls is one of the worst shows to ever curse my ears and eyes with its existence

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

the winner is BOB NEWHART people

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

No, it really isn't.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Do Bob Newhart people really exist, Like, say, a cult of people dedicated to Bob Newhart? That would be creepy.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

carrot top is a person?

i don't believe any of the kingfish names are real.

no one's vetoed vaclav havel yet anyway! i would support him winning.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Bill Watterson seconded!
http://www.linus.net/res/image/billwatterson.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

well up to now no one had dissed Bob (unless I missed something).

there is def. a cult of fans, check the threads on his shows.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Kamala

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I see in Lex's world artists/cartoonists are not "real"...

I can get with Watterson or Havel, but surely there's someone here who hates Calvin and Hobbes.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

(Ally what do you have against Newhart, besides the fact that I suggested him?)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I now know this much about Carrot Top and I'm voting for him too.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Carrot Top scares the shit out of me.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Wilford Brimley

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Uh oh. Is that a veto?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Carrot Top vetoed times a thousand

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Newhart sucks? What do you have against entire swaths of professions at a time?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

oh, I know, Hayao Miyazaki! (Unless Doris Lessing is an ILXor)

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I veto Hayao Miyazaki.

― Allyzay "Doris Lessing" Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

What about Schmoo?

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Are you Doris Lessing?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Miyazaki is a workaholic who neglected his family while he made all those fine films. REJECTED.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

i second watterson. if anyone hates him they can fuck right off.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Recluses make me nervous, but I won't veto Watterson outright.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Sergio Aragones?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I sure hope Watterson doesn't have big ears.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

"Newhart sucks? What do you have against entire swaths of professions at a time?"

honestly I've never heard anyone disparage Newhart here, so that's news to me. I have a hard time believing anyone could get THAT worked up about such a harmless guy but whatevs... as for my dismissal of an "entire swath of professions" there was only one profession I objected to and that was pro athletes and what can I say, they're by and large overpaid egotistical buffoons who contribute nothing to the common good and don't produce anything worthy of respect or admiration. I'm not impressed by physical feats nor do I get all jazzed about regional or brand-based competitiveness, which I guess is really the heart of it.

You might also note I made exceptions to this blanket "dismissal", but again whatevs...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone hates the Schmoo, I will punch them! If nothing else he is useful.

http://www.designat639.com/Photos/Schmoo-family.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Watterson is good, too. No Walt Kelly tho.

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

i don't believe any of the kingfish names are real.

christ, we're into some marissa territory here.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

Charles Schulz, c'mon you made that up! Did he have a mother and shit like that?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

phil-two!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starting to think we could trim the list of nominees considerably if we just narrow it down to the 10 people Lex acknowledges existing.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

(actually apart from Paris Hilton I have no idea who Lex is aware of)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

We just did a whole thread about that, bucky: NEW FUN ILX GAME: Guess people Lex has heard of

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

(Actually, I'm with the Lex in being a little shocked that people think Suu Kyi is unheard of. Didn't notice Shakey's "Paris Hilton" comment before I made my post to the other Lex thread though. I feel a little bad now.)

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

Surely Watterson is ultimately to blame for those stickers of calvin peeing and/or praying. Vetoed.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

not vetoed!

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/grimstitch/ilx/alanrickman.gif

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! No one's vetoed Johnny Cash, and I'd be curious to hear a good reason for vetoing him that doesn't have anything to do with Rick Rubin, Walk the Line, etc...

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

i veto him because willie nelson is a better pick

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

Pfft, not even close.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

doesnt everybody like stet

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

Can I nominate a fictional character? Surely everyone loves Amelie!

http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/media/141/20060524-amelie.jpg

― lick_my_stereolabia (nariposa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

"Carrot Top vetoed times a thousand"

AWWWW MAN!!!!

http://www.spynotebook.org/bonnie/archives/pictures/2005/12/carrotstump.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

I seriously hate Amelie.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

That weirdo is under the impression he's good-looking, isn't he?

― Totally Different Guy Now (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago)

I seriously hate Amelie.

-- horseshoe (rosalind51...) (webmail), November 14th, 2006 11:53 PM. (horseshoe) (later) (link)

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hello! No one's vetoed Johnny Cash, and I'd be curious to hear a good reason for vetoing him that doesn't have anything to do with Rick Rubin, Walk the Line, etc...

a. Must be alive

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hayao Miyazaki?

fuck that shit.

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

if not walt kelly how about Lorraine Kelly?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

lorraine kelly's epic lunch story makes her impossible to veto. i aspire to beat that.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think we have to unveto Watterson - he has railed loudly and at length against the bumper stickers (and any other abuse of his copyright) - you could just as soon veto any creative person for other people's bastardisation of their work.

Actually, Watterson's sanctimoniousness about copyright theft is probably THE most objectionable (albeit justifiable) thing about him. Not enough for a veto, though. That tache, on the other hand...

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

WOO SPORTS! Carrot Top for teh win! Bulls Basketball! WHY ARE WE SO BAD? WAAH!

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

Watterson's cuddlicious in front of the fire at Christmastime "I BOUGHT YOU A HUG!" strips merit a veto.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

peter cook!

― benrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

a. Must be alive

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

They vote and they vote and they vote, but the winner is Sally Thomsett.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ol' Man Mose vetoes Schmoo

Ol' Man Mose: "Shmoos is the greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has evah known."

Li'l Abner: "Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?"

Ol' Man Mose: "No, stupid, It's because they're so good!"

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I liked Amelie but I was under the impression that it raise people's hackles big-time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Chris Morris, anyone? Or is Victor Lewis-Smith a secret ILXor?

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

lorraine kelly's epic lunch story makes her impossible to veto

What is this story? How can anyone not like her?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

gary lineker

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

veto havel for obvious reasons (pretending to be human-rights campaigner/dissident in order to slip zappa-love under radar)

veto cash: shot a man in reno just to watch him die

veto amelie: looks like mr bean

veto mr bean: looks like amelie

veto thomsett: teh cute = teh suXoR >:(

veto kirby: in my role as ultramod contrarian nerd

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

lorraine kelly is TOO nice/broing

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

veto lineker: by many accounts a bit of a twat, too smug by half, good football presenter but HOPELESS golf presenter, messy divorce, etc.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

*coils in blueski's head reaching elastic limit*

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

nobody said they had a problem with billie jean king!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

except the lex probably doesn't know who she is.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

veto billie jean king = not my lover*

*OPEN GOAL I DO WHAT MY MUSE TELLS ME

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, she's a tennis player, he'll know. Except she's old, so he might not.

Is she not vetoed on the "all sports stars are vetoed" ruling?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

okay, everyone must like that guy who plays Grissom in CSI, william peterson is it?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of CSI, I have a girlcrush on Jorja Fox. Any of you contrarian mofos not like her?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

jorja fox= rowr but she's no vanessa ferlito

(that's not a veto) (and plus grissom is still up also for me = k-rowr x 10000000)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

best name ever.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

best gap ever.

http://webfantasy.info/Images/Webrings/ringlogo_Jorja_Fox.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

i second grissom or jorja. or third them. and second the rowr factor.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

No-one has said Mark E Smith on this thread?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

veto thomsett: teh cute = teh suXoR >:(

My mouth is opening and closing, but no sound is coming out.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

worst gap ever.

http://criticalbeatdowns.com/amar/mark_e_smith.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

(blimey vanessa ferlito's on-line imagebank is tarty)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://criticalbeatdowns.com/amar/mark_e_smith.jpg

'Am I Hot or Not?'

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

you so want him billy

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Jorja's lovely but I do think of her as a forensically-minded Thomsett.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

I veto Alan Rickman for "Truly, Madly, Deeply"

BJ King gets a pass from me, she was cool.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost

9/10

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jorja vetoed for really wooden acting in The West Wing.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Powderpuff Girls!

(on the computer next to mine)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

shit, i forgot no cartoonz

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

I like J.P. McEnroe.

― the pinefox (the pinefox), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's Powerpuff, ins't it?

I like McEnroe too.

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

it's isn't it, isn't it?

― ONIMO feels teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

It is.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

It is indeed The Powerpuff Girls.

I learn something every day.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Surely none of you would veto Stephen Hawking?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

I would. He nicked my parking space once. Bastard.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I've never understood the appeal of the Fall.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone veto Ellen Degeneres?

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stand Hawking. smug, pedantic, not to mention a philanderer.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

veto hawking: ~~dumped long-suffering wife for sexy nurse~~ made obscure claim about nature of black holes which he later rescinded rather truculently

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

I veto Ellen too (sorry). Terrible comedienne.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

lorraine kelly's epic lunch story makes her impossible to veto

What is this story? How can anyone not like her?

started lunch at the normal hour, it ended at 4am, she shook herself down and headed to the gmtv studios to begin her working day. CLASSIC.

i should veto ellen degeneres under the no-comedians veto but i don't mind her really.

of course i've heard of billie jean king! i think she's a mental control freak egotist who's let herself get so out of shape that her nickname on these tennis boards i used to post on is burger king. BUT i am not going to veto her because all tennis players are like members of my family i slag off all the time but will ultimately defend outside tennis circles. note that this does not apply to actual members of my family

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

also billie jean king looks remarkably like elton john these days

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

David Hasselhoff
Mick Foley

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Meatloaf, as a dude, even if you don't dig his tunes.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ornaldo Bloomps

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

i veto him because willie nelson is a better pick
-- gear (speed.to.roa...) (webmail), November 14th, 2006 6:52 PM. (later) (link)

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Pfft, not even close.
-- shookout

a better choice because he's ALIVE. also: a better musician and songwriter.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

i nominate:

roger federer
steffi graf
elena dementieva
cate blanchett
diane abbott
christina ricci

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

cathy freeman!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

MICHELLE KWAN

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

can't stick tennis dudes, soory.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

they have to be real people

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ornaldo Bloomps

jel wins the thread

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Catherine Keener!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

xxxpost

I veto Hasselhoff's hair
I hadn't heard of Mick Foley until now, thus vetoed
Sadly, Meatloaf vetoed, too, because I feel repulsion when I look at his picture.
I suspect that Ornaldo Bloomps is not a real person - vetoed

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Catherine Keener is totally going to win.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

there's nothing that says they have to be real :)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ricci and Keener = ew

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Catherine Keener?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I brought that on myself.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot believe this thread is still going. IT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK!

Christina Ricci didn't know the Beastie Boys had made a record before Paul's Boutique.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

OJ Simpson!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot believe this thread is still going. IT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK!

there are still loads of unvetoed people! vaclav havel, aung san suu kyi just off the top of my head.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

and i haven't even nominated paris hilton because it'd be unfair to everyone else, she'd walk it surely

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

You're all forgetting one thing: Mary Louise Parker.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

She's actually David Duke in drag. Veto.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have anything against Mary Louise Parker, but I don't get her supposed beauty.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm down with Aung. Havel was vetoed (perhaps jokingly) for his Zappa love.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

don't know aung.

am ambivalent towards MLP.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Mary Louise Parker because I hated Amy Gardner in the West Wing (see West Wing threads passim)

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Stephen Colbert!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Amy Gardner is really more Aaron Sorkin's fault than Mary Louise Parker's, to be fair.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

She's actually David Duke in drag. Veto.

um... explain.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

there must be someone who doesn't like Colbert (not me though!)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but looking at MLP's face makes me think Amy Gardner and go grrrr, so vetoed.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

As someone said upthread, it would probably be possible to find someone we all dislike. Like is ~~hard~~ impossible.

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Mick Foley is a bad parent and a fucking carny.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

haha re hawking veto: proof that the occasional crackle between me and shakey is that we are SECRETLY THE SAME PERSON!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

He really did nick my parking space. Bastard.

Everyone loves Maggie Gyllenhaal, don't they?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

You're scaring me.

x-post

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Stan Lee

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I find both Gyllenhaal siblings to be terribly unappealing.
-- tokyo rosemary (rosemarygilber...), September 10th, 2003 2:03 AM. (rosemary) (link)
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I'm w/ rosemary.
-- RJG (r_gillander...), September 10th, 2003 2:50 AM. (RJG) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc, seriously, dude, how do you do this stuff?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

That one wasn't that hard. I remembered there was a Maggie Gyllenhaal thread I posted on a while back that got contentious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

"Stan Lee

-- kingfish prætor (jdsalmo...), November 15th, 2006."

I assume this is a joke.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.spopre.com/baseball/mlb05_02/images/ichiro.gif

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

I like Taye Diggs right now, but only because L O S T isn't on.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

This thread is depressing.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

What's not to like about Johnny Depp?

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 16 November 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago)

Thread seems to be dying but..Catherine Keener is a good one.

Also jel vetoed Peter Falk on the Columbo tread not this one so I think that's still pretty good.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I did?

But yeah, can't stand Columbo.

There will never be consensus, and that's the way things should always be.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

it looks like Aung is the winner to me.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know him so therefore cannot like him.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

her.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody's vetoed Kamala yet, Kamala wins, lock thread.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

i wish don knotts was alive so he could win this thread hands down

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

Surely everyone loves Amelie!

you haven't been here long, have you!

― wordy rappinghood (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Tim Conway?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

i.e., least funniest act in The Aristocrats? No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

Not Tim Conway. What about Carol Burnett?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

Or Lily Tomlin?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

Andy Richter?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

ooh.. good one. But maybe vetoed because he left Conan and that was dumm.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

anyone even tangentially related to the world of comedy is doomed to failure as i HATE THEM ALL.

-- The Lex (alex.macpherso...), November 13th, 2006 10:53 AM. (The Lex) (later)

I think we're losing a lot on this blanket veto...

(also cue lots of Britishers going "who's Andy Richter/Carol Burnett/A N Other American TV show person that doesn't have a show that goes out over here)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

I think Lily Tomlin was vetoed way upthread, Kenan. Don't remember why.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

Presumably for being tangentially related to the world of comedy.

(stop kidding on you haven't memorised this entire thread...)

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

(where by "thread", I mean "board")

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

Presumably for being tangentially related to the world of comedy.

That's also dumm. Lily Tomlin is great. You know what's a killer movie? 9 to 5.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

nobody vetoed Lily, unless you count Lex's blanket veto (which I don't think is fair in this case as Lily is not really a comedienne, more of an actress/monologist)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

You want to reason with The Lex about it, fine. I'm still smarting that Brian Blessed is out due to having horrible feet!

(No-one's vetoed Ewan McGregor yet and I heart him due to him having a lovely voice and riding round the world on a motorbike for a laugh and being in Shallow Grave)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm allright with Ewan (Lipstick on Your Collar!!!) but I'd be surprised if someone didn't veto him for his collusion with the execrable Star Wars franchise

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah. I've never seen ANY Star Wars films, so that can't ruin him for me.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I've finally seen that clip of Brian Blessed's horrible feet and it immediately made me think of this thread. I take back everything I said about jaymc.xls upthread :-/

― ailsa, Monday, 23 July 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

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