BEFORE YOU CLICK ON THIS THREAD - DON'T ANALYSE - Think about the words "The Two Most Important People In the World" right now - what were the first two people that appeared in your mind? Post them!

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Oh man.

I got
http://www.hotandcoldplay.com/cp-photo-01.jpg
Chris Martin

http://www.mondiale.co.uk/night/news/newspics/MarkLamarr.GIF
Mark Lamarr

WTF?? :(

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF indeed. I had My Wife, and then "The kids" which I obviously could not choose between, so cannot....

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Bush and Gates, i've been watching the news alot.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Joseph Stalin and Tinky Winky.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think my mind's eye needs new glasses.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bush and... Colin Powell. I am so square.

― NRQ, Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenny Everett
me

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

my husband and my mum

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, vicky! That's exactly what i thought except in the opposite order.

― kate/baby loves headrub (papa november), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono and X-Pac

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason my brain stuck an extra two words in the question - "the two most important people in the world right now to you

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

me too.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

First picture caption :

"Ah ha ha ha I'm feeding Geese! Ah ha ha ha ha!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Curt Schilling
David Ortiz

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Howard Devoto and Ben Stiller.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

myself and the next person I meet.

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bono and X-Pac

It didn't say 'self-important', Dom.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Vicky, same here.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 March 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Wife & son.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm glad people are interpreting "the two most important people in the world" in different ways. This was part of the intention as I was interested to see how different people set different criteria for importance.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i just had a photo of bush and powell in my head, the two of them together. i didn't think in terms of 'important to me'.

― NRQ, Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Hannibal Smith and Colonel Decker. The eternal struggle.

― Webb Friendly (Webb Friendly), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Me too with the 'to you' part. That's a point proved there then.

Any psychology students wanting to use this thread as part of their own dissertations should be aware that it is copyrighted, and permission will cost beee money.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://archiv.radio.cz/nato/fotogalerie1/bush.jpg
and
http://www.sapientum.com/Team%20America%207.jpg
(and I really did think of the puppet)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason my brain stuck an extra two words in the question - "the two most important people in the world right now to you

yeah, me too.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

(I wonder what me thinking of the puppet kim jong il rather than a real dictator means anything? or maybe it doesn't? analysis, anyone?)

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Wife and daughter

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/News/July04/JessicaSimpson_NickLachey_150x200.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still amazed about Mark Lamarr, Ken.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Brother and ... cat.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It was so strange, there was no reason for it, i wanted to think of two people and then there it was, Mark Lamarr!!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I only had the one, my friend Cal. My mind exploded trying to get a second

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, wife and one of our cats to me too! because they are sitting together in the other room.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and my girlfriend - God, I'm so self-centered!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

girlfriend, mother

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

first one possibly a bit premature since it's only as of 2 weeks, but that's what came up.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

prince charles and princess di. thats fucking weird.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/1101/112601putinvladimirbushgeorgew2.jpg
I think I must have added "political" to the question, subliminally.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Putin's looking kind of hot there.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I got Bush and Karl Rove.

It never in a thousand years would have occurred to me to answer this question with a family member or loved one. (They have a lot less to do with the ecumenical flow of currency.) I wonder what that says about me.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Rove and Cheney.

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The first thing that came into my head was that the most important person would be the great Democratic or leftist force of hope in America. Then I realized there wasn't such a person, though my brain briefly toyed with the idea of Obama and Bill Clinton. So I guess I'm stuck with a placeholder.

Oh, and my Mom, for the other one. But that also took a while to think of. I wonder if my brain is defective.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that probably counts as analyzing. I'm not sure I know how not to, though.

― Fa Fa fa FA, Fa fa Fa fa FA Fa (poop), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom, brother and boyfriend all appeared at the same time.

poop, Howared Dean?

kenan, that you're an ass. ;)

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Roxymuzak, you are right- Putin is looking kind of fine in that photo. Who'da thunk it?

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah if it's between him and bush you're gonna go with him, you'd be better off at least he knows where to put in.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

you're gonna have to go with him.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I analyzed. Sorry.

http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/archives/14/04/kandel.gif
http://www.foreigncorrespondents.org/NewsLetters/novDec2003/5hobush.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

explain the analysis.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The more Putin looks like Brian Eno, the better.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

george bush

and

50 cent

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of Michael Jackson & George Bush

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I instantly thought "Big Baby Jesus" and "Jessica Simpson."

I know, I know, I know.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and myself. (The 'I' was implicit.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 March 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I originally read that as "Two Most Beautiful...", which kickstarted the US Weekly/People Magazine impulse latent in us all:

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in happier days

― kingfish, Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://web.utk.edu/~scheb/rehnquist.jpg
http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/ce/Dec/SimonCowell_150.jpg

― Aaron A., Thursday, 3 March 2005 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

My boy and my cat. Hey, *she* thinks she's people!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Bush and Bin Laden.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

these guys:
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― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Pryor and Jacques Cousteau?

Thanks brain!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

george bush and brett anderson

― elwisty (elwisty), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You can be the president..
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:QPbt17Swsi4J:www.usofficepristina.rpo.at/images6/bush1.jpg

I'd rather be the Pope..
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:JjD8j8_2EQ4J:www.campbellcounty.com/~ourlady/images/Pope%2520John%2520Paul%2520II%2520In%2520Prayer.jpg

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither one can talk coherently.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

VIGGO MORTENSEN
NOAM CHOMSKY

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You can be the President
http://www.abcdrduson.com/images/pochette/drdre-chron.jpg

I'd rather be the Pope
http://cover09.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/130/135213.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

(works even better with the "side effect"/"dope" lyrics)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of my Mom & Pop!

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 March 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I also thought of Mom in answering the question. Second person? I would have to say this one ILXor who just called me up and who's been there for me even when I haven't been there for me. She's also the same person who magically made Valentine's Day all right for bitter ol' me. Yay for fabulous friendships!

On a wholly nonpersonal scale: George W Bush and Bill Gates.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 4 March 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought of David Bowie and Edwyn Collins, because they've both had health problems recently.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 4 March 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Rocky and Bullwinkle, but they were disqualified for not being people.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 4 March 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mahmoud Abbas and Christo??? I hate my brain right now.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Judging by this thread ILX would totally suck at Family Feud.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 4 March 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Elton John and MC Hammer...

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 5 March 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like a decent thread to find out peoples' passwords and shit, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, 5 March 2005 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Sister and girlfriend, in that order. I didn't surprise myself.

― Matt (Matt), Saturday, 5 March 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

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