Time to play: "Gangsta / Not-Gangsta"!

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1. Dr. Ruth

http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/images/guests/2004/ruth140.jpg

-Brought frank educational talk about sex to U.S. airwaves
-Became an Reagan-era icon, and a good counterpoint to Ed Meese
-Reportedly trained as a young woman in the Czech resistance against the Nazis. Claimed to be able to assemble a rifle blindfolded.
-Subject of a "Quantum Leap" episode, where she got to psychoanalyze Al.

So, ILX, what is your vote? "Gangsta," or "Not-Gangsta"?

I vote "Gangsta."

More vote topics forthcoming.

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

O.G.

matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Okay, that's 2 votes for Gangsta, 0 votes for non-Gangsta.

Any more votes before we move on to the next candidate? Any suggestions for candidates?

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Frank Sinatra.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Noted Mafia associate = not gangsta.

n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

okay, fair enough.

2) Frank Sinatra

http://www.sixtiescity.com/Events/Images/misc068.jpg

-Started as a cute pop star in the '40s, became Vegas icon
-Shared Marilyn Monroe with JFK/RFK, and Nancy Reagan with Ronnie(the "Anti-Jack").
-good actor, tho not always the best at picking scripts
-Had beef with Sinead O'Connor, giving great fuel to the Phil Hartman/Jan Hooks sketches.

Note that Gangsta and gangster are two different things, not that i'm saying anything.

so! Gangsta / Non-Gangsta

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kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Totally not gangsta.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Sang that he got "no kick from cocaine" = not gangsta.

Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

http://photos23.flickr.com/25962545_517ee4423e.jpg?v=0

Blatent Gangsta.

tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Despite being dead (which is pretty gangsta: ask biggie) there's no way this guy's gangsta.

matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so far a unanimous vote for Not Gangsta.

Next candidate?

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

L. Ron Hubbard

matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

3. Elrond Hubbard

http://www.100percentdrugfree.org/img/l-ron-hubbard.jpg

-Started up Scientology on a drunken bet with Robert Heinlein on who could dupe the most folks into a sci-religion. Later on that night, made another bet as to which could snort lines off of the most strippers' asses.
-Trained young Tom Cruise in the ways of the Force from his exile on the swamp planet of Huntington Beach
-Wrote "the Epsilon Tract"

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

This is fun.

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Old school gangsta, more Carlo Gambino than Supreme.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Getting fithy rich by making up a religion and convincing rich and famous people to join seems pretty Gangsta, but his books... they do not impress me.

His copy right thuggery seems pretty old school gangster, I agree.

pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

O.G.

matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

so far:

1. Gangsta by unanimous vote
2. Not-Gangsta
3. Gangsta

kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

westheimer is gangsta, sinatra not-so-gangsta (except for making sure sammy davis got treated like a gangsta, that was cool), and elron i'm undecided on, although it is pretty nifty to watch every celeb in hollywood have a nervous breakdown at the exact same time.

the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Who's our next candidate?

kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/pres-etab/Charlema/Bac9euro/dossier1/images%5Callemagne%5Chitler.jpg

- Killed A LOT of people

- Was a originally a painter

- Had one ball; the other possibly lost in battle... or from VD.

Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

enh, not gangsta

kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)


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