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-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)
― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)
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)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)
2) Frank Sinatra
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-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)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)
Blatent Gangsta.
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)
― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)
Next candidate?
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)
― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)
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-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)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)
His copy right thuggery seems pretty old school gangster, I agree.
― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)
― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)
1. Gangsta by unanimous vote2. Not-Gangsta 3. Gangsta
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)
― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)
- 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)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)