Best/Worst Person to come out of your country. (4 Viewers)

[cuore]

I got the idea from the "worst thing about your country" thread. Someone mentioned Jean claude van dame there.

anyways, in my opinion, the best celebrity to come out of Canada is Neil Young. And the worst would have to be Celine Dion.

actually there are quite alot of good canadians. Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Pamela Anderson, and the list goes on.

 

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[Zlatan]

Pamela Anderson is Canadian? I'll never be able to look at her naked body again!!!

 

[mikhail]

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Pamela Anderson is Canadian? I'll never be able to look at her naked body again

Clothed is another matter, right?

If we're strictly going with celebrities, I guess Bob Geldoff or Bono top the Irish good guys poll. Whatever you think of them, they've made genuine efforts to get third world debt cancelled. Bono even made some good music in his time!

Not sure about worst celebrity. Maybe Shane McGowen or Sinead O'Connor. Also, various Eurovision entries, though that's true of most countries in Europe.

 

[swag]

++ [ originally posted by Zlatan ] ++
Pamela Anderson is Canadian? I'll never be able to look at her naked body again!!!

Actually, I don't think anyone is physically able to look at her naked body anymore... not since it became covered with a mountain of silicone.

 

[Chxta]

 

[Zlatan]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

Clothed is another matter, right?

If we're strictly going with celebrities, I guess Bob Geldoff or Bono top the Irish good guys poll. Whatever you think of them, they've made genuine efforts to get third world debt cancelled. Bono even made some good music in his time!

Not sure about worst celebrity. Maybe Shane McGowen or Sinead O'Connor. Also, various Eurovision entries, though that's true of most countries in Europe.

Come on man, be serious, when have you had the chance to see her with her clothes on?

 

[Slagathor]

We don't really export our famous people so unless you people happen to know a famous Dutch person you love or hate... I'm not getting anywhere.

EDIT: Maybe Cruyff as best? Or Rembrandt or Van Gogh in the artist area.

 

[mikhail]

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We don't really export our famous people so unless you people happen to know a famous Dutch person you love or hate... I'm not getting anywhere.

I hate the Dutch Eurovision entry. I don't think I watched the last Eurovision, but I'm pretty sure that's true anyway.

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++
I hate the Dutch Eurovision entry. I don't think I watched the last Eurovision, but I'm pretty sure that's true anyway.

entrIES

They all suck

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
entrIES

They all suck

You see? If you look hard enough, there are people you hate everywhere!

 

[Max]

I would say the best person to come out of Canada would be Pierre Trudeau. The worst would have to be Celine Dion, that Vegas whore!

 

[Chxta]

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Come on man, be serious, when have you had the chance to see her with her clothes on?

I can see that you nwokem are a big Pamela fan...

 

[mikhail]

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nwokem

 

[swag]

My votes?

Best person to come out of the U.S.: Richard Feynman.

Worst: J. Edgar Hoover

 

[Slagathor]

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You see? If you look hard enough, there are people you hate everywhere!

True. Although there weren't may Dutch entries though - only every other year cause when you finish too low they won't let you participate the following year

 

[mikhail]

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My votes?

Best person to come out of the U.S.: Richard Feynman.

Worst: J. Edgar Hoover

Feynman is a nice choice. Hoover wouldn't have struck me as an obvious candidate. Surely McCarthy is a better candidate in the same mould?

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True. Although there weren't may Dutch entries though - only every other year cause when you finish too low they won't let you participate the following year

that's a recent innovation. Ireland's fallen into that category too!

 

[swag]

++ [ originally posted by mikhail ] ++

Feynman is a nice choice. Hoover wouldn't have struck me as an obvious candidate. Surely McCarthy is a better candidate in the same mould?

Not to diminish the effects of HUAC and all. But I lump McCarthy into the same mold as the segregationist policies of Huey Long and Strom Thurmond for that matter. Not that it makes their actions any less criminal, but there it was more about adopting criminal policies to stoke fear in the public for the primary purpose of personal popularity and re-election.

Hoover was more about abusing political structures and power to thwart and suppress opposition, which was more of an abuse/a subversive power grab.

 

[Slagathor]

Really? Well well well seems everybody is kneeling to Estonia

 

[mikhail]

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Hoover was more about abusing political structures and power to thwart and suppress opposition, which was more of an abuse/a subversive power grab.

Really? I have to admit, I don't know much about him, beyond his role in essentially marketing the FBI to the public. What kinds of abuses are we talking about here (or can you tell me without having to live in fear of mysterious callers in the night!)?

 

[swag]

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Really? I have to admit, I don't know much about him, beyond his role in essentially marketing the FBI to the public. What kinds of abuses are we talking about here (or can you tell me without having to live in fear of mysterious callers in the night!)?

Well, whereas McCarthy was in the position of the accuser for things like HUAC, Hoover was set up as the evidence-gatherer and set up man.

Organized crime flourished under his reign. He even denied its existence. And no one dared to remove him from office.

Here's some reading up:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/j-edgar-hoover/