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"Your Idol(s)"

Im talking about great people here everybody, not the tweenies cos there furry or anything like that...

Mine would me

Nelson Mandela - His beliefs and how he stood up for them
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) - He wasn't afraid to be himself
Che Guevara - He was an inspiring revolutionary
Tony Hawk - Hes got guts and is all about youth and risk

All these men are/were GREAT in many peoples opinions.

They stand for what I stand for.

I respect them.

Idolize is too strong a word, but Kenneth White - a poet who scribbles about solitude and peculiar stuff

"A waant ma hole
a waant ma hole
a waant ma hole-idays
tae see the c*nt
tae see the c*nt
tae see the c*nt-ery
fu'cu-
fu'cu-
fu'curiosity."

Berk from Trap Door. Was never afraid of what would come up from the depths of hell every episode, and managed to keep his sanity with only a talking skull and a yellow frog for company, while still keeping his master happy.

And besides, he looks far too cool.

Stephen Hawking for his athletic prowess.
Venus Williams for her ability to make me laugh.
Eric Morecambe his theories on physics, time and the universe.

Handy man wrote:

Tony Hawk - Hes got guts and is all about youth and risk
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I thought he was all about 3-QuarterLength shorts and annoying respectable old people?

I don't idolise anyone. I see no reason to.

Kermit The Frog – he had the guts to go with his heart. People told him frogs and pigs were not meant to be together, but he ignored such people and went with his feelings without a care for what people thought of him. He even managed to keep his job in the entertainment field going. I salute him.

Interesting choice, I won't comment on Che, but here's mine, in no real order;

Churchill - for leading the nation through it's arguable darkest time and never failing to believe in anything other than victory.

Martin Luther King - for saying what he believed and never compromising, even when his own life became threatened.

JRR Tolkien - anyone who can create a world with such appeal that it lives on decades after his death, and will live on, is worthy of admiration. He essentially created most of, what have now become cliches, fantasy's basic elements and brought them all together.

And the last one, in full knowledge of the response it will draw...

George W Bush - for doing what was right where so many others through history have taken the lesser path or backed down. For having the courage to do what others had talked about, for taking decisive action when it had to be taken, for never relenting in the face of criticism and for unswerving belief in his actions.

Im talking about great people here everybody, not the tweenies cos there furry or anything like that...

Mine would me

Nelson Mandela - His beliefs and how he stood up for them
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) - He wasn't afraid to be himself
Che Guevara - He was an inspiring revolutionary
Tony Hawk - Hes got guts and is all about youth and risk

All these men are/were GREAT in many peoples opinions.

They stand for what I stand for.

I respect them.