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Post by GProopdog on Jun 4, 2010 22:16:53 GMT -5
It could be from TV, movies, music, real life, anything...who were your idols when you were all wee lads and lasses?
One of mine that comes to mind was Phil Harris. Growing up, I thought he was one cool cat....I mean heck, the man voiced Baloo the Bear and Thomas O'Malley in Jungle Book and Aristocats!
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jun 4, 2010 22:50:36 GMT -5
Big Chuck and Little John, a late night movie host show out of Cleveland.
"Here we goooo-ooo...again."
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Post by hulkzilla3k on Jun 4, 2010 23:22:14 GMT -5
When I was but a wee lad in the 60's, I thought Dean Martin was the epitome of Cool
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Post by Don Quixote on Jun 5, 2010 7:49:53 GMT -5
Doctor Emmett L. Brown. Don't f**king judge me.
Let me add to this:
- Doc Brown - Donatello (THIS is a real "Don't f**king judge me" moment). - Beast from the X-Men cartoon. - The guy with glasses from Voltron (I was four... I honestly don't remember his name) - Han Solo - Quite possibly the ONLY cool guy on this list. - Duck Dodgers - Warlock from The New Mutants - Mister Freeze
So yeah, most of my heroes were inventors or thinkers. No wonder I talk about horseball boogerdongs all the time.
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Post by siamesesin on Jun 5, 2010 10:26:06 GMT -5
No judging. That's awesome!
Mr. Spock, Robert Ballard, and Danger Mouse.
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Post by Crowfan on Jun 5, 2010 11:21:41 GMT -5
I was always a fan of Audie Murphy, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Abraham Lincoln, to name a few.
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Post by GProopdog on Jun 5, 2010 11:48:55 GMT -5
Another idol that comes to mind: James Bond but more the Sean Connery and Roger Moore incarnations.
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Post by MonsterX on Jun 5, 2010 17:13:25 GMT -5
As a really little kid, Bela Lugosi and the rest of the Universal Horror regulars. Watching him on channel 9 "Screen Scares" Saturday mornings, I thought Bela was the greatest actor in the world. I was too young to realize that the movies were all old and the actors had been dead for years. (All our TV's were black and white just like the movies!
I was a big Lon Chaney Jr. fan also. The Wolfman used to be my favorite character. I'd spend hours in my room drawing monster fighting and ripping people apart.
I was a morbid kid.
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Post by siamesesin on Jun 5, 2010 17:30:09 GMT -5
When I hit 12, my idols were Dr. William Bass, Dr. William Maples, Dr. Joseph Bell, and John Douglas. Google those and you'll get the idea.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Jun 5, 2010 17:56:33 GMT -5
Bugs Bunny and Checkers and Pogo were my earliest. It was a kids program that ran here for 16 years.
Then came Bugs' voice-man Mel Blanc, Clint Eastwood, James Stewart and, most importantly for me, Albert Einstein.
And, of course, my parents.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jun 5, 2010 18:10:24 GMT -5
Damn, afriendlychicken beat me to Bugs Bunny. Also Albert Einstein and Neil Young. Cool idea for a thread.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jun 5, 2010 18:41:54 GMT -5
Who did I idolize... as kid I thought a lot of people/characters were cool, but I wouldn't call them idols (like Spock or Batman or John Wayne) - apart from my father (I know, corney, but I always admired him, even when I was young) the only other guy I really idolized was John Lennon. Because his music gave me a model... It's like I could sudden use my voice, use music to get things off my chest. If he could do it, so could I.
But I think of him more as an inspiration - he inspired me to pick up a guitar and write. (and that was more into my teen years)
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Post by ilmatto on Jun 6, 2010 7:14:48 GMT -5
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s I wanted to be James Bond (the From Russia with Love incarnation). I was reading all of the books when I was 11-13 or so, and reading all of the Richard Blade in X Dimension series that I could get my hands on, this guy running around cutting bad guys in two with an axe and banging all of the women and I'm thinking feverishly, Yes, OMFG YES!
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Post by callipygias on Jun 6, 2010 12:52:55 GMT -5
I second Chicken's Clint Eastwood and Phantom's Neil Young (except it isn't limited to when I was a kid), but for the kind of pure idolatry that would keep a person out of heaven It's Led Zeppelin. Plant and Page.
I remember in The Commitments Chief O'Brien's character had a picture of Jesus on the wall, with a picture of Elvis above it. Replace Elvis with Zeppelin and it would be perfect.
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Post by Mod City on Jun 6, 2010 14:58:45 GMT -5
- Warlock from The New Mutants That, frienddq, is very cool. I would say I split my time between Mr. Wizard and Kirby Puckett.
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