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    #32
    Barry Aldwell
    Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Barry Aldwell


    Not mean enough, Bob. Needs more mocking and/or condescending


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    #33
    HeyYou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭HeyYou


    Jimmy Page, guitarist with Led Zeppelin amonst other things. 'Nuff said.

    Also John Irving, author of "The World According To Garp", "A Prayer For Owen Meany" and "The Cider House Rules". 'Nuff said.


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    #34
    pinkpimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭pinkpimp


    Actually, I did know that. I just like saying thats a direct quote.
    Ps. That was a bit harsh, in fairness... well, in my opinion.


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    #35
    Dermo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭Dermo


    HeyYou wrote:
    "A Prayer For Owen Meany"

    listen to "goodbye sky harbor" by jimmy eat world....that is all


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    #36
    oq4v3ht0u76kf2
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    Didn't mean it harshly, but the one place I frequent where Catholics are in the minority is CTYI / the CTYI board - so I couldn't resist. The truth is just that, the truth. Not meant to hurt anyone or offend, but sometimes it does. Also, "quoting" incorrectly - also known as lying - just isn't cool man.


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    #37
    doonothing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    that einstein chap made some nifty discoveries, and marx and john gray be cool...
    not really idols, they just have me respectos

    nick cave and tom waits and nick drake, absolute masters of emotion through music, now they would be closer to idols...


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    #38
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    quoting incorrectly != lying IF you add the line "paraphased".

    If in doubt, paraphrase - best advice i can ever give someone for college.


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    #39
    Chowburger
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Chowburger


    Let's see...
    Kim Deal because she's totally off her head, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart because [strike]I like his name[/strike] he was a genius, aaaaand Oscar Wilde 'cause he said all that weird junk and wrote some madly cool stuff.


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    #40
    elephamt king
    Closed Accounts Posts: 566 ✭✭✭elephamt king


    Chowburger wrote:
    Let's see...
    Kim Deal because she's totally off her head.
    and she is also god her basslines are sooo simple yet sooooooooo perfect.
    john murphy is an idiot for letting her go.


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    #41
    snuffles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭snuffles


    Kim Deal does kick incredible amounts of ass.

    As for idols, I'm also going to have to say Lewis Carroll and Roger Zelazny, because they're the two authors who have most influenced my own writing style and of late, Chuck Palahniuk, because Fight Club is taking over my life.

    I've always really admired Martin Luther King as well.

    There are plenty of artists, musicians and actors I look up to as well, but yeah...too many to list.


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    #42
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Most of the people I respect would probably discourage the idea of being an 'idol', and encourage self-expression and thought and stuff. I don't really want to be any of them, but I have a lot of respect for:

    Jello Biafra for political reasons as well as music
    Grant Morrison - comic author
    Bruce Lee
    Neal Stephenson
    William Gibson
    Newton (a very odd man)

    I also have a lot of respect for many, many composers and musicians.


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    #43
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Undergod wrote:
    Jello Biafra for political reasons as well as music

    I think we both know what you mean by that... :D


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    #44
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    It wasn't me! wrote:
    I think we both know what you mean by that...

    Nazi Punks
    Nazi Punks
    Nazi Punks
    F*CK OFF!


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    #45
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    I was referring to the whole mayor of Sna Francisco incident but that's cool too. :)


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    #46
    Matthewthebig
    Registered Users Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭Matthewthebig


    Whats that?


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    #47
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco in, methinks, 1978. He came something like sixth, and one of his campaign pledges was that all businessmen would be made wear clown suits. :D Now that's a reason to idolise him!


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    #48
    Undergod
    Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    The campagin slogan: 'There's always room for Jello'.

    He did actually have a serious campaign agenda, I think legalization of squatting in buildings left vacant for tax purposes was part of it. He came fourth, as I remember. Check out his biography on wikipedia.


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