A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
flownover ·
December 22, 2012 at 8:32pm
Name 10 people who have lived in the last 50 years who will be remembered 50 years from now.
If they died before 1962, they don't count. Bad guys make as much news as good guys.
Churchill died in 1965 . He might make the list, but I haven't seen the new history books.
Will Nelson Mandela be a bigger star ?
- Comment (65)
- · Quote
- · UnfollowFollow (29)
Comments:
Jun '10
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
It depends, flown. Are you going to be reading remembrances by Larry Arnn or Michael Eric Dyson?
BTW, I read Churchill is out of the required history books as of this year. Not purged from British history, but he's out of the core curriculuum.
Mar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Fascinating question. Jordan and Ali. Lucille Ball.
Mar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Nixon and Bill Gates
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Pretty sure that once the country is renamed Flukistan, we'll be remembering Sandra for at least that long, right?
Mar '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Watson and Crick. They will be famous for centuries.
Jul '10
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
1. Ronald Reagan
2. Stephen Hawking
3. Neil Armstrong
4. Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Pope John Paul II
6. Mother Teresa
7. Usama bin Laden (in certain circles)
8. J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Charles Schulz
10. Bill Gates, but only because his cyborg will still be active
Jun '10
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Nah, they didn't build that.
Jul '10
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
The Trifecta of the Century (No, not Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin):
President Ronaldus Magnus
Pope John Paul II
Lady Margaret Thatcher
Anyone and everyone else is bush league.
Feb '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Paul Ryan
Jul '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Mick Jagger
Ronald Reagan
Martin Scorcese
Wes Anderson (I hope)
Paul McCartney
Barack Obama (I wish it wasn't so)
Daniek Day Lewis
Jerry Seinfeld (For Seinfeld)
Milton Friedman
Ayn Rand
Edited on December 22, 2012 at 3:29amMar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Neil Armstrong
Christa McAuliffe
John Wayne
George W Bush ( I assume the Democrats will still be blaming him for everything wrong with the economy).
Oct '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Ronald Wayne
Mar '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Pope John Paul II
Bob Dylan
Tom Hanks
Frank Sinatra
Bob Knight
Steve Jobs
Bill Gates
Tiger Woods
Mar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Paul Newman... primarily for tasty dressings.
May '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Jimmy Carter: The Trifecta of the Century (No, not Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin):
President Ronaldus Magnus
Pope John Paul II
Lady Margaret Thatcher
Anyone and everyone else is bush league. ยท 1 hour ago
ha - I think this was a "who do you think," not "who do you wish." That said, I second RightinChicago's nomination of Jerry Seinfeld. Thank God he has stayed quiet on politics (as far as I know - don't anyone tell me otherwise!); I couldn't bear to dislike the man.
Mar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Warhol
Jun '10
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
C. S. Lewis (died 49 years ago).
Mar '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Marilyn Monroe died in '62. Does she make the cut?
Apr '11
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
This might seem out of left field but I would say Elon Musk.....
I don't know if Tesla will be around but I have a feeling he is going to big things with SpaceX and he is either going to make it to Mars or die trying.
1. Winston Churchill
2. Ronald Reagan (and I hope by extension "The Boys of Pointe du Hoc")
3. George RR Martin (and he might even be done with the series in 50 years)
4. Elon Musk
5. Isaac Asimov
6. JRR Tolkein
7. Derek Jeter (when he breaks Pete Rose's all time hits record).
8. Barack Obama (no getting around that one)
9. The Beatles
10. Marco Rubio (when he is elected the nation's first Hispanic President)
11. Finally this guy it may not be 50 years but when robots become sentient and start trolling the depths of the internet they will see him kicking big dog......and that is what will turn them
Edited for spellification!
Edited on December 22, 2012 at 4:46amAug '12
Re: A Weekend Challenge: 10 in 50
Kurt Cobain, Ronald Reagan, Harrison Ford, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, J.K. Rowling, Bill Clinton, John Paul II, Vladimir Putin.
Next ten: Shigeru Miyamoto, Mao Tse Tung, Neil Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., Kate Middleton, Prince William, Steve Jobs, Benedict XVI, Elvis Presley, Usher.