OT thread: totally cool people

itboffin

I think some people are just so totally cool no mater what they do/did, my top 11 obviously!

1. John Lennon
2. Samuel L Jackson
3. Johnny Cash
4. Laurence Fishburne
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Lenny Henry
7. Ranulph Fiennes
8. Raymond Blanc
9. Bruce Lee
10. Lord Nelson
11. Lord Wellington

wgwarburton

Pete Goss


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W.

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John Lennon isn't cool, he's just dead. I suppose that's kinda the same thing.

Karen O is cool.

always_tyred

Lenny Henry?

What have you been smoking? He last said something funny in about 1986.

Matt the Tester

Always Tyred wrote:

Lenny Henry?

What have you been smoking? He last said something funny in about 1986.

lol! do you do stand up?

always_tyred

steady rider wrote:

Always Tyred wrote:

Lenny Henry?

What have you been smoking? He last said something funny in about 1986.

lol! do you do stand up?

Umm.... :? Eh? You are too clever for me.

seataltea

Always Tyred wrote:

Lenny Henry?

What have you been smoking? He last said something funny in about 1986.

+1

He is only cool for managing to maintain a comedy career despite an utter lack of comedic ability.

Eau Rouge

Lenny Henry isn't cool for his comedy, he's cool for accepting the challenge of playing Othello, despite a lifelong hatred of the Bard, and doing it with a real commitment and well enough to win a "best newcomer" award on the London stage.

Porgy

Morrissey

artaxerxes

Some others...
Steve McQueen
Lee Marvin
Toshiro Mifune

seataltea

Eau Rouge wrote:

Lenny Henry isn't cool for his comedy, he's cool for accepting the challenge of playing Othello, despite a lifelong hatred of the Bard, and doing it with a real commitment and well enough to win a "best newcomer" award on the London stage.

Are you serious :shock: ?

A show business person doing something show business and getting paid for it despite not really liking it.

This lot out cool that bloke who is married to Dawn French.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... icers.html

skyd0g

Bob Dylan
Jimi Hendrix
Jeff Buckley
Neil Young
Keith Moon
Kurt Cobain
John Peel

Porgy

skyd0g wrote:

Bob Dylan

I refer you to his current album of xmas songs - Dylan has blown it.

Neil Young

how can someone obsessed with his trainset be cool?

Keith Moon

idiot and nuisance

Kurt Cobain

dead, geek, loser who could write good pop songs.

skyd0g

Porgy wrote:

skyd0g wrote:

Bob Dylan

I refer you to his current album of xmas songs - Dylan has blown it.

Neil Young

how can someone obsessed with his trainset be cool?

Keith Moon

idiot and nuisance

Kurt Cobain

dead, geek, loser who could write good pop songs.

Each to their own, but IMHO the world would be a poorer place without the contributions these guys made. 8)

rally200

Porgy wrote:

Morrissey

+1

lost_in_thought

My mum.

seataltea

Richard Dawkins
Christopher Hitchens
Top Cat (technically not human)
Professor Brian Cox
Adam Savage
Richard Feynman
Ray Kurzweil
Kym Marsh
John Stewart

gert_lush

lost_in_thought wrote:

My mum.

+1

I think your mums cool too 8)

Porgy

skyd0g wrote:

Porgy wrote:

skyd0g wrote:

Bob Dylan

I refer you to his current album of xmas songs - Dylan has blown it.

Neil Young

how can someone obsessed with his trainset be cool?

Keith Moon

idiot and nuisance

Kurt Cobain

dead, geek, loser who could write good pop songs.

Each to their own, but IMHO the world would be a poorer place without the contributions these guys made. 8)

I agree I own records by each of these (including Keith Moon's solo album which could not have been made by a truly cool person) - all talented - but all totally uncool imo.

Jay dubbleU

lost_in_thought wrote:

My mum.

+1
No actor can be cool - its just acting

Certain countries are also excluded - Germany, Canada, USA, Colombia etc - you know who you are

Jools Holland
Mozart - way cool
J K Rowling
Richard Dawkins
Steve Jones
Simon Conway-Morris

Porgy

Jay dubbleU wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

My mum.

+1
No actor can be cool - its just acting

to challenge that I put up Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi

These guys are cool.

Life is acting - if you can act cool all the time, then you're cool

Also Tom Waits - he's acting too, but who cares?

shoulder_of_orion

Porgy wrote:

to challenge that I put up Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi

Funnily enough I have met both Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi.

I met Walken on a flight back from the Philippines. We landed in Frankfurt and had been flying for something like 18hrs at that point. He came from the curly stairs up from first class and I came from the smegs at the back of the plane. We both made a beeline for the open door and stood on the top of the little flight of stairs to grab some fresh air. We had about five mins exchanging pleasantries in a detached jet lagged manner while I could not stop thinking of the final scene of the deer hunter until some officious german policeman made us go back inside the plane. Walken was most definitely cool.

I sometimes wonder if he looks back on those five minutes in 1994 just as affectionately probably thinking "sheesh that shoulder guy was cool"....

I met Buscemi at a film Premiere in NYC. It was not a coincidence and I was introduced to him by a fellow acTOR. I was able to have a longish chat to him over a few drinks about his films, he looked faintly bored throughout. He was also quite cool - quite shy really. He also probably looks back and thinks "sheesh that shoulder guy was cool"....

SmellTheGlove

Serge Gainsbourg ( less for this http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19p5d_gainsbourg-houston-i-want-to-f-her_music than for a lot of other stuff but it raises a chuckle...)
Michael Holding
Julian Cope
Bode Miller (apart fom his caravan habit)
My godson Théo

Jay dubbleU

Porgy wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

My mum.

+1
No actor can be cool - its just acting

to challenge that I put up Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi

These guys are cool.

Life is acting - if you can act cool all the time, then you're cool

Also Tom Waits - he's acting too, but who cares?

never heard of any of them therefore a) just actors b) not cool

NGale

+1 for LiTs mum

Bob Dylan
Steve McQueen (even though he is dead he's still cool)
Jools Holland

Canada as a country is cool...literally and figureativly. They key with Canada is that they arn't the United States and proud of it

CdrJake is cool as well...when he wants to be

tailwindhome

Paul Newman

shoulder_of_orion

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

Paul Newman

Ack. God. Another anecdote. Sorry.

My mum met Paul Newman at a Party in Connecticut. As an opening gambit she said " I like the pasta sauce but the salad dressing is a bit sweet for my taste". Apparently, he said something along the lines of "everyone always want to talk about movies" and they ended up chatting all night.

Someone say that Stanley Kubrick is cool - go on I dare you.

Porgy

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Porgy wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

lost_in_thought wrote:

My mum.

+1
No actor can be cool - its just acting

to challenge that I put up Christopher Walken and Steve Buscemi

These guys are cool.

Life is acting - if you can act cool all the time, then you're cool

Also Tom Waits - he's acting too, but who cares?

never heard of any of them therefore a) just actors b) not cool

Oh come on - no-one is just an actor. They are human beings too. Anyway - I think we've had positive verification that both those actors are cool in real life...as I always suspected from hearing them speak, and watching their work.

Buscemi is also a director and writer; Tom Waits is a musician.

Porgy

Also - Tom Baker is supercool.

Gazzaputt

itboffin wrote:

I
1. John Lennon
2. Samuel L Jackson
3. Johnny Cash
4. Laurence Fishburne
5. Jack Nicholson
6. Lenny Henry
7. Ranulph Fiennes
8. Raymond Blanc
9. Bruce Lee
10. Lord Nelson
11. Lord Wellington

Disagree with the lot bar John Lennon.

Bryan Ferry now there's cool.