Who is the World's Coolest Man?
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HRC shipped a couple of works engines overnight from Japan to the Isle of Man because he thought he could win with a bit more horsepower. He won.
During the winter he would load up his van with food and blankets and drive to Eastern Europe and give it to orphanages because 'It was the right thing to do'
Lemmy for me
Drinking a bottle of Jack from 30 YO and die at 70, that's cool
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03536/...
Drinking a bottle of Jack from 30 YO and die at 70, that's cool
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03536/...
exelero said:
Lemmy for me
Drinking a bottle of Jack from 30 YO and die at 70, that's cool
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03536/...
It's easy to drink lots of alcohol when your taking loads of speed...Drinking a bottle of Jack from 30 YO and die at 70, that's cool
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03536/...
Excessive drug taking isn't really cool is it? He played mean bass mind you and could fair belt out a song.
Tango13 said:
HRC shipped a couple of works engines overnight from Japan to the Isle of Man because he thought he could win with a bit more horsepower. He won.
During the winter he would load up his van with food and blankets and drive to Eastern Europe and give it to orphanages because 'It was the right thing to do'
Jack Churchill - Using a longbow / sword / bagpipes in WW2, actor, surfer etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
Another former champeen: Clark Gable. Not just an actor and a natty dresser. Married World's Coolest Woman Carole Lombard. Grieved manfully over her tragic early death. Supported liberal causes. Flew combat missions over Germany as a waist gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress.
Not as many missions as James Stewart, who piloted a B-24 Liberator, commanded a Bomber Wing based in East Anglia, was awarded le Croix de Guerre by the French, stayed in the reserves after the War and became a Major General in the USAF Reserve. In the movie "Strategic Air Command", when he plays a bloke flying the B-47 Stratojet, that's him flying it.
Not as many missions as James Stewart, who piloted a B-24 Liberator, commanded a Bomber Wing based in East Anglia, was awarded le Croix de Guerre by the French, stayed in the reserves after the War and became a Major General in the USAF Reserve. In the movie "Strategic Air Command", when he plays a bloke flying the B-47 Stratojet, that's him flying it.
Breadvan72 said:
Another former champeen: Clark Gable. Not just an actor and a natty dresser. Married World's Coolest Woman Carole Lombard. Grieved manfully over her tragic early death. Supported liberal causes. Flew combat missions over Germany as a waist gunner in a B-17 Flying Fortress.
Not as many missions as James Stewart, who piloted a B-24 Liberator, commanded a Bomber Wing based in East Anglia, was awarded le Croix de Guerre by the French, stayed in the reserves after the War and became a Major General in the USAF Reserve. In the movie "Strategic Air Command", when he plays a bloke flying the B-47 Stratojet, that's him flying it.
Cut from a very different cloth to the likes of today's wannabes, along with their Brit counterparts Patrick McNee, Raymond Baxter, Richard Todd et al.Not as many missions as James Stewart, who piloted a B-24 Liberator, commanded a Bomber Wing based in East Anglia, was awarded le Croix de Guerre by the French, stayed in the reserves after the War and became a Major General in the USAF Reserve. In the movie "Strategic Air Command", when he plays a bloke flying the B-47 Stratojet, that's him flying it.
To the above I'd like to add Richard Widmark, Lee Marvin and Robert Mitchum.
All good calls, as is Leslie Howard above. David Niven, Ronald Colman, Raymond Massey, James Mason - they all get a shout.
Oh, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Derr, obvs. Michael Douglas, no way. Must be hard to have such a cool dad and not be that cool yourself.
Errol Flynn? No. Too spiv. Not a very pleasant person.
Zachary Quinto and Carl Urban modern contenders? Leonard Nimoy had the gig for a brief while, but blew it with the Bilbo Baggins video.
Burt Reynolds circa Deliverance and going centrefold naked in Cosmo. Often uncool. Brief revival of cool circa Boogie Nights.
Oh, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Derr, obvs. Michael Douglas, no way. Must be hard to have such a cool dad and not be that cool yourself.
Errol Flynn? No. Too spiv. Not a very pleasant person.
Zachary Quinto and Carl Urban modern contenders? Leonard Nimoy had the gig for a brief while, but blew it with the Bilbo Baggins video.
Burt Reynolds circa Deliverance and going centrefold naked in Cosmo. Often uncool. Brief revival of cool circa Boogie Nights.
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