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05-04-2005, 01:52 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Top 25: Fascinating people
According to CNN
The 'TOP FASCINATING PEOPLE' are :
2) Pope John Paul II
3) Ayatollah Khomeini
4) George W. Bush
5) Deng Xiaoping
6) Bill Clinton
7) Osama bin Laden
8) Mikhail Gorbachev
9) Nelson Mandela
10) Yasser Arafat
11) Bill Gates
12) Margaret Thacher
13) Saddam Hussein
14) Sam Walton
15) Ariel Sharon
16) Steve Jobs
17) Newt Gingrich
18) Lech Walesa
19) Mother Teresa
20) Alan Greenspan
21) Michael Jordan
22) Princess Diana
23) Rev. Billy Graham
24) Oprah Winfrey
25) Steven Spielberg
What do you think?
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05-04-2005, 01:54 PM #2Disabled
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I suppose it depends on what consider "fascinating".
Many of those people I don't find to be in the least fascinating.
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Re: Top 25: Fascinating people
Originally posted by D1esel
What do you think?
I'd also echo what blue27 has just said.
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Originally posted by blue27
I suppose it depends on what consider "fascinating".
Many of those people I don't find to be in the least fascinating.
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05-04-2005, 03:15 PM #5Business Consultant Manager
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Originally posted by blue27
I suppose it depends on what consider "fascinating".
Many of those people I don't find to be in the least fascinating.
You hit that one on the head... I totally agree.. most of them seem extremly boring, or very "sheepish"...
But what else can you say.. CNN doing one of these is like VH1 ranking the all-time best albums.. its always rubbish.█ www.JGRoboMarketing.com / "Automate. Grow. Repeat"
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05-04-2005, 03:30 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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I think its missing a name there... mines..
I always said cnn is corrupt..
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05-04-2005, 05:49 PM #7WHT Addict
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George W. Bush is number 3? The only thing I can find fascinating about him is that he is still in office.
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05-04-2005, 05:59 PM #8Junior Guru Wannabe
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Originally posted by blue27
I suppose it depends on what consider "fascinating".
Many of those people I don't find to be in the least fascinating.
However, as will demonstrate that I don't really follow world news, I will admit I was faciniated by 18) Lech Walesa as I had no idea who that was.Les Fuqua | VP Operations Jaguarpc - Keeping websites happy since 1998
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05-04-2005, 06:47 PM #9ex-Aussie
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Originally posted by LesJPC
I will admit I was faciniated by 18) Lech Walesa as I had no idea who that was.
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Lech Walensa was leader of anti-comunist movement in Poland and a first democratically elected president of Poland (I think in 1990, but I am not sure).
But for #17 & #23 I have never heard of.
And where is Jonathan Ive? Bono? Armani? Hugo Boss? Madonna? Schumacher? Al Pacino? Sir Templeton? Hugh Heffner? Larry Flint? Tiger Woods? etc.
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05-04-2005, 07:06 PM #11Disabled
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CNN.. all the news that fits their views.
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05-04-2005, 07:09 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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3 and 11 I find interesting - the rest not interested in at all.
Richard Branson would be another I'm interested in - Shania Twain - erm - quite a number of people really - but only 2 on that list.
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05-04-2005, 07:16 PM #13Aspiring Evangelist
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Out of that entire list, I find none of those people interesting. The people who I find interesting are the people who I have direct contact with like the extremely attractive girl at starbuck, the homeless guy that sells terrible joke books for 10 dollars a piece, or the hotdog guy that always has a line of 3-4 people wanting a hotdog. Just because a person is famous doesn't make them interesting in my book.
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Originally posted by Fulk
And where is Jonathan Ive? Bono? Armani? Hugo Boss? Madonna? Schumacher? Al Pacino? Sir Templeton? Hugh Heffner? Larry Flint? Tiger Woods? etc.
Also remember that the most fascinating people are not necessarily those who you, or anyone, likes the best. Something or someone can be fascinating, but at the same time be disliked by many people.
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Lol, Celebrities aren't facinating. Not after what the tabloids and paparazzis do to let the whole world know about their lives
Now, no one could haunt George Bush 24 hours a day to find out what TV shows he watches every night...New site: www.talkutas.com
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wheres #1?!?!?!?! *confused*
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I can see the logic for most of the entries on the list. If I were to read a world history book one hundred years from now about the past 25 years, I think many of these people would play a large part.
Celebrities may be more dynamic personality-wise, but as far as longterm significance, they aren't what I would call fascinating.
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Originally posted by azizny
I think its missing a name there... mines..
I always said cnn is corrupt..
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05-05-2005, 06:50 AM #19Web Hosting Guru
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I've a question:
Why the names are started from #2?
who is the #1?
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05-05-2005, 08:58 AM #20Aspiring Evangelist
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Stay tuned as the No. 1 fascinating person from the last quarter-century is revealed in the days to come while CNN continues to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
They haven't announced the number one person yet. Maybe Michael Jackson or OJ••If one picture is worth a thousand words, what is the value of an entire movie?••
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And Zoran Djindic, former Serbian prime-minister (killed in 2003) deserved to be in top 25 as well.
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a grain of salt is more fascinating that George Bush :|
enjoy your flaming and hypocracy
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a grain of salt is more fascinating that George Bush :|
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05-05-2005, 10:07 AM #24Junior Guru Wannabe
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They've forgot Mulder and Scully
Perhaps Hilter is at number 1, I find him quite fascinating.
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Originally posted by IvialisJonathan
They haven't announced the number one person yet. Maybe Michael Jackson or OJ