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Old 03-06-2005, 08:49 PM
Lobsang Lobsang is offline
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Who's sitting contently in their graves?

inspired by this thread.

Who is sitting comfortably and contently in their graves?

For now I submit: Douglas Adams.
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Old 03-06-2005, 09:08 PM
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Nostradamus.

I'm mean, who's got more right to say, "I told you so!"
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Old 03-06-2005, 09:39 PM
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Abraham Lincoln

J. R. R. Tolkien

William Shakespeare
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Old 03-07-2005, 01:32 PM
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Fermat, of Fermat's Last Theorem, having infuriated centuries worth of mathematicians with an offhand remark in one of his works.
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Old 03-07-2005, 01:45 PM
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Einstein. Becoming the iconification of genius ain't a bad way to spend your time on Earth.
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Old 03-07-2005, 02:04 PM
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I figured Robert A. Heinlein began to get some of that good rest after the U.S.S.R. broke up...
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Old 03-07-2005, 03:50 PM
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Contrary to what some are saying in the other thread, I as a non-Christian feel that Jesus would be pretty content with his current situation of being worshipped by 2.2 billion people.
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Old 03-07-2005, 03:58 PM
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Ray Charles.
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