# The greatest LIVING American hero. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504 "2002-12-18T06:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/21 "2002-12-18T11:05:05Z")
I’m also kinda wondering if your kids know you monitor their keystrokes. Close supervision is one thing, but out-and-out spying is, well, kinda creepy. And is it J-Lo? I think it’s J-Lo. ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/22 "2002-12-18T11:10:18Z")
**pkbites** , in the thread title, you’ve emphasised the word _living_. It the text, though, you’ve empahsised _hero_. Clarify please. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/23 "2002-12-18T11:10:42Z")
Marlon Brando was born on the same day as Doris Day. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/24 "2002-12-18T11:16:55Z")
A streetcar named Doris Day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/25 "2002-12-18T11:20:58Z")
Bonus points to **Cisco** and **Libertarian**. **Cisco** was first, but **Libertarian** was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/26 "2002-12-18T11:36:20Z")
Spiderman? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/27 "2002-12-18T11:39:35Z")
Homer Simpson. Or Montgomery Burns. ---
**Author:** ![deathawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@deathawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deathawk)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/28 "2002-12-18T13:18:22Z")
I was going to say Bart Simpson, but then I thought maybe she went for the trifecta. So is it Pokemon? ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/29 "2002-12-18T13:20:29Z")
Clearly, the greatest living hero is Han Solo. I’m guessing she didn’t go with John McCain? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/30 "2002-12-18T13:32:45Z")
I’m guessing it’s Jenny, because, she came from the block and well, you know, she still pimps them even though no one from there is willing to give her a blow job. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/31 "2002-12-18T13:40:18Z")
What is this, twenty questions? How many pages will this thread get to before **pkbites** tells us what he’s mad about? My guess for the Greatest American Hero is Ralph Hinkley. ---
**Author:** ![KarmaComa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@KarmaComa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarmaComa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/32 "2002-12-18T13:50:53Z")
Don’t be such a dickfor! Tell us! ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/33 "2002-12-18T13:51:35Z")
Ra-ra-rasputin, Russia’s favorite love machine? ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/34 "2002-12-18T14:07:44Z")
Wait a minute. **pkbites** starts a pit thread because the daughter of his wife’s friend writes a bad report for school? Huh? I don’t see why you would even care, **pk**. If her choice was especially amusing, I can see posting it in MPSIMS. But honestly, why a pit thread? Just let her get the D on the paper and forget about it. And spying on your 17 year old’s computer use is a bit overprotective. He’s 17, not ten; I think he can handle it if he runs across a few porn sites. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/35 "2002-12-18T14:14:49Z")
It was a shame how he carried on. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/36 "2002-12-18T14:16:02Z")
> [@](#): > > I think he can handle it if he runs across a few porn sites. I think thats the problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/37 "2002-12-18T14:28:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*It was a shame how he carried on. \*\* Indeed. He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar But the kasachok he danced really wunderbar In all affairs of state he was the man to please But he was real great when he had a girl to squeeze pan ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/38 "2002-12-18T14:30:55Z")
Heh. I bet she found out about [William Katt](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/primetime/pt1201.php) If William ever found out, he’d be walking on air. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/39 "2002-12-18T14:38:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\*My guess for the Greatest American Hero is Ralph Hinkley. \*\* Oops. I didn’t see that **Trion** had already touted Ralph’s super prowess. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504/40 "2002-12-18T14:46:43Z")
No problem **Skip**. Great minds and all that. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-greatest-living-american-hero/143504.md?page=3)