# The Single Coolest Living Individual in the World
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 29, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686 "2000-12-29T18:14:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Peppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peppy)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/1 "2000-12-29T18:14:16Z")
Lenny Kravitz.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/2 "2000-12-29T18:23:22Z")
I’m gonna have to say Denis Leary is coolness personified.
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### Author:  [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/3 "2000-12-29T18:28:20Z")
My fiancee.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/4 "2000-12-29T18:42:48Z")
James Garner
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### Author:  [@scratch1300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch1300)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/5 "2000-12-29T18:43:02Z")
Huh?
Someone should break the news to Lenny: It’s not 1967 and you’re not Jimi Hendrix.
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### Author:  [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/6 "2000-12-29T18:45:40Z")
Tony Bennett.
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### Author:  [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/7 "2000-12-29T18:54:10Z")
It’s a tie. Sting and Bono.
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### Author:  [@Peppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peppy)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/8 "2000-12-29T19:00:49Z")
That is about as close as you can get to Lenny. Not quite though.
Bono rules second place. Sting close 3rd.
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### Author:  [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/9 "2000-12-29T19:02:05Z")
Jesus without a doubt.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/10 "2000-12-29T19:04:12Z")
Ooh, forgot about Bono. Something about those Irish guys…🙂
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/11 "2000-12-29T19:05:28Z")
Uhh, Bill, I think you missed the memo, but Jesus is dead. Y’know, the whole Last Supper/crucifix/died-for-our-sins thing?
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### Author:  [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/12 "2000-12-29T19:05:48Z")
Jesus is the coolest LIVING person? Interesting.
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/13 "2000-12-29T19:24:45Z")
Well, maybe Jesus is both alive and dead at the same time… Y’know, like Scröedinger’s Cat. 😛
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### Author:  [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/14 "2000-12-29T19:29:49Z")
Ray Charles.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/15 "2000-12-29T19:33:34Z")
You rang?
::::ducking and running::::
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### Author:  [@Wildest\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wildest_Bill)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/16 "2000-12-29T19:37:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Montfort \*
> \*\*Uhh, Bill, I think you missed the memo, but Jesus is dead. Y’know, the whole Last Supper/crucifix/died-for-our-sins thing? \*\*
Uh remember he rose from the dead. So that would make him not dead and still living would it not? And for him to do that(die for our sin and then rise from the grave) he is definetely pretty cool wouldn’t you say?
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### Author:  [@dal\_timgar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dal_timgar)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/17 "2000-12-29T19:47:31Z")
in order to see the single coolest individual you have to look in a mirror. all other individuals are relatively unimportant by comparison.
when i heard that lady di had crashed from this mortal plane the first thought that popped into my head was: “now i don’t have to hear about that broad anymore.” then a voice that sounded like my mother said: “that’s not nice.”
i mean really! you go to a news stand and there’d be 20 pictures of that woman, ALL THE SAME PICTURE. what did she do? married some dude with big ears. too many people need to get a life. maybe i should try. know where i could find one?
Dal Timgar
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/18 "2000-12-29T19:52:13Z")
A polar bear.
Those critters can thrive at temperatures as low as 60 degrees below zero. If that doesn’t qualify as “cool,” I don’t know what does.
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### Author:  [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/19 "2000-12-29T19:55:19Z")
**Wildest Bill** technically I think that would make him undead… like a zombie or Dracula…
😃
punk snot dead,
broccoli!
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### Author:  [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-single-coolest-living-individual-in-the-world/47686/20 "2000-12-29T20:31:09Z")
Actually, **broccoli!** , I think zombies and other undead _are raised_ from the dead, whereas Jesus _rose_ from the dead. He was active, they were passive; it’s so much cooler to be able to leave the grave of your own volition. I’m tempted to argue that Jesus is God, and so still doesn’t qualify … but he was fully human, too. :pushes can of worms away:
I’ll nominate the Pope. Oops. ::pushes can of worms farther away::
I’ll nominate Mary. She never actually died; she was ascended while alive. @#$! ::throws can of worms far, far away::
How about Paul McCartney? or Mel Gibson? or Tom Clancy?
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