Hello?
Jack Nicholson!
Nobody mentioned him? Did I miss a meeting (or a post)?
And Buddha was way cooler than Jesus.
[sub]I was going to say Brad Pitt, he is my sexual preference cross over guy, and I just got the Fight Club DVD, but that would have been too cliche.[/sub]
And reads these boards?
As for the OP: Tom Jones.
Wait a minute, what about Zoroaster?
Anyone whose name begins with a Z is automatically cool.
Nahhhhhh…SONNY Rollins.
Oooh, look; she got it in one!
Max, Henry continues to refuse to return my emails; I’m afraid that disqualifies him.
I will award the Thin White Duke Miss Congeniality (he hasn’t dissed me in public, like Hank has), but really: he’s thin, he’s white, he’s a duke.
The Genius has none of these handicaps.
I saw him in America about 15 years ago, at the height of his cowboy phase. I’ve heard he’s recovered.
The only person that comes close is that short fat bald Irish elf… wasshisname… Van Morrison.
Saw him sing “Send in the Clowns” (the second worst song in history, after MacArthur Park) and make it work. If that ain’t cool, somebody update my dictionary.
Here’s a few names:
Jesse Ventura
David Bowie
Sting
David Duchnovy
Pat Croce
Steve Jobs
The Rock
Phil Jackson
My friend Natan (aka Omnithetical Bob)
Andrew Dice Clay
Pete Townshend, just because he is.
~AND~
Nicholas Cage, who has absolutely ruled in every single movie he’s ever done.
I think I already nominated Jack Batty for the title in the crush thread.
James Randi
Penn Jillette
Harlan Ellison
Spider Robinson
slythe and slythe’s list
Sean Connery
Female: Eliza Dushku
Male and all-around winnah: James Marsters.
Sting? David Bowie? Noah Gallagher? No.
Coolest man alive is Samuel L. Jackson.
Slythe, who is Spider Robinson? I recognize and am a fan of the others on your list, but I don’t know Spider.
As to the OP, I’ll agree with bup and say Tony Bennett, who had been number one since the death of the coolest human ever, Francis Albert Sinatra.
Bah. I say thee bah!
The baddest, coolest, grab-your-notebook-'cause-school’s-in-session-est man in the world is John Lee Hooker.
Jeez, you’re making me blush over here. (Do cool guys blush?)
I guess I should run out and buy some shades to seal the deal.
Alantus wrote:
No no no! Jesus died after 29 lashes with a whip, 3 nails being driven into his hands and feet, and a spear stuck in his side. Right? Well, according to the 2nd Edition Player’s Handbook, a whip does 1d2 damage, a spear does 1d6 damage, and large nails are probably the equivalent of a dagger or a dirk, which does 1d4 damage. So that means the whip would have done at most 58 damage points, the nails would have done at most 12 damage points, and the spear would have done at most 6 damage points. We know this was enough to kill Jesus.
Therefore, Jesus could not have had more than 76 hit points!
This means he was probably around 17 hit dice or so. According to the Turning Undead chart on page 103 of the Player’s Handbook, any undead creature with 11 or more hit dice can be turned by a cleric of 14th level or higher on a d20 roll of 10 or more.
“But wait!” I hear you cry. “Surely, Jesus qualifies as a ‘special’ undead, due to the fact that there was only one of him!” Okay, point taken. But even against special undead, the table clearly shows that a 14th-or-higher level cleric can still turn them on a d20 roll of 13 or more. In fact, even a lowly 9th-level cleric has a 1-in-20 chance of turning special undead!
So, no, a cleric that can turn a Jesus wouldn’t have to be of unthinkably high level.
Steve Martin.
HannibalV, go to your local bookstore and pick up Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. Then read the rest of the books in the series. Then read the rest of his books.
Then send praise and Godiva chocolates to ishmael57@yahoo.com 