OT - If you could be a historical figure…
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He’s an assh*le! Ignore is your friend!!
Now that sounds like a good time. It would have been an amazing adventure that's for sure
You might change your opinion abotu how much fun Walt Disney's life was if you watch a documentary on him on PBS's American Experience. There were highs and there were definitely a lot of lows. But no one can argue he ushered in the age of animation.
If I could live someone else's life it would be GHW Bush.
Rich connected family.
Prep schools.
One of the youngest naval pilots in WW-II flying 58 combat missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals.
Yale education, Skull and Bones Society, captain of the baseball team, played in two college world series.
Texas oil businessman.
US Congressman.
Ambassador to the UN.
Chair of the RNC. The only party chair in US history to ask a sitting President from his own party to resign.
Chief of the Liaison Office to China (basically the ambassador to China before we formally had one).
Director of the CIA.
Vice President.
President.
That is a full life. I didn't even capture all of it.
Rich connected family.
Prep schools.
One of the youngest naval pilots in WW-II flying 58 combat missions for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals.
Yale education, Skull and Bones Society, captain of the baseball team, played in two college world series.
Texas oil businessman.
US Congressman.
Ambassador to the UN.
Chair of the RNC. The only party chair in US history to ask a sitting President from his own party to resign.
Chief of the Liaison Office to China (basically the ambassador to China before we formally had one).
Director of the CIA.
Vice President.
President.
That is a full life. I didn't even capture all of it.
Winston Churchill - he saved Western Civilization.
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I'm a huge Alexander the Great buff, but I'm thinking that would have been kind of a rough life always fighting and camping out most of the time (admittedly probably glamping for him). And he only made it to 32. Sinatra got an unbelievable amount of action (and we know Ava Gardner's 19 lbs quote...). Peter Beard had a damn good run. Keith has always been my hero, but my God the hangovers and withdrawals. I think Ben Franklin really had it all, and like several others here, I'd probably go with him.
Is that 12" at attention or standing down private.....asking for a friend
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