User:Kcarlin
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Nothing to see here. Move along, move along. Nope! Nope! Keep moving...
What I like:
- Neal Adams - known for his greens
- Black Adder - with a plan so cunning you could put ears on it and call it a weasel
- Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact - John W. Campbell - Ben Bova - Stanley Schmidt
- Project Apollo - going where no man has gone since
- The Art of War - the fundamentals
- Jon Astley - but is it...commercial?
- David Bromberg - the danger man
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - no matter where you go, there you are
- José Raúl Capablanca - the chess machine, and perfect gentleman - the best of Cuba
- George Washington Carver - making everything out of anything
- Geoffrey Chaucer - poet, pilgrim, soldier, diplomat, customs officer
- Winston Churchill - righteous defiance personified
- John Cleese - the Black Knight, in the abattoir, with a parrot
- Cocoa Beach - missiles, tiki bars, sushi, the head parrot head
- Bill Cosby - the man who gave me the story of Noah
- Richard Curtis - running the gamut from Adder to Actually
- Frederick Douglass - a writer so powerful his autobiography was denounced as a ghosted hoax by his enemies
- Dune (novel) - as the worms turn
- Bob Dylan - he knows something is happening but...
- Edward, the Black Prince - a bit like the girl with the curl
- Epaminondas - smashed Sparta and established a string of democratic city-states to the horror of Athens
- William Faulkner - a nose for Emily
- F. Scott Fitzgerald - flapper mapper
- Peter Gabriel - the sledgehammer
- John of Gaunt - the houses, the women, the family life...
- Cary Grant - a better actor than we could have imagined
- Al Green (musician) - take him to the river
- Victor Davis Hanson - culture, carnage, Carlin: these are all 'c' words
- Goldie Hawn - the 1960's IT girl (information technology was much more fun then)
- Robert A. Heinlein - by his bootstraps
- Hellboy - so, how does a demon exercise free will?
- Ernest Hemingway - the terse youth
- Henry II - what a family dinner table!
- Nat Hentoff - the principal of principle
- Katharine Hepburn - playing opposite the weaker sex
- Charlton Heston - the best baptist ever
- John Hiatt - cause we haven't left the parking lot
- James P. Hogan (writer) - everything you know is wrong
- Homer - an inspirational figure who overcame the handicaps of being blind, and possibly fictitious, to found Western epic literature
- Thomas Jefferson - founding father of the University of Virginia
- Jack Kirby - the man who was king
- Cyril M. Kornbluth - the man who foresaw the demand for ventilated spaceships
- Lahaina, Hawaii - a whale of a town (but don't monkey with the tree)
- Emanuel Lasker - the model of the modern grandmaster
- Stan Lee - the man who is "The Man"
- Lee Teng-hui - the pragmatic democrat
- C. S. Lewis - agape's solicitor
- Apple Macintosh - the distinguished opposition
- Walter M. Miller - prophet of Liebowitz
- John Milton - an epic protestant
- Monticello - an enlightened house
- Moties - The Mote in God's Eye - ISBN 0671741926
- Bob Newhart - he's got Guiding Light right behind him
- Larry Niven - master of Known Space
- Patrick O'Brian - man of letters
- Danny O'Keefe - chronicler of the self-afflicted
- George S. Patton - fascinating man, mad as a hatter
- Pearl (poem) - where the streets have no name - the Middle English compliments of the University of Virginia
- Plato - metaspelunker
- Jerry Pournelle - the lord of Chaos Manor
- James Randi - The million dollar skeptic
- Teddy Roosevelt - famous to the ages as Alice Roosevelt's father
- P. Craig Russell - for bringing art nouveau to H. G. Wells
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - gets the gray out
- Scipio Aemilianus Africanus - carthagio delenda est - the adopted son makes good
- William Shakespeare - he wrote them! get over it!
- Julian Simon - winner of the purple wagers
- Adam Smith - the other event of 1776
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - conscience of a nation
- Bud Sparhawk - at the Dragon
- Sports Night - the best work of Aaron Sorkin
- Jim Steranko - master stylist
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Al Stewart - the tiltawhirl of pop
- Tom Stoppard - wicked
- Richard Thompson - she was pushed
- To Kill a Mockingbird - facts versus point of view
- Alexis de Tocqueville - slept on the volcano
- J. R. R. Tolkien - catch his work editing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - the Middle English
- Linus Torvalds - found more than most to property rights
- Spencer Tracy - on screen, a 20th Century American everyman
- Trout Fishing in America - the musical duo, not the book they drew their name from
- Harriet Tubman - extremest in the cause of liberty
- Mark Twain - letter writer from the Earth
- U2 - how long?
- Van Morrison - streetlights all turn blue?
- John Varley - improving with age
- Jules Verne - and his editor, who insisted on upbeat stories with happy endings
- Leonardo da Vinci - genius
- Lech Wałęsa - Socialism defeated by a trade union (you just can't make this stuff up!)
- Booker T. Washington - the perfect is still the enemy of the good
- George Washington - by standing forward, and then standing down, the Father of the Republic
- Simon Wiesenthal - never forget
- Wikipedia (see: Wikipedia:About) - flawed but fabulous
- Colonial Williamsburg - where the Whigs and Tories are still going at it
- Warren Zevon - the bard of Roland
