Posted on 01/29/2011 3:43:36 PM PST by Krankor
There was a time, maybe thirty or forty years ago, before cable TV and cell phones, where one man could be so impressive in his accomplishments and force of personality, he would almost universally be recognized as the coolest man in America. His field could range from medicine, science, sports, politics or entertainment. Since the advent of the internet, though, this is no longer possible. Who, in your opinion, was the last "coolest man in America"?
John Glenn
Ronnie Van Zandt.
Dude,
I was born in 1958 and Namath was never more than a blip in my lifetime.
If this is your opinion then fine but it sure as hell ain’t a fact. Just like pink might be your favorite color for a car but is damn near nobody elses.
Ridiculous.
Ooops. Mea culpa. You were first. Very, very, very good!!!
Going by your clue, but not on my cool list....
Marlon Brando?
Is that the one you have in mind?
Any man that would sit at a world press meeting [after coming in late so EVERYONE focused on him] coolly quiet (with the 'smoking gun" in his coat pocket), biding his time to speak, AND then DEFIE the Illuminati shills and reveal AND demonstrate how the Challenger shuttle failed AND implicate the collusion of a coverup BY NASA officials,
well pilgrim - THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF COOL .
And he played bongos stone cold sober.
Was it because of his hose commercial?
The definition of “cool” has changed in the last 30-40 years.
LOL.. Is that his sixth grade pic?
LOL.. Is that his sixth grade pic?
After much thought, Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee Clipper, was the coolest guy ever
It is a fact. I am talking about a man, who at that particular point in time, was looked up to and admired by an incredibly huge proportion of heterosexual American men and boys. Since that point in time, there has never been another American man who has been regarded as such by such a large a number of Americans.
Jules: Now Yolanda, we’re not gonna do anything stupid, are we?
Yolanda: You don’t hurt him.
Jules: Nobody’s gonna hurt anybody. We’re gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what’s Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda what’s Fonzie like?
Yolanda: Cool?
Jules: What?
Yolanda: He’s cool.
Jules: Correctamundo.
No way.
Chuck Yeager, yes.
Grown ups playing kids games for huge piles of money?
Not even a contender.
What branch of the armed forces was Nameth in?
Maybe Clark gable. But I have to say us men are fat ugly hair gross. None of us are really cool except for Gable some are just less disgusting than others.
Before I give my answer, some thoughts:
it’s actually an important cultural question: Can one be truly “cool” and yet be a real Christian?
The culture always seems to say: absolutely not. The concept of “cool” was first noted in Norman Mailer’s influential 1959 essay “The White Negro” and has always connoted an outsider who holds conventional values (including, at least by implication, Christianity) in contempt.
But we have almost reached a stage where to be a Christian is to be an outsider; so, in fact, the coolest man of our age became a Christian without losing one iota of coolness, so I would say:
Johnny Cash.
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