The Coolest Man Who Ever Lived

[Thk13421]

Andrew Jackson. The man pulled a bullet out of his arm at a cabinet meeting, because he was bored. Man was a badass.

 

[drbarno]

my vote goes to a name according to cracked.com is the most manliest, Staff sergeant Max Fightmaster, just on the name alone.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14982_9-manliest-names-in-world.html

 

[carpathic]

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Damn...ninja'd.

He can speak russian, in FRENCH!

 

[Danzaivar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill This fella. The only man in WW2 to kill an enemy combatant with a Longbow.

 

[Tallim]

I'd go with Derren Brown for all kinds of reasons.

 

[The Diabolical Biz]

I'd have to say the Old Spice guy...

I mean, c'mon!

Also Samuel L. Jackson is up there, although methinks I've already been ninja'd on that one.

 

[Dango]

Absolutely no contest.

Spoiler: Stephen Colbert!

He's the one on the right...

He is truly awesome.

 

[Rasputin1]

Grigori Rasputin.

Healed a prince, slept with the queen of russia, and could survive a crapload of bullets?

Yeah.

This man knows exactly what he's talking about.

 

[zHellas]

BEE BAB AB DABO DOE

I'M THE SCATMAN!


OT:

Real - Abraham Lincoln. Or Jesus, if he did martial arts.

Fake - Commander Shepard... Female, 'cause for some reason I feel she's more awesome than Male Shepard.

 

[stockvillain]

Jack Johnson. Not the musician, the boxer. Cool as hell.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

It's so obvious that all I have to do is post a picture of him and everyone would be like "Oh yeah... He is!"

(BTW If you don't know who this is, he's Teddy Roosevelt)

 

[DSK-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill This fella. The only man in WW2 to kill an enemy combatant with a Longbow.

This, and this gentleman [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Cain[/link]

Firing a mortar from the hip? legend.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Of course it depends on what your definition of cool is but for me it always means comfortably aloof. Someone who can take in everything the world throws at them and cope without losing it.
My vote would go to Tom Waits and this clip is a great example of why:

Spoiler

"You choke my days, I'll choke yours."


Who would you vote for?

Alice Glass was voted top of the NME cool list

But... I have to agree nothing is cooler than Tom Waits.

He chokes my bad days and I hope that by buying every one of his albums and going to see him every time he?s in town, I?m able to (even in some small way) to choke his.
There?s a lot of people I could?ve chosen (Miles Davis, Johnny Depp, Billy Dee, Nosher from Junkyard Wars/Scrapyard Challenge, my grandpa ? I?ve never seen the guy get angry or upset about anything) but (IMO) Tom tops them all.

Jimi Hendrix. You said coolest, not most badass.

This thread blew up way more than I thought it would.
Some great suggestions here but yes there seem to be a lot of people who confuse coolness for badassery (which would make it?s own great thread and my answer for that would be Bruce Lee; too emotional and nerdy to be cool but definitely a prime badass and yes he could kick Chuck?s ass). Legendary badasses like Teddy Roosevelt (who else could?ve led the Rough Riders), Andrew Jackson (he also threw the most bitchenest inauguration party the White House has ever seen), William Burroughs (thoroughly pickled sharpshooter, fighter, and writer) and (as someone pointed out) Professor Badass himself, may not have been cool by the definition I laid out in the original post (these were sometimes very emotional people) but everyone has their own definition. It?s hard to deny coolness; if people think someone is cool, then that person is cool. And if someone thinks being the ultimate badass is the coolest thing, that?s how they see cool.

 

[Levi93]

umm either Stephen Fry, or the advice guys from the fosters super chilled lager advert.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Absolutely no contest.

Spoiler: Stephen Colbert!

He's the one on the right...

He is truly awesome.

Dammit, you stole mine.

I'll throw my hat in the ring for Teddy Roosevelt as well. And Kamina from Gurren Lagann. He's damn cool.

 

[thylasos]

Vivian Stanshall was pretty amazing.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Christopher Walken

Damn, ninja'd. Christopher Walken is a pinnacle of human evolution.

 

[THEfog101]

Come on people, Its obviously Mr. T. You know that he once beat a man to death with his own corpse?

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

For obvious reasons!

Yay JESUS!!!!!

 

[Queen Michael]

One word: Batman.