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- commodorius, on 10/16/2009, -1/+24I too often wave my dick at whales.
- tmyprod, on 10/17/2009, -0/+23That would make for an awesome revisionist history movie - Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway teaming up and kicking ass. Some time-travel or whatnot might be needed to make the dates work.... OMG...Roosevelt and Hemingway fight robots from the future in ancient Greece!!
- EddiePotato, on 10/17/2009, -0/+19That can be read two different ways...
I also often wave my dick at whales.
or
I wave my dick at whales too often.
Either way, you win. - joenuck89, on 10/16/2009, -0/+14Arthur Conan Doyle is a badass. Remember when he got shot in Shanghai Knights?
- palehorse864, on 10/17/2009, -0/+12You should all read Ian Fleming's Quantum of Solace. It has nothing to do with the movie except Bond and the title. Bond faces his ultimate nightmare, being stuck at a boring party with rich snobs and nothing but lacy perfumey furniture and pillows while listening to someone tell a story. I'm not making that bit up, but the story the man tells is actually very interesting, and Bond's feelings at the end are interesting for anyone who knows the character.
- PremRack, on 10/17/2009, -0/+9The article fails to mention some of Arthur Conan Doyle badassery. From wikipedia:
Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes they were accused of. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji, who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed.
It was partially as a result of this case that the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907, so not only did Conan Doyle help George Edalji, his work helped establish a way to correct other miscarriages of justice. The story of Conan Doyle and Edalji is told in fictional form in Julian Barnes' 2005 novel, Arthur & George.
The second case, that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908, excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was framed.
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Yup, he actually done real life crime-solving work like his most famous character - mrMunchies, on 10/16/2009, -0/+8Hemingway was pretty badass, supposedly he was a major fan of Spanish bull fighting as well.
- valarking, on 10/17/2009, -0/+7Saw Hemingway coming, solid choices.
- davin3000, on 10/17/2009, -0/+7That martial art of Sherlocks looks a little... fancy.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Copy ... - brownsound00, on 10/17/2009, -0/+3This is probably one of the best Cracked articles I have ever read.
- thegunslinger1, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2Actually at the end of the book "Casino Royale" Bond tells "M" that "The Bitch is dead", personally if I were giving an example of how bad ass Bond was, I would have wrote about how he would "drown Solitaire first, then turn her over and use the weight of her body to drown himself" so he could avoid being eaten alive by the barricuda and sharks at the end of "Live and Let Die".
- haleym, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2Mark Twain should be on this list.
- skipvt, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2I'm pretty sure that traumatizing endangered species in the open sea is against international law.
- Vindexus, on 10/17/2009, -0/+2And so do the whales!
- Tarkaan, on 10/17/2009, -0/+1In case any other teachers are out there, a simple phone call to Playboy Magazine back in 1999 resulted in a dialogue which resulted in my receipt of any James Bond story sent to me, for free, for educational purposes only. Playboy is very open in releasing their materials. I hope that hasn't changed in ten years. They are good people.
- sageerrant, on 10/17/2009, -0/+1Still hurts like hell, unless it kills you outright.
- deanc, on 10/17/2009, -0/+1What no Norman Mailer?
- StevZissou, on 10/17/2009, -1/+1Hemmingway and HS Thompson were the baddest of the bad. Dudes who chose the time and place of their check out instead of festering in an old age home then some palliative care ward...***** balls of steel.
- Samohtneas, on 10/17/2009, -3/+2***** you for no HST, you dirty animals.
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