An introspective question

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:38 pm

Past or present, if you are thinking about anything at all and you heard any famous person's voice in your head, whose would it be?

Richard Brittain · Post by **Richard Brittain** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:02 pm

Adolf Hitler.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:38 pm

Adolf Hitler.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:55 pm

I dunno, Adolf Hitler?

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:58 pm

I'm going to have to break with the consensus of opinion here. I'll say Eva Braun.

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 8:22 pm

Chevy Chase.

Charlie Reams · Post by **Charlie Reams** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:42 am

James Brown (sister of Eva Braun.)

Jon Corby · Post by **Jon Corby** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:54 am

Do the celebrity voices in your head ever tell you to do bad things Jason?

Dinos Sfyris · Post by **Dinos Sfyris** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:40 pm

If my thoughts were to be Americanized I'd say Wink Martindale but certainly not Tex Ritter.

M. George Quinn · Post by **M. George Quinn** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:05 pm

I know you said "famous person" but would I be able to go for a famous monkey?

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:20 pm

M. George Quinn wrote:I know you said "famous person" but would I be able to go for a famous monkey?

Hitler was a monkey?

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:31 pm

jimbentley wrote:I'm going to have to break with the consensus of opinion here. I'll say Eva Braun.

I feel a bit guilty now about giving a facetious answer to Jason's question. Sorry, Jason.

My real answer is, of course, Stephen Hawking.

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:49 am

jimbentley wrote:I feel a bit guilty now about giving a facetious answer to Jason's question. Sorry, Jason.

Aaw, you were being facetious? I thought we'd discovered an awesome new pattern amongst countdowners

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:44 pm

Who is Eva Braun, and Dinos, are you old enough to remember Wink Martindale's song, "Deck of Cards?"

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:53 pm

By the way, Jon, no, these people's voices in my head do not tell me to do bad things. I was not in a bad mood when I started this thread. I was just being my old self and I was just curious.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:55 pm

Also, Jim, no wonder that you feel guilty about giving a facetious answer to my question. Eva Braun must not be a very nice lady.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:46 pm

Jason Larsen wrote:Also, Jim, no wonder that you feel guilty about giving a facetious answer to my question. Eva Braun must not be a very nice lady.

How dare you! She's a good friend of mine and will be very upset when I tell her about this. Shame on you.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:50 pm

Who is Eva Braun, anyway?

I'm sorry.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:52 pm

Jason Larsen wrote:Who is Eva Braun, anyway?

I'm sorry.

Hahaha, I was only pulling your leg, Jason. You know how I like a bit of fun sometimes. In fact, I don't know Eva Braun at all!

I do know who she is though and can't believe you've never heard of her. She's a world-renowned hip-hop artist, recently voted by Spin magazine the second most influential rapper of all time, just behind Jay-Z and just ahead of Pam Ayres.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:56 pm

Jim, I know you're kidding.

JimBentley · Post by **JimBentley** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:34 pm

Jason Larsen wrote:Jim, I know you're kidding.

But I'm not kidding. Here's the front cover of her last album, which was a smash hit all around the world (except in Germany):

She is an odd-looking lady, it is true, but her rhythmic flow is so irrepressible as to override the aesthetic concerns that usually dictate the success of a female artist in the misogynistic hip-hop world.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:09 pm

That's Eva Braun?

Wow! It's going to take a long time for the fact that she was a great friend of yours to sink in to me!

M. George Quinn · Post by **M. George Quinn** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:51 pm

Is that really Eva Braun?

No wonder she's dating a monkey.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:40 pm

Monkey see, monkey do!

mackenzie · Post by **mackenzie** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:14 am

Jason Larsen wrote:Monkey see, monkey do!

That's probably your best post yet

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:45 am

Of course, it's true.

Kevin Thurlow · Post by **Kevin Thurlow** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:23 pm

Thanks guys - absolutely brilliant.
I think if Eva Braun had confined herself to designing the Braun electric shaver, how much different the world would be.
I was at the Alamo a few years ago, always marketed as USA versus Mexico, and of the "179" defenders, there were 12 from England, a similar number from Wales, a few from Ireland and Scotland, Crockett + 20 or so Tennesseeans etc., and a Frenchman, (who ran away). No Texans whatsoever. And they had stolen the land from Mexico, so Mexico was quite entitled to take it back.
Sometimes I hear Jim Bowie.....
(If you get the chance to visit the Alamo, do, it is amazing.)

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:39 am

Kevin, do you think Eva Braun really did invent the Braun electric shaver?

Kevin Thurlow · Post by **Kevin Thurlow** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:41 pm

No, I suspect Joseph Goebbels invented that to make her look good. Maybe it was Wernher von Braun?

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:00 pm

I hope you don't suspect you'll cut yourself with a Bowie knife, in which case you will never want to go to Texas!

JackHurst · Post by **JackHurst** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 9:22 pm

Guy Goma is the voice inside my head.

Ian Volante · Post by **Ian Volante** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:25 pm

Conway Twitty for me.

Peter Mabey · Post by **Peter Mabey** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:43 pm

Dunno who it is, but he does a helluva lot of radio ads

No it's not Martin Jarvis

Ben Wilson · Post by **Ben Wilson** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:38 pm

The voice in my head is that of Captain Obvious wondering why this thread was revived after 21 months dormant.

Alec Rivers · Post by **Alec Rivers** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:04 am

I got Magnus Magnusson. Is that bad?

Jimmy Gough · Post by **Jimmy Gough** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:20 am

Sylvia Plath.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 3:41 am

Very interesting replies, everyone!

Kevin, I'll just agree with you.

Lesley Hines · Post by **Lesley Hines** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:38 am

Dinos! Argh!! (Ok, he's not very, very famous but we all know & love him

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Matt Morrison · Post by **Matt Morrison** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:18 pm

Ben Wilson wrote:The voice in my head is that of Captain Obvious wondering why this thread was revived after 21 months dormant.

Boooooooring. Surprised you haven't just gone ahead and locked the thread.

Anyway, thanks Jack for bumping the thread, I A-lol'd twice reading through it, and if you hadn't revived it I'd have never experienced these little joys. Thank you.

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:36 pm

Leslie, how do you know what Dinos sounds like?

Lesley Hines · Post by **Lesley Hines** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:57 pm

Jason Larsen wrote:Leslie, how do you know what Dinos sounds like?

He was on the telly - some show called Downcount or something. I think you'd like it!

Jason Larsen · Post by **Jason Larsen** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:59 pm

I know what that is