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Old 08-18-2007, 04:19 PM
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Good call with Chamberlain, cardo.

One guy I've read some about recently who seems to have had an awesome life is Christopher Hitchens.
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Old 08-18-2007, 04:40 PM
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One guy I've read some about recently who seems to have had an awesome life is Christopher Hitchens.

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Apart from writing and drinking prodigously, in what way?
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Old 08-18-2007, 05:08 PM
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One guy I've read some about recently who seems to have had an awesome life is Christopher Hitchens.

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his liver hasn't
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Old 08-18-2007, 05:18 PM
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Fridtjof Nansen

Scientist who made contributions to many fields, star athlete - at one point the best skier in Norway - practically invented polar exploration, played an important role in the creation of Norway as an independent state, and ran humanitarian programmes for the UN that saved millions of lives.
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Old 08-18-2007, 06:10 PM
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Pretty sure Hitchens was the model for the drunken British journalist in Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities". Seems like Hemingway with 10% of the talent and no outdoor adventures.

Nice call on Frank "Bunny" Allen. He had one hell of a life. Did it "His Way", so to speak.



edit: How did I not know that Norway only became independent in 1905?
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Old 08-18-2007, 07:51 PM
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I know a guy who is basically anonymous but has spent his adult life starting companies. He's past 70 now and he looks mid 50s and is working at a new company he started 5 years ago. He's been in the center of at least 3 financial revolutions in the last 40 years and he's basically going to keep going at full speed until the day he drops dead. That sounds like just about the coolest thing I can imagine.
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Old 08-19-2007, 12:17 AM
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The most obvious one to me is Hugh Hefner . I would have loved to have had his life for obvious reasons.

A couple others are Frank Abignale . I think the balls he showed and the stunts he pulled were genius.

Also Arthur Frommer of the Frommer's series. Who wouldn't want to spend their whole lives on a working vacation?
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Old 08-19-2007, 12:23 AM
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Simen Agdestein was a striker for the Norwegian national (association) football team at the same time he was one of the world's top 20 chess players.

Bernard Moitessier does have nearly as great a range, but he made waves as a social activist and is one of the patron saints of 20th century sailing, as far as I can tell.
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Old 08-19-2007, 01:27 AM
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I know a guy who is basically anonymous but has spent his adult life starting companies. He's past 70 now and he looks mid 50s and is working at a new company he started 5 years ago. He's been in the center of at least 3 financial revolutions in the last 40 years and he's basically going to keep going at full speed until the day he drops dead. That sounds like just about the coolest thing I can imagine.

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I don't know what this says about me, but this doesn't even sound that interesting to me.
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Old 08-19-2007, 02:33 AM
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While I would hardly call him "awesome," Hitler's transformation from wannabe artist to war vet to vagrant to living embodiment of Germany is pretty fascinating.
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