ION, I just found the most hilarious poll graphic at Time.com. Suffice to say the question is "Who was most responsible for bringing down the Berlin Wall?", and the three names listed are Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, and David Hasselhoff.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2009 12:42:13 pm PST #24993 of 30001
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DavidS - Dec 14, 2009 12:43:13 pm PST #24994 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
As I recall it was the people of Berlin.
But I could vote for Hasselhoff.
Connie Neil - Dec 14, 2009 12:44:09 pm PST #24995 of 30001
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Reagan fans may be shocked at where their hero comes out in the poll.
Trudy Booth - Dec 14, 2009 12:45:04 pm PST #24996 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
As I recall it was the people of Berlin.
Or, arguably, those slacker snipers.
(I've always loved that the guards refused to shoot a bunch of unarmed people.)
Vortex - Dec 14, 2009 12:46:08 pm PST #24997 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I remember being in Germany and seeing a poster for a David Hasselhoff concert. We took a photo, of course.
When I lived in London, he got clowned on the radio when they said that the concert was cancelled because only 13 tickets had been sold, all to German exchange students! (well, the german exchange student part may or may not have been true, but it is true that only 13 tickets were sold.)
Polter-Cow - Dec 14, 2009 12:47:14 pm PST #24998 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But I could vote for Hasselhoff.
All 6 people in South Dakota did.
Was this some sort of joke? What does David Hasselhoff have to do with anything? All I know is that according to Norm Macdonald, Germans love David Hasselhoff.
Vortex - Dec 14, 2009 12:47:48 pm PST #24999 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Atropa - Dec 14, 2009 12:49:28 pm PST #25000 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Another interesting poll --
Cinema's Sexiest Vampire
Oh thank goodness, Catherine Deneuve is winning. But clearly the poll is still wrong, because it doesn't list David Bowie.
brenda m - Dec 14, 2009 12:58:23 pm PST #25001 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
He started it:
Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song 'Looking for Freedom' among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.
Though apparently, if you can decipher the drunken rambling, he walks it back here a few weeks ago? Haven't watched the vid.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2009 1:00:45 pm PST #25002 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I always wonder about the validity of my answer to the ER question to "Do you drink or smoke?" "Casually and no." Except casual drinking? I can go months without a drop. What is casual drinking? I only know not drinking and can imagine heavy drinking. A glass or two of wine with dinner three times a week--that's still casual, right? Getting hammered once every three months (still not me) is casual?
Robert Pattinson is doing entirely too well in that vampire poll. What's the sparkly tween version of slashdotting? Because they can't really be reading Time on their own.