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[Maynard23]

Winston Churchill, he proved that you can spend your whole life pissed, smoke as much as you like, and still live to a ripe old age. !!.

Apart from needlessly sending thousands of men to an early grave, he also cheated with his drinking.

Apparently he had one very watered down scotch prepared in the morning, and he just sipped from that throughout the day .... making it look like he was constantly drinking ...

But he did invent the tank

Yeah !!, pull the other leg, old Winnie was a notorious piss artist.

No really! .... I read it in one of the many biographies about his colourful life, about ten years ago, and have been watering my wine down ever since as a tribute

And here I am, smoking forty a day and getting rat-arsed as often as I can.............. Do you think Winnie was a bad influence then ?.

[Oracle]

Winston Churchill, he proved that you can spend your whole life pissed, smoke as much as you like, and still live to a ripe old age. !!.

Apart from needlessly sending thousands of men to an early grave, he also cheated with his drinking.

Apparently he had one very watered down scotch prepared in the morning, and he just sipped from that throughout the day .... making it look like he was constantly drinking ...

But he did invent the tank

Yeah !!, pull the other leg, old Winnie was a notorious piss artist.

No really! .... I read it in one of the many biographies about his colourful life, about ten years ago, and have been watering my wine down ever since as a tribute

And here I am, smoking forty a day and getting rat-arsed as often as I can.............. Do you think Winnie was a bad influence then ?.

Time will tell!

But I think some of his other influences were definitely bad ....

[bill cobbett]

Been thinking realy hard about this one. Can't think of anyone. Do you think that's a problem?

Ok, for the sake of provocative conversational chat and nothing else :-

Oliver Cromwell for a couple of reasons. For his contribution to modern parliamentary democracy and on a more personal level (with me anyway) for something he said, presumably re Divine Right, along the lines of ... to stop and think for a moment that you might be wrong. In other words to be cautious of certainty in our own thinking and to be wary of those who are certain in theirs.

[Maynard23]

Been thinking realy hard about this one. Can't think of anyone. Do you think that's a problem?

Ok, for the sake of provocative conversational chat and nothing else :-

Oliver Cromwell for a couple of reasons. For his contribution to modern parliamentary democracy and on a more personal level (with me anyway) for something he said, presumably re Divine Right, along the lines of ... to stop and think for a moment that you might be wrong. In other words to be cautious of certainty in our own thinking and to be wary of those who are certain in theirs.

I think old Ollie would be marching his troops into the houses of parliament if he was about these days.

[bill cobbett]

Yes. This lot could do with a good kick up the Rump.

[Sega]

I have been the greatest inspiration to myself.

You too ... I want to know why!

Everybody is different. As long as you try to better yourself and look and learn from other people's mistakes you are the inspiration to yourself.

The only person who can inspire me, is me, as I am unique, along with everybody else on this world. I can achieve anything, as long as I put my mind and heart in it.

[miltiades]

Mother Theresa .

You have to say why ....

Devoted her entire life in looking after and providing health care food and shelter to countless of Indian "untouchables" as well as to other needy and sick people in more than 120 countries the world over with over 600 missions worldwide , for no other reason that she cared deeply for the plight of these wretched people whose own government did noting for .
She devoted her entire life looking after the sick and the needy asking for nothing in return , no honours , although the recipient of the Nobel price , no financial gain but I presume a massive amount of pride and satisfaction deriving from her work. I have the utmost respect for those that forgo all of life's " luxuries " and devote their life in helping their fellow humans .
Her exemplary work was recognised by all and in particular by Pope Paul VI who on October 7, 1950, gave his permission allowing her to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to care for those people that nobody was prepared to do so.

Truly one of the greatest humans of the 20th century !
I'm not religious but here I say to her , Makaria sou i mnimi , may she rest in peace.

[Maynard23]

2nd choice has got to be "Kilroy" because he seems to have been everywhere.

[Oracle]

Whilst Madame Curie was my inspiration against the anti-women-in-science brigade ........

...... Mahatma Gandhi inspired my appreciation of peaceful demonstration against Mighty Powers that influence us daily ... a truly spiritual inspirer.

Fleeting mention was made of him in History class at school (UK ) so it wasn't till I saw the film in the 80's that I was prompted to adopt those values that were being suppressed in Thatcher's Britain.

Having found the courage for peaceful civil disobedience, I finally came out to my mother as a vegetarian (she's still alive despite "near-death" from the disgrace), wore lots of white, dated a Hindu and found brotherly union at the British Commonwealth Institute which opened my eyes as to the real reason we were living in Britain.

[GorillaGal]

I have been the greatest inspiration to myself.

i'm with sega. it's me.
and before oracle asks why, i will say that it is becuase i am the only one responsible for myself. i have been on my own for as long as i can remember, and i have done just fine, despite the odds.
i have come back from a terminal illness. i have a successfull business i built from scratch. i kicked the smoking habit, and a real bad drug habit (major pot-head). lost a ton of weight. raised alot of money for charities. pursued new hobbies in my 40's. i don't let being alone stop me from doing what i want. yup...imho, i am pretty awesome!