What figures from history or philosophy (obviously ones you most
dislike, or even any whom you greatly admire) going up to present day,
would you least like (seriously or humorously) having as a next door
neighbor to you in our present day world and please say WHY, for each
ones named.

Gary wrote:

All of them. They would be constantly harassing me about going out in public
without a hat and dozens of other ancient customs.

Seriously the only way to address this is humorously. They would all be so out
of place with their quaint ideas they would be annoying at best. Even Socrates'
analogy fails when the shadows on the wall from from a steady electric light
instead of several varying and moving flames. For all I know the bugger might
start studying the philosophy of Edison and then trying to teach it to me.

Marx? His written idea of a worker's paradise was literally the workers living
the life of the nobility of his time, carriages, estates and all for everyone.
What a wild-eyed lunatic.

Maybe George Washington or Ben Franklin, both libertines so there would be one
point of shared modernity, but that damned Jefferson would be constantly
regaling me on the value of revolution and sedition for their own sake.

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:03:05 -0700, Gary wrote:

Gandhi: Property values would tank.

Jesus Christ: Too many police. All that coming and going.

Van Gogh: [ see gandhi ]

Karl Marx: Would not return lawnmower out of principle.

Moses: Frogs. Blood in water.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Shove property values, therefore taxes, too high.

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Hugh Hefner - His magazine was the first to shove open the pandora's box.

Ghengis Kahn - He was a murderering, raping, pillaging animal no matter how
history's perspective now glorifies him

Any skull and bones biker, teenybop pot smoker chill out punkers, any family
whose kids wear pants down past their butts, and worse of the worst, a
family with little white girl teenagers who bring around black punks who
knock them up [gawd...I gotta pick up and move further out into the 'burbs
on that one].

What a stupid question anyway. Much better to ask who one might WANT to
live next to. Which in case, I'd pick Alexander the Great, who could teach
me how to be proud again perhaps.

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Torquemada. Too serious.

Caligula. Too crazy, and parties that are just way too noisy.

James Dobson. Even in Colorado Springs, he's still _way_ too close.

Jim McCauley

On Sep 5, 6:29 am, Matt Giwer tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:

Beer! What is the point of beer? Wild turkey(tm) works faster,
requires less bathroom time and you wake up in the same jails.

Will in New Haven

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On Sep 5, 5:03 am, Gary hotmail.com> wrote:

Attila - too much gang violence
Rasputin - too much loud partying
Sweeney Todd - the bad smells
Guy Fawkes - too muich noise plus the risk of an accidental explosion

On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:19:31 -0700, Ed earthlink.net> wrote:

David S. Hines - for all the above reasons

James

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And the price of property would...

On Sep 5, 5:03 am, Gary hotmail.com> wrote:

Alferd Packer
Any surviving member of the Donner Party

their dietary habits

I might point out that one actual neighbor got arrested for dressing
up as Captain America and molesting women, and another has been
charged with stealing industrial secrets. Nice area.