Forget Finding a Cure for Cancer.....

There's a book that tells you who the 101 most influential people who NEVER lived!
WTF! Never LIVED!
Why do we need this book? I already know that Homer and Marge Simpson influence my life. I didn't need you to write a book about it.

Let's look at the list. Shall we?
*I started to comment on all of these. But then was at 20 and was like... no effing way am I going to continue this.... so I am now only going to do the ones I truly think are dumb.

1. The Marlboro Man (Me no smokey.... Me no care-y)

2. Big Brother (The TV show? haaha Just kidding)

3. King Arthur (And The Knights who say "Nee")

4. Santa Claus (St. Nick) (Is this because we spend so much money during the holidays?)

5. Hamlet ( I effing HATED Hamlet. Seriously? Influencial?)

6. Dr. Frankenstein's Monster (How???)

7. Siegfried (What about Roy?)

8. Sherlock Holmes (MRS. HUDSON!!!!!)

9. Romeo and Juliet (Influences what? Teenage Suicide? What? What that a little too harsh?)

10. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (HOW THEY WERE FAKE!!!!!)

11. Uncle Tom (::shaking my head::)

12. Robin Hood (I enjoyed the Disney version of this... where Robin Hood was a Fox)

13. Jim Crow (Jim Crow never existed?)

14. Oedipus (AHHHH I'm going to scream!)

15. Lady Chatterly (No clue who this is, and I'm not even going to google it)

16. Ebenezer Scrooge (I hate the Chirstmas Carol... for unrrelated reasons)

17. Don Quixote (I am not believing this one)

18. Mickey Mouse (He should be #1 or maybe 2)

19. The American Cowboy (Maybe in the early 20th Century)

20. Prince Charming

21. Smokey Bear

22. Robinson Crusoe

23. Apollo and Dionysus

24. Odysseus

25. Nora Helmer (Who?)

26. Cinderella

27. Shylock (Because he was a Jew? Uh... I don't get it)

28. Rosie the Riveter

29. Midas (King Midas?? Or the Muffler Shops?)

30. Hester Prynne

31. The Little Engine That Could

32. Archie Bunker (Yes... Finally someone who belongs here!)

33. Dracula (WHY???)

34. Alice in Wonderland

35. Citizen Kane (Rosebud??)

36. Faust

37. Figaro (The Cat from Pinocchio?)

38. Godzilla

39. Mary Richards

40. Don Juan

41. Bambi (Poor Deer)

42. William Tell

43. Barbie (Should be higher up on this list)

44. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Explain this one to me...)

45. Venus and Cupid

46. Prometheus

47. Pandora

48. G.I. Joe

49. Tarzan

50. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock

51. James Bond

52. Hansel and Gretel

53. Captain Ahab

54. Richard Blaine

55. The Ugly Duckling

56. Loch Ness Monster

57. Atticus Finch

58. Saint Valentine

59. Helen of Troy

60. Batman

61. Uncle Sam (61!!! Uncle Sam is 61 on this list... I hate this list)

62. Nancy Drew

63. J.R. Ewing (Awesome... Who shot J.R.?)

64. Superman

65. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

66. HAL 9000

67. Kermit the Frog

68. Sam Spade

69. The Pied Piper

70. Peter Pan

71. Hiawatha

72. Othello

73. The Little Tramp

74. King Kong

75. Norman Bates

76. Hercules

77. Dick Tracy

78. Joe Camel (Up there with the Marlboro Man)

79. The Cat in the Hat

80. Icarus

81. Mammy

82. Sindbad (He existed, and he was on A Different World)

83. Amos 'n' Andy

84. Buck Rogers

85. Luke Skywalker

86. Perry Mason

87. Dr. Strangelove

88. Pygmalion

89. Madame Butterfly

90. Hans Beckert

91. Dorothy Gale

92. The Wandering Jew ( Didn't we discuss this before?)

93. The Great Gatsby (I thought this was a book?)

94. Buck- Jack London, The Call of the Wild

95. Willy Loman

96. Betty Boop

97. Ivanhoe

98. Elmer Gantry

99. Lilith

100. John Doe

101. Paul Bunyan


Ok... That list is full of crap.
Who was influenced by half of those "Fictional" People?
Reading Sherlock Holmes or Nancy Drew did not influence me.
It is so out of whack.... Joe Camel was a huge influence on kids.
Just like the Monkees... They were a huge influence on the Beatles... :)