Sunday, June 5, 2005

Greatest Americans: Taxonomy (part 2)

A Stretch (28)

§           Arnold Schwarzenegger

§           Barbara Bush

§           Bill Clinton

§           Bill Cosby

§           Carl Sagan

§           Christopher Reeve

§           Clint Eastwood

§           George W. Bush

§           Hillary Rodham Clinton

§           Condoleezza Rice

§           Elvis Presley

§           Frank Sinatra

§           Helen Keller

§           Howard Hughes

§           Jimmy Carter

§           John Wayne

§           Johnny Carson

§           Katharine Hepburn

§           Lucille Ball

§           Robert Kennedy

§           Maya Angelou

§           Mel Gibson

§           Michael Jordan

§           Richard Nixon

§           Rudolph W. Giuliani

§           Oprah Winfrey

§           Ray Charles

§           Steven Spielberg

 

Flat Out Ridiculous (21)

§           Barack Obama

§           Brett Favre

§           Ellen DeGeneres

§           Hugh Hefner

§           John Edwards

§           Laura Bush

§           Madonna

§           Martha Stewart

§           Michael Jackson

§           Dr. Phil McGraw

§           Pat Tillman

§           Michael Moore

§           Tiger Woods

§           Tom Cruise

§           Tom Hanks

§           Donald Trump

§           George Lucas

§           Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

§           Rush Limbaugh

§           Marilyn Monroe

§           Steve Jobs

 

So, who do you think is the most ridiculous nominee?  Barack Obama?  John Edwards?  Dr. Phil?  Ellen?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, Bill Gates rates as "Likely" but Steve Jobs is "Flat out ridiculous"?  Methinks your anti-Apple bias is showing.  I would agree that Gates' influence has been greater than Jobs', but not as wide a gap as your clasisfications indicates.

Jobs should probably be upgraded to "A Stretch", and Gates should be downgraded to "Plausible".

Anonymous said...

You're probably right.  I noticed that i had Jobs in the wrong bucket (by one level, i believe), but decided to leave it that way, if for no other reason than to see if you'd catch it.  :-)

It's really hard to rate business people anyway.