World's Top 100 Intellectuals

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:55 pm

Sri Lanky wrote:I figured ROB would have cracked the top 50.

...who do you think Tariq Ramadan is?
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby JohnnyFishfinger » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:22 pm

shivers wrote:
Medevac wrote:How do you define an intellectual? According to the Khmer Rouge, it's anyone wearing glasses. According to Billy Connolly, it's anyone who can hear the William Tell overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.
If there is going to be a list of spectacle wearing music snobs, it's probably got to be taken with a pinch of salt.


If that's the definition of intellectual, then color me guilty. That overture reminds me of the most gawdawful singing I've ever heard: Chris Merritt as Arnold Melcthal @ San Francisco Opera in 1997.


according to the miners who crashed the student uprising in 1990 in Romania it's people with glasses but also with beards.

If you're a woman intellectual then you had to be pregnant
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby Bobby Sands » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:26 pm

Devlin wrote:What a load of bullshit ! Mojo Nixon is not on there.


If you don't have Mojo Nixon, then your store could use some fixin'
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby Bobby Sands » Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:31 pm

RYP wrote:
1 Fethullah Gulen
2 Muhammad Yunus
3 Yusuf al-Qaradawi
4 Orhan Pamuk
5 Aitzaz Ahsan
6 Amr Khaled
7 Abdolkarim Soroush
8 Tariq Ramadan
9 Mahmood Mamdani
10 Shirin Ebadi
11 Noam Chomsky


Is that the world's top intellectuals, or the payroll list for a 7-11 in Cleveland, OH?
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby RYP » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:19 pm

the two magazines who chose this list are read by the same people on the list. Their audience is the tired diplomatic and foriegn policy corps who seems to be obsessed with the middle east, israel and America's place in it. its kinda like hanging out with the AV club in high school...lot of talking about serious things but not much action.

I will take one Attila the Hun over a thousand intellectuals.

Perhaps there should be a list of Top 100 People Who Make Shit Happen.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby IT_whipping_boy » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:47 pm

Gary Kasperov?

BWAAAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby JohnnyFishfinger » Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:23 pm

I much rather prefer this top:

http://www.porn-star.com/top100-2007t.html

Jenna Jameson
Briana Banks
Stormy Daniels
Tera Patrick
Gina Lynn
Crissy Moran
Catalina Cruz
Lanni Barbie
Shyla Stylez
Janine Lindemulder
Jesse Jane
Mercedez
Devon
Silvia Saint
Nicole Sheridan
Brittney Skye
Gauge
Krystal Steal
Amber Michaels
Tawny Roberts
Veronica Zemanova
Houston
Eva Angelina
Puma Swede
Amy Reid
Sophie Sweet
Racquel Darrian
Miko Lee
Aria Giovanni
Teagan Presley
Adele Stephens
Mindy Vega
Tory Lane
Kobe Tai
Carmella Bing
Adriana Sage
Cherokee
Sydney Moon
Kyla Cole
Sky Lopez
Jasmin St. Claire
Jill Kelly
Devinn Lane
Erica Campbell
Zdenka Podkapova
Chloe Jones
Carmen Luvana
Anita Dark
Rachel Aziani
Nikki Nova
Ava Devine
Penny Flame
Rita Faltoyano
Niki Blond
Jenna Haze
Jana Cova
Terri Summers
Belladonna
Asia Carrera
Danni Ashe
Bobbi Eden
Kim Chambers
Alaura Eden
Bree Olson
Jodie Moore
Alicia Rhodes
Katja Kassin
Katsumi
Charmane Star
Sandra Shine
Alexis Amore
Anetta Keys
Ashton Moore
Susana Spears
Stephanie Swift
Alexa Rae
Jewel De Nyle
Kelly Madison
Sydnee Steele
Lisa Sparxxx
Audrey Bitoni
Gianna Michaels
Lonnie Waters
Tabitha Stern
Angelica Sin
Taylor Rain
Avy Scott
Raven Riley
Gina Ryder
Dasha
Nicole Graves
Julia Bond
Chloe Dior
Jessica Jaymes
Sandee Westgate
Aurora Snow
Austin Kincaid
Courtney Cummz
Charlie Laine
Alektra Blue
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby nowonmai » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:43 pm

Devon? That's a pretty crap porn name. Shame she hadn't heard of East Riding.
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would explain the glasses

Postby el3so » Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:49 pm

RYP wrote:an intellectual is someone who can challenge your views and possibly enhance them without making you feeling stupid.


Enhance people's views? You mean like an optician?

OT: calling it a mutually-beneficial onanistic happening doesn't make it less of a circle-jerk.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:12 pm

Devon? That's a pretty crap porn name.

maybe she's extra creamy?
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby senbre9 » Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:22 am

A guy could cruise the members list here and come up with oodles of good names for wanna be porn stars , no? How about Penta Starr? -lol

Ditto about the comment for the intelligentsia not on the list supplied by Prospect and FP but it probably makes the case rest for them probably quite happy being out of the TOP 100!

http://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcas ... apham.html

Well at leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssssssst 101

Er, and how about the man once stated to have coined the term vast right-wing conspiracy?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/sidneyblumenthal

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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby nowonmai » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:06 am

maybe she's extra creamy?


Now you mention it that's why I don't like the name, makes me think of things that need natural yoghurt.

Got a bit of sick in my mouth now, back soon..
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:20 am

nowonmai wrote:
maybe she's extra creamy?


Now you mention it that's why I don't like the name, makes me think of things that need natural yoghurt.

Got a bit of sick in my mouth now, back soon..

good point
it's good on scones but leave the clotted cream out of the bedroom.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby ROB » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:24 am

Foreign Policy Magazine wrote:For example, a number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites. Others issued press releases or gave interviews to local newspapers.


Sorry, this list (as Sri Lanky noted) is clearly a pile of shit.

There is a co-citation index for acedemics which is a far better metric.
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Re: World's Top 100 Intellectuals

Postby coldharvest » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:26 am

ROB wrote:[quote=Foreign Policy Magazine]For example, a number of intellectuals—including Aitzaz Ahsan, Noam Chomsky, Michael Ignatieff, and Amr Khaled—mounted voting drives by promoting the list on their Web sites. Others issued press releases or gave interviews to local newspapers.


Sorry, this list (as Sri Lanky noted) is clearly a pile of shit.

There is a co-citation index for acedemics which is a far better metric.[/quote]
...so you're not Tariq Ramadan?
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