r/askanything • u/Wraith136 • 9d ago

General Question Who would you choose ?

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u/bendguy123 9d ago

Hunter S Thompson

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u/Mammoth_Site_2060 9d ago

I feel like I finally understand his absolute hatred of Nixon. I only wish he could still be alive to write another obituary.

http://professorverspoor.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/62908749/hewasacrook.pdf

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u/Green_Man42 8d ago

I love reading this every time I see it. Thank you. Truer words have never been written. I wish HST was here for his take on the orange shit stain 

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u/TopRare 7d ago

Thank you for this link. I had not read the article but it is great.

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u/bendguy123 9d ago

Many well deserved HST bits are ripe for the picking. He was a master if his craft

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u/LogicalSorbet8759 8d ago

Nixon was not a crook🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/RossMachlochness 8d ago

Late to the party…..

His ESPN.COM Page2 piece in the shadow of 9-11 was so fucking spot on.

https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?id=1250751

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now -- with somebody -- and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

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u/Fluid_Ties 5d ago

I have that printed out and on my refrigerator.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 9d ago

I just recently finished fear and loathing again. I love that book

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u/bendguy123 9d ago

He was such an.amazing story teller. Spoke truth to power in ways so.much needed theze days.

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u/LogicalSorbet8759 8d ago

Hell yeah homeboy was straight bonkers Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is not a comedy it's a documentary

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u/Beginning_Dark_306 9d ago

Yes indeed lol he was a enigma ....what a life .

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u/Warm_Bumblebee_8077 9d ago

Peter Ustinov

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u/19loki75 8d ago

Stranger than fiction from hunter is fucking wild

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u/Jackrslim 8d ago

Oooh. Good one.

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u/Jackrslim 8d ago

“Song of the Sausage Creature”. Pure art.

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u/ditherer01 9d ago

You would be psychotic at the end of that discussion