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If you could bring someone famous back to life who would it be?.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,203 ✭✭✭Mech1


    Joey and Robert Dunlop, but on condition they hung up the leathers and went on to enjoy the retirement.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    The children of Syria...

    Political.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Mech1 wrote: »
    Joey and Robert Dunlop, but on condition they hung up the leathers and went on to enjoy the retirement.


    id say theyd prefer to stay dead...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    Oscar Wilde.

    He could furnish us with some amazing quips about the internet culture, I'm sure :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    danslevent wrote: »
    Oscar Wilde.

    He could furnish us with some amazing quips about the internet culture, I'm sure :D

    "The only thing worse than having totes loads of twitter followers, is having none #foreveralonememe"

    "I have nothing to declare except my bants #bantmeister #totalledge"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,964 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    mickstupp wrote: »
    Terry Pratchett and Iain Banks.

    Is Banks dead?


























    2 second Google search -

    Shit Iain Banks is dead...damn. He wrote one of my favorite novels ever. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Adolf Hitler, so that he could build decent roads in Ireland.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Victor McDade


    Any of these

    Elisa Lam
    Marlyn Monroe
    Benjamin Briggs

    Just so I could ask them "what the **** happened???"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Jon snow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,758 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    John Glenn

    always wanted to go to space but only for 20 mins or so, and then straight back down

    Feck that months on end crap


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭Classic Rock Man


    My mom.

    She was famous to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    Dimebag Darrell: Because I never got to see Pantera live as I was too young during their peak.

    Phil Lynott: Had plenty more music in him and Thin Lizzy should have taken a hiatus instead of breaking up, bands never took hiatus's in those days like bands do now, I think he'd be still alive if they had agreed to do that and himself and Gorham cleaned themselves up, Phil wouldn't have went into that downward spiral then.

    Kurt Cobain: Would still be doing great music if he were around.

    Robin Williams: Great versatile actor and was just hilarious in general, was gutted when he died.

    Lemmy: Because he was a character and it would have been awesome to still see him bashing out songs into his 70's and beyond.

    Layne Staley: Also had a lot of music left in him and was such a shame when he went, a lot of great frontmen had a lot of demons.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    Jeff Porcaro.

    If you don't know who that is, Google him. Legendary drummer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 GetWit.it


    Harvey Milk, so he could see all the progress he and so many others fought so hard for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 269 ✭✭retweet


    Michael Jackson.

    Would have loved to see him live.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭vagazzled


    Oscar Wilde. William S. Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and John Kennedy Toole for all his wasted potential.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    I would love to have a chat with michael Collins. He was a born leader and a very brave man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,372 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Michael Collins, John F, Kennedy, Alfred Hitchcock and Leonard Nimoy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Jean Danjou so I could shake his hand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭RupertsHabit


    That Simpsons guy.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    zcorpian88 wrote: »

    Layne Staley: Also had a lot of music left in him and was such a shame when he went, a lot of great frontmen had a lot of demons.

    The main problem with reanimating the corpse of Stayley is that he'd probably od again within a week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    The orignal Milky Bar kid and nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo=Babylonian Empire. They were great craic at beer pong apparently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭haveringchick


    Just Freddy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,030 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    Famous in what way, recent or..?

    Socrates, Plato, Voltaire.. at the height of their reasoning, to burrow into the human condition and maybe shine a light, I don't know.. They're still with us, in a way, underpinning our values and of course the works are read worldwide, that's a form of everlasting..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    My dad :(

    If wishing made it so.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Half the cast of Game of Thrones.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Heath Ledger. I'd say he still had a few good films left in him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭KenjiOdo


    Nikola Tesla


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,949 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Sun Tzu & Niccolò Machiavelli would be interesting company to sit down & debate with.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Bill Hicks. I'd love to hear his take on current politics.

    Oscar Wilde and Freddie mercury


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