[They get brownie points for including Pope Michael, though.]
Posted on 12/12/2006 11:26:20 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman
[They get brownie points for including Pope Michael, though.]
This deserves your most careful attention ;^{)
Kristofferson ping...
QUATO LIVES!
He could be right about Kris Kristofferson.
No mention of Jimmah Carter and Fred Phelps? I demand a recount!
This is just bizarre people. You know like the one relative everybody has that you have to invite to the wedding but pray that it conflicts with their weekly meeting at the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge Society? Embarrassing but mostly harmless.
Phelps and Carter on the other hand are 99% pure evil.
"Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII "
My personal favorite "long-time WWII Japanese soldier" is Hiroo Onoda.
I saw a short documentary on him.
Tough as nails. Maniacal. So driven I'm glad I wasn't one of his
fellow soldiers that he out-lasted.
And the guy wouldn't surrender until his former commander flew in from
Japan to order his surrender.
In the documentary, one of his visits to the Japanese military school
showed him basically fuming about how soft the young Japanese were.
And he eventually decided Japan was too soft and moved to Brazil to run
a ranch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
Bihari: most officially dead person
Lal Bihari (born 1961) is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India who was officially dead from 1976 to 1994. He founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive.
When Lal Bihari tried to apply for a bank loan in 1976, he found out that he was officially dead. His uncle had bribed a government official to register him as dead so he would get the ownership of Bihari's land.
Bihari discovered at least 100 other people in a similar situation, being officially dead. He formed Mritak Sangh in the Azamgarh district. He and many other members were in danger of being killed by those who had appropriated their property. Nowadays the association has over 20,000 members all over India. By 2004 they had managed to declare four of their members alive. In 2004 he ran for a seat in the parliament of Lal Ganj.
Voting democrats....every single one of them....
Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII
Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding.
On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants. For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan, carrying his rusted rifle at his side.
Yeah, I saw THAT episode of Gilligan's Island.....
I remember the news reports of this guy. These fellows appeared one at a time every so often throughout the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. I don't think he was the last one.
Looks like James Car-vile would have topped that list.
Wow we've got some of the most random ping lists on FR..lol
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