***Geek Club History Draft***

[Voltaire 5,203]

I'm pretty bitter about your Cleopatra pick. I felt my picks needed a more scholarly bent, so I went Hemingway first. I would have picked Cleo next fur sure. Nice work.

I figured people would get to that category really soon so I had to prioritize it. Here's the thing about Seductress category... there's a lot of them. Plug in any king and you've got 80% if not more chance of finding some illicit lover. With some effort you find names. But the thing is, I know jack sh*t about any of them and fock all if I'm going to put that much work into it to figure out if this king's mistress is more seductive than that ones.

 

Then there's chicks that are legendary for their mind-blowing hotness but don't really do much seducing. There are wives that are loyal. There are chicks that you think were seducing but you don't know the juicy bits. Two of my favorites aren't real. Scheherazade is a work of fiction, not a real woman. Devastating. It's a tough category and there's not a lot of details unless you are inclined to dig through dead guys' bedrooms which isn't my thing.

 

You know how I've been throwing TBBOM under the bus for choosing to draft in this polluted environment... yeah... well this is his category.

[shotsup 832]

Yeah, this place sucks. I mean I like it,

 

Anyways, this draft isn't one of them. I've known all along the Geek Club wasn't cut out for this sort of thing. It was TBBOM's idea to recruit here. I thought he was nuts. I've known all along this place is a toilet.

.

Tell me about it. I tried to start a thread about reading a book and got shot down.

When I'm. A smart one some things a wrong with this town.

[shotsup 832]

Toilet not town

[iam90sbaby 2,496]

Okay sorry I'm late I will take

 

J. Robert Oppenheimer - Leader of Manhattan project.

 

 

Roger L. Easton - Inventor of GPS

 

 

 

So I now have planes, automobiles, GPS, atom bomb and computers..... I am definitely winning when it comes to warfare.

[Voltaire 5,203]

Okay sorry I'm late I will take

 

J. Robert Oppenheimer - Leader of Manhattan project.

 

 

Roger L. Easton - Inventor of GPS

 

 

 

So I now have planes, automobiles, GPS, atom bomb and computers..... I am definitely winning when it comes to warfare.

Welcome back. You had me nervous.

 

You are now all caught up and also on deck with two more. I hope you'll be able to check in regularly. Also, with me on the far corner, you can PM me some picks to plug in for you if you think you'll be away.

[iam90sbaby 2,496]

Robert E. Lee - General - The only reason the south even had a chance in the civil war.

 

Tamerlane - Conquerer

[Voltaire 5,203]

Robert E. Lee - General - The only reason the south even had a chance in the civil war.

 

Tamerlane - Conquerer

 

It didn't come full circle back to you. You're one away. We're still waiting on Vudu.

 

Generals come in two flavors: Strategic and Tactical. Lee ranks better in tactical IMO but you can switch him. Also this is kind of unofficial. We have to make sure Vudu doesn't take him.

[iam90sbaby 2,496]

Oh oops sorry about that. I will message you another name incase he takes one of them.

[iam90sbaby 2,496]

Picks 7.7 and 8.1 on trade block!

 

 

Just kidding.

[BiPolarBear 483]

Picks 7.7 and 8.1 on trade block!

 

 

Just kidding.

 

[shotsup 832]

Just kidding.

Nerd humor or not

[vuduchile 1,945]

Athlete. Michael Jordan

 

The best there ever was. Flash plus substance. Fierce competitor and nobody better when the game was on the line.

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

It didn't come full circle back to you. You're one away. We're still waiting on Vudu.

 

Generals come in two flavors: Strategic and Tactical. Lee ranks better in tactical IMO but you can switch him. Also this is kind of unofficial. We have to make sure Vudu doesn't take him.

Those picks can stand

 

My next pick will be up shortly

[vuduchile 1,945]

Explorer - Neil Armstrong.

 

Fock Columbus, Magellan, Lewis and Clark and all the rest. Those guys explored places here on earth that the "civilized" world hadn't previously known. But, there were already human inhabitants in all those places.

 

On the other hand, Neil Armstrong flew in a goddamned rocket ship to another PLANET! Did you hear what I said? A different planet. As in, NOT this one you're sitting on. When he got there, he got out of the rocket and took a little stroll just to see what he could see.

 

Who gives a sh!t if we learned anything useful from his exploration. And don't gimme any lip about all the NASA guys running the show from the ground.

 

This guy set foot in a place where no human had ever gone before. The entire world was captivated by his trip and his success opened the floodgates for space exploration beyond mankind's wildest dreams.

 

This guy was brave, adventurous, and as cool as a cucumber. Vasco De Gama couldn't carry his jock.

[jerryskids 6,579]

Explorer - Neil Armstrong.

 

Fock Columbus, Magellan, Lewis and Clark and all the rest. Those guys explored places here on earth that the "civilized" world hadn't previously known. But, there were already human inhabitants in all those places.

 

On the other hand, Neil Armstrong flew in a goddamned rocket ship to another PLANET! Did you hear what I said? A different planet. As in, NOT this one you're sitting on. When he got there, he got out of the rocket and took a little stroll just to see what he could see.

 

Who gives a sh!t if we learned anything useful from his exploration. And don't gimme any lip about all the NASA guys running the show from the ground.

 

This guy set foot in a place where no human had ever gone before. The entire world was captivated by his trip and his success opened the floodgates for space exploration beyond mankind's wildest dreams.

 

This guy was brave, adventurous, and as cool as a cucumber. Vasco De Gama couldn't carry his jock.

 

Nice call. I'm enjoying following this draft, especially picks like this where people are thinking outside of the planet errr.... box.

[kutulu 1,659]

What other planet?

[Voltaire 5,203]

What other planet?

Forget it. He's rolling.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Volty, let me know when it's my turn again. I can't navigate back to the first page to see the order on this janky piece of crap bored.

[vuduchile 1,945]

What other planet?

Ok. Landed on a celestial body that orbits our planet. Also known as the moon

 

Better?

[Voltaire 5,203]

I'm having a devil of a time logging in here. Mike's hamster is really huffing it. It took me over thirty attempts to get in here just now. Maybe we really -no joke- should set up a weekend home over at ed's.

 

moregfiafp.boards.net

 

I'll start up a thread there we can post in both places. I joke about avoiding trolls and what not. This is a real and legitimate logistics problem.

[BiPolarBear 483]

I posted at bored nomo (my name for ed's bored) that I couldn't get in here to make my pick this morning. Tried for two hours. Anyway:

 

Steve Jobs - Businessman

 

He made over 4 billion on Pixar. Oh, and then there is that Apple thing.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I select Homer - poet

 

The Iliad and the oddesey are probably the most influential poems ever written in western culture.

[Voltaire 5,203]

8.5 - Martin Luther - Reformer

 

9.1 Ohh this is a toughie... coinflip...

 

9.1 Hannibal - General (tactical)

[Voltaire 5,203]

I select Homer - poet

 

The Iliad and the oddesey are probably the most influential poems ever written in western culture.

They weren't written they were memorized and recited orally for 800 years before an alphabet became available to which they could be written down. That the story line up so well with archaeological finding is really a testament to the quality and professionalism of the bards who kept the story going all those many generations.

 

And not just the Illiad but King Minos, lots of stories from pre-history, pre-writing survived.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

You mother focker. One of those two was gonna be my next pick.

 

Otto Von Bismark, advisor.

 

Pretty much single handedly unified the German empire from the patchwork of principalities if has historically been. Standing behind the Hohenzollern throne, he turned Prussia from a second rate power into the core of the strongest country in Europe.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

They weren't written they were memorized and recited orally for 800 years before an alphabet became available to which they could be written down. That the story line up so well with archaeological finding is really a testament to the quality and professionalism of the bards who kept the story going all those many generations.

 

And not just the Illiad but King Minos, lots of stories from pre-history, pre-writing survived.

So are you saying my pick is invalid?

[Voltaire 5,203]

You mother focker. One of those two was gonna be my next pick.

 

Otto Von Bismark, advisor.

 

Pretty much single handedly unified the German empire from the patchwork of principalities if has historically been. Standing behind the Hohenzollern throne, he turned Prussia from a second rate power into the core of the strongest country in Europe.

 

 

So are you saying my pick is invalid?

What? Oh no, not at all. Not only is Homer is OK but his entire cast of characters as well. Well ... maybe not Hera and Aphrodite.

[BiPolarBear 483]

They say that when he escaped from jail, he didn't even mess up his hair. He helps his people and is a much loved hero celebrated in many folk songs.

 

 

El Chapo, Jaquin Guzman - Criminal

[Voltaire 5,203]

This was more the way I was thinking when I set up the category but I gotta say I really loved Vudu's decision to plug Nelson Mandela in as 'Criminal' rather than 'Reformer' because a light went on in my head. I thought of some other great people with great causes who were incarcerated so I plan to mix in -shall we call them- good criminals with bad ones.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Inventor

 

Johannes Gutenberg

 

Another German

 

Inventor of the printing press. His 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.

 

From the 15th century up through the time Al Gore invented the Internet, the printed word was a primary tool for communication, education, and entertainment.

 

It'll be 100% obsolete in 10 years if not sooner

 

You had a good run Johannes!

[Voltaire 5,203]

Great pick. I don't have an inventor yet, this was one of the two guys I was looking at.

[Voltaire 5,203]

90sbaby's picks are here in my PM.

He wants :

 

Adolph Hitler (Evil Motherfocker)

 

and

 

Julius Caesar - General (Strategical)

 

He'd had another name he gave me as an alternative last round, but he's changed his mind since then.

[Voltaire 5,203]

So back to vudu

[vuduchile 1,945]

Great Woman

 

I'd like to see Rhonda Rousey in the cage with this dyke.

 

Joan of Arc

 

Joan of Arc, in French, Jeanne d'Arc, also called the Maid of Orleans, a patron saint of France and a national heroine, led the resistance to the English invasion of France in the Hundred Years War.

 

When Joan was about 12 years old, she began hearing "voices" of St. Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret believing them to have been sent by God. These voices told her that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne. They told her to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up the arms.

 

Joan convinced the captain of the dauphin's forces, and then the dauphin himself of her calling. After passing an examination by a board of theologians, she was given troops to command and the rank of captain.

 

At the battle of Orleans in May 1429, Joan led the troops to a miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in other locations along the Loire. Fear of troops under her leadership was so formidable that when she approached Lord Talbot's army at Patay, most of the English troops and Commander Sir John Fastolfe fled the battlefield. Fastolfe was later stripped of his Order of the Garter for this act of cowardice. Although Lord Talbot stood his ground, he lost the battle and was captured along with a hundred English noblemen and lost 1800 of his soldiers.

 

Charles VII was crowned king of France on July 17, 1429 in Reims Cathedral. At the coronation, Joan was given a place of honor next to the king. Later, she was ennobled for her services to the country.

 

In 1430 she was captured by the Burgundians while defending Compiegne near Paris and was sold to the English. The English, in turn, handed her over to the ecclesiastical court at Rouen led by Pierre Cauchon, a pro-English Bishop of Beauvais, to be tried for witchcraft and heresy. Much was made of her insistence on wearing male clothing. She was told that for a woman to wear men's clothing was a crime against God. Her determination to continue wearing it (because her voices hadn't yet told her to change, as well as for protection from sexual abuse by her jailors) was seen as defiance and finally sealed her fate. Joan was convicted after a fourteen-month interrogation and on May 30, 1431 she was burned at the stake in the Rouen marketplace. She was nineteen years old. Charles VII made no attempt to come to her rescue.

 

In 1456 a second trial was held and she was pronounced innocent of the charges against her. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV

[Voltaire 5,203]

Just a reminder fellas, especially Sundays during football season have been notoriously bad at FFToday with error messages common. We can follow along at ed's place http://nomoregfiafp.boards.net/thread/1016/second-home-geek-history-draft

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I will pick evil person - Iosef Vivassarionovich Dzhvuhashilli (aka Joseph Stalin). Probably the most prolific killer in history, his victims number between 10 and 60 million due to famine, execution, and exposure.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I will take the first off the board in the Doctor category.

 

 

 

 

Hippocrates of Kos (/hɪˈpɒkrəˌtiːz/; Greek: Ἱπποκράτης; Hippokrátēs; c. 460 c. 370 BC) was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the "Father of Western Medicine"[1][2][3] in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine. This intellectual school revolutionized medicine in ancient Greece, establishing it as a discipline distinct from other fields with which it had traditionally been associated (theurgy and philosophy), thus establishing medicine as a profession.[4][5]

 

However, the achievements of the writers of the Corpus, the practitioners of Hippocratic medicine, and the actions of Hippocrates himself were often commingled; thus very little is known about what Hippocrates actually thought, wrote, and did. Hippocrates is commonly portrayed as the paragon of the ancient physician, and credited with coining the Hippocratic Oath, still relevant and in use today. He is also credited with greatly advancing the systematic study of clinical medicine, summing up the medical knowledge of previous schools, and prescribing practices for physicians through the Hippocratic Corpus and other works.[4][6]

[Voltaire 5,203]

10.3 for Bipolarbear is Robin Williams - Talk Show Guest

 

My picks on the corner are

 

10.5 Augustus Caesar - Administrator - Bringer of Pax Romana, former of the Roman Empire, the height of Roman prestige, power and economic might reigned for 40 years. The Roman Empire of popular imagination is the Rome run by Augustus.

 

11.1 Subotai - General (Strategical)

 

If you're not familiar with him here's a cut and paste of the first paragraph from his wikipedia entry. Wiki does a terrible job on some of the people I will want to draft but they do him justice and I'm feeling lazy.

 

Subutai (Classical Mongolian: Sübügätäi or Sübü'ätäi; Modern Mongolian: Сүбэдэй, Sübedei; Chinese: 速不台 1175–1248) was a Tuva Turkic general, and the primary military strategist of Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan. He directed more than twenty campaigns in which he conquered thirty-two nations and won sixty-five pitched battles, during which he conquered or overran more territory than any other commander in history.[1] He gained victory by means of imaginative and sophisticated strategies and routinely coordinated movements of armies that were hundreds of kilometers away from each other. He is also remembered for devising the campaign that destroyed the armies of Hungary and Poland within two days of each other, by forces over five hundred kilometers apart.

 

Lots more.

[Voltaire 5,203]

11.3 BPB - Jacques Cousteau - Explorer

 

He posted at Ed's board ... http://nomoregfiafp.boards.net/thread/1016/second-home-geek-history-draft?page=1#post-18364

[vuduchile 1,945]

Statesman. George Washington

 

The first President of the greatest nation the world has ever known.