Ultimate Draft II (Congrats to Roy for winning Best Overall)

[nickagneta]

StartOrien's up then we just need a few people to fill in some blanks.

What's the next part?

[StartOrien]

While others might have chosen ficticious "gods" such as Zeus, and, well, god himself, with my author selection Start Orien's wonderporium selects the REAL creator

L. Ron Hubbard

Wonderporium:

Monarch: Yolanda Griffith
TV Host: Troy McClure
Comic Strip: Road Block
Wrestler: Mr. Perfect
Explorer: Michael J. Fox
80's TV: Uncle Jesse
WILDCARD: Charlie Kelly
Philosopher: The Genius
Author: L. Ron Hubbard

[Redz]

StartOrien's up then we just need a few people to fill in some blanks.

What's the next part?

Teams will be judged on the following

5 Criteria
Smartest
World Conquerors
Funniest
Best Hoops Team
Best Overall

We'll go one by one through these categories.  If you want to be considered for a category you'll state your case and we'll put up a poll.

[nickagneta]

Maybe my brain just doesn't work the right way for this draft. I don't see how one can say one team is better than another when it comes to best overall. Probably the last time I do this.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get it. I think I'm just too left brain dominant to completely get it.

[Redz]

Maybe my brain just doesn't work the right way for this draft. I don't see how one can say one team is better than another when it comes to best overall. Probably the last time I do this.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get it. I think I'm just too left brain dominant to completely get it.

Nope.  I'm thinking you're just over thinking it.  It's all for fun Nick.  Best Over All would is purely subjective, as any of this is. 

[StartOrien]

Finally, with my Celtic pick, the Wonderporium proudly selects:

Leprechaun from Leprechaun in the Hood

Wonderporium:

Monarch: Yolanda Griffith
TV Host: Troy McClure
Comic Strip: Road Block
Wrestler: Mr. Perfect
Explorer: Michael J. Fox
80's TV: Uncle Jesse
WILDCARD: Charlie Kelly
Philosopher: The Genius
Author: L. Ron Hubbard
Celtic: Leprechaun from Leprechaun in the Hood

[action781]

I apologize, I should have put more thought into this and am kind of rushing it because I have things to do today but don't want to hold this up.  I've been putting more thought into the other threads.

Author:  Author of Principia, Sir Isaac Newton.  Needed help along the lines of "smartest"

Explorer:  Former Seattle Mariner Randy Johnson.  Get's me some extra needed height and intimidation on the team.

Action781:

author: Sir Isaac Newton
monarch: genghis khan
philosopher: Descartes
comic strip character: Robin
explorer: randy johnson
celtic: scalabrine
80's tv character: bill cosby
pro. wrestler: Hulk Hogan
tv host/announcer: bill walton
wild card: chuck norris

[nickagneta]

Maybe my brain just doesn't work the right way for this draft. I don't see how one can say one team is better than another when it comes to best overall. Probably the last time I do this.

I don't know. I guess I just don't get it. I think I'm just too left brain dominant to completely get it.

Probably. I do tend to overthink things. Just my nature.

Nope.  I'm thinking you're just over thinking it.  It's all for fun Nick.  Best Over All would is purely subjective, as any of this is. 

[indeedproceed]

5 Reasons My Team Is The Smartest:

1) I have a legitimate space man, Neil Armstrong. Sure its fine for Stephen Hawking to speculate about the cosmos...Neil Armstrong has gazed into the void, and the void gazed back. And Winked. And gave him its number. 

2) Nearly everyone including my two smartest guys are self-medicated educated. Abraham Lincoln and Ernest Hemingway didn't need no stinkin' college to shape America's intellectual landscape. These men are just naturally so intelligent, that they can do it on their own.

3) And they're not some kind of ancient smart that is completely irrelevant today..they're all mostly modern smart. Hacksaw Jim Duggan just got back from Paris. He delivered a lecture on his recently published treatise on the evolution of language compared with the earliest known instances of communal cooking fires. Huey Freeman is social revolutionary. Tupac Shakur might appear to be a thug on the surface (and maybe its because he has 'thug life' tattooed across his stomach), but give that guy a rubix cube and he'll solve it in 5 seconds flat (he'll shoot it).

4) Al Bundy and Tommy Heinsohn are great examples of the "everyman smart" that is so often ignored in this liberal elitist ultimate drafting contest. Both men, completely uneducated and maybe the most base examples of an American male are geniuses in their own right. Al Bundy has done to pessimism what Van Gogh was able to do to a Starry Night. He has done to hope what LeBron James has done to Cleveland. He is a master in his own depressing way. Tommy Heinsohn on the other hand is responsible for the creation of the "Tommy Point". He also invented scotch and homer-centric color commentary.

5) If you don't vote for Bill The Butcher he'll kill you.

[Edgar]

Vote good guys

[Kiorrik]

If you have a blank space of something a red "skip" line here, please submit a pick ASAP.  Bahku if you could remind me of the 9th pick I'd appreciate it.  Kiorrik needs to make 4 picks.

I'd love to get the next part of this going tonight or tomorrow.

Sorry for the half attempt at joining this. I really liked the idea, but I don't have time to finish this today. I'm afraid job hunting goes first atm.

Apologies.

[Redz]

Well then, let's start stating your cases for the SMARTEST category.  If you'd like to be considered for voting in this category you must convince the future voters.

[Redz]

Hmmm...let's see Smartest huh

REDZ' RAZERS

Author:  Douglas Adams
Monarch: Vlad the Impaler
Philosopher: Confucius
Comic Strip Character: Bill the Cat
Explorer: Captain Merrill Stubing (Love Boat)
Celtic:  Larry Bird
80's TV Character: Warren Coolidge (White Shadow)
Professional Wrestler:  Andre the Giant
TV Host/Announcer: Guy Smiley
Wild Card: Godzilla

Douglas Adams and Confucious are probably the true brains of the operation.  Bird is certainly smart in a basketball sort of way.  Merrill Stubing kept a large boat afloat with lots of celebrity passengers, that's got to take some brains, right?  Vlad the Impaler managed to keep his job despite being the kind of guy who enjoys some good bloodletting and mass impalements - that takes some brains, yes?

I can't, in good conscience, come up with much an argument for Bill the Cat in the Smartest category, but much like his friends in Bloom County I'll let the others carry the weight for him.

So yeh, my team's wicked smart.  Vote for us!

[KCattheStripe]

Author: The most famous author in the history of the English language:

Author of the best piece of meta-theatre ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dI65LvbrE

Monarch: The Biblically Wise, King Solomon


Philosopher: THE philosopher and educator: Socrates


Comic Strip Character: THe Amazing Spiderman


Explorer: An explorer so smart, he convinced people that Greenland was an enirely verdant paradise, Eric the Red:


Celtic: The consumate champion as well as a oach smart enough to just roll the balls out for the 84 and 86 Cs, KC Jones:


80's TV character: The Brains behind the Ninja Turtles, Donatello:



Professional Wrestler: The Cerebral Assassin, HHH:


TV Host/Announcer: The only trivia show host to actually match wits with the contestants, Ben Stein.


Wild Card: God is dead and he is ridiculously smart, Friedrich Nietzsche

[nickagneta]

K.C. Jones is definitely the smartest Celtic of all time. He was so smart he decided to play his entire career after high school with one William Russell.

That is freaking brilliant!!!!!