Famous Dead Person you would swap for Famous Live Person.

[sheramil]

if you could make a deal with some eldritch spirit and sacrifice someone living in order to bring someone back from the dead.


Bill Hicks, in exchange for John Ashcroft.

Frank Herbert, in exchange for Gentry Lee.

[BrightStar]

Barbra Striessand for Roddy Mcdowell. **

[HelenaHotpants]

Bring back Natalie Wood, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker and Charles Bukowski. They can have the Olsen Twins, Hiliary Duff, Linsday Lohan, and the entire cast of the OC. (Though I think "they" are getting a raw deal!)

[CarnalxKiss]

Bring back Morrison, Take Pee Wee Herman
Bring back Marilyn Monroe, Take that nasty Anna Nicole Smith
Bring back Jimi Hendrix.....Take Michael Jackson....

o 0 ( Damnnn we could do this all day)

[KilLAtomiK]

Honk Williams for Evry other country star still alive

[BrightStar]

Martin Lawrence for Eric Carr.*

[Tequila Zaire]

None...why bring back the dead only to make them just as annoying as the famous people today?

Do you hate them THAT much? Dead they are cool...alive they would be another media whore to hate.

[Morning Glory]

i'd bring back adolph hitler, just to make thing's interesting, and i'd trade him for nicholas cage, just cuz I don't like his brow forrowing as a sign of confusion, it's a sign of disintrest!

[CorporateGoth]

Take John Madden... give me back Jimmy Page
Take 50 Cent...... give me back,hmmm lesseeeee.... ah screw it, just take 50 Cent. I'll even throw in Tony Robbins just to sweeten the deal.

[CorporateGoth]

Hows about Courteny Love for "Lucky", the homeless guy that used to hang at "The Depot" in Sarasota back in the day?

[sheramil]

None...why bring back the dead only to make them just as annoying as the famous people today?

the point is that the person you want to bring back wouldn't be as annoying as the person you'd send off. i for one would be a little happier living in a world where Gentry Lee wasn't anally raping Arthur C Clarke's Rama stories, and where Frank Herbert was alive to write a sequel to The Dosadi Experiment.

but that's just me. i have some difficulty thinking inside the box.

[MistressJennifer]

Bring back Natalie Wood, Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker and Charles Bukowski. They can have the Olsen Twins, Hiliary Duff, Linsday Lohan, and the entire cast of the OC. (Though I think "they" are getting a raw deal!)

Yes!!!

[ravenofdeath]

I would swap Edgar Allen Poe for George Bush.

[suicidal_tendencies]

kurt cobain for britney spears, the spice girls and s club 7

[hewhoisagod]

GG Allin for Marilyn Manson...... fuckin amateur

[acelightning]

Robert Heinlein, in place of David Gerrold.

[Tequila Zaire]

the point is that the person you want to bring back wouldn't be as annoying as the person you'd send off. i for one would be a little happier living in a world where Gentry Lee wasn't anally raping Arthur C Clarke's Rama stories, and where Frank Herbert was alive to write a sequel to The Dosadi Experiment.

but that's just me. i have some difficulty thinking inside the box.

Now that's inside the box thinking. What makes the dead great is what they accomplished when they were alive coupled with the fact they aren't around to fuck it up.

The writers you mentioned were great indeed with numerous masterworks to their credit...keeping them around to write more would be ideal only in the sense of wanting more of a product. It's like finding a resteraunt you like then having it close on you and all you can think about is the great meals you would have had instead of the great meals you had.

It's a nice idea to play with but one that'd be more cruel in execution. Remember Zemeckis unelashing Forrest Gump and people thinking...Hey we can bring back old movie stars and use em in commercials!...that gave us the ABYSMAL Fred Astaire dancing with a vacume.

Least for me...being dead is an important part to ones work. It allows it to live beyond you and on it's own. It'd hate to live in a world with Heinlein still writing books personally...it's nice to see his body of work on ones shelf and wonder what else he couls have done while being well aware of what he did and what he contibuted...

If these modern celebs you want to get rid of taught us anything is that oversaturation of ones image leads to disgust. Nearly all mentioned would suffer from that in todays media culture.

[SindelChaos]

Okay, trade Marilyn Manson for Rozz Williams, Courtney Love for Kurt Cobain, Collin Powell for Gangus Kahn, Snoop Dogg for Jack the Ripper, Amy Lee for Elizabeth Bathory, Pope John Paul for Aliester Crowley, Jean Claude Van Damm for Bruce Lee, N'Sync for the Ramones, Madonna for Edward Gorey, the creator of Happy Tree Friends for Dr. Suess, that chick that kills animals for her photography for Andy Warhal.

[sheramil]

Robert Heinlein, in place of David Gerrold.

and then Herbert George Wells, for Robert Heinlein.

[sheramil]

If these modern celebs you want to get rid of taught us anything is that oversaturation of ones image leads to disgust. Nearly all mentioned would suffer from that in todays media culture.

i think you're taking this a little too seriously.

[acelightning]

and then Herbert George Wells, for Robert Heinlein.

nope. Heinlein was the better writer. Wells depended on gimmick, rather than plot or characterization, and you need a machete to hack your way through the turgid undergrowth of his prose. Wells is just famous because he was one of the first writers to consciously and ostentatiously depend on gimmick. but, shit, you could technically classify Atlas Shrugged as science fiction.

[PaulCat]

i'd trade Bryan Adams for Jesus...
Just to see if there ever was a Jesus,

Paul Cat.

[TheWalkingGlitch]

I'd knock off Bush and bring back Hitler, and then promptly kill Hitler. With any form of time travel, it's mandatory that you kill Hitler... kind of one of those unwritten rules. And I guess, if you look at it just right, this could sort of count as time travel.

Then I would bring back Vlad the Impaler, Jack the Ripper, Genghis Khan, Erik the Red, Edward Teach, and Bruce Lee, toss 'em in an arena, and make them fight. This would be done at the expense of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, John Ashcroft, the Olsen twins, and Michael Jackson. That would be awesome!

[morbid_lady]

cary grant for tom cruise
katherine hepburn for julia roberts
audry hepburn for jennifer love hewit
judy garland for jennifer lopez
patsy cline for shania twain
peggy lee for avril lavigne
harry chapin for sam roberts

[sheramil]

nope. Heinlein was the better writer.

maybe web forums should automatically insert the words "These are my opinions only." at the front of each message.

i would personally rather read The New Accelerator than wade through another foot-thick slab of thinly-disguised "I want to sleep with my daughter". reading The Number of the Beast was painful; i kept wanting to scream at them "STOP ARGUING ABOUT WHO'S GONNA BE CAPTAIN!"

[acelightning]

what i meant was that the language is more readable. Wells does that late-Victorian over-decorated prose thing until you could choke on it. Heinlein's writing style is clear and precise (well, he was an engineer, after all). his descriptions are accurate, but not floridly detailed. of course, this leaves visible the fact that sometimes his plots could use a kick in the arse. i'll still take Heinlein over Wells, but then again, i was an engineer myself...

[Mr Karl]

thats easy, get rid of Hawkings and bring back Tesla

[LrdSatanas]

Dimebag darrel for the etire band blink 182 good they suck. Ill Throw in good charlotte. Only if i can kill them stupied wanan be weak bitches myself!!

[morbid_lady]

good charlotte....BSB in make-up