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there will never be a new duncan and d-rob.
I don't get it.
Should I ignore the fashion or go buy the book.
I don't want it.
I just want your eyes fixated on me...
coming back around the fur.
there will never be a new duncan and d-rob.
Ah ! Who the are you anyways you
It's making sick sense, seeing how you're sticking out
Hardly and hoping, ah
Money please
Arise up off the in' knees
Hop off the train for a second
And try to find your own ing heart...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...GED_recipients
Notable GED Recipients
Actors and comedians
* Christina Applegate, actor
* Bill Cosby, actor, comedian, and television personality
* Michael J. Fox, actor
* D.L. Hughley, actor and comedian
* Brandon Lee, actor
* Joshua Leonard, actor
* Kelly McGillis, actor
* Chris Rock, comedian, who also parodied the GED as a "Good Enough Diploma" in his comedy special Bring the Pain
* Mic e Rodriguez, actor
* Richard Schiff, actor
* Christian Slater, actor
* Talan Torriero, television personality
* Mark Wahlberg, actor
* Tori Welles, pornographic actor
[edit] Athletics & games
* Joe Bartholdi, Jr., professional poker player
* Michael Chang, professional tennis player
* Oscar De la Hoya, professional boxer
* Eddie Guerrero, professional wrestler
* T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver
* Stephen Leicht, stock car driver
* Tommy Nunez, NBA referee
* Danica Patrick, Indy Racing League driver
* Mary Lou Retton, Olympic medal-winning gymnast
* Mario Torres, Mexican soccer player
* Ron Turcotte, Triple Crown-winning jockey
[edit] Business people
* Wally Amos, founder of Famous Amos
* Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Restaurant
* Jim Anderson Flowers, founder of Amaletzer & Co.
[edit] Computers and technology
* Christopher Blizzard, open source developer
[edit] Crime connections
* Scott Amedure, the "The Jenny Jones Show murder" victim
* Brian Deneke, punk icon
* Scott Dyleski, accused murderer of Pamela Vitale
* Robert A. Hawkins, perpetrator of the Westroads Mall shooting
* Eric Robert Rudolph, the "Olympic Park Bomber"
[edit] Entertainers
* Aaron Carter, entertainer
* Paris Hilton, socialite and entertainer
* Pink, entertainer
* Jessica Simpson, entertainer
* Ana Voog, entertainer
* Eric West, entertainer
[edit] Fictional characters
* Kim Bauer from 24 - 2002
* Harry Bosch, a character in Michael Connelly novels
* Babe Carey Chandler from All My Children
* James Evans, Sr. from Good Times - 1982
* Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street - 1976[citation needed]
* Mark Mack from Oz - 1999
* Homer Simpson from The Simpsons
* Earl Hickey from My Name is Earl
[edit] Journalists
* Peter Jennings, ABC News anchor
[edit] Musicians and singers
* David Bowie, Singer/Multi Instrumentalist
* 50 Cent, rapper
* Bo Bice, singer
* Julian Casablancas, lead singer of The Strokes
* Chris Cornell, lead singer of Audioslave and formerly Soundgarden
* Jerry Garcia, Grateful Dead vocalist and guitarist
* Chad Ginsburg, guitarist of CKY
* Waylon Jennings, singer and guitarist
* Stefan Lessard, Dave Matthews Band bassist
* Bonnie McKee, singer-songwriter
* Rob Thomas, singer-songwriter, solo artist and lead singer for matchbox twenty
* John Michael Montgomery, singer
* Remy Shand, Canadian R&B singer
* Corey Taylor, lead singer of Slipknot
* Kip Winger, musician
* Elliott Yamin, singer
* Cyndi Lauper, singer
[edit] Politicians
* Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. Senator from Colorado, 1993-2005
* Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
* Jim Florio, New Jersey Governor 1990-1994
* Jon Huntsman, Jr., Utah Governor 2004-Present
* Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
* Harold Ray Presley, former sheriff of Lee County, Mississippi
* Paull Shin, member of the Washington State Senate
[edit] Writers and publishers
* Walter Anderson, editor of Parade
* Augusten Burroughs, writer
* Fran Lebowitz, author
* Steve Levicoff, motivational writer
Notable College Dropouts
http://www.education-reform.net/dropouts_text.htm
• Albert Einstein: Nobel Prize-winning physicist; "Time" magazine's "Man of the Century" (20th century) (after dropping out of high school, he studied on his own and passed the entrance exam on his second try to the Swiss Federal Ins ute of Technology)
• John D. Rockefeller Sr.: Self-made billionaire American businessman-philanthropist; co-founder of "The Standard Oil Company"; history's first recorded billionaire (dropped out of high school two months before graduation; took business courses for ten weeks at Folsom Mercantile College [a chain business school])
• Henry Ford: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman; assembly-line auto manufacturing pioneer; founder of the "Ford Motor Company"
• Walt Disney: Oscar-winning American film/TV producer; animation and theme park pioneer; self-made multimillionaire founder and spokesperson of "The Walt Disney Studios/Company"; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient; French Legion of Honor admittee/Medal recipient (received honorary high-school diploma from hometown high school at age 58)
• Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States; (little formal education - Lincoln himself estimated approximately one year; home schooling/life experience; later earned a law degree through self study of books that he borrowed from friends)
• Carl Sandburg: Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (little formal education; later passed entrance exam to Lombard College and graduated)
• Diana, Princess of Wales
• George Burns: Oscar-winning actor/comedian (elementary school dropout)
• Dave Thomas: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder-spokesperson of the "Wendy's" fast-food restaurant chain (equivalency diploma)
• Martin Van Buren: 8th President of the United States (little formal education; began studying law at age 14 while an apprentice at a law firm, later became a lawyer)
• Andrew Carnegie: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman and philanthropist (elementary school dropout)
• John Chancellor: American television journalist; evening news anchorman
• "Colonel" Harlan Sanders: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder-spokesperson of the "Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC" fast-food restaurant chain (elementary school dropout; later earned a correspondence course law degree)
• Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"): Best-selling American author and humorist (elementary school dropout)
• Christopher Columbus: Italian explorer (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth)
• Davy Crockett: Early American frontiersman; U.S. Congressman (Tennessee Representative); died at the battle of the Alamo (little formal education - less than six months; home schooling/life experience)
• Charles ens: Best-selling British author (elementary school dropout)
• Joe DiMaggio: National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
• Sir Francis Drake: British explorer; knighted in the United Kingdom (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth)
• George Eastman: Self-made multimillionaire American inventor; founder of the "Kodak" roll film camera, corporation, and chemical company
• Thomas Edison: Self-made multimillionaire, most famous and productive inventor of all time; invented the filament electric light bulb, phonograph, and motion picture camera; electrical power usage pioneer; Congressional Gold Medal recipient; knighted (France: bestowed the rank of Chevalier, (had no formal education - home schooled)
• Benjamin Franklin: American politician - diplomat - author - printer - publisher-scientist - inventor; co-author and co-signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; one of the founders of The United States of America; face is pictured on the U.S. one-hundred dollar bill (little formal education [less than two years]; home schooling/life experience)
• Clark Gable: Oscar-winning actor
• George Gershwin: Oscar-nominated and most celebrated American songwriter-and classical composer; Congressional Gold Medal recipient
• Amadeo Peter Giannini: American-born founder of "Bank of America"
• Cary Grant: Oscar-winning actor
• W.T.Grant: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of the "W.T. Grant Company" department store chain
• H.L. Hunt: Self-made billionaire American oil industrialist (elementary school dropout)
• John Huston: Oscar-winning American film director-actor (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen, etc.)
• Elton John: Oscar-winning songwriter-singer; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee; knighted by the United Kingdom
• Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States (no formal education; home schooling/life experience)
• John Paul Jones: Scottish-born American Revolutionary War U.S. navy commander; famous quote: "I have not yet begun to fight." (little formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth)
• Henry J. Kaiser: Self-made multimillionaire American businessman; founder of "Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation," "Kaiser Steel," etc.
• Kirk Kerkorian: Self-made billionaire American businessman
• Ray Kroc: Self-made billionaire American businessman; founder of the "McDonald's" fast-food restaurant chain
• Jerry Lewis: Actor-comedian-singer-entertainer-humanitarian; knighted (France: Chevalier [or Chev.] Jerry Lewis)
• John Major: British Prime Minister 1990-1997
• William Shakespeare: British playwright; best-selling British author
• George Bernard Shaw: Nobel Prize-winning Irish-born British playwright; best-selling author
• Frank Sinatra: Oscar-winning actor-singer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient
• John Philip Sousa: American composer-conductor (elementary school dropout)
• Zachary Taylor: 12th President of the United States (little formal education; home schooling/life experience)
• George Washington: 1st President of the United States; former general; Chairman of the Cons utional Convention; U.S. nickname: "The Father of Our Country"; face is pictured on the U.S. one dollar bill and twenty-five cent coin (quarter) (no formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth)
• William Faulkner: Nobel Prize-winning and Pulitzer Prize-winning American author; screenwriter (dropped out of high school in second year; later attended University of Mississippi but did not graduate)
• Herman Melville: Best-selling American author and writer of Moby , arguably the greatest novel of all time.
• Liza Minnelli: Oscar-winning actress-singer
• Robert Mitchum: Oscar-nominated actor
• Claude Monet: French painter (elementary school dropout)
• David H. Murdock: Self-made billionaire American businessman
• Florence Nightingale: History's most notable nurse; best-selling Italian-born British nursing book author (no formal education; home schooling/life experience)
• Thomas Paine: American Revolutionary War era political theorist; best-selling British-born American author; famous quote: "These are the times that try men's souls." (little formal education; home schooling/life experience)
• Millard Fillmore: 13th President of the United States (little formal education - six months; home schooling/life experience; studied law while serving as a legal clerk with a judge and law firm; later became a lawyer)
• Will Rogers: American author-humorist-lecturer-actor-entertainer; famous quote: "I never met a man I didn't like."
• Frederick Henry Royce: Self-made multimillionaire British businessman; co-founder-designer of the "Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Company"; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Frederick Henry Royce) (elementary school dropout)
• Edmond Safra: Lebanese-born billionaire banker-philanthropist
• David Sarnoff: Russian-born American radio and television pioneer; given the le "Father of American Television" by the Television Broadcasters Association
• William Saroyan: Oscar-winning screenwriter; Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright
• Vidal Sassoon: Self-made multimillionaire British businessman; founder of "Vidal Sassoon" hairstyling salons, academies, and hair-care products
• Walt Whitman: Best-selling American poet (elementary school dropout)
• Orville & Wilbur Wright: Aviation pioneers; Congressional Gold Medal recipients
• Grover Cleveland: 22nd and 24th President of the United States; face is pictured on the one-thousand dollar bill, which is no longer printed; (dropped out of school to help family earn income; studied law while serving as a clerk at a law firm, later became a lawyer)
• Irving Berlin: Oscar-winning American songwriter-composer; film story writer; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Congressional Gold Medal recipient
Its just a bad call. Its so funny how you think I'm so serious. No but thats not it, the thing is I don't give enough to give a . Its just plain boring. and you bore me asleep.
AMARE & SHAQ are the new DUNCAN & ROBINSON
Yeah, that one game they were pretty good.
I have heard that if this is a short series then this offseason the Suns will look to make another big move ???
Would it be to send Amare out of town ???
Who else can they move that would be considered big ??
Nash isn't going anywhere and nobody would want Shaq.
And if Amare is shipped out, then did they make a mistake in moving Marion ??
Could be a very interesting offseason in the Valley of the Sun.
Please ban this memberpeople are saying shaq is old and done but thats what they were saying about d rob when we won our first championship.
i'm scared of these two guys hooking up.
people are saying shaq is old and done but thats what they were saying about d rob when we won our first championship.
i'm scared of these two guys hooking up.
Um...
You win. Amare and Shaq are Presidential material...Academy award winning material, Aviation Pioneer material, and Lebanese-born billionaire material.
Just sticking up for all the college dropouts and recipients of GED's that are insulted.
Laugh Of The Day!
The only people insulted in this thread were Duncan and Robinson.
If Amare is as dumb as a box of rocks as many of you claim, then anyone with a GED would be insulted, unless of course they are as dumb as a box of rocks.
Because Amare is the Patron Saint of GED-earners?
Yes and that's why the Pope was visiting.
The original comparison did not bolster the argument, but was merely insulting. There are too many exceptions.
In your attempt to defend accomplished people with GED's, all you've managed to do is insult said people by comparing their intelligence to Amare's.
Actually Aldridge and Oden are the new Duncan and Robinson...........only better.
I think Oden is the old Robinson.
Actually Oden needs to set foot on an NBA ing court without being crippled before he can even be considered.
Until then he's Sam Bowie II
Or a young Yinka Dare
I never made an assessment of Amare's IQ. That seems to be the province of many Spurs fans. I was merely pointing out that although educational level is often an indicator of future success there are exceptions, especially when it comes to an extreme specialization such as professional basketball. It seems that you enjoy arguing for the sake of arguing.
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