The most annoying person in history!

[Perfection]

Who is the most annoying person ever to live?

You may state whatever rationale you'd like, I just want you to answer the question.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

The first which comes to mind is Australian poet A. B. Banjo Patterson. He got the name "Banjo" because he was as annoying as banjo music.

 

[Kal'thzar]

suprise!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=15345

heheheh.

 

[classical_hero]

suprise!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=15345

heheheh.

Now that is a tough question.

 

[Rambuchan]

suprise!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=15345

heheheh.

Damn! Beat me to it.

I don't expect K-D to keep this one open.

 

[classical_hero]

Damn! Beat me to it.

I don't expect K-D to keep this one open.

He might keep it up if there is discussion, but the looks of it so far, I doubt it.

 

[pboily]

Unfortunately, a lot of the truly annoying were/are also not famous, so it's hard to tell, but I'd like to nominate the woman who lives in the appartment below mine.

 

[Mirc]

For me this thread is just spam.

 

[Shaihulud]

Ronald Mcdonald

 

[pawpaw]

suprise!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/member.php?u=15345

heheheh.

First thing that popped into my head too

 

[ChrTh]

Well, I equate annoying with nagging (yes, I'm married)...I'd have to say St. Paul the Apostle. Remember, he wasn't writing letters to fill out the New Testament, he was writing letters to churches telling them what they were doing wrong. Nag nag nag.

 

[Verbose]

Maybe Socrates?

Cheesed off the Athenians enough for them to excute him.

And according to Aristophane's (satirical) portrait of him he might just have been a smelly little half-crazed bugger way too fond of tricking people by twisting their words around.

Actually apart from the smell that's not so far from Plato's view.

Could be Diogenes, the "cynic" (i.e. "dog") philosopher, described by comtemporaries as "like Socrates, if Socrates had been insane".

 

[Rambuchan]

Well, I equate annoying with nagging (yes, I'm married)...I'd have to say St. Paul the Apostle. Remember, he wasn't writing letters to fill out the New Testament, he was writing letters to churches telling them what they were doing wrong. Nag nag nag.

Now we know why those letters never got a reply.

Verbose: Socrates was very much a fan of reminding people where the social boundaries lay and showing them how easily they could be crossed. I find that of interest, but yes, it must have annoyed the hell out of folk around him. I mean masturbation in public? Is that one just a rumour?

Anyway, here's a nice little account of his trial and it's background. No idea who the author is but it's well put together:
http://www.btinternet.com/~socratic/excerpt.htm

 

[Verbose]

Verbose: Socrates was very much a fan of reminding people where the social boundaries lay and showing them how easily they could be crossed. I find that of interest, but yes, it must have annoyed the hell out of folk around him. I mean masturbation in public? Is that one just a rumour?

Maybe not, but that story pertains to Diogenes.

Being a "dog" philosopher it seems he felt that one should behave in a free and easy, "natural" way, like a dog.

And what could be more natural than a thoughtful wank in public?

Except maybe shagging your own daughter (doggy style?) which he is also reported to have found to be a "doggy" thing to do.

 

[silver 2039]

Halil Pasha I believe he was advisor to Sultan Mehmet II and he opposed war against the decrepit Byzantine Empire to seize Constantinople. He was obiviously bribed by the Italian and Byzantines. Fourtnaltey after Mehmet crushed Byzantium he was executed by impalement.

 

[Rambuchan]

Verbose: Got any further reading on this school of "dog philosophy"? I've only been acquainted with it in conversation.

 

[Verbose]

Verbose: Got any further reading on this school of "dog philosophy"? I've only been acquainted with it in conversation.

Linky:
http://www.benbest.com/philo/diogenes.html

...to Some Guy who seems to have collected most of the anecdotes I've heard.

Since writing books wasn't very "doggy", D. here didn't commit anything to paper.

But here' Wikipedias entry on a later cynic philosopher who did take the trouble of writing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dio_Chrysostom

BTW, it was Aristotle who nicknamed him "The Dog", but Diogenes seems to have thought it fit nicely.

 

[jonatas]

Maybe Socrates?

Cheesed off the Athenians enough for them to excute him.

And according to Aristophane's (satirical) portrait of him he might just have been a smelly little half-crazed bugger way too fond of tricking people by twisting their words around.

Alcibiades liked Socrates though. Must have been something special about him Though Alcibiades was pretty annoying himself to the Athenians by the end of it all!

 

[ChrTh]

Alcibiades liked Socrates though. Must have been something special about him Though Alcibiades was pretty annoying himself to the Athenians by the end of it all!

...and annoying to the Spartans, and the Corinthians, and ...

Hrm, we may have another candidate!

 

[jonatas]

Yeah, he exasperated the Athenians countless times. He also betrayed them to their mortal enemy Sparta, but got in trouble for apparently banging the Spartan King's wife and went back to Athens and smashed the Spartan fleet. And it literally goes on and on and on... Charismatic, powerful, fascinating and definitely annoying. I don't think he gets enough credit nowadays.