The most annoying person in history!

[MjM]

Jesus, Mohammaed, Abraham, they all come to mind.

 

[sydhe]

The Marquis de Sade. Bruno also comes to mind.

But I would like to nominate Josef Kyselak, who made a career of painting his name all over the Austrian Empire, on buildings, monuments, etc. He made a stencil so he could do it quickly and get away. Apparently you can still find his name on things nearly two centuries later.

 

[Plotinus]

I think Leibniz, who annoyed the Royal Society by writing millions of letters on science and mathematics to them when they just wanted to be left in peace to do alchemy; who annoyed Louis XIV by trying to persuade him to invade Egypt when he was already busy invading the Netherlands; who annoyed the Harz miners by trying to build windmill-driven pumps in their mines; who annoyed the House of Hanover by spending all his time on abstract metaphysical speculation and building fountains for other cities instead of the genealogical research that he was actually hired to do; who annoyed John Locke by sending him criticisms of his work; who annoyed Isaac Newton by discovering the calculus after him, but in a superior notation; who annoyed Samuel Clarke by demonstrating that the Newtonian conception of space was wrong; and who annoyed the British parliament by interfering in the delicate discussions to have the House of Hanover take over the British crown. All in all, an incredibly annoying fellow.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Plotinus, have you read the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson?

 

[Plotinus]

[BJ] Amazingly I'm halfway through the first book right now, and very splendid it is too. By strange coincidence, after posting the above I read a passage that reminded me that Leibniz also greatly annoyed the booksellers of the Holy Roman Empire by trying to get a law passed obliging them to send a precis of every new book to him, so that he could put together a sort of massive library card index of all knowledge. I don't know whether this really led to him being chased out of book fairs by furious book vendors hurling their wares at him, as the novel suggests, but it's a nice thought.

 

[Atlas14]

Joan of Arc because she heard special voices

 

[Birdjaguar]

[BJ] Amazingly I'm halfway through the first book right now, and very splendid it is too.

Book three is a little slow, but I enjoyed them immensely. It was a period of history that I realy don't know much about. They are kind of like Dorothy Dunnets Niccolo series.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Joan of Arc because she heard special voices

Her voices were no more special than the ones I hear.

 

[sydhe]

I thought Leibniz came across as a lot less annoying than Newton. Robert Hooke was more annoying than both of them put together.

Cato the Censor must have been really annoying. I get the feeling the Romans destroyed Carthage partly just to shut him up.

Then there was that Confucius guy, telling everyone how to run their countries, act properly and virtuous etc. No wonder he had to keep moving around.

 

[sydhe]

Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah, Elisha, Moses...

 

[Perfection]

Robert Hooke

Why was he so annoying?

 

[bombshoo]

Mussolini or one of his caca generals....He once said something like "our victories against Albania and Ethiopia will be remembered as some of the most outstanding military feats of all time"

 

[Dr. Yoshi]

 

[7ronin]

Of the recently annoying I suggest Angela Dworkin, Betty Friedan or any of the other radical feminists.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

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[SoCalian]

Zora Neal Thurston. Have you ever read Their Eyes Were Watching God? most anoying book ever.

Jesus, Mohammaed, Abraham, they all come to mind.

how is Jesus possibly annoying?

 

[Birdjaguar]

In recent years it would have to be Richard Simmons:

http://www.workoutmusicvideo.com/richard.html

 

[SoCalian]

I saw Richard Simmons in the Philidelphia airport, and he was dressed exactly like is is in the videos, and he was holding a guys hand who was also dressed in the same style. It was soooo gay, in a really funny supersterotypical way. I always laugh when I see stereotypes happening IRL. Like this one time at LAX, I was waiting for some friends to come in from England, when I saw a Jew arguing about money at the currency excange counter. I mean this guy was the most Jewy Jew you could possibly imagine. He had a black suit, yamacha, and those hair curls down the side, with such a thick accent. "[incomprehesible Yiddish], I could have gotten a better deal in Israel!" Oh man, it was classic.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I saw Richard Simmons in the Philidelphia airport, and he was dressed exactly like is is in the videos, and he was holding a guys hand who was also dressed in the same style. It was soooo gay, in a really funny supersterotypical way.

He is compelled to maintain his TV persona. Or vice versa.

 

[SoCalian]

It was still effing hilarious.