What living person would you put on a postage stamp? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Street on September 28, 2011

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“Stephen Hawking.”

— Royce Harrison, Lawrence High School junior, Lawrence

“Obama.”

— Kinsey Cates, journalism student, Lawrence

“Condoleezza Rice.”

— Brittany Meyer, journalism student, Lawrence

“Absolutely Barack Obama.”

— Joe Moon, seeking work, Lawrence

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RuralWanderer 1 year, 7 months ago

Two out of four choose Obama. Typical Lawrence.

big_john 1 year, 7 months ago

Joe is clueless, looking for a job, Obama. bad joke joe

misterlee 1 year, 7 months ago

A series depicting the living ex-presidents.

misterlee 1 year, 7 months ago

All or none. Let's leave politics out of something.

ljwhirled 1 year, 7 months ago

Yeah, because Clinton lead us through the nation's longest period of peace and prosperity, then left us with a budget surplus.

Nope, he doesn't deserve anything.

The impeachment was a Republican, politically motivated and fueled slander and smear fest that, in the end, was unsuccessful. It passed the House but not the Senate. He was never convicted in the House OR Senate of the charges leveled against him. The only President successfully impeached and removed from office was Andrew Johnson and many historians today believe he was innocent as well and that his impeachment was just as politically motivated. But I have to give you credit for giving it the old "rock chalk" try.

cait48 1 year, 7 months ago

I didn't say he didn't do those things. Neither of them are illegal. Clinton's affairs are mild in comparison to some that have occurred in the White House. If they were grounds for impeachment, half of all US Presidents would have been out on their keester. Heck, at least one (if not more) had illegitimate children. And at least one was known to be gay. But keep trying.

jackpot 1 year, 7 months ago

Fact check I think Jackson was not removed from office, missed by one or two votes.

ljwhirled 1 year, 7 months ago

Johnson.

Jackson should have been. The way he treated Native Americans helped to set a precedent of state sanctioned genocide.

Jackson was a semi-literate bully and should have been impeached, imprisoned and executed.

And I'm not even a native american.

wounded_soldier 1 year, 7 months ago

It was not Jackson, it was Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's Vice President and successor. No President has been removed from office, just indicted in the House and found not guilty in the Senate. Both Johnson and Clinton were so. Andrew Jackson was the first, I think, to die in office. Check your facts, please.

mom_of_three 1 year, 7 months ago

Johnson wasn't innocent. and no, many historians today do not believe he was. Not in my history classes.

Liberty275 1 year, 7 months ago

Sarcasm Noted. He was an fairly effective leader that managed a country made prosperous by Bill Gates. Sure, he was a philanderer, but so was Thomas Jefferson.

If you get him on a stamp, I'll use it.

roadwarrior 1 year, 7 months ago

thats a winner. All the living x presidents.

parrothead8 1 year, 7 months ago

Two out of two commenters have nothing to add. Typical LJWorld.

I'd put Hank Aaron on a postage stamp.

CreatureComforts 1 year, 7 months ago

I always forget that guy is still alive and kicking!

parrothead8 1 year, 7 months ago

Not only alive and kicking, but thriving! Dude shows up to work every day for the Braves, and is still one class act.

ljwhirled 1 year, 7 months ago

I agree: Dolph Simons Jr.

hujiko 1 year, 7 months ago

Ray Tomlinson - creator of email.

CreatureComforts 1 year, 7 months ago

Just leave off her face because it makes her look like a man.

Never been in to the whole Jolie thing. I think she's fairly ugly.

vertigo 1 year, 7 months ago

Any living Medal of Honor recipient.

ljwhirled 1 year, 7 months ago

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

Before I make my usual less than serious comments . . . . . Best answer so far goes to vertigo.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

Mrs RoeDapple. You have no idea what she has had to put up with over the years . . or maybe you do . . a real hero in my book. But don't anybody tell her.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

Is spacehog still a living person?

wissmo 1 year, 7 months ago

I agree, Condi Rice would make a good subject for a stamp.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

I had no idea Justin Bieber was a junior at Lawrence High.

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

Richard Petty or Tom Petty.

grammaddy 1 year, 7 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg or Bill& Melinda Gates. Oprah...

SeaFox 1 year, 7 months ago

I kinda like the Stephen Hawking idea.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

Mike Rowe. Let's get him to run for president while we're at it.

schula 1 year, 7 months ago

+1!

schula 1 year, 7 months ago

+1!

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

+10

independent_rebel 1 year, 7 months ago

+whatever Obama has run up the deficit to.

heygary 1 year, 7 months ago

Interesting correlation between Roman and US coin iconography, coin value and the lifecycle of the republic. Beautiful images reflecting freedom/deity, followed by dead heros, followed by live ruler, followed by collapse! Stamps appear to be taking the same route.

Wing nut wants Obama’s face on a stamp!

Self-promoting imagery on coins was part of the increasing competition amongst the ruling class in the Roman Republic. The Lex Gabinia, which introduced secret ballots in elections in order to reduce electoral corruption, is indicative of the degree of competition amongst the upper class of this time period. The imagery on Republican coins wasn¹t meant to influence the populace; the messages were designed for and by the elite.

The imagery on coins took an important step when Julius Caesar issued coins bearing his own portrait. While moneyers had earlier issued coins with portraits of ancestors, Caesar¹s was the first Roman coinage to feature the portrait of a living individual.

75x55 1 year, 7 months ago

Excellent points - the whole veneration of presidents is terribly flawed, It has instilled a sick view of American government as being nothing much more than the tools of a term-limited emperor. All things are the responsibility and initiative of the Great Leader, and all must bow and scrape before the Great Leader (regardless of party affiliation).

Frankly, the whole use of presidential imagery on stamps, coinage and paper currency should be discontinued.

Liberty275 1 year, 7 months ago

You need to exempt the founding fathers. They virtually put their heads in the noose for America when they signed the Declaration of Independence.

75x55 1 year, 7 months ago

No 'exemptions' - no ancestor worship, no human idols - didn't you learn that from the Jefferson/Hemmings nonsense?

The best of men are only men at best.

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

C'mon, you can't put a living person on a postage stamp. It would take at least a full sheet. Mebbe you could use one of them shrinky machines like the one in "The Fly." Goldblum stunk it up in the remake.
I'd pay the 'forever' rate for a sticky little picture of Larry David.

Andini 1 year, 7 months ago

This one. http://www2.ljworld.com/photos/2009/jul/23/174487/

Agnostick 1 year, 7 months ago

Woof!

hitme 1 year, 7 months ago

"Bring out your dead!"

CWGOKU 1 year, 7 months ago

Salma Hayek. I'd be mailiing stuff all day long just to lick the stamp

independent_rebel 1 year, 7 months ago

Clever.

geekin_topekan 1 year, 7 months ago

Tim Curry as Frankenfurter.

dogsandcats 1 year, 7 months ago

Lady Gaga.

BMI 1 year, 7 months ago

Would this be a stamp perhaps on a letter stuck in the machinery and lost for 70 years before turning up again?ku_law. On a letter traveling the world adventurously for decades? Kealing.

Jonathan Kealing 1 year, 7 months ago

Me? On a stamp? You're going to make me blush!

CreatureComforts 1 year, 7 months ago

Like from The Big Lebowski?

vertigo 1 year, 7 months ago

Since Jesus Christ isn't alive he's asking if you meant the character fromthe Big Lebowski.

Or maybe you meant some random Mexican dude named Jesus (Hey-Suess)

Noemon 1 year, 7 months ago

Elvis.

mommatocharlie 1 year, 7 months ago

I think he died many years ago. The question was, Which LIVING person would you put on a stamp.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

"RETICENT_IRREVERENT (Ronaldo Ignacio) says… I am Sparticus! But you can call me Ronaldo Agustín Santiago Thiago Lautaro Valentin Ignacio"

Try getting all that on a stamp.

ECM 1 year, 7 months ago

That is funny! :-)

Agnostick 1 year, 7 months ago

Frederick Wallace Smith

BorderRat 1 year, 7 months ago

How about the post office rents out the space for ads.

CreatureComforts 1 year, 7 months ago

Now THIS is a good idea! Bravo!

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 7 months ago

I have no philatelist desires.

rtpayton 1 year, 7 months ago

That caveman dude on the insurance commercials is the first living guy right?

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 7 months ago

Rara, They look like they are just moments from snoodling.

dmb40fan 1 year, 7 months ago

i think maybe Stevie Wonder, because he is a great example of America, or Bill Gates or his wife, for all the philanthropy work they do, and of course the technology advancements.

cait48 1 year, 7 months ago

Bob Dole. One of the few remaining true statesman in this country! Ironic to think that if he were up for election now he would be rejected by his own party for not being right wing or "Christian" enough.

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

In the 19th Century an American president, while in office, appeared on an American postage stamp. Do you know who that was?

ihatelv 1 year, 7 months ago

Ron Jeremy

CreatureComforts 1 year, 7 months ago

I concur

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 7 months ago

Snap, Jeff Davis?

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

Got it in one, R_I. You're a clever lad.

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 7 months ago

Mycobacterium smegmatis was first isolated from smegma.

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

I'd almost forgotten the *** incident. That was the high point of low comedy on this award-winning website.

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

Like many posters, the M. smegmatis mc2155 strain is hypertransformable.

swampyankee 1 year, 7 months ago

Hulk Hogan

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

weird. forget it.

Agnostick 1 year, 7 months ago

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vertigo 1 year, 7 months ago

Seriously Tom? What's offensive about a dude who's bruised and cut from a car accident?

eotw33 1 year, 7 months ago

Neil Armstrong

snap_pop_no_crackle 1 year, 7 months ago

Are you watching the trade routes, ant?

independent_rebel 1 year, 7 months ago

Merrill. Kidding. I'm just kidding. How about Johnny Drama?

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

or a very small person . . .

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

I'm starting to feel like Dangerfield here. Check 8:14 am then 9:07 am.
Great minds... bea did that to me, too, the other day. I felt honored. It's all good. I like gin more than I thought I did.

Liberty275 1 year, 7 months ago

Duh... Me.

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

Wednesday's internet truth: "Depression's just another word for not enough caffeine." It was on the web so it must be true.

Put Bob Saget on a stamp - just for shiggles.

H_Lecter 1 year, 7 months ago

This one. Too bad they're not lick 'n stick.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

OTS After Dark . . . Great idea TOB! LJW, are you listening? Could come with disclaimer along with warning, "Before entering this site be aware of possible nudity, inappropriate language and ferret dismemberment. Unfit for children under 18."

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

The_Original_Bob (anonymous) says… "Oh, my. On the Street After Dark. How i've missed this. Back in the day, the OTS would go all night. Then it aged, and it was mostly over after lunch. It is almost like Marion is back on the site."

CyberKnight (anonymous) says… "I think that if you think the guy is gone, you are dreaming. I'd be keeping my head down." March 9, 2010 at 7:44 p.m." July 3, 2010 at 7:53 p.m.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

(;,,;)

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RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

♠

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

'On the Street After Dark....would go all night..." Sweet. Mebbe 'round halloween we brew up some trouble from dusk 'til dawn.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

werks fer me!

rockchalker52 1 year, 7 months ago

Say, sheriff, you know them bullets that T_O_B wuz firin' about Mister Saget & hiz rehab story? Well, they wuz jest tracers, weren't meant to do no real damage. Itchy trigger fingers are not a good thing on a lawman.

RoeDapple 1 year, 7 months ago

Watchin' a program on NatGeo 'bout the Barrett M107 .50 Cal . . . coyote rifle. Yeah, that's what I'll tell the little woman. I needs me a new varmint plinker.

8ball 1 year, 7 months ago

jared lee loughner

beatrice 1 year, 7 months ago

Gee, you are cool. I mean, that is soooo cool to type in the name of a murderer of several, including a nine year old girl. Gee, I wish I could be as cool as you and just be in life for the lulz. Gosh, you must be the coooolest guy on your whole block.