If you had to dress up as someone famous, who would it be and why? / LJWorld.com

Asked at Massachusetts Streets on August 12, 2012

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“Superwoman because she is a sexy powerhouse.”

— Bekah Sizelove, works at Liberty Hall, Lawrence

“Abraham Lincoln because he lived in such a unique, historical time.”

— Dave Olson, teacher, Lawrence

“I would want to be Randy Travis because I wouldn’t have to wear anything.”

— Kraig Johnson, works at the Humane Society , Lawrence

“I would dress up as Bob Ross because it would be unexpected and weird.”

— Matt , artist and cook, Beverly Mass.,

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Pitt_Mackeson 5 years, 1 month ago

Frank the bunny - so I could scare all the little tikes away from the liquor store

by Pitt_Mackeson

Gart 5 years, 1 month ago

?? Stupid question, LJW.

But, would have to agree with Kraig....Nekked works.

Gart 5 years, 1 month ago

Went fishin' with Bekah. Fish was 'bout this size but git'in bigger. . . . .

Looks like a "fish story." And no permit?!! . . . CITIZENS ARREST!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIs-o5aClw

kenny_powers 5 years, 1 month ago

I know a bunch of you are going to say, "Kenny Powers." I'm flattered, But, I can see why; I brought baseball back to what it is today. Everybody wants to be me. Let me tell you what, if you want to be me, do some push-ups...about a million of them.

RoeDapple 5 years, 1 month ago

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr.

Leslie Swearingen 5 years, 1 month ago

Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. (February 23, 1915 – November 1, 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. To explain all the civilian engineers on base who were working on the Manhattan Project, he had to lie to her, by telling her that the engineers were "sanitary workers." Tibbets had to frequently fly to the Los Alamos Laboratories (in New Mexico) for briefings regarding the Manhattan Project. During one of these trips, Tibbet's wife called one of the "sanitary engineers" over to her house to un-stop a drain, for which his master's degree in physics and doctorate in applied mathematics did not necessarily qualify him. The engineer was a scientist named Alan van Dyke. Van Dyke served as theoretical consultant to Oppenheimer and Szilard. Tibbets and the "sanitary engineer" laughed about it later.[4] from Wikipedia In case someone does not know who is was.

http://www2.ljworld.com/users/photos/2012/aug/12/239410/

Leslie Swearingen 5 years, 1 month ago

Yes, I know, else we would not be on here. But, not everyone will bother to look things up so by putting the info out there in such a fashion, someone just might learn something they did not know.
We are all in this together.

Gart 5 years, 1 month ago

Not sure who that is but sounds like a serial killers name. Maybe just a mildly retarded dork??

Cant_have_it_both_ways 5 years, 1 month ago

Do they sell Merrill costumes in Lawrence?

ohjayhawk 5 years, 1 month ago

Bob Ross autotuned a la Mister Rogers...

Bob Ross Remixed | Happy Little Clouds | PBS Digital Studios by PBS Digital Studios

Topple 5 years, 1 month ago

I'd lay down on my couch and fall asleep watching you paint happy trees,

RoeDapple 5 years, 1 month ago

Gart . . Some might call him a mass murderer. Others might say he saved countless lives.

Bob Harvey 5 years, 1 month ago

Nice reply, although he probably still has no clue of how this man played a role in history.

Leslie Swearingen 5 years, 1 month ago

Tibbets was in the air force and he was just doing what he was ordered to do. I don't believe that anyone knew what the results would be, there is no way they could have, based on the tests they had did up to that point. Why didn't Japan surrender after the first bomb was dropped? Were those responsible just not aware of the enormity of the destruction? All the countries involved in World War 11 had soldiers that did horrible things and the horror built up over time and exposure to horror. No one knows what they would do under those circumstances. America as a country was isolated and its civilians at home did not experience the war directly like other countries did. Charles W. Sweeney, Tibbets' counterpart on the mission which dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki. Why is it that we hear nothing about this?