Favourite intellectual?

[Les Biehn]

Mine is Lacan. He was French and liked words and talking about having sex with mothers.

2nd is probably Kant because apparently he used to strap his cock down to stop erections during the night so he wouldn't have inpure thoughts.

 

[Les Biehn]

And Spielberg doesn't count US

 

[Gritt23]

Stephen Fry, genius, and very funny. Marvellous combination.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Lord Bracknell........................Legend of the 1+1=2 thread

 

[Lokki 7]

I like Meades Ball because he lives in a universe just around the corner from ours.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The great Claude Lévi-Strauss. 97 years old and still going.

 

[Wardy]

Myself

 

[Les Biehn]

Why are the most recent ones all French? Lacan, Derrida, Levi-Strauss.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Why are the most recent ones all French? Lacan, Derrida, Levi-Strauss.

Ahem.

Lévi-Strauss is Belgian.

 

[dougdeep]

Perhaps you should define who constitutes an intellectual Les.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Steven Spielberg

 

[Les Biehn]

Perhaps you should define who constitutes an intellectual Les.

Whatever you like really, I imagine most are academics, but Stephen Fry was a good one. Some artists, muscians and directors could be in this bracket also I suppose.

 

[JJ McClure]

Jade Goody

 

[dougdeep]

If it includes people that made me think (cue jokes). I'd choose Douglas Adams.

 

[Les Biehn]

Claude Levi-Strauss was a popular French anthropologist most well-known for his development of structural anthropology. He was born on November 28, 1908 in Belgium as the son of an artist, and a member of an intellectual French Jewish family.

Make of that what you will.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

My dear departed Grandfather.


Or Charles Darwin, if you can classify him as an academic.

 

[Les Biehn]

If it includes people that made me think (cue jokes). I'd choose Douglas Adams.

Fine by me.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

If it includes people that made me think (cue jokes). I'd choose Douglas Adams.

Have you read his book - "Last chance to see"

Fantastic book.

 

[Titanic]

Miss Barrow, Aldrington C of E Infants School, circa 1972.

 

[dougdeep]

Have you read his book - "Last chance to see"

Fantastic book.

Yep, read the lot.