YOU GOT A LOT TO LEARN, PUP

Half the world couldn’t name the Pope. The top 3 (in any order) would be Pele, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo. Football / soccer is light years more meaningful to most everyone on the planet than religion. Muhammad Ali and Ghandi to round it out your top 5.

For the love of God, do not willingly pass Detroit Lions fandom onto your child.

“Why not use a paper towel?” Jesus, why not a cheese grater?

I would put Michael Jordan in above pretty much any celebrity/musician/athlete living or dead, including not so great flying lady Earhart, couldn’t even land the plane, and Einstein; whose name is uttered more in sarcasm at dumb people than true recognition of his contribution to humanity.

A corollary to the “Most Famous Person” question is, “what person really doesn’t need ID?” Like, there is no way you could mistake that person for anyone else.

You should be using boxers instead of socks cause socks have been on your feet and have gross feet germs embedded deep in them but underwear never leave the general vicinity of the crotch so you don’t have to worry about that. 

But I feel like there’s a large enough segment of people out there who have heard of the Beatles collectively but not necessarily John Lennon individually.

This only works if she has no idea what a pistachio is and for some reason couldn’t realize that the hard outer part(the shell) clearly needs to be removed before eating. I don’t believe anyone in sound mind would take an unshelled pistachio and attempt to eat it as is. I’m calling shenanigans on this letter. 

I couldn’t help but read this as a basketball starting 5. In which case I definitely like having Buddha coming off of the bench. Seems like he’d have the temperament to be the quintessential 6th man.

A “shelled” pistachio means it has the shell removed. In yet another inexplicable quirk of the English language, to “shell”, verb, means to remove the shell from a nut, seed or pod. So perhaps his girlfriend assumed the shell had already been removed if he was referring to them as “shelled pistachio”?

I give the edge to historical figures being the most famous. How many people are going to remember somebody like Cher or even Michael Jackson in 200 years?

Top famous people has to include a soccer star if we’re not being American centric, no? I feel like Messi or Ronaldo is currently more famous than either Albert Einstein or Amelia Earhart. 

William Shakespeare? “To be or not to be?” His plays are still being produced around the world 403 years after his death.

The Jesus people would recognize looks nothing like Jesus though, so he has to lose points for that.

Apart from Muhammad, who’s already been mentioned a few times in the comments, Politics seems like a pretty big gap. Mao is known by at least a billion people. But I’d bet religious figures would fill the entire top 5: Jesus, Muhammad, Abraham, Moses, and David. Maybe swap in Buddha?

I feel like that whole “No depictions of him ever or woe unto you” thing probably hurts Muhammad in the fame department vs. Jesus who, say what you will, knew how to brand.

Clearly Jesus and Mohammed 1-2, probably followed by a Pope (probably Saint Peter, although John Paul II is going to be high). Confucius is in the mix, as are Lionel Messi, Michael Jordan, maybe Sachin Tendulkar, Hitler, Einstein, Mao Zedong, and Queen Elizabeth. Amelia Earhart and Michael Jackson don’t make the top…

There’s no way Michael Jackson is even the most famous musician, is there? The Beatles and Elvis both sold roughly twice as many albums as he did. The Beatles were, like, 90% of the London Olympics closing ceremony. John Lennon has a fucking airport named after him.

I used to be such a fan of Little Women. But after reading more about Alcott’s life, I increasingly am so tired of the rosy version of her life as written in Little Women. Her life which she based much of it on was so much more fascinating and complicated. I’d much rather see a movie about her idealist/neglectful…