The most influential people who NEVER lived

I don't understand why you guys are even arguing the question. There may or may not have been a guy wandering around the wilderness with a collection of fishermen and down and out followers. And he may or may not have been crucified.

The Bible stories have him being born from a virgin, raising a friend from the dead, talking to weather and walking on the water.

If you separate the Biblical Jesus, from the purported guy in the desert, then this disagreement becomes moot.

There may have been a historical guy named Merlin, or even a historical guy named Achilles too.

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he is certainly becoming very influential on this thread

Eve

A fictional person who cursed us all with original sin....

Cursed?

I like my original sin.

Nice one. I think you won the internets there.

I'm not and won't.

Same here.

Roy Rodgers wasn't fictional. He actually existed.

Not the Roy Rodgers on TV every Saturday.

There was more than one Roy Rodgers?

It's obvious there was the real Roy Rogers and the film persona. The real man didn't jump on his horse and chase down outlaws.

The real Roy Rodgers married Dale Evans. My hero, Roy Rodgers, never would have.

Thank you for spelling his name correctly, at least, edgar.

Roy Rogers was born Leonard Slye somewhere in Iowa (this is all off the top of my head; you can look up exact dates and locations in Wikipedia, of course, if you wish.) For most of his adult life he was married to Dale Evans (probably also not her real name), his co-star in most of the Western movies he made. They had a child together who had Downes Syndrome (at the time a child so afflicated was called 'Mongoloid', an ethnically un-PC diagnosis, now totally out of use).

I didn't want to call Finn out on this but I snickered when he listed Roy as a fictional person.

If memory serves, Rogers started out as a country and western musician, a founder of the Sons of the Pioneers, but he had what Hollywood thought was a good on-screen presence and made him a Western star . He was popularly known as 'The King of the Cowboys.' I don't think anybody over the age of, say, six or seven ever thought of him as anything but an actor. (He had a reputation, though, for being a fine horseman and a very good shot with a pistol. But that could have been just press agentry.)

Next you'll probably tell me that Trigger couldn't really count or do the hula.

Trigger is presently stuffed. I am not sure where he was placed after Roy died. I think they stuffed Pat Butram's Jeep, Nellie Belle, too. But that could be just a rumor.

Snicker away Merry.

Did you really imagine that I didn't realize that Roy was a real person.

Pedantic much?

Roy was so fond of Trigger that when the palomino died, he had a taxidermist stuff him and Trigger remained a central showpiece at the Rogers ranch in the Hollywood hills.

Yeah, pedantic a lot when it comes to commenting on ignorant posts. I didn't call you on it. I just snickered.

Thank you ed.

We can hardly be considered bosom buddies, but I do appreciate that you are trying to stay with the thrust of this thread and not choosing a cheap opportunity to stick it to someone with whom you often disagree.

Please follow Trigger's ultimate condition Merry.