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Kingfish
 Post subject: People who have failed to capitlize on their potential
PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:35 pm 
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I'm not talking about one hit wonders or one album wonders. I'm thinking about people you always thought one day would do something amazing even if it was just once.

I'm having a hard time thinking of a musician but James Franco comes to mind. Showed alot of promise with James Dean and then 20 roles later ... nothing. Solid but barely memorable even in big budget affairs like Spiderman. Still young but for now he's been a disappointment.

So name musicians, actors, directors, artists, athletes, anybody but try and stay away from people who had some major accomplishments.

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he was good in Freaks and Geeks

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<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.

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Terrence Trent D'Arby: one very good album, then... KAPUT!

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And, as a solo artist, at least, Grant Hart hasn't quite met expectations.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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He was but besides a few people who watched the show and most tv critics, nobody even remembers that. But yeah, I meant to mention that as why I thought he had tons of potential. I don't think I would consider Freaks and Geeks an accomplishment as it was a short lived commercial failure on television. Still a good for what it was though.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.
:lol: yeah, I should probably include myself in this thread too.

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I tried to find somebody of that sort that I could like that nobody else did - because everybody would adopt his group, and his group would be _it_; someone weird like Captain Beefheart. It's no different now - people trying to outdo ! each other in extremes. There are people who like X, and there are people who say X are wimps; they like Black Flag.

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oldbullee Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.
:lol: yeah, I should probably include myself in this thread too.


Ditto.

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I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.

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Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
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Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.


Yes, yes. But I bet a lot a people feel this way.

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TinyE Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.


Yes, yes. But I bet a lot a people feel this way.


Unfortunately a lot of people have less talent to capitalize on than I do.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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PopTodd Wrote:
oldbullee Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.
:lol: yeah, I should probably include myself in this thread too.


Ditto.


Every one of you knobends has a job and a wife.

I blow your dinghy out of the water with the 12 inch guns of my dreadnought, HMS Unfullfilled Potential

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Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
TinyE Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.


Yes, yes. But I bet a lot a people feel this way.


Unfortunately a lot of people have less talent to capitalize on than I do.


Nice.
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konstantinl Wrote:
PopTodd Wrote:
oldbullee Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.
:lol: yeah, I should probably include myself in this thread too.


Ditto.


Every one of you knobends has a job and a wife.


Yes, I suppose you are right.
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Every one of you knobends has a job and a wife.

I blow your dinghy out of the water with the 12 inch guns of my dreadnought, HMS Unfullfilled Potential


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Okay, on the list then:

James Franco
Senator Gar
oldbullee
Trent Darby
Grant Hart
Pop Todd
PollySix
and our Captain, Konstantil

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timmyjoe42 Wrote:
konstantinl Wrote:
Every one of you knobends has a job and a wife.

I blow your dinghy out of the water with the 12 inch guns of my dreadnought, HMS Unfullfilled Potential


You can't argue with Yoda.


I thought for sure this thread was gonna be about me. And i don't have a job or a wife.

4 multiplatinum albums, recorded for grammy winners and nominees, and let go by one of the worst large urban school districts in the universe. Currently playing for no one of note. Torn between packing it in, or packing up and moving, or maybe going to school for pharmacy or finance or something equally mind numbing. I never was good at making decisions.

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PopTodd Wrote:
oldbullee Wrote:
Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
<----------- #1 person that comes to mind.
:lol: yeah, I should probably include myself in this thread too.


Ditto.



oh yeah.
slacker!

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he had potential? when? School Ties? bah.

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katie, a princess Wrote:
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You're telling me that somebody thought he had potential?

WHO?

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