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[Leafsnail]

Hey, I don't see you working out someone's profession, date of birth, shoe size and address just by seeing their shirt.

[KaguroDraven]

This is a toughie. So many of the great figures of history have been whitewashed to be more palatable, so people never know that they were genocidal, or slaveholders, or imperialistic, or insane, or thieves, or just major jerks.

I pick Sherlock Holmes.

The fictional alchohalic? Does that count?

Watson was the alcoholic. Homes was a cocaine addict.

Ah, my mistake then.

[ChairmanPoo]

This is a toughie. So many of the great figures of history have been whitewashed to be more palatable, so people never know that they were genocidal, or slaveholders, or imperialistic, or insane, or thieves, or just major jerks.

I pick Sherlock Holmes.

The fictional alchohalic? Does that count?

Watson was the alcoholic. Homes was a cocaine heroine addict.

Corrected

[Heron TSG]

Either you mean that he's addicted to love, or you're talking about heroin.

[Shade-o]

Good point. Though he did regularly take cocaine, he seemed to do it because he was bored out of his mind between cases, not from addiction.

[Il Palazzo]

They all say that, don't they?

[Elegy]

My historical figure is Nick Cage

[Josephus]

Historical figure?

See my name.

[Elegy]

Historical figure?

See my name.

William Bernard "Joe" Phusman?

[Josephus]

Historical figure?

See my name.

William Bernard "Joe" Phusman?

Yes. "Iron Joe" Phusman was a great statesman who also had a penchant for dueling in his backyard.

[Org]

Alexander Hamilton.

[Elegy]

Aaron Burr

[Char13magne]

Doctor David Hosack!

[ILikePie]

Johnny Hancock, mainly for this.

[Ampersand]

Diogenes of Sinope.

Points of Character:

1. Exiled from his native city for defacing the currency.

2. Declared himself a Citizen of the World.

3. Lived in a bathtub in a marketplace.

4. He became notorious for his provocative behaviour and philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man. Also, ate in the marketplace against taboos, and masturbated in public, saying he wishes he could satisfy his hunger so easily by rubbing his stomach.

5. Thought Plato was a dumbass.

6. When Plato gave Socrates' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man."

7.  Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander The Great, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes. Stand out of my sunlight". Alexander then declared, "If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes." In another account of the conversation, Alexander found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones. Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."