Most Underrated and Most Overrated Person Since 1660?

[redisforever]

Underrated: Ayatollah Khomeini, but then again any Middle Eastern person is tossed aside simply for being Middle Eastern.

Random, but to me, he looks like Sean Connery.
Oh well.

 

[icyneesan]

Overrated: Your Religion's God/Deitys

Underrated: ME!

 

[WINDOWCLEAN2]

Over-rated: I would go for General Montgomery, He is famous for one thing......losing 'Market Garden' in WW2.

Under-rated: Douglas Adams, He wrote one of the deepest and also most original and humerous books in all existence, And hardly anyone have actually read the Hitchikers Guide series.

 

[redisforever]

Over-rated: I would go for General Montgomery, He is famous for one thing......losing 'Market Garden' in WW2.

Under-rated: Douglas Adams, He wrote one of the deepest and also most original and humerous books in all existence, And hardly anyone have actually read the Hitchikers Guide series.

Nearly everyone I know has read the series. Among my friends, he is above God. But most of us are atheists.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Underrated: Me.

Overrated: It's not a person, but the Grammy's. They fuck things up even more then the Oscars and avoid Metal even more than Rolling Stone. They only gave out one metal award, and it had fucking Korn in it. Nothing wrong with Korn, but they go in the hard rock category.

 

[Coffinshaker]

Wow! Thanks Spencer! I didn't even know about Henrietta Lacks before! Very awesome lady!

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Overrated - Barack Obama. He didn't deserve the Noble Peace prize, and he has yet to do anything worthwhile as president except caving to republicans on every issue.

Underrated - La Fayette. Why is it that no one remembers any of the French generals who helped the the colonies during the American Revolution? I mean sure, the French are pricks NOW, but back then they were quite the agreeable chaps.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Underrated: Nikola Tesla. He built a machine and accidentally found the resonant frequency of the Earth and the shaking would have leveled a city block if he didn't shut it off in time. He then later boasted that he could have broken the earth in two and nobody dared him. Also he found a way to wirelessly light a lightbulb from 200 miles away. Some researchers at MIT got their panties wet because they did it from seven feet.

Yeah, and he is also slightly overrated because most of his stories are bullshit, myths, or hyperbole.
Louis Pasteur...one of the fathers of microbiology and germ theory...he work has saved hundreds of millions of people from death.

 

[StellarViking]

Underrated: Nikola Tesla. He built a machine and accidentally found the resonant frequency of the Earth and the shaking would have leveled a city block if he didn't shut it off in time. He then later boasted that he could have broken the earth in two and nobody dared him. Also he found a way to wirelessly light a lightbulb from 200 miles away. Some researchers at MIT got their panties wet because they did it from seven feet.

Yeah, and he is also slightly overrated because most of his stories are bullshit, myths, or hyperbole.
Louis Pasteur...one of the fathers of microbiology and germ theory...he work has saved hundreds of millions of people from death.

Well, perhaps a bit, yes, but I just feel he gets a bad rap sometimes.

Good choice you made, though.

 

[Gomithrus]

overrated: george washington, one of the luckiest dudes ever
Underrated: peter the great, what didnt he do great but few even know anything about it at all

 

[Taxman1]

Overrated: Thomas Edison, stole a lot of ideas / patents from other people.

Underrated: Nikola Tesla, had a lot of brilliant, world-changing works stolen or sabotaged.

This.

 

[Small Waves]

Overrated: Thomas Edison. He just patented ideas thought up by REAL inventors.

Underrated: James K. Polk.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

Underrated: Nikola Tesla. He built a machine and accidentally found the resonant frequency of the Earth and the shaking would have leveled a city block if he didn't shut it off in time. He then later boasted that he could have broken the earth in two and nobody dared him. Also he found a way to wirelessly light a lightbulb from 200 miles away. Some researchers at MIT got their panties wet because they did it from seven feet.

Yeah, and he is also slightly overrated because most of his stories are bullshit, myths, or hyperbole.
Louis Pasteur...one of the fathers of microbiology and germ theory...he work has saved hundreds of millions of people from death.

Well, perhaps a bit, yes, but I just feel he gets a bad rap sometimes.

Good choice you made, though.

A bad rap? Everyone seems to believe he invented science and uses magic to make the laws of nature his *****.

 

[StellarViking]

Underrated: Nikola Tesla. He built a machine and accidentally found the resonant frequency of the Earth and the shaking would have leveled a city block if he didn't shut it off in time. He then later boasted that he could have broken the earth in two and nobody dared him. Also he found a way to wirelessly light a lightbulb from 200 miles away. Some researchers at MIT got their panties wet because they did it from seven feet.

Yeah, and he is also slightly overrated because most of his stories are bullshit, myths, or hyperbole.
Louis Pasteur...one of the fathers of microbiology and germ theory...he work has saved hundreds of millions of people from death.

Well, perhaps a bit, yes, but I just feel he gets a bad rap sometimes.

Good choice you made, though.

A bad rap? Everyone seems to believe he invented science and uses magic to make the laws of nature his *****.

The school system I went through sort of gave him the "He was around and he played with electricity but he wasn't Thomas Edison" sort of thing. That's what I was basing it on.

 

[StellarViking]

Overrated: Thomas Edison, stole a lot of ideas / patents from other people.

Underrated: Nikola Tesla, had a lot of brilliant, world-changing works stolen or sabotaged.

This.

Actually, this was more along the lines of what I was going for.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Well, I would have said Columbus was overrated, if he hadn't been from before 1660, so I'm not really sure now.

As for underrated, I'd say George Washington Carver. Most people know about his work with peanuts, but few know of his equal number of discoveries/inventions/contributions to agriculture regarding soy beans.

 

[psycoturkey]

I'm not sure about overrated, probably Columbus, but underrated is Ludwig Boltzmann. The poor guy committed suicide before any of his discoveries were noticed or appreciated.

 

[j0frenzy]

Overrated for me would probably be George Washington Carver. Dude invented peanut butter. Why did I have to learn about him every February? Oh right. He was black.

For underrated, not quite sure. I am always partial to Peter the Great, but I'm not sure he really counts as underrated. I certainly learned a little about him before going to college, I just learned more about him because I took an imperial Russia course and I don't think you should have to take an entire course just to understand why a person is so important. I also don't think Oppenheimer really gets the full attention he deserves. So probably one of them.

 

[j0frenzy]

Well, I would have said Columbus was overrated, if he hadn't been from before 1660, so I'm not really sure now.

As for underrated, I'd say George Washington Carver. Most people know about his work with peanuts, but few know of his equal number of discoveries/inventions/contributions to agriculture regarding soy beans.

I feel weird that your underrated in my overrated. I am just tired of hearing about what he can do with a peanut just because he was black.

 

[Yureina]

Underrated - Alan Turing. After making huge steps in cryptography and early computer science, he was sentenced to death.

I was going to name him too, actually. It is a shame that society was so... messed up in those days when it came to dealing with homosexuals.

Overrated: John F. Kennedy. A tragedy, to be sure, but people seem to praise him and his deeds for much more than he deserves. He wasn't a really good president at all.