Who's on your geek Mount Rushmore?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Who are your big four cultural icons -- yours personally, or what the world knows and cares about -- that you'd slap on a mountain? (Preferably land you had actual rights to.)

 

[Umbran]

Geek cultural icons?

Carl Sagan. Weird Al Yankovic. Gene Roddenberry. J.R.R. Tolkien.

And, yeah, it kind of bugs me that they're all white dudes.

 

[Morrus]

Wow. That's a difficult one. Four?

David Bowie, Shatner, Spielberg, Neil Armstrong and/or Buzz Aldrin (with apologies to Michael Collins).

But if you ask me tomorrow I may come up with a different four...

 

[Reynard]

Solo, Indy, Deckard, Ryan

 

[Desdichado]

J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

 

[dbolack]

Tom Lehrer

 

[CleverNickName]

Only four, huh? For me: Gene Rodenberry, Lloyd Alexander, Hayao Miyazaki, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Or, in a pinch: just slap King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Sir Robin, and Sir Bedevere from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on the mountainside and call it a day.

 

[Scribe]

Who are your big four cultural icons -- yours personally, or what the world knows and cares about -- that you'd slap on a mountain? (Preferably land you had actual rights to.)

Whoa tough!

Tolkien, Lucas, Roddenberry...Stan Lee?

That 4th one could go so many ways.

 

[Deset Gled]

J. R. R. Tolkien, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Can we do a very tiny, separate sculpture with Lovecraft, Heinlein, Whedon, and Kipling as a tribute to people that we recognize as influential but really really don't want to put on the side of a mountain?

 

[payn]

The Beastie Boys and Biz Markie.