When was this list written? 1990s? Julia Child has been dead more than 20 years.
Most of these people are so old they can’t wipe ass, let alone kick it. The rest are dead. You’d be more likely to get your ass kicked by Ariana Grande.
Chuck Norris is 85
Harrison Ford is 83
Samuel L Jackson is 77
Jessie Ventura is 74
Dolph Lundgren is 68
Daniel Day Lewis is 68
Ice-T is 67
Christopher Lee has been dead for 11 years, but he would be 103
Julia Child would be 113
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The only one on the list who might still deliver an ass-kicking is Jason Statham, and even he is nearly 60.
(Actually Dolph Lundgren looks like he can still do some damage.)
It’s also wrong.
Christopher Lee wasn’t a member of the SAS or SOE: during WW2 he was an intelligence officer in the Royal Air Force. He wasn’t delivering arse-kickings; he was delivering mission briefings for aircrew. He may well have interacted with with members of the SAS or SOE at some stage in his career but he wasn’t in either organisation and didn’t take part in operations with them. In later life he started telling tall tales about his military service and some of it stuck.
Julia Child, on the other hand, did work for the OSS but her role was essentially clerical; she wasn’t a ‘secret agent’. On the other hand, she was apparently 6’2″ so may well have been arse-kicking capable.
Some of the entries that are accurate still don’t make a plausible case. How does Harrison Ford being a pilot and surviving two crashes prove that he could kill someone with his bare hands? It just proves that he could kill you if you’re dumb enough to get into a plane with him.
I think I could lose a fight with Harrison Ford because I’d be afraid to hit him. I’m pretty sure one solid punch, or even a hard shove to the ground, would earn me a manslaughter charge.
I would’t mess with the other people on the list, who probably could kick my ass, but I doubt they’d be a match for my son. (Again, excepting Jason Statham and possibly Dolph Lundgren.) I assume the author didn’t mean “now”
The headline probably should be interpreted as
“10 famous people who could kill you with their bare hands if you’re in your 80s or older, and asleep”
or
“10 famous people who could have killed you with their bare hands when they were young”
I remember what they said about the F105 Thunderchief fighter plane being a triple threat- it could bomb you, it could strafe you, it could fall on you…
Dolph Lundgren could kick my ass both physically AND mentally
To be fair, Julia Child WAS really good with a knife…