This troper's band director is very cool. He always has us laughing, but we as a band put our trust in him as a conductor--if a band director sucks, the band won't trust him. Sadly, he's retiring after this semester.

My favourite fencing coach is one of these guys. I've heard that he's a Commonwealth champion but can't check as I have no idea what his surname is.

This Troper had a theology professor who qualified. The guy's first(!) doctorate was in chemistry and had served in the military on a bomb squad; he told the most awesome stories. He had entire books of the Bible memorized, often in his own translation from the Greek. He could argue any point convincingly, whether or not he actually believed it. His mission in life was to teach his students how to think for themselves, and to never, ''ever'' be taken in by fancy words or bad logic. His tests were considered the most challenging in the school, but if you were stumped, you could put "Dr Pepper" as the answer and get half-credit. He was short, balding, and weird, but man were we sad when he decided to move back to his native Arkansas.

I once (back when I was a callow youth) accidentally implied that my grangfather was a moron. I have since learned that age and wisdom really do go hand in hand. All apologies to my Gramps. WillieNelson looks like him, he's done hard time in Maximum Security, he can drive so well that the cops don't even notice his beer, he's old enough to retire but has been supporting my mother's side of the family mostly by himself for thirty years, has run his own company for longer than I can remember, and can drop a joke fit to make GeorgeCarlin spin in his grave with envy when you least expect it. And I have no idea what he got up to when he was just a young BadAss...

This troper's youth pastor is a 50-something-year-old grandfather with six kids. However, if he were to lose a few pounds and die his hair, he could pass for a twenty-year-old, just in the way he acts and the amount of energy he has. He is one of the most fun people I know and has the ability to connect with kids less than half his age.

This Troper's last Sunday School Teacher has this way of seeming to pierce your soul with his' eyes. He is brilliant, one of the most understanding chaps you could meet, and... when this troper was separated from his' daughter in a way that immensely hurt both of us, he's still been so incredibly understanding.

This troper's grandfather and great-uncle. My grandfather has worked in the field of electronics pretty much since it became a field, holds several patents, and frequently cheerfully mystifies roomfuls of people with SesquipedalianLoquaciousness and TechnoBabble. He's incredibly knowledgeable about science and history, and has something interesting to say about every object or place he comes across. Along with the brilliant mind, he rides a motorcycle and still has the strength and stamina to climb mountains. My great-uncle was a tank driver in WW2 who liberated a concentration camp. In the 50s, he was a vigilante who worked with the NYPD to decrease mob activity. Now he's the oldest living man in our family but still quite capable of holding a conversation on a wide variety of topics--while shooting squirrels off his bird feeder with an Airsoft gun.

I have a cool guy at youth group whose name is Dr. Z. Yes, that's his name. And he knows who Ke$ha is. Really. He's like that cool dad you just ''wish'' you had.

My dad is 59, an can pass for 40-ish. If you don't see him, he might as well be 30something. He's basically a bro. He's a scale modeller, despite his eyes not helping him much, has awesome taste, and there's few topics he seems out of place in.

This troper's philosophy teacher combines this with {{The Obi Wan}}. He writes out his own 300+ packets of notes for his students for EVERY class, can argue circles around even the most jaded person AND, even at +70 years, is willing to sit down and watch {{Haruhi Suzumiya}} in order to compare it to Niezsche.

This tropers would like to add her history teacher to the list. Sure he is like a billion years old, rambles about how crows can often the bringer of death, and often asks for assignments he never assigned to us, but he's a really cool guy. This is his second career, he's actually a retired engineer, who went back and got his masters in History. He fought in 'Nam (Air Force), has four kids, lived in the Far East for about five years, sponsors foreign exchange students, and often ends his emails with Robert Frost poems. As far as I'm concerned, he's a older Robin Williams who's time traveled back here to teach at college

This troper's father. He's in his early 70's, build his own house from the bare dirt on up while working full-time as a high school teacher in a low-income area. He taught math, physics and chemistry for over thirty years and the students of his that I've met describe him as this. Now that he's retired, he volunteers full time for non-profit groups as an on-sight engineer in electrical, pluming, HVAC and energy conservation. I have never once heard him raise his voice, and his version of getting mad is to put his hand on your shoulder, explain why you're being an idiot, and then show you how to fix whatever you've just broken.

My grandfathers could qualify. My mother-side grandpa could make and fix a ton of stuff (helps that he's a mechanical engineer) and was able to lift weights at age 72 (which he made himself, although they were made of bowling balls). He fixes almost everything in his place and once spent his downtime playing video games with my grandma (it was a SNES, but still). He would also spend afternoons challenging his grandchildren to a spicy food eating contest. My other grandpa would fit the mold of TheObiWan, but he's cool that way; he likes giving out advice and basically taught all his grandkids the value of learning, in school or out of it. Both of them are still very much affectionate with their respective wives.

Unfortunately Tropers/BTIsaac wasn't very lucky with his grandpa. While he was a respected critic, well known biographer and personally knowing the greatest figures of 20th century Transylvanian literature, he eventually grew paranoid, short tempered, and senile.