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Offline CyranoAH

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« Reply #30 on: August 11, 2003, 03:32:48 AM »
Newton all the way

Offline DiabloTX

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« Reply #31 on: August 11, 2003, 05:24:28 AM »
You guys are all wrong.  Eric Clapton all the way.
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« Reply #32 on: August 11, 2003, 06:10:36 AM »
Darwin all the way - none of the others has managed to upset Hortlund as much. ;)
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« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2003, 10:32:41 AM »
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
My favourite (British spelling) Briton is (was) John Harrison, the clockmaker.  

Harrison built the first useful chronometer for solving the problem of longitude.  In doing so, a carpenters son from Lincolnshire proved Newton to be a pompous prettythang.



truly an amazing character......

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« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2003, 10:36:39 AM »
Bob Hope


duh!

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« Reply #35 on: August 11, 2003, 10:42:09 AM »
Dr. Jekyll
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« Reply #36 on: August 11, 2003, 10:55:12 AM »
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« Reply #37 on: August 11, 2003, 11:10:34 AM »
I retract my earlier post.  I go with this guy:



If I have to tell you who it is, then you wouldn't understand.  Cheers mate!!
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« Reply #38 on: August 11, 2003, 11:18:18 AM »
Nelson, was an important figure to British history, Newton to science, Shakespear to the arts, but Winston Churchill to the world. Without his determination Britain might (likely might) have agreed to a negoiated peace with Hitler and the world as we know it would have been fouled to this day.

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« Reply #39 on: August 11, 2003, 11:37:13 AM »
"greatest Briton ever"  ..geez

Why anyone outside GB would care is beyond me...

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« Reply #40 on: August 11, 2003, 11:44:30 AM »
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"greatest Briton ever"  ..geez

Why anyone outside GB would care is beyond me...


LOL....well said.  :)
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« Reply #41 on: August 11, 2003, 12:31:46 PM »
Because Greatest ever Swede would be a much shorter list, probably involving crappy jokes about vegetables.
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« Reply #42 on: August 11, 2003, 12:47:05 PM »
Wi n0t trei a h0liday in Sweden thi yer?

See the l0veli lakes

The W0nderful teleph0ne system

And mani interesting furry animals

Including the majestic m00se

A M00se once bit my sister ...
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« Reply #43 on: August 11, 2003, 01:11:49 PM »
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Because Greatest ever Swede would be a much shorter list, probably involving crappy jokes about vegetables.


FU you know nothing about our history.

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« Reply #44 on: August 11, 2003, 01:23:12 PM »
Admittedly I don't. I'm sure there are plenty of great Swedish figures in history...
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