Author Topic: BBC - Greatest ever Briton (Read 1485 times)

CyranoAH · « **Reply #30 on:** August 11, 2003, 03:32:48 AM »

Newton all the way

DiabloTX · « **Reply #31 on:** August 11, 2003, 05:24:28 AM »

You guys are all wrong. Eric Clapton all the way.

-dead- · « **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.

SLO · « **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......

midnight Target · « **Reply #34 on:** August 11, 2003, 10:36:39 AM »

Bob Hope

duh!

Eagler · « **Reply #35 on:** August 11, 2003, 10:42:09 AM »

Dr. Jekyll

mietla · « **Reply #36 on:** August 11, 2003, 10:55:12 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
Dr. Jekyll

Mr Hyde

DiabloTX · « **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!!

Charon · « **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.

Charon

Hortlund · « **Reply #39 on:** August 11, 2003, 11:37:13 AM »

"greatest Briton ever" ..geez

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

Curval · « **Reply #40 on:** August 11, 2003, 11:44:30 AM »

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Originally posted by Hortlund
"greatest Briton ever" ..geez

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

LOL....well said.

Dowding · « **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.

Holden McGroin · « **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 ...

Hortlund · « **Reply #43 on:** August 11, 2003, 01:11:49 PM »

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Originally posted by Dowding
Because Greatest ever Swede would be a much shorter list, probably involving crappy jokes about vegetables.

FU you know nothing about our history.

Dowding · « **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...