Quit reading when I saw Boy George listed.

Robbie Williams is on the list, but Jimmy Page is not. I don't like this list one bit.

2006-08-27 07:32:36 PMEat More Possum
Quit reading when I saw Boy George listed.

I didn't get past number 3. "Great" at going on holiday, biatching to the press, and ignoring her kids.

jay_vee: I didn't get past number 3.

Agreed. Never have understood the infatuation of the Princess Di saga.

Princess Diana is #3, ahead of Darwin, Shakespeare and Newton. What a country.

This list is from 2002. Right now, my vote would go to Mike Skinner.

John, Paul, George, but not Ringo? How rude!

/knows Ringo is laughing all the way to the bank

Other than this list being totally offensive in every way.. (Thomas Paine is below David Beckham??) Umm... Wasn't Alexander Graham Bell American?

2006-08-27 08:44:47 PMmelodium
Wasn't Alexander Graham Bell American?

Nah. Scottish. Moved to the US as an adult.

Lord Nelson, Shakespeare, and Churchill are the only ones I can think of.

/undereducated American

Without reading this list, I will say that Churchill is #1. Time to check it.

Princess Diana #3? She wasn't even royalty until she married into it, and she outranks everyone who was born into it? Weird.

fark Winston, he was a bastard. Yeah, let's "Gas all of Germany" because that will prove how morally superior you are to Hitler alright.

C'mon, Britons! We want that trifecta!

Nice! Aleister Crowley made the list.

/do what thou wilt...

Is Keira Knightley a Brit?

Who are the Britons?

Not. One. Single. Python.

No Sir Christopher Wren?

wheres king arthur? wasn't he their once and future king?

I can't believe Drake scores below Lennon.

We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king.

I liked that David Bowie was better than Charles Dickens.

I am willing to bet Princess Di(e) is on this stupid list.

Way to look pretty for the camera's princess. You did a lot for the world.

worthless

Lennon over McCartney?
As if!

!

jay_vee: Actually, he moved to Canada when he was 23 then went to teach in the States a few years later.

By the way, this list blows. Condorman is on the list but John Cleese isn't? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.

No Benny Hill ? Man, I can hear "Yakkety Sax" playing right now.

Princess Diana, what the Hell?

The only thing she did was marry royalty and die spectacularly.

i can't believe WafeenSS' mother is letting him stay up this late.

Oh my gosh. Princess Di outranks Charles Darwin, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and Queen Elizabeth I?

What the FARK were they smoking when they came up with that??

LandStander, Ringo is laughing all the way to being-alive.

Heh, I was right. Here are my complaints:

- Wikipedia?
- #10 Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), Lord Protector
Yeah, maybe if you're not Irish
- John Lennon above Stephen Hawking? fark, get over yourself
- #35. Boudicca was a biatch

fark it, the list would be too long. That's a pretty crappy list.

junkevil, I can't believe you figured out how to turn on the computer.

No Jordan!? She's great, damnit!

DrDad enjoys mccartneys intellectual lyrics and catchy jingles.

George Washington
and
Katie Price.

End of discussion.

Princess Diana, what the Hell?

The only thing she did was marry royalty and die spectacularly.

And popularize (for many) the fight against AIDS and land mines.

Not a single dentist among them....

Benny Hill is #1, right?

/right?

Patrick Stewart is missing.

i turn on alot of things that you'll never know about WaffenSS.

since your kind of a re-re i'll let you know that i was refering to girls.

Old.

Also, too many musicians. Some Irishmen, who I don't think would want to be called British. And at least one - Freddie - isn't really British.

/P.S. FARK CROMWELL.

Whoa, the #1 of 100 Britons is half American.

No C.S. Lewis? Wha?

junkevil, I feel sorry for your mother and sister.

Now put your helmet back on like a good boy and hop on the short bus.

N. S. Radieaux
Not. One. Single. Python.

King Arthur is there. Not for nothing, I thought he was a fictional character. If you are going to add fictional characters, lets add Edmund Blackadder.

2006-08-27 09:09:42 PMHeathSteele


jay_vee: Actually, he moved to Canada when he was 23 then went to teach in the States a few years later.

I stand corrected. I looked it up, too, and for some reason didn't twig that Ontario isn't actually in the States. I know it, but didn't make the connection.

Sorry Ontarionians.

No, Sir Henry Morgan? he's got that rum...and stuff. AND, I'm related to him

Alan Turing: #21
Some dude nobody has ever heard of, who built some kind of railroad or something: #2

I'm an American, some of my family living here has been traced back to 1676. But Princess Diana number 3? I also wonder why besides being born in England that Thomas Paine would be listed. He wrote Common Sense pamphlets during the American Revolution and was an agitator for revolution and American independence.

Well, it goes to show that America doesn't have a monopoly on worship of useless people.