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Euronymous

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The yanks are doing the same thing we did a year or so ago. Absolutely unreal list, check these out ( the number of :lol: indicate the absurdity of the person`s nomination:

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER :lol: x9
BARBARA BUSH :lol: x6
BILLY GRAHAM :lol: x8
CHRISTOPHER REEVE :lol: x4
DONALD TRUMP :lol: x5
GEORGE BUSH SNR :lol: x3
GEORGE BUSH JNR :lol: x7
GEORGE LUCAS :lol: x4
MADONNA :lol: x8
MARILYN MONROE :lol: x7
OPRAH WINFREY :lol: x6
RONALD REAGAN :lol: x5
TOM CRUISE :lol: x9


http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050418/dcm023.html?.v=6


Top three for me would be:
1, MLK.
2, Lincoln.
3, Jackie Robinson.
 
Glad to see that Michael Jackson's in the list...

Top 100 Americans

Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Amelia Earhart
Andrew Carnegie
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Audie Murphy
Babe Ruth
Barack Obama
Barbara Bush
Benjamin Franklin
Bill Clinton
Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)
Bill Gates
Billy Graham
Bob Hope
Brett Favre
Carl Sagan
Cesar Chavez
Charles Lindbergh
Christopher Reeve
Chuck Yeager
Clint Eastwood
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Donald Trump
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
Ellen DeGeneres
Elvis Presley
Frank Sinatra
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frederick Douglass
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Lucas
George Patton
George Washington
George Washington Carver
Harriet Ross Tubman
Harry Truman
Helen Keller
Henry Ford
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Howard Hughes
Hugh Hefner
Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jesse Owens
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Stewart
John Edwards
John Glenn
John F. Kennedy
John Wayne
Johnny Carson (John William Carson)
Jonas Edward Salk
Joseph Smith Jr.
Katharine Hepburn
Lance Armstrong
Laura Bush
Lucille Ball
Lyndon B. Johnson
Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)
Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
Marilyn Monroe
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Martha Stewart
Martin Luther King Jr.
Maya Angelou
Mel Gibson
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordan
Michael Moore
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)
Neil Alden Armstrong
Nikola Tesla
Oprah Winfrey
Pat Tillman
Dr. Phil McGraw
Ray Charles
Richard Nixon
Robert Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Rosa Parks
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Rush Limbaugh
Sam Walton
Steve Jobs
Steven Spielberg
Susan B. Anthony
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson
Tiger Woods
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Walt Disney
Wrights Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)
 
It's handy that Martha Stewart got out of prison in time, too.

The list of missing writers, artists and poets says a lot and as for Rush Limbaugh, well that says everything....
 
After defying odds of at least a million to one by winning the World Heavyweight Championship title, going through the heartache of losing his long-time trainer, mentor and friend, avenging the death of his other friend by fighting and defeating Eastern Europes must feared and ferocious boxer of all time, I'm shocked and appalled that Rocky Balboa isn't on the list.
 
Phil's back on form, I see. :lol:

Brian is right - where the hell are all their creative people? Condy Rice for godsake? - Colin Powell's been k.o.'d in favour of this little package of right-wing santimoniousness? No Frank Lloyd Wright? No Walt Whitman, but Walt Disney? Where are all their inventors, scientists, and medical researchers?

Was this list sponsored by Dow Chemical and/or Coke, perhaps?
 
Originally posted by simmo@Jun 27 2005, 03:44 PM
Several of them are not Americans either.
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Well they all became US citizens, so we must allow the list compilers that. Of course, most voters won't know that they started life elsewhere...

I guess you were particularly interested in Alexander Graham Bell? When he first left Sctland he went to Canada but he ended up becomeing an American citizen.

Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896 at the age of 17 and was stateless for a number of years. He applied for Swiss citizenship in 1899 and it was finally granted to him in 1901. He became a US citizen at the age of 51 in 1940, though he kept his Swiss nationality too. So he could also be nominated for the list of the 100 greatest Swiss - for which he would be a terrific each-way bet...
 
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And here's the Top 20 after 2.4 million Americans voted:

1 Ronald Reagan ffs

2 Abraham Lincoln

3 Martin Luther King Jr

4 George Washington

5 Benjamin Franklin

6 George W Bush ffs

7 Bill Clinton

8 Elvis Presley

9 Oprah Winfrey

10 Franklin D Roosevelt

11 Billy Graham

12 Thomas Jefferson

13 Walt Disney

14 Albert Einstein

15 Thomas Alva Edison

16 John F Kennedy

17 Bob Hope

18 Bill Gates

19 Eleanor Roosevelt

20 Lance Armstrong
 
An excellent site for outing the hypocrites in America, Euro. Well done on finding that one - "C**ksucker of the Month" is a brilliant notion. Don't we have any really full-on ranting and outing sites like this about the UK's Best of the Worst, or do we just not have enough truly appalling people?
 
Originally posted by krizon@Jun 29 2005, 08:03 PM
An excellent site for outing the hypocrites in America, Euro. Well done on finding that one - "C**ksucker of the Month" is a brilliant notion. Don't we have any really full-on ranting and outing sites like this about the UK's Best of the Worst, or do we just not have enough truly appalling people?
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It is an excellent site. The fact that Reagan could win this poll and that Bush could win two elections suggest that we are fairly well off over here. Reading through the site the most scary thing is the religious nuts they have over there, a lot of them in influential, powerful positions.
 
Can someone remind me of the finishing possies in the Brit version? I have a recollection of somebody called Spencer in the list but may be misrecalling.

Anyway, arn't those Yanks plonkers - eh?
 
Here are the final results, with percentage of the votes cast. You were almost right - there was an ex-Spencer, though I thought that you might have been more concerned about number 10. I haven't the faintest idea how she got into the list and I'm not too sure what John Lennon is doing there either. My vote went to Shakespeare. Unlike the US list we didn't have any living people in ours.

1 Winston Churchill (27.9%)

2 Isambard Kingdom Brunel (24.1%)

3 Diana, Princess of Wales (14.2%)

4 Charles Darwin (6.9%)

5 William Shakespeare (6.9%)

6 Isaac Newton (5.2%)

7 Queen Elizabeth I (4.5%)

8 John Lennon (4.3%)

9 Horatio Nelson (3.1%)

10 Oliver Cromwell (2.9%).
 
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