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100 Greatest Britons of All Time

 
 
Ethan Hawke
13:34 / 23.08.02
So, like, I open up Arts & Letters Daily today, and they've got a blurb about the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons of all time poll/tv series. Perusing the list, we find 3 Beatles, a couple of football stars, one infamous Satanist, a dead princess, you get the picture. Basically it's a hodgepodge of Pop Stars and people you learned to respect in history class. So, um is Robbie Williams really 1 of the greatest Britons of all time? Do the stuffy commentators (who, incidentally, lay the smack down to Barbe faves John Peel and Aleister Crowley) have anything intelligent to say? Or is it just finally time for those of us across the pond to have a larf at the expense of the British Public (Robbie WIlliams? At least Geri Halliwell is a UN ambassador or something) for being so stupid?

(of course a U.S. list would probably feature Justin Timberlake, Al Sharpton, and Charles Manson, but we ain't done made one yet, varmints!)
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
14:06 / 23.08.02
Anyone who would contribute to a list like this must be some kind of lunatic, but I think the greatest Briton of all time has got to be the truant officer who punches Alex in the nuts in A Clockwork Orange, though there was a Papa Smurf-lookin' Yorkish (?) engineer on Junkyard Wars the other day who ran a close second, and the greatest Australian of all time has got to be the uncle from Dead Alive.

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Saint Keggers
14:15 / 23.08.02
Robbie Williams??? Are they f-ing nuts???
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:20 / 23.08.02
The list I can see is only in alphabetical order...

I'm much more embarrassed and worried about the inclusion of Tony Blair, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Enoch Powell, the Duke of Wellington and Margaret Thatcher, to be honest. Robbie's never done anyone any harm, has he? Not that'll stand up in court, anyway...

Still, at least Tony Benn made it in.
 
 
Bill Posters
14:22 / 23.08.02
Very mixed feelings here. Yes, such lists are nonsense compiled by loons, and yet the magickal side of me is delighted to see William Blake, Uncle Aleister, and JK Rowling and JRR Tolkein all listed when there's only one other spiritual figure (The Christian John Wesley) in the top 100 Brits.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
14:23 / 23.08.02
Most of that's like my own personal hit-list.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
14:30 / 23.08.02
I was very glad to see Alan Turing and Julie Andrews, both very important people in my life.
 
 
Loomis
14:34 / 23.08.02
I feel sorry for Ringo. That's gotta hoit.
 
 
rizla mission
15:58 / 23.08.02
Well the absolute bollocks-ness is pretty predictable really, but I'm fucking chuffed that Crowley and Peel made the list!
 
 
gridley
17:30 / 23.08.02
Didn't Alexander Graham Bell leave England in his teens?
 
 
glowworm_wiggle
18:03 / 23.08.02
no thomas hardy?

an outrage.
 
 
w1rebaby
18:29 / 23.08.02
While I like J K Rowling I'm not sure she's one of the most important Britons of all time.

I notice Babbage got in but Ada Lovelace didn't.

Well, you could spend forever going through that list and pointing out the bollocks...
 
 
Saint Keggers
19:16 / 23.08.02
And where the hell is Benny Hill??? There is no justice in the world.
 
  
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