[Knight Templar]

James Bond   :thepimp:

Elizabeth Hurley

[Sheepy]

King Henry VIII cause im related to one of his wives

[Shrike]

Originally posted by PhReAk
how about the guy who wrote beowulf

Well, considering that we don't know who wrote it......

[Knight Templar]

Ozzy Osbourne

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Levyathan
Tolkien's not English, f00!

Err.. was he not? Ah, no, you're right - he was born in... erm... South Africa, right? Somewhere in Africa, methinks. Anycase, he lived most his whole life in England, and he did serve in the RAF, so do the maths...

Besides, this is a thread about Britons, you know - England may be the most important part, but we mustn't forget the ethnic minorities *nods at Aldo*

[EDIT] Just thought - Spike Milligan has to go on the list, as does Roald Dahl.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer


Err.. was he not? Ah, no, you're right - he was born in... erm... South Africa, right? Somewhere in Africa, methinks. Anycase, he lived most his whole life in England, and he did serve in the RAF, so do the maths...

Besides, this is a thread about Britons, you know - England may be the most important part, but we mustn't forget the ethnic minorities *nods at Aldo*

[EDIT] Just thought - Spike Milligan has to go on the list, as does Roald Dahl.

Agreed.

[Bobboau]

I'm kinda iffy on the Beatles

**reaches for nearest sharp object**
Damn, were are my sharp objects!?!
**grabs nearest dull object and starts sharpening it**

[CODEDOG ND]

Originally posted by PhReAk
Drake?

No, not him.  This guy didn't ever command a ship or sail.

[Dynamo]

Thom Yorke.

[CP5670]

I dunno, Newton also gave us Fluxions and persisted in believing in the aether when there was evidence against it. Besides, any props the guy gets have to be balanced with his poor treatment of Leibnitz.

Yeah, I think in terms of just math and philosophy Leibniz was certainly superior. What makes Newton so great though is that he did absolutely fundamental work in two areas (math and physics) with the co-discovery of calculus and the development of most of classical mechanics and optics. Although the fluxion was just an old term for the derivative and just about all the scientists believed in the æther until the late 19th century.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Stryke 9


There's piss-poor, and then there's unconscionable. At least you can laugh at the parallels between the Backstreet Boys and Village People, and look at Christina Aguilera's breasts. The Spice Girls were just damn painful, and there were a ****load of them. With stupid names assigned in order to give them some semblance of a "personality".

I'm kinda iffy on the Beatles, too, but most people seem to think they're some kind of gift from a bountiful God to pop music, and will attack you with anything sharp in the vicinity if you disagree, so I'll bow to popular opinion. If only because I can think of several sharp things in view right now.

Anyway. It's not just the Spice Girls' fault- Radiohead is ten billion times worse, but I assume they're American in extraction, and I just can't say anything bad about the music of a country that invented the atomic bomb.

Lemme put it this way.

 Number of albums by US groups I have - 1 (BRMC).  Number of UK group albums - about 65.

And I buy a LOT of albums.

[Tar-Palantir]

Of the list its has to be either Newton or Darwin, maybe that's because I'm a scienist by trade. It should definately NOT be the late Princess of Wales. To be quite frank she shouldn't even be one of the top 10.

[Carl]

probably Lennon because without him we wouldn't have rock

[Black Wolf]

There were great Britons?




Just Kidding...Um, Go Darwin, becuause he gave us the single greatest weapon against christianity in the history of the world.

[diamondgeezer]

Well... not really, since Creationists just pretend evolution doesn't exist, thus negating the scientist's clever arguments entirely.

Not that I'm aiming to turn this one into another Science vs Religion job... *hides*

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Levyathan

Anyway, I vote for David Beckham. Or that Seaman dude.

I have seen some morons in my time (and believe me, I have, i've been to Bradford!) but you, sah, beat them all! I demand satisfaction, pistols at dawn! and so on.

[phreak]

if you want a scot, how about Sean Connery

[Carl]

...monty python.

[Levyathan]

Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
I have seen some morons in my time (and believe me, I have, i've been to Bradford!) but you, sah, beat them all! I demand satisfaction, pistols at dawn! and so on.

How can you not like them? Because of them we got to be world champions for the fifth time!

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Levyathan


How can you not like them? Because of them we got to be world champions for the fifth time!

Note - Macedonia scored past Seaman straight from a corner in the last round of Euro 2004 qualifiers.  Into the exact same spot as Ronaldinho