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Why? It said 25 Greatest Americans. It didn't say they had to be human. Homer Simpson is one of the greatest American's, IMHO. The fact he isn't human doesn't make him any less great, nor any less American.
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For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next
But he would think of something
"Hm. I suppose I should get my waffle a santa hat." - Kuciwalker -
Some say he couldn't be any more american.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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I personally think that Homer is sort of an Everyman American
Jon Miller
(I should say old Homer, while there are still good oneliners and occasionally full episodes, Simpsons has gone down hill)Jon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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Don't do that John!! This thread is doomed now as hte debate will focus on the simpsons from now on ( for the umpteenth time).
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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greatest american: Matt Groenig (sp?)
First, for his dark comic strip, Life in Hell.
Second, for selling out and making The Simpsons
Third, for making such a condescending satire of American life, getting condescending Euros to call his character the greatest American, and laughing all the way to the bank while he's at it.
Only in America."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.†Martin BuberComment
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Wow, Dr. Strangelove, an admission like this might buy you a lawsuit by both the Cherokee Nation and by NAACP for reparations.Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
He's the quintessential achievement oriented American! He's like my ancestor, who in the 1830s having been told by the Quaker church that it was really, really, really time for him to obey the 1750 Quaker injunction against owning slaves declared himself a Methodist and moved his family and slaves from Virginia to land in Tennessee made available by some recently exiled Cherokees. Man, you just don't get more American than that!
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What, no Faraday?Originally posted by Jon Miller
Benjamin Franklin
Enrico Fermi
Richard P. Feynman
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Albert Einstein
Jon Miller
(yeah, so what if they are all physicists)
(yeah, I know that two (three if you count Franklin) weren't born in this country)(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
(='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."Comment
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Was Faraday an American?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
FDR
MLKComment
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Originally posted by OldWarrior_42
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
FDR
MLK
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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None of you guys read my link did you?
Everybody takes second to Norman Borlaug.
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Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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Louis Armstrong (I can't believe he hasn't been mentioned yet; America has given the world nothing unambiguosly good and completely homegrown except jazz)
Ben Franklin
Martin Luther King
Eugene V. Debs
Tatanka Iyotake (a/k/a Sitting Bull)"I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George CarlinComment
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Tecumseh
Bessie Smith
Thomas Jefferson
Emma Goldman
Jackson PollockVive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Jane Fonda
John Walker Lindh
Leonard Peltier
Julius Rosenberg
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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Originally posted by Tuberski
I have only one vote, everyone else pales in comparison:
Norman Borlaug
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I'm impressed!
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