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  • #16
    Steven Morrissey
    Unbelievable!

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    • #17
      What about the scientists , engineers who made possible the industrial revolution and trains?
      I need a foot massage

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      • #18
        --What, like James Watt? (see above)

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        • #19
          I think the guy who discovered blood circulates was a guy who was burned alive by Calvin in switzerland
          I need a foot massage

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          • #20
            Chaucer
            Milton
            Pope
            Dickens

            to name but a few
            "Remember, there's good stuff in American culture, too. It's just that by "good stuff" we mean "attacking the French," and Germany's been doing that for ages now, so, well, where does that leave us?" - Elok

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Sn00py
              Wouldn't George Washington technically be British?

              Someone enlighten me
              I don't know where you got this idea.

              Place of Birth: Westmoreland County, Virginia
              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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              • #22
                Margaret Thatcher
                Horatio Nelson
                Bernard Law Montgomery
                Arthur Conan Doyle
                Alfred Hitchcock
                Rudyard Kipling
                Isaac Newton
                Alexander Fleming
                William Gladstone
                Agatha Christie
                Cecil Rhodes
                Francis Bacon
                Laurence Olivier
                John Stuart Mill
                Charlie Chaplin
                Robert Baden-Powell
                Elizabeth II
                David Bowie
                Andrew Lloyd Webber
                Thomas Hobbes
                Louis Mountbatten
                Graham Greene

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                • #23
                  Nobody's mentioned Walter Raleigh yet?
                  Unbelievable!

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                  • #24
                    Jimmy Carr...

                    I'd think Alan Turing or Isembard Brunel. Perhaps not the greatest Britons, but certainly among the most influential.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by SlowwHand


                      I don't know where you got this idea.

                      Place of Birth: Westmoreland County, Virginia
                      ...and what country was that a part of at the tme?
                      ~ If Tehben spits eggs at you, jump on them and throw them back. ~ Eventis ~ Eventis Dungeons & Dragons 6th Age Campaign: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4: (Unspeakable) Horror on the Hill ~

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                      • #26
                        Noone said John Lennon yet?

                        edit: Oh, Cort Haus did. I was doing a Find on John L, not Lennon
                        Resident Filipina Lady Boy Expert.

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                        • #27
                          Ok, I have updated the list; I don't know much about a lot of these people, so it's up to you to debate whether the names I have listed should stay or not.

                          David Bowie I left out, I need convincing that he should be in the list.

                          We should start organising it now, who should be in the top 10 and in what order?
                          be free

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Sn00py
                            David Bowie I left out, I need convincing that he should be in the list.
                            Damn.

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                            • #29
                              John Locke?
                              David Hume?
                              Adam Smith?
                              bleh

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Sn00py
                                We should start organising it now, who should be in the top 10 and in what order?
                                1. Winston Churchill
                                2. Isaac Newton
                                3. Adam Smith
                                4. James Watt
                                5. Charles Darwin
                                6. Elizabeth I
                                7. Alexander Graham Bell
                                8. John Stuart Mill
                                9. William Shakespeare
                                10. Margaret Thatcher

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