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So your argument is to be an influential Britan you have to influence Americans
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WTF does 'rediculous' mean.Originally posted by Jon Miller
Err, there was a DnD film...
Really, you guys are rediculous.
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Yeah, seems like it.Originally posted by TheStinger
So your argument is to be an influential Britan you have to influence Americans
I had started to regret flaming him the other day. Not any more. He just keeps parroting the same crap regardless of what anyone says.Comment
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So your argument is to be an influential Britan you have to influence Americans
Isn't that the way it works? It's certainly that way in the musical world, for instance. You can make it big in the UK, but you haven't really made it until you crack America...KH FOR OWNER!
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The point about Douglas Adams is that he was such a rare genius that very few people in the world ever can come anywhere near him.
So, there won't be a ton of Adams-style writers about, because hardly anyone else can do it. What Jon refuses to acknowledge is that ordinary lives can be influenced by writers, not just other writers. This makes him more influential, not less.Comment
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That's the way it appears to work for dumb Americans. Wiser Americans know better.Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
So your argument is to be an influential Britan you have to influence Americans
Isn't that the way it works? It's certainly that way in the musical world, for instance. You can make it big in the UK, but you haven't really made it until you crack America...
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Umm, I am asking for examples of the influence.. and you guys can't provide many. If I thought this was just a game of silly buggers, I would have never put the effort into this thread that I did.
It's like me saying "I think that Bujold is an amazing author, with a lot of insight, who everyone should read. Obviously she is hugely influential." And she is an amazing author... and maybe is even influential among sci fi people, but she isn't influential in the culture as a whole.
And from everything I have seen of Britian culture, neither is Douglas Adams.
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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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Originally posted by Cort Haus
Charles Babbage
Clearly.
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Don't be an ass.Originally posted by Cort Haus
WTF does 'rediculous' mean.
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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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Added 3 more:
Arthur C. Clarke
Michael Faraday
Thomas Malthus
An interesting note, Isaac Newton is found to be either 1st or 2nd on many 100 most influential people in history, above Jesus, but sometimes before Muhammad.be freeComment
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I vote for Lord Tiddlywinks, inventor of the Scrumpet. Also anybody who says "Gov'nor."Comment
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wtf is a Scrumpet?
And Alexender Pope inspired my new signature.
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well, one list I saw that had Isaac Newton second had Einstien as a top 6, which is frankly wrong.
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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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I'd put
1. Elizabeth I, the foundation stone of the Empire of the English. No one in modern history has had as much effect.
2. Isaac Newton, science begins here
3. Adam Smith, economics begins here
4. William Shakespeare, the language lives here. See 1
I'm undecided about the rest.(\__/)
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Shouldn't this be in the history forum?"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
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