22-04-2005 02:33									#1
	Apolyton list: 25 greatest Americans Full PM-box? Change here!

Since there's so many disagreements about the top 100 greatest Americans poll done by AOL, let's see how us intellectual Apolytonians think about it.

Each poster send me five (5) names by PM, email, or post on this thread before April 30 and I'll tabulate the results and see who us brainiacs like.

Try to use a proper name, such as "Neil Aldrin Armstrong" instead of "Buzz Armstrong." I can't take anything like "the guy who wrote about the mississippi river," or "Patrick Johannoson, inventor of the Dorito." If you feel that the person you're nominating is relatively obscure or you're not sure you can remember a full name and they're not well-enough known to use a last name, try to include a profession or accomplishment.

In the event that two people share a last name (Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt), use their full name.

Apolytonians are excluded from being on the list. Don't worry. Ted Striker will get an honorary mention.

So, get to thinking! I've got a start for us:

Bill Clinton
Johnny Cash
Franklin Roosevelt
Sam Walton
Douglas MacArthur

	22-04-2005 02:39									#2
	Increase Your PM Length

Listen very carefully, Buzz was the nickname of Edwin Aldrin, not Neil Armstrong.

Anyways,

Ronald Reagan
Thomas Edison
John Wayne
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elvis Presley

	22-04-2005 02:40									#3
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

AHA, I've got it!

Let's corrupt this thread into an I'm With Stupid game!

*SENZD*

	22-04-2005 02:43									#4
	Full PM-box? Change here!

I'm going for tradition here:

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Abraham Lincoln

Last edited by Dr Strangelove on 22-04-2005 at 02:56

	22-04-2005 02:44									#5
	Put an end to popups!

only 5? this will be tough.

there will be no celebrities on my list, because celebrities are crap.

Lincoln, Washington, MLK, Bill Gates, and Booker T. Washington.

since his mailbox is full, let this post serve as my votes.

edit: and yes this list is finalized. There are other great ones, but there's just no room since I can only vote for 5.

	22-04-2005 02:46									#6
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

My list for you, people:

Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Theodor Roosevelt
FDR
Thomas Edison

	22-04-2005 02:50									#7
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Derrick May
Juan Atkins
Kevin Saunderson
-------
Snoop
Patton
Ford, the car maker
Jenna Jameson
Prince
John Holmes
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Richard Pryor
Bill Hicks
Bill Cosby
Rick James
Al Capone
JFK
& SUPERCITIZEN.

	22-04-2005 02:52									#8
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

what part of 'five' don't you understand?

	22-04-2005 02:55									#9
	Full PM-box? Change here!

quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove I'm going for tradition here: George Washington Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe Abraham Lincoln

	22-04-2005 03:02									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

az, what part of 'i am the alpha and the omega' you do not understand?

	22-04-2005 03:02									#11
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

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)

	22-04-2005 03:04									#12
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Alva Edison
Norman Borlaug
Harry Truman

	22-04-2005 03:06									#13
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Alexander Hamilton
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
JP Morgan

	22-04-2005 03:08									#14
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Rickey Henderson
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Bob Dylan

Pekka: on Hicks and Pryor

	22-04-2005 03:09									#15
	Remove this text

Thomas Jefferson The hypocrite

---------

Benjamin Franklin
FDR
James Madison
Ike
Patton

	22-04-2005 03:15									#16
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jonathan Jackson
James Longstreet
Joseph Johnston
J. E. B. Stuart

Oh, you mean those other Americans?

	22-04-2005 03:17									#17
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Alexander Hamilton
Abraham Lincoln
Nikola Tesla
Andrew Jackson
Ronald Reagan

	22-04-2005 03:23									#18
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

quote: 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)

3 jews, 1 dude who married a jew and 1 WASP

Matt (who will eventually be in the middle category, sort of)

	22-04-2005 03:25									#19
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

I forgot to vote for admiral Rickover . No biggie, I'm no longer in the nuclear navy, so I'm under no obligation to vote for him.

	22-04-2005 03:28									#20
	Got spare money?

Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein
Frederick Douglass
William Faulkner
Leonard Bernstein

	22-04-2005 03:30									#21
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

You can count Fermi as American

Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

	22-04-2005 03:34									#22
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Abraham Lincoln
Ronald Reagan
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers

	22-04-2005 03:36									#23
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

unless the brothers were conjoined twins, you can't nominate both of them.

	22-04-2005 03:37									#24
	Remove this text

Richard Feynman
Emma Goldman
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mark Twain

Last edited by Ramo on 22-04-2005 at 03:55

	22-04-2005 03:37									#25
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Homer Simpson
James T. Kirk
Walker Texas Ranger
Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith
MacGyver

	22-04-2005 03:38									#26
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

We're Americans, ergo we can take whatever we want. Deal with it.

	22-04-2005 03:38									#27
	Remove this text

Kirk wasn't an american.

	22-04-2005 03:38									#28
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

quote: Originally posted by Whoha Alexander Hamilton Abraham Lincoln Nikola Tesla Andrew Jackson Ronald Reagan

It is good to see the great racist Indian killer on the list, the man who told the Supreme Court to stuff it, the man who marched the Cherokee off their land, the man who routinely exceeded his orders as a commanding officer and who so alienated most Americans by his imperial style that he fractured the Democrat-Republican Party.

	22-04-2005 03:43									#29
	Remove this text

quote: Originally posted by Dissident Kirk wasn't an american.

quote: Kirk was born March 22, 2233 in the town of Riverside, Iowa on planet Earth. (TOS: "The Deadly Years", Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/James_T._Kirk

	22-04-2005 03:44									#30
	Suffering from ads?

quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse You can count Fermi as American Counting Einstein as American is disingenuous. None of his great work was done after moving to the US in 1933. He was already 54 years old at that time, which is ancient in theoretical physicist terms.

I agree

but him (and Ben Franklin) are the two that I think others might vote for

Jon Miller