23-04-2005 00:39									#91
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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.

	23-04-2005 00:45									#92
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Some say he couldn't be any more american.

	23-04-2005 00:47									#93
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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)

	23-04-2005 00:49									#94
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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).

	23-04-2005 01:04									#95
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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.

	23-04-2005 05:35									#96
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quote: 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!

Wow, Dr. Strangelove, an admission like this might buy you a lawsuit by both the Cherokee Nation and by NAACP for reparations.

	23-04-2005 08:23									#97
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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)

What, no Faraday?

	23-04-2005 09:06									#98
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Was Faraday an American?

	23-04-2005 11:17									#99
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Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
FDR
MLK

	23-04-2005 11:23									#100
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quote: Originally posted by OldWarrior_42 Washington Jefferson Lincoln FDR MLK

	23-04-2005 11:56									#101
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None of you guys read my link did you?

Everybody takes second to Norman Borlaug.

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	23-04-2005 13:31									#102
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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)

	23-04-2005 15:12									#103
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Tecumseh

Bessie Smith

Thomas Jefferson

Emma Goldman

Jackson Pollock

	23-04-2005 18:44									#104
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Jane Fonda
John Walker Lindh
Leonard Peltier
Julius Rosenberg
Bartolomeo Vanzetti

	23-04-2005 20:35									#105
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski I have only one vote, everyone else pales in comparison: Norman Borlaug ACK!

I'm impressed!

	23-04-2005 20:39									#106
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quote: Originally posted by Ned Wow, Dr. Strangelove, an admission like this might buy you a lawsuit by both the Cherokee Nation and by NAACP for reparations.

Is it fun in your world, Ned?

	23-04-2005 20:39									#107
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quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler I'm impressed!

Gives a whole new meaning to 1 billions served doesn't it?

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	23-04-2005 20:53									#108
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quote: Originally posted by DanS Was Faraday an American?

I do hope you didn't miss UR's point, and are just making it again, more bluntly.

	23-04-2005 23:15									#109
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quote: Originally posted by Az what part of 'five' don't you understand?

The word "only" from "only five" . So it's not really a part of five .

	24-04-2005 00:41									#110
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Is it fun in your world, Ned?

Do I always have to use "signals" before you guys detect "irony?"

	25-04-2005 09:10									#111
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I've cleared my PMbox too. so now feel free to send to that as well.

Remember- April 30 midnight deadline

	25-04-2005 12:19									#112
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can't you just get it from the thread?

	25-04-2005 13:05									#113
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Jim Henson
Theodore Giesel
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William S. Burroughs
Elizabeth Bishop

	25-04-2005 14:03									#114
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident this list has gone to hell. All modern day celebrities and fictional characters should be disqualified.

As long as we keep aircraft carriers my list is secure.

	25-04-2005 14:30									#115
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you weren't the one to pick Enterprise were you? I was thinking you meant the starship, not the carrier.

I spent 4 1/2 years on that ship. It's not so great. But it was a prototype design, so they did a pretty decent job considering. It will last 50 years. Not bad for a prototype. (although technically the reactor in Idaho is the prototype reactor for the Enterprise)

	25-04-2005 14:33									#116
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quote: Originally posted by DanS Was Faraday an American?

No

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Faraday.html

bummer eh?

Greatest americans -

Those untold thousands who's only claim to greatness is a name on a war memorial.

	25-04-2005 16:14									#117
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident you weren't the one to pick Enterprise were you? I was thinking you meant the starship, not the carrier. I spent 4 1/2 years on that ship. It's not so great. But it was a prototype design, so they did a pretty decent job considering. It will last 50 years. Not bad for a prototype. (although technically the reactor in Idaho is the prototype reactor for the Enterprise)

I meant the one from WW2.

	25-04-2005 17:03									#118
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quote: Originally posted by Qilue Greatest americans - Those untold thousands who's only claim to greatness is a name on a war memorial.

So true.

	25-04-2005 23:43									#119
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quote: Originally posted by Sikander I meant the one from WW2.

Yorktown is more famous, but I don't think it survived the whole war.

	01-05-2005 06:38									#120
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