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The h2g2 lisy of the 100 greatest Britons
There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Started conversation Aug 22, 2002
Someone mentioned this, and I can't see that it's been started yet, so I'll start the ball rolling with George Lansbury.
I'm glad that Nye Bevan was in the original list btw 
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 22, 2002
Bugger 
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 22, 2002
Twas me wot suggested it, and i shall off and make my list up now.
Although I go with the suggestion on the Beeb news opinions site that if King Arthur can be in there, then so can Danger
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Aug 22, 2002
Am I allowed to make suggestions, even though I'm not British?
Newton
Bertrand Russell
Elgar
Purcell
Shakespeare
Tolkien
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Flanker Posted Aug 22, 2002
I'll chip in a few. Here goes:-
Alexander Graham Bell
James Watt
Alexander Flemming
John Logie Barid
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Natalie Posted Aug 22, 2002
Peter Cook
Alan Turing
David Bowie
Spike Milligan
Kathy Burke
Paul McCartney
Ray Davies
William Beveridge
Elizabeth I (nobody said they had to be nice did they?)
William McGonagall (of course)
I'm getting all misty-eyed now. It's not a bad place to come from, is it?
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PQ Posted Aug 22, 2002
Bob the builder....now there is a *real* hero, he can do anything!
*sigh* I wish I was wendy
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Bagpuss Posted Aug 22, 2002
Sir Francis Drake
Captain James Cook
Boudicca
Nelson
Would including Len Hutton be pushing it? Dickie Bird? Fred Trueman?
St. Patrick (born near Dumbarton if you're wondering)
William Wilberforce
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Aug 22, 2002
I considered Dickie Bird myself actually Bagpuss 
Even if he is a Yorkshireman 
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Bagpuss Posted Aug 22, 2002
I'm just not sure I can defend the choice against suggestions that he won't be remembered in centuries to come.
I already got two Yorkshiremen in - Cook and Wilberforce.
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 23, 2002
Murray Walker
Whatsisname Thingy, he of 'Spoonerisms' fame.
Thingy and whatchamacallit who sussed DNA out.
I'm good at names!
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Aug 23, 2002
Watson and Crick are the guys who sussed DNA.
Not sure about the spoonersims guy, unless it was Mr Spooner.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Aug 23, 2002
Actually, I think it was the Rev. Spooner- I believe people used to come from miles around, just to hear his sermons...
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 23, 2002
Indeed so, http://www.xrefer.com/entry/208786
Rev (Dr?) William Archibald Spooner.
Can we add Lilly the Pink as well?
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Orcus Posted Aug 23, 2002
Watson, of DNA fame is a Yank unfortunately :_/
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 23, 2002
I'm sure he didn't feel that way
Bede?
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Aug 23, 2002
That's VB 1.0, I presume!
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IctoanAWEWawi Posted Aug 23, 2002
eh?
Sorry, it's friday afternoon!
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