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Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:47 pm
by Pervert
I think the recent refusal to inhale oxygen may have excluded him.

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:08 am
by johnsix
Sir Stirling Moss, Lady Sonia.!happy!


Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:24 am
by Jacques
Anthony Charles Lynton Bliar.....oops sorry thought you said Greatest Lying Briton

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:13 am
by colonel
Living:

Robert Plant
Jimmy Page
John Paul Jones
Ian Anderson
Martin Barre
Ozzy Osbourne
Beth Gibbons
Geoff Barrow
Adrian Utley

All-time:

Michael Collins- if we include Ireland
Lloyd George
Clem Attlee
Winston Churchill
William Shakespeare
Owain Glyndwr

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:20 am
by andy at handiwork
If you are going to include 3 living members of Led Zep in one list surely there's a place for their dead drummer in the other?

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:44 am
by colonel
Thanks to Andy- I've now headbutted the wall and need to add the great and quite frankly fucking genius that was John Bonham to the 'all-time' but dead list.

Andy- I wrote the all-time list before the living one...because I could think of great dead politicians; but not living ones....

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:54 am
by andy at handiwork
I dont subscribe to the 'all politicians are scum' way of thinking, but I would be hard pressed to name a 'great' living one. Perhaps Tony Benn for being true to his beliefs all this time, ......er, thats it.

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 2:48 pm
by steve56
Good One.Jacques wrote:

> Anthony Charles Lynton Bliar.....oops sorry thought you said
> Greatest Lying Briton

Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:24 pm
by Ace
I'd go with Bob Singletons 2 EXCELLENT choices, and then include Mick Jones from The Clash


Re: Greatest living Briton - discuss

Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:26 pm
by Arginald Valleywater
Forgot about Jo Guest!

Dennis Skinner could get a look in as the only proper Labour MP left in Parliament, the rest are closet capitalists and couldn't give a shit about honest working folk, unless they live in a mansion.

Plant and Page wise choices. I'll add in David Gilmour, Alan Bennett and Ronnie Corbett.