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tanstaafl2
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by tanstaafl2 » Thu May 29, 2008 3:25 pm
10 Most Famous Americans - in no particular order except as they occur to me...
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Samuel Clemens
Martin Luther King, Jr
Neil Armstrong
Robert E. Lee
Elvis Presley
Babe Ruth
Daniel Boone/Davy Crockett (aren't they the same person...)
10 American Women - First list was probably overly influenced by knowing I was doing this one...
Susan B. Anthony
Amelia Earheart
Helen Keller
Clara Barton
Sandra Day O'Conor
Emily Dickinson
Annie Oakley
Betsy Ross
Rosa Parks
And what the heck.
Oprah
This one was harder.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
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by tanstaafl2 » Thu May 29, 2008 3:28 pm
KillerTomato wrote:
I think the best part about the lists - we can all breath a little easier: Our young people are not really as "dumbed down" as we may have supposed.
That, or the old farts aren't that much smarter....
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
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Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
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tanstaafl2
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by tanstaafl2 » Thu May 29, 2008 3:35 pm
peacock2121 wrote:Woman:
10. Mary Baker Eddy
Now there is one you don't see on a lot of lists! As the youthful "captive" of a Christian Science mother and grandmother, who is now a physician, that is one I am familiar with...
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
Cumann na gClann Uí Thighearnaigh
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Sir_Galahad
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by Sir_Galahad » Thu May 29, 2008 3:49 pm
For most famous Americans, I would go with, in no particular order,
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Bill Gates
Marilyn Monroe
Martin Luther King, Jr
Charles Lindbergh
Elvis Presley
Babe Ruth
Lee Harvey Oswald
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" - Edmund Burke
Perhaps the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about...
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BackInTex
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by BackInTex » Thu May 29, 2008 4:03 pm
Most famous Americans (excluding Presidents)
Ben Franklin
George Washington Carver
Thomas Edison
Bill Gates
John Wayne
Albert Einstien
Neil Patrick Harris, uh wait, no scratch that
Lance Armstrong
Babe Ruth
Frank Sinatra
Billy Grahm
Those that should be but not famous because people don't learn about it anymore:
Neil Armstrong
Patrick Henry
George Custer
Jonas Salk
Women
Clara Barton
Diana Ross
Oprah Winfrey
Susan B Anthony (but only because of the coins, unfortunately)
Shirley Temple (Black)
Judy Garland
Angelina Jolie
Harriet Tubman
Betsy Ross
Marilyn Monroe
Oh, boy. Now I get to go look at everyone else's answers.
..what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? let them take arms.
~~ Thomas Jefferson
War is where the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin (maybe)
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KillerTomato
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by KillerTomato » Thu May 29, 2008 4:57 pm
Thanks, all, for your input! I'm sure Joyce will find this fascinating (I know I did!).
I'm emailing her everything up to and including BiT's response...if there's some more added, I'll send her another email on Monday.
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
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ghostjmf
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by ghostjmf » Thu May 29, 2008 5:43 pm
Ten Most Famous People, not Presidents or 1st Ladies
in no particular order, & not necessarily my picks for "
should be most famous"
Einstein
Edison
Elvis!
Daniel Boone
Helen Keller
Martin Luther King
Bill Gates (can I say "ugh" here?)
Babe Ruth
Michael Jackson (very ugh here)
John Wayne
Ten Most Famous American Women
Helen Keller
Sacagawea
Madonna (very ugh here)
Angelina Jolie ( very ugh here, despite some recent good works)
Katherine Hepburn
Rosa Parks
Dolly Parton (I am having fun on this one, & do like Dolly's singing)
Britney Spears (I throw up here)
Gertrude Stein (who I do not like much either)
Emma Goldberg (who's politics it turns out I do not like nor respect, but she stood for them & made a big splash at the time)
Note: Eleanor Roosevelt & Hilary Clinton would be probably on both lists if not excluded by their 1st-ladiness. I am not equating them, just judgeing them on famousness.
Its late in the day & I'm not working on most cylinders. It will be interesting to see how out in whatever field is currently out I am.
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BigDrawMan
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by BigDrawMan » Thu May 29, 2008 9:24 pm
there was a story about this survey in this months Smithsonian magazine.
Chas Manson wasnt mentioned there either.
