Science Abuse Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Greatest American....right. Fisrt off, how did some one with a 48% approval rating make the list? Why is an Austrian there? Rosa Parks will tell you she doesnt belong there. Elvis? what the fuck? Oprah? God no Bill Gates, capitalist extrordinare Histories greatest Americans aren't on that list, they're in the ground at Arlington. If you were to make me pick just one, it'd be some one most of you have never heard of. A guy by the name of Crispus Attucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Advocate Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Originally posted by The Stig: Greatest American....right. Fisrt off, how did some one with a 48% approval rating make the list? Why is an Austrian there? Rosa Parks will tell you she doesnt belong there. Elvis? what the fuck? Oprah? God no Bill Gates, capitalist extrordinare Histories greatest Americans aren't on that list, they're in the ground at Arlington. If you were to make me pick just one, it'd be some one most of you have never heard of. A guy by the name of Crispus Attucks.C-Tucks is a Ballerrrrrr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathSandwich Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Originally posted by Y0gi: C-Tucks is a Ballerrrrrrgraemlins/thatfunny.gifgraemlins/thatfunny.gifgraemlins/thatfunny.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemosley01 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 I like Coco Crisp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lustalbert Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 and this thread is now officialy hijacked. didnt watch it, glad i didnt. btw 1000% agreed on arlington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils Advocate Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Originally posted by Lustalbert: and this thread is now officialy hijacked. didnt watch it, glad i didnt. btw 1000% agreed on arlington.Well I 1000% agree on you drinking with us tonight. LEEEEROYYYY JAAAAANKINS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crankshaft Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 <font color ="midnightblue"> Benjamin Franklin. End of story. Crispus Attucks....meh. Had the spirit, but didn't accomplish or effect nearly as much as Ben Franklin did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted June 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Originally posted by the Apostle: <font color ="midnightblue"> Benjamin Franklin. End of story. Crispus Attucks....meh. Had the spirit, but didn't accomplish or effect nearly as much as Ben Franklin did.Fisrt to step up for this land, first to die for it. What he set into motion was this nation. He embodies the best of America better then anyone else. Born a slave, son to a Black Slave and a Native, he escaped to freedom. He returned to boston, still considered less then a citizen, and stood up for this land. Fuckin' A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crankshaft Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 <font color ="midnightblue"> His actions are commendable, but he did not "set this nation in motion". The feelings that he embody and the revolutionary spirit that was within him was within many people during that time; revolution was inevitable, with or without him. One patriot dying for his country as a martyr can be easily substituted for the man standing next to him in battle; there is nothing terribly remarkable about them except that they were in the right place at the right time. These things cannot be said of Ben Franklin. There was/is no substitute for him. There was no other Ben Franklin. SCIENCE - Noted 18th Century Scientist INVENTOR - Stove, lightning rod, bifocals and many others... MEDICINE - Founded 1st U.S. Hospital BANKING - Well known for maxims on thrift AGRICULTURE - Introduced several crops to U.S. PRINTING - Noted Colonial printer - "Patron Saint of Printing" ELECTRICAL - Experiments and theories - Kite & Key INSURANCE - Started 1st insurance company HEATING - Franklin stove COOLING - Had three methods of cooling EDUCATOR - Involved in founding two colleges OPTOMETRIC - Bifocal glasses POSTAL - First postmaster LIBRARIES - Started 1st circulating library JOURNALISM - Wrote for several early newspapers PUBLIC SAFETY - Started 1st police department PUBLIC SAFETY II - Started 1st fire department RELIGION - Introduced idea of prayer in Congress MUSIC - Invented musical instrument - glass armonica GOVERNMENT - Held numerous positions: Clerk Postmaster J.P. Alderman Governor Ambassador MILITARY - Colonel in Militia MASONIC - Grand Master of Pennsylvania DIPLOMAT - Ambassador to England Minister to France (in Paris there is a statue of him) COMMUNITY SERVICE - Street lighting, paving and cleaning UNIONS - Started Leather Apron Club BUSINESSMAN - Owned and operated several businesses PHILOSOPHER - Started American Philosophical Society ABOLITIONIST - Started Society to Abolish Slavery SALESMAN - Expert at marketing and sales MERCHANT - Operated store as part of printshop HUMORIST - Considered America's 1st writer of humor TRAVELER - Traveled extensively throughout U.S. FORECASTER - Published Poor Richards "Almanack" FUND RAISER - Originated matching contributions idea SAILING - Designed "sea anchors" CARTOONIST - Drew 1st cartoon in an American newspaper LINGUIST - Studied several languages and designed a phonetic alphabet CARTOGRAPHER - Mapped the Gulf Stream and Routes for the post office PHILANTHROPIST - Organized fund raising and contributed to many worthwhile causes MENTOR - Acted as a counselor and guide to many of his contemporaries FOUNDING FATHER - probably the greatest founding father, yet never held the presidency. Just out of curiousity (I didn't watch it), who did win the contest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted June 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Touche' graemlins/thumb.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cougar1647545494 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 I did a report on that guy in like.. 6th grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye1647545503 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 I watched some of that, I was amazed that madona was top 50. The only was I was glad to see was Pat Tillman, I was real happy he was remembered and given credit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenger1647545502 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 How about Nicola Tesla? I know he wasn't a native, but he did all his best work once he immigrated. What did he invent? Basically the 20th century.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.COS Posted June 11, 2005 Report Share Posted June 11, 2005 Yes that show was a joke. I didn't watch it, because the promos pissed me off so much I knew if I did my tv would have a shoe implanted in it. Thats what you get for letting Americans vote on the internet. 98% of this country is clinically retarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Gates as the greatest american is a stretch. But he is a great american. Maybe doesn't deserve to be on that list. But I'll tell you why he's better than the Rockefellers and the Venderbilts and the Carnegies and so on and so on: His product is cheap and benefits more people across demographics than any other. He is also the biggest philanthropist in history. He also is selling one of the last Made-in-the-USA things that the world still buys. Windows. Cus it sure as hell ain't cars or clothes or linux. Or even our culture, for much longer. Windows and wheat. About the only two things getting more money to come into our country than go out. So why's that make him a great american vs just a great capitalist? Because if you didn't have the barrier to entry that Microsoft's size and very existence creates in the tech space they're in, then our America would find themselves in the software and computing sector in the exact same situation Britain found themselves in at the turn of the century when they manufactured the first all-big-gun battleship: they just unwittingly leveled the playing field. Neil Armstrong should be on that list. Near the top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mowgli1647545497 Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 Atually - upon further thought, Neil Armstrong should be called the greatest american. But if not - its no big deal. He'll end up being the one remembered the longest. You know, in ten thousand years people will not remember Bill Gates, or George Bush, or Madonna. Or John Wayne. Or Queen Elizabeth. Or any sports star you ever heard of. Or entertainer. Or General. Or Hitler. Or Ghandi. Or Martin Luther King. Or George Washington. They will have forgotten WWII. WWI. The Cold War. All the wars of the second millenium. Mohamed. They very likely will have forgotten what a United States of America was. But they will look back from wherever it is they're sitting on in whatever parts of the universe they're calling home at that time, and they'll remember the name of the first of humanity's children to step foot on some body other than their birth planet. Neil Armstrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Science Abuse Posted June 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 in ten thousand years I'd be willing to bet that the genetic strain known as homosapien will be no more. As long as there is some one keeping human history, they will remember the Wapakonetta man who was the first. The next most important person, whoever proves string theory correct. Then whoever is the first to harness the power of the lil 10 or so dimensional bastards will also be famous, you will be calling them God. graemlins/thumb.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supldys Posted June 12, 2005 Report Share Posted June 12, 2005 alexander hamilton power to the federalist government baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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