13 Jan 11
Originally posted by PalynkaAs you can see from the fact that I broke two of my own rules by nominating twenty-one names, one of whom died in 2004, I wasn't actually taking them all that seriously.
You're giving me grief because of one year?
Brits and their rules. 😠
13 Jan 11
Originally posted by TeinosukeMy housemate is encouraging me to add Edward Jenner to this list - which I think is fair enough.
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
William Tyndale
Oliver Cromwell
Isaac Newton
Captain Cook
William Wilberforce
Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Charles Dickens
14 Jan 11
Originally posted by sh76Well - Crick is dead, so I thought it was a venial sin. Watson is still living, so that would be a mortal sin.
I left out James Watson because of the rules and you go and nominate Crick??
🙁
But actually I was having real difficulty filling that tenth spot, after fixing the boundary for the second set at people who died after 1875. There are lots of famous Brits I could have nominated, but I couldn't think of a tenth person with the absolute fame of someone like Churchill (for instance, other great Prime Ministers, like Gladstone, Disraeli, Attlee, are kind of partisan choices).
I suppose I could nominate Gladstone and Dizzy together, thus including both a liberal and a conservative, and allowing Crick to wait his proper turn in 2029!
