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Meerkat 2 Flag 1957 10 Mar 03 12.41pm Send a Private Message to Meerkat 2 Add Meerkat 2 as a friend

People, inventions, companies, institutions exports? A few of mine..

Edward Elgar
John Lennon
The Austin Mini
Spike Milligan
Princess Diana
The British Film Industry
Steam railways and boats
The telephone
The Crystal Palace of course

 
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Bexter Flag By the Sea 10 Mar 03 12.47pm Send a Private Message to Bexter Add Bexter as a friend

Spitfire beer

 
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OknotOK Flag Cockfosters, London 10 Mar 03 12.52pm Send a Private Message to OknotOK Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add OknotOK as a friend

Well scrub Diana from that list and I am pretty proud of all those.

The tv was ours as well (good on John Logie).

Isaac Newton would be on that list as well!

 

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Penge Eagle Flag Beckenham 10 Mar 03 12.58pm Send a Private Message to Penge Eagle Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Penge Eagle as a friend

Loads of things piss me off especially this country's attitude to sport. But I don't think any country has had such a big effect on the world today as Great Britain has... sport, language, medicine, infrastructure, music, authors etc... It's easy to be critical but people mustn't forget the good points and there are far too many to mention.

 
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the despotic banana Flag Dept. of Baboon Maintenance 10 Mar 03 1.09pm Send a Private Message to the despotic banana Add the despotic banana as a friend

Yep, the fact that we're not American, or French, or German, or Australian for starters. For people; Chris Morris, Steve Bell and Douglas Adams. Institutions: the BBC (no, really) and Monty Python and the NHS (bear in mind I haven't been to a hospital since I was 5. Touch wood.)

 

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Jimble Flag Brighton 10 Mar 03 1.09pm Send a Private Message to Jimble Add Jimble as a friend

I'm Irish and proud and I think you'll find Spike Milligan was an Irish citizen.

Edited by Jimble (10 Mar 2003 1:09pm)

 

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eulalio Flag Girls just wanna have Funt 10 Mar 03 1.11pm Send a Private Message to eulalio Add eulalio as a friend

Our language first and foremost.
Our inventions, most notably the Industrial Revolution.
Our music.
Our films.
Our television.
Our armed forces (no, really).
Our literature.
Our scientists (Newton, Darwin, Faraday, etc).
Our sports, which we gave to the world.

Our Club.

All amongst the best in the world, which isn't bad for a wee island like ours.

 

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eulalio Flag Girls just wanna have Funt 10 Mar 03 1.11pm Send a Private Message to eulalio Add eulalio as a friend

Quote Jimble at 10 Mar 2003 1:09pm

I'm Irish and proud and I think you'll find Spike Milligan was an Irish citizen.

Edited by Jimble (10 Mar 2003 1:09pm)

I heard India put in a claim...

 

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Bexter Flag By the Sea 10 Mar 03 1.13pm Send a Private Message to Bexter Add Bexter as a friend

our sports which we gave to the world.... and now the world thrashes us at!

for me it has to be the music - the best in the world.

 
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MR MICHAEL Flag 10 Mar 03 1.19pm Send a Private Message to MR MICHAEL Add MR MICHAEL as a friend

I'm Proud to be English!!!!

 
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vindaloo Flag 10 Mar 03 1.29pm

Michael Faraday for me . I concede that he didn't invent electricity (god , whoever he/she is might of had a say in that) but his exhaustive experimentation of it has advanced us as a people more than any other discovery i can think of.
Even if you think that sooner or later someone else would of emulated him say 25 year laters , we wouldn't be here now discussing this and might still marvel at the wonders of a Rolf Harris stylophone.

 

"Crystal Palace nuts are we , we love Iain Dowie"
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Meerkat 2 Flag 1957 10 Mar 03 1.31pm Send a Private Message to Meerkat 2 Add Meerkat 2 as a friend

Quote Jimble at 10 Mar 2003 1:09pm

I'm Irish and proud and I think you'll find Spike Milligan was an Irish citizen.

Edited by Jimble (10 Mar 2003 1:09pm)


Technically yes, he was born in India where his Irish father was a Captain in the Royal Artillery. He served in the same regiment in North Africa during the second world war but became an Irish citizen because of a cock-up in the British immigration laws. He was later made an honorary British knight.

 
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