Famous Americans/ Can You Name Any?

[duckhunter]

Let's see where this one goes

[duckhunter]

I want to start with Lost Art and Swamprat, very well known in my circles.

[BigClive]

No. He said famous, not infamous. :)

[duckhunter]

Hey Clive, how are things in Glasgow? We have sunshine and -5 C with about 1 foot of snow on the ground.

I have a new love in Scotch, I bought a liter of Tallisker this summer and I got to tell you I'm hooked.

[Koga]

Les Paul
Leo Fender
SRV
just to get started.

Koga

[Stick-it]

George W. Bush

["little beaver"]

Hey Clive, how are things in Glasgow? We have sunshine and -5 C with about 1 foot of snow on the ground.

I have a new love in Scotch, I bought a liter of Tallisker this summer and I got to tell you I'm hooked.

-38 here and about a foot of snow!!!

[BigClive]

Hey Clive, how are things in Glasgow? We have sunshine and -5 C with about 1 foot of snow on the ground.

I have a new love in Scotch, I bought a liter of Tallisker this summer and I got to tell you I'm hooked.

Too darn hot for winter. It's supposed to be cold at this time of year, but it's been mild with the odd spot of rain.

Good choice in Whisky. I think that's my Dad's favourite too.

[topgroove]

John Adams
Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Arthur Ashe
Alexander Graham Bell
Harry F. Byrd
Jacques Cartier
George W. Carver
Jonathon "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman
Christopher Columbus
David "Davey" Crockett
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglass
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Duke Ellington
Dian Fossey
Benjamin Franklin
Ulysses S. Grant
Patrick Henry
Langston Hughes
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Helen Keller
Martin Luther King, Jr
Robet E. Lee
Ponce de Leon.
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
Thurgood Marshall
George Mason
James Monroe
Irene Morgan
Christopher Newport
Sandra Day O'Connor
Georgia O'Keefe
Ellison Onizuka
Thomas Paine
Rosa Parks
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Sally Kristen Ride
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Jackie Robinson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Betsy Ross
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Maggie Walker
Booker T. Washington
George Washington
Noah Webster
Conrad Weiser
L. Douglas Wilder

[JAKE]

NO EDISON OR WESTINGHOUSE YET???



clay obrien cooper
roy cooper
jake barnes
tee woolman

hmmm lets see if anybody figures out where im goin with theese??

[tolex42]

Marion Michael Morrison


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Ronald Reagan and John Wayne, two draft dodgers who stayed home and dated starlets while real heros went off to fight the war.

[BigClive]

Maggi ain't an "American"....but I love that lady!! She's an "Honary American" to me. Bono? I don't know what the dude is....but I like his thinking.



Margaret Thatcher HATED the working class. She singularly destroyed British industry including employing an American axeman to help destroy it. She was utterly anti-union in every way. her priority was to service the financial needs of her money grabbing buddies.

I would honestly relish the opportunity to repeatedly plunge a screwdriver into her skull and reamer it about until her brain was mince and her lifeless corpse dropped at my feet. Then I'd hunt down her weapon dealing son and dowse him in gasoline and burn the f*cker alive.

There's not many people that can elicit a response like that from me!

(Said Clive in an uncharacteristically violent manner.)

[Koga]

Mr Morrison tried to enlist during WW2 but was turned down by the Navy for an old footbal injury to his shoulder , also his age, 34,he then appealed and asked to be reconsiderd ,but was turned down again a second time. Also read another account that said he repeatedly asked a friend, John Ford, to help him inlist in his unit. But the studio he was under contract with at the time worked just as hard to keep him from going. They worked to keep his status 3A or 2A so not to lose thier box office star. After reading several acounts sounds to me he honestly tried to go but couldn't. In one story his widow said it was always a point of personal contention with him. And he always tried to make up for it in other ways. IMHO from what I've seen and read he doen't seem like the draft dodging type.

Koga

[Koga]

Did enlist in the Army Reserves in April of 1937. Second Lt. Reagan was orderd to active service in April of 1942 but because of his near sightedness was not allowed to go overseas. He was classified for limited service only . They assigned him to do what he did best, public relations and make trainning films. By the end of the war, Then Capt.Reagans' unit had produced over 400 trainning films.

Not exactly in the trenches but don't sound like a draft dodger either.

Koga

[PA BEN]

Why did it take a CanadianLineman to post the best one of ALL:D

[Orgnizdlbr]

Margaret Thatcher HATED the working class. She singularly destroyed British industry including employing an American axeman to help destroy it. She was utterly anti-union in every way. her priority was to service the financial needs of her money grabbing buddies.

I would honestly relish the opportunity to repeatedly plunge a screwdriver into her skull and reamer it about until her brain was mince and her lifeless corpse dropped at my feet. Then I'd hunt down her weapon dealing son and dowse him in gasoline and burn the f*cker alive.

There's not many people that can elicit a response like that from me!

(Said Clive in an uncharacteristically violent manner.)

Ahh, brother Clive, I have made feeble attempts to enlighten a few on this board regarding what the real "Iron Lady" was, and what she did to working men and women in the UK. Your eloquent diatribe did this yank's heart good. Thanks for tellin it like it is.....she was and is a piece of garbage....an elitist piece of grabage at that....

[BigClive]

Keep in mind that our unions are not the same as yours. Ours exist purely to represent workers in cases where a genuine maljustice has occurred, and to help secure rudimentary wage standards by forming part of a union/employer alliance. The EETPU as it was at that time also offered good training in the electronics associated with electrical work.

The union-employer partnership was so mutual in a positive sense that as soon as I started my apprenticeship with E J Stiell and Co Electrical Engineers the management of the company encouraged me and the other apprentices to join the union and payment of the small dues were taken directly from my wages.

I can only assume that Thatcher is still seen through blue tinted glasses in the USA where corporate management would have loved her bulldozer attitude. They probably couldn't care less that her seemingly cash and ego motivated destruction of British industry left whole areas (states if you will) of the UK in utter destitution with good skilled working men committing suicide because they couldn't support their families anymore.

I was pretty young when I watched this happening and I could see beyond the spin. The "lady" was "not for moving" because she seemed to have a personal axe to grind and no forward vision to the effect of almost completely erasing the British manufacturing industry. I'm still not sure why the UK seems to have such a strong "economy". My guess is that it's fake and that I'll be glad of my "marketable skills" in the future.

Yes, I was bit alcohol uninhibited when I went off earlier in this thread, but looking back I couldn't have worded it better!

[Orgnizdlbr]

Ah yes! ;)
I can understand why you "Union" blokes...UK and American didn't like the Iron *****.

You guys are "One Trick Ponys". If the Politician ain't Pro Union, then they are a piece of ****.

Well...."There ya go". :D

Unions are like Social Security in America. It, and they....are gonna get "Overrun" with "Illeagles".

Here in America, we call that a "Bur under your saddle".:)

It's not that I don't agree with Union philosophy and thinkin...I do, believe it or not. Unfortunately, it's just not workin that well anymore. And less and less people are signin on to the Union bandwagon. In ALL Trades.

Really, you understand why I dont like maggie? Well let me know why you think I hate her guts, in detail please.

[Squizzy]

Margaret Thatcher HATED the working class. She singularly destroyed British industry including employing an American axeman to help destroy it. She was utterly anti-union in every way. her priority was to service the financial needs of her money grabbing buddies.

There's not many people that can elicit a response like that from me!

(Said Clive in an uncharacteristically violent manner.)

Good old John Howard was the same but he has just been voted out and his "Work Choices" Legislation is being pulled apart by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard funny thing is now that 70% of the ministers are ex-union offocials and the federal environment minister is Peter Garret the lead singer of the enviromental/political band Midnight Oil....

[Orgnizdlbr]

Well..........no, not "specifically". But by THAT "rise", I guess you got some serious hate for her. Really didn't mean to ruffle your feathers that bad.:D I just thought by what I saw of her at the time, and what alot of my Brit friends have said about her.....she was pretty cool. Quite obviously not.:eek:


She helped break the back of the "working class" in the UK, all at the behest of her elitist friends and her bourgeois buddies, ruining British industry at the same time. And that is just the tip of the iceberg........Clive nails it squarely on the head!

[BigClive]

Good old John Howard was the same but he has just been voted out and his "Work Choices" Legislation is being pulled apart by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard funny thing is now that 70% of the ministers are ex-union offocials and the federal environment minister is Peter Garret the lead singer of the enviromental/political band Midnight Oil....

I was just about to make the Thatcherism connection to the current Australian government, but it looks like the Aussies have learned from our mistake. Suddenly Oz looks like a place I COULD move to. :)

The view from the USA is often tinted in the direction of motivated individuals. I wonder how many American's still think the IRA was a wonderful political movement.

[Squizzy]

I think that the "Work Choices" legislation was seen through by most and it was a good evening watching the Election Tally with a few beers. Our economy is running well due to the mining industry with China and India buying everything we can dig out of the ground. The newspapers were saying that Western Australia needs 400,000 skilled workers over 10 years to keep all the projects and infrastructure up and running. I don't our population has passed 2 million yet to give you an idea on how well its going here. But with a sizeable percentage of people from the UK and close ties there we knew what the Iron Maiden was about and with little John getting control of the senate at the previous election it was always going to a rough ride now the tide has turned in favour of the unions as its the workers they need to keep happy. Getting work here is a joke dial a number and start the next day in many industies there are even imported labour in the cafe's as no one can fill all the vacancies, not much of a problem here with illegal immigrants though as we don't have any land boarders with anyone....

["little beaver"]

I really admired Magie Thatcher for her wisdom and courage. She was ELECTED to office in a country that the sickness of socialism had reduced to an economic basket case on life support!

She 'set her hands to the plow' and never looked back. The result being a modern day economic miracle. Pres Reagan siezed the moment, and largely following her lead, set a similiar course for the other half of the english speaking world.

She served as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990..........ELECTED three times in free democratic elections. The longest serving PM of modern times. That in itself is vindication of her extremely successful (AND POPULAR) polices.

"broke the back of the working class" and "destroyed British industry" are feeble cliches that don't make sense in light of the facts............the returning of the UK to a viable, sustainable, PRODUCTIVE, economy.

[BigClive]

She served as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990..........ELECTED three times in free democratic elections. The longest serving PM of modern times. That in itself is vindication of her extremely successful (AND POPULAR) polices.

"broke the back of the working class" and "destroyed British industry" are feeble cliches that don't make sense in light of the facts............the returning of the UK to a viable, sustainable, PRODUCTIVE, economy.

Yeah, she was elected three times. I take it you all did vote Bush in the last election?

I'm sure you've got the same smear campaigns going on in the USA as in the UK. At election time the biased papers play the pipers tune.

Suffice to say that the Conservative party does not welcome her involvement at elections. It's a sure vote loser.

Viable, sustainable, productive economy? You watch what happens when the bubble bursts. (Like yours appears to have done.)

[Squizzy]

I really admired Magie Thatcher for her wisdom and courage. She was ELECTED to office in a country that the sickness of socialism had reduced to an economic basket case on life support!

She 'set her hands to the plow' and never looked back. The result being a modern day economic miracle. Pres Reagan siezed the moment, and largely following her lead, set a similiar course for the other half of the english speaking world.

She served as Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990..........ELECTED three times in free democratic elections. The longest serving PM of modern times. That in itself is vindication of her extremely successful (AND POPULAR) polices.

"broke the back of the working class" and "destroyed British industry" are feeble cliches that don't make sense in light of the facts............the returning of the UK to a viable, sustainable, PRODUCTIVE, economy.


Yes Maggie may have done some good things she even put the Argentinians back in their box but every guy that comes over here from the UK says exactly the same thing. Until you are unfortunate to enough to have been on the recieving end of one of these regimes as many of my friends have been its easy to look at from a distance and say how great she was. She may have been a great leader in the eyes of the world but not in that of her own people as to election results you bribe enough of the smaller parties with promises and get all their preferences you can win a two party election on the back of preferences alone. Two elections ago Pauline Hansons' One Nation Party directly opted to have its preferences put against any sitting member reguardless of what party they came from and nearly bought the government down as I think she was polling around 15% of the primary vote. I am curious as to wheather like John Howard her persicution of the unions started in which of her terms? Johny went at them in his 3rd term and consequently his last term of office and got smashed in the election as a result:D The workers and tradesman are in good times over here and Howards' workchoices legislation was a direct threat to it and it was voted upon accordingly. Maggie may have done good with the economy but not with a good part of her workers and many still despise her.

[Orgnizdlbr]

Yeah Beav, Maggie was so loved by the Brits that her own party turned on her....remember that? Thats how the UK got John Major.......

[Koga]

**** it who gives a Flying Fu$5 about a British ***** from 15 years ago. I knew yall wouldn't stay on topic !!!!! CL probably is laughing his ass off and I got to go with him on this, SShhheeeezzz :rolleyes:

Koga

[Edge]

Henry Miller

hell in hooks....

Edge

hey kid, wanna get high? LEARN TO CLIMB!

[Koga]

Steve Cropper
Johnny Carson
Gen. George Patton
Harry Truman
Ben Franklin
George C Scott
Jessica Lange

Koga

[RWD]

The Dalton Gang, Bonnie and Clyde, and suicide is painless.

RWD

[Koga]

but I knew what you were thinking and could see that grin !:)

Koga

[Dave@PSE&G]

Howard Stern. Hey now!!

[duckhunter]

Bob Seager
Jerry Lewis
Dean Martin
Steve Martin
Steve McQueen
Steve largent
Brett Farve
Mel Torme