Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton 217
mOoZik writes "BBC News is reporting that Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has been named the Greatest Briton of 2004. Berners-Lee had this to say about the honor: 'I am very proud to be British, it is great fun to be British and this award is just an amazing honour.'"
Why 2004? (Score:5, Funny)
Errant U's (Score:1, Funny)
Oops, that's probably flamebait
Prost Frist, and, uh, stuff like that.
I for one... (Score:3, Funny)
What? What do you mean "it was Al Gore"?
It was less of a surprise (Score:5, Funny)
Prince Harry was taken out of the running for Greatest Briton recently for some reason...
"Honour"? (Score:2, Funny)
That's unamerican!
What's the metric for this? (Score:5, Funny)
"greatest Briton"?
Hmmm. I'm British. I wonder what my ranking is?
14,223,921st greatest Briton?
"It's Great Fun to be British" (Score:4, Funny)
Ho HO! Indeed! And what a rollicking good time being human as well! Its a smashing good time up here at the top of the food-chain!
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Re:Errant U's (Score:5, Funny)
don't spoil it with ignorance now
Shouldn't that be "ignourance".
Re:I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It was less of a surprise (Score:3, Funny)
However he was named as the Greatest German of 2004 [bbc.co.uk]
Re:It was less of a surprise (Score:1, Funny)
Re:"It's Great Fun to be British" (Score:2, Funny)
The person to blame! (Score:1, Funny)
Long live no-www.com!
Re:Great Fun to be British? (Score:4, Funny)
You've obviously not been to Butlin's Holiday Camp in Bognor Regis then - mind you, there it's Essex girls and tinned pineapple.
Pip! pip!
Teeth! (Score:4, Funny)
Listen, you shiny-gobbed sons of bitches, these are Darwinian survival aids. If we got into a fight and I bit you with these babies, you'd bleed to death in thirty seconds or get a dose of gangrene and end up taking your fingers home in a bag.
Right. I'm off to throw bricks at a dentist. What ho, my lily-white arse.
Re:It was less of a surprise (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Errant U's (Score:3, Funny)
Moran.
That's not so impressive (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What's the metric for this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's the metric for this? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It was less of a surprise (Score:3, Funny)