Hope this hasn't been posted yet. I didn't see it 3 pages back. Compuserve News-- Too Weird! Greatest American Ever Is... ...Homer Simpson? Yeah, Homer Simpson. This isn't a joke. On Tuesday, the BBC is producing a live 90-minute global television debate about America's place in the world. In conjunction with this show, the BBC is conducting an online poll to determine the greatest American ever. And weirdly, Homer Simpson is squashing the competition of Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Mr. T. (Yeah, that Mr. T.) Voting continues until the show airs, but as of Friday morning Eastern Time, this is the leader board: 1. Homer Simpson: 40.83 percent 2. Abraham Lincoln: 10.28 percent 3. Martin Luther King Jr.: 10.06 percent 4. Thomas Jefferson: 6.43 percent 5. Mr. T: 8.38 percent 6. Bob Dylan: 6.15 percent 7. George Washington: 5.10 percent 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt: 4.34 percent 9. Benjamin Franklin: 4.52 percent 10. Bill Clinton: 3.92 percent So should we Americans just laugh at this or should we be offended? Maybe we should just take comfort in the words of the "greatest American ever": "Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Fourteen percent of all people know that." --Homer Simpson ------ Here's the page with the poll: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/wtwta/2959462.stm Homer's up to 47% now Should we take this as a joke or insult? I mean, a lot of good people on the list are pretty much disrespected. Of course, it is an internet poll. A lot of the crazy bastards voting for Homer could be Americans.
Anytime people see a poll with one really strange answer sticking out, they're going to pick that one. At least I hope that was the reason...
from the episode "Homer Bad Man" Crowd: Two! Four! Six! Eight! Homer's crime was very great! [pause] "Great" meaning "large" or "immense", We use it in the pejorative sense!
Seriously, outlaw? Wow... I had no clue. I'm generally not an avid viewer. But I sure wouldn't put it past the clever writers of the show to have beaten me to the pun. That's interesting. Maybe I could write for TV.
