GReatest american

[Lan]

so who all watched that greatest american show the other day?
I did i thought some of the top 100 were bogus but thats just me.
So whats your bawking opinion on the top 100 and top 25?
if you didnt watch it you can vote at www.aol.com/greatestamerican if your interested.
So lets here your bawks on who's the greatest american.

BAWK it's gana be Eintsine!

but thats just my opinion.

BAWK@CC

[DruidChiken]

Bit confusing that one, greatest American?

Einstien was german, and Bob Hope was english.

Prolly fnd that a few of the others were not from that side of the atlantic.

So that means that Schwarzenegger will definatley be the next US President :P

Good one though Lan :D

[BasT]

yeah dru was wondering that...i vote Einstien just to piss em off....the greatest american was.... german LOL so funny

[BasT]

btw was Ali american?

[Snake-Chiken]

Yeah he was. Id honestly have no idea who to vote for as it seems they usally assinate anyone who is decent

[ChunkyChiken]

JFK had more one night stands than any president, besides good ol' Clinton, and he was killed. You might want to redefine decent.

[GuerillaChiken]

Einstein and Hope both became American citizens later, and I would bet good money referred to themselves as Americans.

The top 25 are pretty good, no one really comes to mind who should be there, with the exception of maybe Ceasar Chavez, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt, and maybe a few more I guess. But OMG, Oprahs ass should NOT be there. Someone needs to firebomb Chicago, the collateral damage would be worth it to take her out.

Sorry all you Chicagonians!

[SPRINGCHIKEN]

Einstein and Hope both became American citizens later, and I would bet good money referred to themselves as Americans.

The top 25 are pretty good, no one really comes to mind who should be there, with the exception of maybe Ceasar Chavez, Carnegie, Rockefeller, Teddy Roosevelt, and maybe a few more I guess. But OMG, Oprahs ass should NOT be there. Someone needs to firebomb Chicago, the collateral damage would be worth it to take her out.

Sorry all you Chicagonians! Yea that"s nemmy poor guy you just been firebombed lol

[DruidChiken]

Einstein and Hope both became American citizens later, and I would bet good money referred to themselves as Americans.
Strange concept really choosing your nationality, at the end of the day u are what u are.

If u are born a cow then living in a stable doesnt make u a horse......

[Von Doom BC]

I say SCREW YOU! I'm the greatest American, so it says on my SIG...

[Papa Smurf]

Einstein and Hope both became American citizens later, and I would bet good money referred to themselves as Americans. wow you really are a typical American heres a little education for you a time line of albert Einstein

1879: Albert Einstein is born to Hermann Einstein (a featherbed salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany.

1884: Around this time, Albert receives his first compass, beginning his quest to investigate the natural world.

1889: At age 10, Albert sets into a program of self education and reads as much about science as he can.

1894: The Einsteins move from Munich to Pavia, Italy and

Albert, 15, stays on in Munich to finish the school year. Albert lasts only a term on his own and follows his family to Pavia.

1895: Albert attempts to skip high school by taking an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top technical university, but he fails the arts portion. His family sends him to the Swiss town of Aarau to finish high school.

1896: Albert graduates from high school at the age of 17 and enrolls at the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich.

1898: Albert falls in love with Mileva Maric, a Hungarian classmate at the ETH.

1900: Albert graduates from the ETH.

1901: Albert becomes a Swiss citizen. Unemployed, he searches for work. He and Mileva meet in northern Italy for a tryst. Mileva becomes pregnant. In the fall, Albert finds work in Schaffhausen, Switzerland as a tutor. Mileva, visibly pregnant, moves to Stein Am Rhein, three miles upriver. Mileva then moves to Hungary to give birth to their baby at her parent's home.

Albert moves to Bern.

1902: In January, Mileva gives birth to their daughter, Lieserl, whom they eventually put up for adoption. She reportedly becomes ill and then all record of her disappears. Albert takes a job at the Swiss Patent Office. Hermann Einstein becomes ill and dies.

1903: Albert and Mileva marry in January

1904: Mileva gives birth to their first son, Hans Albert.

1905: "Annus Mirabilis" -- Einstein's "Miracle Year": his Special Theory of Relativity is born. June 30th, Einstein, submits his paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" to the leading German physics journal. At age 26, he applies his theory to mass and energy and formulates the equation e=mc2.

1906: Still living in Bern, Einstein continues as an Examiner at the Swiss Patent Office.

1907: Einstein begins applying the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity.

1910: Son Eduard is born.

1911: The Einsteins move to Prague where Albert is given a full professorship at the German University there. Albert is the youngest to attend the invitation-only Solvay Conference in Brussels, the first world physics conference.

1912: The Einsteins move to Zurich where Albert is given a position as a professor of Theoretical Physics at the ETH.

1913: Einstein works on his new Theory of Gravity.

1914: Einstein becomes director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. The family moves there in April, but Mileva and the sons return to Zurich after 3 months. The divorce prodeedings begin.

In August, World War I begins.

1915: Einstein completes the General Theory of Relativity.

1917: Einstein collapses and, near death, falls seriously ill. He is nursed back to health by his cousin, Elsa. He publishes his first paper on cosmology.

1919: Albert marries Elsa. May 29, a solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of Relativity works.

1922: Is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 1921.

1927: Attends fifth Solvay Conference and begins developing the foundation of quantum mechanics with Bohr.

1928: Einstein begins pursing his idea of a unified field theory.

1932: Einstein is 53 and at the height of his fame. Identified as a Jew, he begins to feel the heat of Nazi Germany.

1933: Albert and Elsa set sail for the United States. They settle in Princeton, New Jersey where he assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.

1936: Elsa dies after a brief illness.

1939: World War II begins. Einstein writes a famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of the possibility of Germany's building an atomic bomb and urging nuclear research.

1940: Einstein becomes an American citizen; retains Swiss citizenship.

1949: Mileva dies.

1955: Einstein dies of heart failure on April 16.

LOL he was only an American Citizen for 15 years and this was during the darkest period of his life where he unsucessfully touted his unified field theory (there were serveral American working on a counter hypothesis which is now widly accepted called superstring theory, which Einstein refused to accept), i very much doubt he would call himself American. he spent the happiest time in Switerland and retained his swiss citizenship even when he took US citizenship, his most important research was done outside of the US.

Bob Hope probably would of refered to himself openly as American, though he retained strong links with the UK, after all he moved for the UK when he was 4.

So the greatest American was just a shadow of his former self while he was "american". While he was there he touted a filed theory, but was a popular media figure, ah the greatest American an utter failure, while he lived there as a scientist lol which is what he was suppse to be, go figure.

Next you'll be telling us the US captured an enigma machine from the Germans, actually during the war, oh hold on you have already tried that, quite fankly it pisses me off that American change history to suit themselves, you have a great country all on your own stop taking credit for things you never did.

I can not believe that Teddy Roosevelt was not in your top 100 thats very very sad, he should be top 10 he would be in my top 50 in the world. A truely great man. But thats just my opinion :)

[OmegaChiken]

i swear after the 3rd post the thread goes to hell ina handbasket lol