Food for thought

[Marina]

I nominate any person at all who has a skill, works hard and ignores the current zeitgeist

That's a bit harsh on zeity isn't it? Most of his posts here seem OK to me.

[M_B]

That page on wikipedia is busy today !

[Pickle2]

Maggie Thatcher

BTW, get your facts right. St. George was a Christian saint and lived in the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire, most of which now lies in modern Turkey. That doesn't make him a Turk FFS, no more than Jesus was a Palestinian or Muhammad a Saudi.

St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Canada, Catalonia, China, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Montenegro, Palestine, Portugal, Russia, and Serbia

Popular chap isnt he, whereever he is from. I thought he was greek anyway?

[Dow Jones]

Here is one

As it's St. Georges Day (yes, I know he was supposed to be a Turk), a local radio station was asking listeners to phone in with the names of great Englishmen, with the proviso that he/she had to be alive and not actors or sportsmen.

The only call suggested Sir Edmund Hillary (yes, I know he was a New Zealander), but it made me think, who qualifies as a "great" Englishman these days?

Do the congregation have any nominations?

Maggie Thatcher

BTW, get your facts right. St. George was a Christian saint and lived in the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire, most of which now lies in modern Turkey. That doesn't make him a Turk FFS, no more than Jesus was a Palestinian or Muhammad a Saudi.

[sasguru]

I nominate any person at all who has a skill, works hard and ignores the current zeitgeist

[Troll]

James Dyson ?

[DiscoStu]

Her Royal Highness Mrs Thatcher

[sasguru]

Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking for a start.

Bertrand Russell is dead.
Agree with Hawking and Berners-Lee.
Strange that these 2 are scientists in a country that despises them.

[Moscow Mule]

Stephen Fry.

[Charles Foster Kane]

Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking for a start.

[Troll]

Stephen William Hawking
Tim Berners-Lee


HTH

[Spacecadet]

On a similar theme
St Patrick isn't Irish

[DiscoStu]

I nominate Wilmslow.

[sasguru]

No. Next.

[wobbegong]

As it's St. Georges Day (yes, I know he was supposed to be a Turk), a local radio station was asking listeners to phone in with the names of great Englishmen, with the proviso that he/she had to be alive and not actors or sportsmen.

The only call suggested Sir Edmund Hillary (yes, I know he was a New Zealander), but it made me think, who qualifies as a "great" Englishman these days?

Do the congregation have any nominations?