This Is An Outrage! Who Says the English Are Better Educated Than The Americans?!? Apparently, Homer Simpson Does!
You Ghoddam, lime-sucking, flying monkeys-coming-out-of-your-asses-next-door-neighbors-to-the-French!
This is too much!!!
TOO MUCH I SAY!!
Somehow, you must all PAY!
Where did I put that Doomsday Device?
That list is a joke, right?
Mr. T and Bob Dylan on a “greatest americans” list? That makes no sense.
I don’t even really understand how Bill Clinton got on there.
Americans?
I pitty the fools.
In case anyone is taking this seriously… this is in fact a serious poll.
The BBC runs polls like this all the time.
It’s just that the polls’ results are rarely serious.
D’you see?
C’mon folks. If they’d have asked me, I’d have said Mr. T too. Or possibly Bruce Springsteen. Ya don’t mess with the boss.
What possible incentive could there be for giving a serious answer?
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I am shocked, absolutely shocked, that George W. Bush didn’t make the list. Don’t the British blindly follow their leader, Blair? Why oh why can’t they be more like Americans?
jjimm is lying. Here we base all our social policy on such on-line polls.
Go Homer! Go!
This is an obvious invitation for Americans to nominate their picks for all-time greatest Brits as an indicator of England’s place in the world.
Therefore, I select as my top five:
Tony Blair
Winston Churchill
Penelope Hobhouse
Benny Hill
Edward Elgar
with honorable mention to:
Jack the Ripper
Glad Franklin made it. He’d get my vote. 
-est of the Founding Fathers by far. What a life.
Most of the rest–gaaah with a side of yikes sauce. I mean, who doesn’t love Homer, but didn’t the Beeb NOT mean two-dimensional fictional Americans to be included? They should have said so.
If you remember the “Greatest Britons” poll from last year, you might also remember that Princess Diana figured prominently in it.
Clearly, therefore, two-dimensional fictional characters are not meant to be excluded.
Yes, but that’s the BBC. That’s even worse than a CNN poll.
Truly, but Homer doesn’t have such marvelous hair.
The BBC ran a poll like this recently to find the worlds best/most popular song.
Irish people everywhere start receiving and forwarding e-mails to vote for “A nation once again” with the reason “800 years, that’s why”. It came in at no. 1 IIRC. HeHe. We’ve also tried to get a unknown Irish footballer to be named the greatest ever. These things are a great way to wind the BBC up. YMMV 
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_731719.html?menu=
It’s pretty funny. But you have to remember what sort of no-life time-wasting online addicts take those sorts of polls to begin with–HEY! Get that mirror away from me!
Homer’s hair and ears are formed roughly from his creator’s initials–an M and a G, for Matt Groenig </hijack>.
At least MLK and Lincoln are on it. But the choice of Mr. T. over Sylvester Stallone is baffling. 
Yes, and when the English run around naked, the spectacle is so horrifying that sharks begin to hemorrage from sheer terror!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/southern_counties/2984936.stm
Poor thing! Frightened to death by a naked Sussexian.
Getting naked in front of the fishies for kicks!
Aquatic Deviance for shits & giggles!
Where will it all end!?!
It will end in tears–tears & vomit in a rubber room, no doubt!
The UK’s shameful history of Public School Deviance lives on…
Sounds quite a lot like the BBC Sports Personality of the Year / Justin Fashanu thingie.
The current results are:
It’s looking like a landslide. We are four days away from having Homer J. Simpson declared the greatest American in history.
Results now:
Homer Simpson 45.68%
Abraham Lincoln 9.55%
Martin Luther King Jnr 9.26%
Mr T 8.40%
Thomas Jefferson 5.73%
Bob Dylan 5.31%
George Washington 4.62%
Benjamin Franklin 4.07%
Franklin D Roosevelt 3.83%
Bill Clinton 3.56%
26456 Votes Cast
NO WAY Benny Hill ranks above John Cleese (or any of the other Monty Python Brits).
Who exactly is voting in this thing?
Mr. T and Bob Dylan are both higher on this list than George Washington. That’s just wrong.
I can see the Homer Simpson thing, though.
Princess Di wasn’t two-dimensional. Well, at least she wasn’t until she hit that wall going 90.