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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Named Greatest Briton

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the particularly-exemplary dept.

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.'"

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  1. Why 2004? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    What has he done for us LATELY?

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  2. Errant U's by cornjchob · · Score: 1, Funny

    Honor*

    Oops, that's probably flamebait

    Prost Frist, and, uh, stuff like that.

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    1. Re:Errant U's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


      don't spoil it with ignorance now

      Shouldn't that be "ignourance".

    2. Re:Errant U's by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 2, Funny


      Moran.

  3. I for one... by Xpilot · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...welcome our new British internet-inventing overlords.

    What? What do you mean "it was Al Gore"?

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    1. Re:I for one... by pfdietz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Al Gore didn't invent the internet, but during his previous song-writing career, he invented something even more important to information processing: the Al Gore Rhythm.

    2. Re:I for one... by Tethys_was_taken · · Score: 2, Funny

      You've been waiting a looong time to use this one, haven't you :)

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  4. It was less of a surprise by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, has been named the Greatest Briton of 2004

    Prince Harry was taken out of the running for Greatest Briton recently for some reason...

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    1. Re:It was less of a surprise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Prince Harry was taken out of the running for Greatest Briton recently for some reason

      However he was named as the Greatest German of 2004

    2. Re:It was less of a surprise by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 1, Funny

      May his reign last for a thousand years!

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    3. Re:It was less of a surprise by Hatta · · Score: 2, Funny

      That is just unacceptable! He really ought to resign.

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    4. Re:It was less of a surprise by Fembot · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe the word you're looking for is abdicate.

  5. "Honour"? by skadus · · Score: 2, Funny

    The guy spells 'honor' with a 'u'??

    That's unamerican!

  6. What's the metric for this? by wombatmobile · · Score: 4, Funny

    "greatest Briton"?

    Hmmm. I'm British. I wonder what my ranking is?

    14,223,921st greatest Briton?

    1. Re:What's the metric for this? by KontinMonet · · Score: 2, Funny

      /. reckons I'm 623057th. So there!

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    2. Re:What's the metric for this? by damian · · Score: 2, Funny

      You seem to be the 623057th Slashdoton it seems. But thats just in cronological order.

  7. "It's Great Fun to be British" by popo · · 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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    1. Re:"It's Great Fun to be British" by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought tigers were at the top of the food chain?

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  8. Re:And typically there are some doubters by squiggleslash · · Score: 2, Funny
    Actually, telescope technology now being what it is, I'm surprised nobody's noticed that the flag at the supposed Apollo 11 landing site is actually French. I saw it last night with my cheap Wal*Mart Amateur Astronomy Set.

    Apparently the French landed there in the 1930s. They kept it quiet, never being a group to blow their own horn, and then the Americans wanted footage to "prove" they had gone to the moon, the French were all to happy to provide it (which was then doctored to include a US flag instead) due to their gratitude for America's contribution to WW2.

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  9. The person to blame! by Hosting+Geek · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now we know who blame for "www."

    Long live no-www.com!

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  10. Re:Great Fun to be British? by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not like it's pre-Christian Polynesia and you get to boink nubile exotic Island girls all day long and eat sweet tree-melons while basking on the beach.

    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!

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  11. Teeth! by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm surprised no-one from the States has said anything about the guy's teeth. From Austin Powers to the Simpsons' 'Big Book Of British Smiles', that's all we ever get to hear. British=Bad F*ckin' Teeth.

    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.

  12. That's not so impressive by craXORjack · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was at a friend's house over the holidays and I noticed that he had received the distinction of being the World's Greatest Dad! Top that, Sir Tim!

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