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Over here (in the UK) we get loads of these TV listorama's where people bang on about who their favourite politician was, or the best philosopher of the last 100 years, or.. OK so actually they go on about pop stars, TV hosts and best potato chip flavour) but the theory is the same.
So (and with hopefully a wider spread) any thoughts
1) Most influential politican
2) Most important scientist of all time
3) Most important human event in history
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
and on the lighter side
5) Best TV show
6) Best movie
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
I'll post my votes when I have some time this evening. No polls as the results are too wide.
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VH1 and E! are notorious for this crap over here, last I checked.
I may not have an answer for all of these.
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1) Most influential politican
George W. Bush - his actions have influenced alot of people in the past 8 years.
If you mean of all time, I'd say Winston Churchill
2) Most important scientist of all time
Very difficult, Turing, Curie, Newton, the list goes on.
3) Most important human event in history
Discovery/ies of America
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Sistine chapel
5) Best TV show
Impossible to say. Red Dwarf, Black Adder, World at War, Lost S1, Dexter, X-Men cartoons who knows?
6) Best movie
The Shawshank Redemption
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
No idea.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Sistine chapel
Huh ?
You surely mean the Sixteenth Chapel.
I miss Kevin
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1) Most influential politican
Marx.
2) Most important scientist of all time
DaVinci.
3) Most important human event in history
Birth of Christ.
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
The Dekalog.
Italian Stripping Housewives. There's so many more (Friends, Frasier, 70s Show, Malcolm ITM, Stargate, Trek, NYPD Blue, CSI) that ISH is really the only one which really sticks out in the crowd.
Anything by Kieślowski.
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
Wine, women and song.
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That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
After re-reading that page it surprised me that no one ever mentioned that Sistine/Sistina is an Anglicization of of the name of the Pope (Sixtus IV) who had the chapel built and nothing to do with a number, either six or sixteen.
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I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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1) Most influential politician
Either Mao by numbers or I'm erring towards Reagan since he set the entire werstern world on its current direction.
2) Most important scientist of all time
Darwin - for pointing out that we are just apes. Which we keep forgetting.
3) Most important human event in history
Moon landing - not bad for a bunch of apes. Which we keep forgetting.
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Guernica
and on the lighter side
5) Best TV show
Dr Who - no debate
6) Best movie
You know I'm torn here. I dearly love Tremors but realistically it's not as great as Lawrence of Arabia
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
hmm. I'll get back on this.
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1) Most influential politican
Hitler
2) Most important scientist of all time
Newton
3) Most important human event in history
The life/death of Jesus of Nazareth.
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Beethoven's Symphony #9.
Seinfeld (did you really expect anything else?)
Schindler's List, in my very humble, not-so-original opinion.
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
It's hard for me to think of the "best," but the worst has to be reality television.
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1) Most influential politican
Thomas Jefferson
2) Most important scientist of all time
Albert Einstein
3) Most important human event in history
The obvious one is Jesus' birth/death, but it's over my head.
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Hmmm...Wagner's Ring Cycle
and on the lighter side
5) Best TV show
The Wire
6) Best movie
Best: Citizen Kane Favorite: Raising Arizona
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
Cartoons
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1) Most influential politician
Hitler.
2) Most important scientist of all time
Charles Darwin
3) Most important human event in history
Mastering fire.
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Dunno. This, maybe...
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Originally Posted by rickey939
gorickey.
In retrosepct, it's more like go awayrickey
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1) Franklin Delana Roosevelt
2) Thomas Edison
3) First drive of a car powered by an internal combustion engine in 1889.
4) The Scream
5) Star Wars: The Clone Wars
6) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
7) Star Wars
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1) Most influential politican
Karl Marx
2) Most important scientist of all time
Galileo
3) Most important human event in history
Birth of Christ would be the easy answer, but I'd also have to point to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
tie.
Samuel Barber's - Adagio for Strings, op.11
and
Mozart's Requiem
5) Best TV show
M*A*S*H
6) Best movie
tie.
Seven Samurai
and
Fight Club
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
Rock n' Roll
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1) Most influential politican
Pontius Pilate
2) Most important scientist of all time
Charles Darwin
3) Most important human event in history
Development of language
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Impossible, but I'll go with a symbol: the yin/yang
and on the lighter side
5) Best TV show
Nova
6) Best movie
Terry Gilliam's Brazil
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
I'll have to pass on this one.
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1) Most influential politican
Hitler
2) Most important scientist of all time
Newton
3) Most important human event in history
First atomic detonation
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Jimi Hendrix
The Honeymooners (original 39 episodes)
2001: A Space Odyssey
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
The iPod craze bested The Walkman imo.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
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Once you wanted revolution, now you're the institution, how's it feel to be the man?
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1) Most influential politican
Alexander the Great
2) Most important scientist of all time
Imhotep
3) Most important human event in history
Magna Carta
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
Septuagint
5) Best TV show
The Waltons
6) Best movie
Shaft
7) Best pop phenomena
Elvis
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1) Most influential politican
James Madison
2) Most important scientist of all time
Nicola Tesla
3) Most important human event in history
Revelation at Sinai
4) Most influential/important/most moving work of art (of any type)
That's hard. I suppose "God Creates Adam" but since it depicts God and Heaven I'm conflicted over that choice.
5) Best TV show
Arrested Development
6) Best movie
The Godfather
7) Best pop phenomena (as in pop culture not necessarily pop music)
Viral videos. I don't know, most pop culture phenomena in the current era isn't that redeeming.
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Why would Cheech Marin make a movie like this?
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