National Treasures (list of)

Vesterberg
Vesterberg Posts: 330
edited August 2011 in The bottom bracket
"a public figure regarded as being emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage or identity"

Who are your National Treasures?

5 votes or more and I'll add them to a list in this post - then it will be all official like and we can all wonder at them and stuff.


1. Sir Richard Attenborough
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Comments

  • roddixon
    roddixon Posts: 100
    Cliff Richard :lol:
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    roddixon wrote:
    Cliff Richard :lol:

    your a plant......
    from Hamburg no wonder.

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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Sue Barker.
  • roddixon
    roddixon Posts: 100
    okay, what about Elton John then? :wink:
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Beatrix Potter and Victoria Whatsit (Pembleton, Pendleton, whatever) and the nice looking one in the Lynx ad.

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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    roddixon wrote:
    okay, what about Elton John then? :wink:

    Now u are taking the wet.

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  • random man
    random man Posts: 1,518
    Bobby Charlton
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    random man wrote:
    Bobby Charlton

    He can't ride a bike.
  • roddixon
    roddixon Posts: 100
    RideOnTime wrote:
    roddixon wrote:
    okay, what about Elton John then? :wink:

    Now u are taking the wet.

    '

    Well both are quintessentially English and have been knighted, so the queen seems to think they are worthy of something. I'm going to stick with my votes
  • Vesterberg
    Vesterberg Posts: 330
    Bobby Charlton is sensible. But only 1 vote so far.
  • Roadtart
    Roadtart Posts: 54
    The BT ad girl - shame she's marrying that lanky bloke, and that I'm marrying my "other half".

    Mine is fully aware of my lustful thoughts about the BT ad girl......and she picked that Aussie Greek bloke with the initials PA....and I can't even bear to type his full name.

    Oh, and another pick (purely because he is a real man)......Gene Hunt. Audi Quattro, and all of those one-liners, pure political incorrectness. Love it!
  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    Patrick Moore
  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    Oh, and David Attenborough
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    Jeremy Paxman
    "There are holes in the sky,
    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Special K wrote:
    Jeremy Paxman

    come on.

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  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    Stirling Moss
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    MrChuck wrote:
    Oh, and David Attenborough

    The thing is with Attenborough is that he was on Blue Peter I think it was and he was trying to recognise animal noises it was such a set up he said giraffe or something when is was a monkey and then sure enough the giraffe was next.. so he'd already been told what was coming... most look this up I know it wasn't a giraffe.. but you get the point.

    :)
  • Vesterberg
    Vesterberg Posts: 330
    Johnny Morris?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Michael Winner.

    Ok, he's a doddery old tw4t but dose encompass something quintessentially British. In a Stuffy Old Fart kinda way.
  • Vesterberg
    Vesterberg Posts: 330
    roddixon wrote:
    Cliff Richard :lol:
    you mean Cliff Richards?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,661
    David Attenbourough
    Stephen Fry
    Murry Walker
    Who's the BBC news guy that covers wars and such...John something?
    Maggie Smith


    ?Mick Jagger
    ?Ian Botham
    ?Rowan Atkinson
    ?I wanna say Johny Rotten but robably cos I'm a punk fan...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Vesterberg
    Vesterberg Posts: 330
    b0ll0cks, I'm putting Richard Attenborough up as the first. He gets my vote so that's 3.
  • Vesterberg wrote:
    b0ll0cks, I'm putting Richard Attenborough up as the first. He gets my vote so that's 3.

    Do you mean David? If so me too so that's four for him. Ian Botham too who now has two.
  • Red Rock
    Red Rock Posts: 517
    + 1 for Murray Walker

    also

    Kate Adie
    John Simpson
    Paul McCartney
    Michael Palin
    John Cleese
  • tim_wand
    tim_wand Posts: 2,552
    1. Sir Paul Smith
    2. Wiggo
    3. Paul Weller

    Scrap it there all the same Bloke !!!

    Seriously

    Beryl Burton
    Malc Elliot
    Brian Clough
    Sir Steve Redgrave
    Sir David Sterling ( and Paddy Mayne if he wasnt Irish)
  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    Jackie Stewart
    Sean Connery
    Kenny Dalgleish
    Frank Williams
    Tom Jones
    Michael Caine
    Joanna Lumley
    Stephen Fry
    David Attenborough
    Kate Silverton...personal favourite
    Rod Stewart
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    Redhog14 wrote:
    Jackie Stewart
    Sean Connery
    Kenny Dalgleish
    Frank Williams
    Tom Jones
    Michael Caine
    Joanna Lumley
    Stephen Fry
    David Attenborough
    Kate Silverton...personal favourite
    Rod Stewart

    Jackie Stewart, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Rod Stewart. All tax exiles, can't be National Treasures when they've avoided giving to the Treasury. IMHO. :wink:
  • Special K
    Special K Posts: 449
    David Dickinson
    "There are holes in the sky,
    Where the rain gets in.
    But they're ever so small
    That's why rain is thin. " Spike Milligan
  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    Morph
  • mark63
    mark63 Posts: 43
    + 1 for Beefy
    how about dickie bird