[stimpyone]

Doh!

[lowbridge]

My votes for greatest brits:

Wallace and Gromit

Benny Hill

Margaret Thatcher

("Now is not the time to go wobbly" - Mrs. "Iron Lady" Thatcher advising President Bush (Senior) on going to war with Iraq)

[ricpic]

Excellent. Excellent. My scheme for world domination continues as planned. With attention diverted to that Simpson buffoon I can continue building more dirty nuclear plants, corner the power market, jack up my prices unapposed, and bring the world to it's knees. Ah ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.............

[cake_crumb]

LOL! Maybe the BBC can next air a documentary about how the idea that Homer is American was STAGED by the US military.

[Homer Simpson]

Woo Whoo!

[b4its2late]

The Simpsoms must just be hitting the UK airwaves, huh?

[circles]

"Homer...has been known to have a glass of maple syrup for breakfast."

Homer: Marge? Since I'm not talking to Lisa, would you please ask her to pass me the syrup?

Marge: [Wearily] Dear, please pass your father the syrup, Lisa.

Lisa: Bart, tell Dad I will only pass the syrup if it won't be used on any meat product.

Bart: [To Homer] You dunkin' your sausages in that syrup homeboy?

Homer: Marge, tell Bart I just want to drink a nice glass of syrup like I do every morning.

Marge: Tell him yourself, you're ignoring Lisa, not Bart.

Homer: Bart, thank your mother for pointing that out.

Marge: Homer, you're not, not talking to me, and secondly, I heard what you said.

Homer: Lisa, tell your mother to get off my case!

Bart: Uhhh, Dad. Lisa's the one you're not talking to.

Homer: Bart! Go to your room.

[Between the Lines]

You would think that Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton would be at the top of any list of Great Americans as seem by the BBC.

[Conan the Librarian]

my vote was for Ben Franklin and John Addams.

[Spruce]

Marge: Homer we've got someone coming to help!

Homer: Batman?

Marge: No, not batman. A scientist.

Homer: Batman was a scientist.

Marge: It's not batman!

[Revolting cat!]

And don't forget this illustrious pair:

[vetvetdoug]

For decades Robert E. Lee was considered the greatest American who ever lived. The voting of Homer Simpson just illuminates the dumbing down of the British Empire. The liberals in Britain are winning.

[Conservomax]

I can say from living in London that britons are good people who know how to live. However, a number who I encountered were at least slightly arrogant, adolescent, and suprisingly unmotivated people - that turned me off to a lot of them. I assume taht that is extremely different outside of the cities, however, I never really got to know anyone personally out there.
Most of their attitude for America comes from their viewing it as a precocious child. They all seem to like Americans and those who have been here love it, however they don't take us that seriously because all they really know about America is what they see on TV: Homer, Springer and Tony Soprano.

[Weimdog]

Hey Brits! Homer is Canadian! Doh!

Simpsons creator reveals Homer is Canadian

Matt Groening claims Homer Simpson is Canadian.

The character is based on The Simpsons creator's dad - also called Homer - who was born near Winnipeg.

"I hope Canadians won't hold it against the show now that they know," Groening told Canadian website Jam! Showbiz.

"We were counting on Canadians feeling superior to the Simpsons as being doltish Americans but now the secret is out."

[SC DOC]

The reason the Brits can so readily relate to Homer Simpson:

[wimpycat]

The poll is part of an upcoming broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation which will "confront the critical question at the heart of the 21st century – what does the world think of America?"

One thing I want the world to know about us is that we don't spend our time worrying about what they think about us. We have enough to keep us occupied. We also don't have TV shows asking, "What does America think of the UK? or France? or the rest of the world?"

I guess this sort of thing comes with the territory of being the world's greatest superpower--the rest of the world obsesses over us and studies us like we're some naked natives from National Geographic.

(Picture a National Geographic special detailing the anthropological study of the member of that tribe known as 'Americans'...imagine the breathless voiceover of the narrator as the film shows commuter traffic...)

"As we further looked into the ritual driving habits of the natives, we noticed a curious phenomenon. These Americans are fond of plastering their cars with strange bumper stickers, many of them with ritualistic religious messages on them. What purpose does this serve? Anthropologists who have studied this phenomenon believe this is part of some religious or political ritual behavior..."