For the benefit of Americans

Pixel Pirate wrote: In the Euro corner: Homer,Hippocrates,Socrates,Plato,Aristotle,Euclid,Lucretius, Seneca,Cicero,Virgil,Marcus Aurelius,Thomas Aquinas,Dante,Machiavelli,Erasmus,Rabelais,Copernicus,Montai gne,Shakespeare,Francis Bacon,Galilei,Milton,Descartes,Pascal,Spinoza,Hobbes,Newton, Locke,Hume,Montesquieu,Rosseau,Kant,Blake,Goethe,Hegel,Kierk egaard,Schopenhauer,Darwin,Ibsen,Nietzsche,Freud,Einstein,Ka fka,Jung,Heidegger,Sartre. In the American corner: Err.....hmm....err....

Well Europe has all you guys, and evidently you're not all that bright..

American has many, many great writers, painters, inventors, actors, directors, statesmen, businessmen... This is the home of the free and the brave afterall... Great Americans such as :

George Washington, Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, George Westinghouse, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, The Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Georgia O'Keefe, Louis Armstrong, Teddy, FDR, and Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Ford, Ernest Heminway, Walt Disney, Jackson Pollack, John F. Kennedy, Andy Warhol, George Patton, Davy Crockett, Ray Charles, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, George Washington Carver, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Henry Adams, Edith Wharton, Upton Sinclair, Will Rogers, Langston Hughes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ayn Rand, Jack Keroauc, William F. Buckley, Mary Cassatt, Emily Dickenson, Willa Catha, John Singer Sargent, James Whistler (who painted his mother), Margaret Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Ansel Adams, Muhammad Ali, P. T. Barnum, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Carnegie, Margaret Mead, Raymond Chandler, Henry Clay, John Fenimore Cooper, Aaron Copland, Dwight Eisenhower, Duke Ellington, Bill Gates, George Gershwin, Robert E. Lee, Sinclair Lewis, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Longfellow, J. Pierpont Morgan, Samuel B. Morse, Robert Moses, Joseph Pulitzer, Richard Rodgers, Charles Schulz, Isaac Stern, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Humphrey Bogart, Grace Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Clark Gable, John Wayne, Martin Scorsese, Stephen Spielberg, Frances Ford Coppola, Michael Jordan, Mark Spitz, Pocahantas, Amelia Earhart, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buffalo Bill Cody, Harry Houdini, Ethan Allen, Jimmy Carter, T.S. Eliot, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Washington Irving, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, Eugene O'Neill, J.D. Salinger, Carl Sandburg, Tennessee Williams,  and Homer Simpson among thousands of others....

However, if you're not up on your American history... here's a link where you can learn about some of these great Americans..

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/

I'm puffing away right now,Gdub! But I wasn't being entirely serious with that list obviously (and I left out a few thousand names!), but you probably got that. Or maybe not? America has had tons of great minds,only a lunatic would dispute that,some of my favourite writers are American actually,but Chaplin was actually English and I always found him about as funny as a root canal anyway. And Davy Crockett? THE Davy Crocket? The frontiersman and defender of the Alamo? Rubbing shoulders with the genius of Edgar Allan Poe? Surely some mistake?

And my America bashing ends here and now! I simply cannot singlehandedly shoulder the responsibility of defending 5000 years of European culture and history,and since I actually have a great admiration for the American people (in general), the whole thing is simply swamped with so many grey areas that I run a risk getting tangled up in my own arguments and meeting myself in the door. Could be a tad mixing of metaphors there,but you get my point.

"Intellecutal and cultural supremacy?"  Surely you jest!

If it weren't for America, there'd be no Fender or Gibson guitars.

But thanks for those Marshall amps, guys!