top ten american icons

[jefhatfield]

...in no particular order

the personal computer (apple, ibm, and others)
mcDonald's
coca cola
rock and roll
jazz
hollywood
statue of liberty
baseball
elvis
marilyn

any others?

[Durandal7]

Enron
The Horseless Cairrage
Michael Jackson's Nose
Mark Twain
Cowboys in general...

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Durandal7
Enron
The Horseless Cairrage
Michael Jackson's Nose
Mark Twain
Cowboys in general...

great ones ;)

if we are going to go into americans' body parts, then you can't leave out dolly parton's rack or john holmes' ...well, you know:p

[krossfyter]

mickey mouse



who is john holmes?

[jelloshotsrule]

apple pie

porn

[krossfyter]

star wars


bald eagle


liberty bell


grand canyon


Frederick Douglass


George Washington



Harriet Tubman



Declaration of Independence



Andy Warhol




Malcolm X




Martin Luther King jr



J.P. Morgan





who is John Holmes?

[Chad4Mac]

1) Sean Penn (America's true patriot)

2) Martin Sheen

3) Mike Farrell

4) Susan Sarandon

5) Michael Stipe

6) Kim Basinger

7) Matt Damon

8) Helen Hunt

9) David Duchovny

10) Gillian Anderson

Chad4Mac

[scem0]

Hamburgers (shows how illogical we are calling sandwiches without
ham 'ham'burgers.

cigarettes

Kentucky Fried CHicken

holywood

pornography

guns

ice cream

bubble gum pop 12 year old girls

television

meat

[medea]

In no real real particular order.....
1.Charlie Chaplin
2.Andy Warhol
3.Rosa Parks
4.Albert Einstein
5.Martin Luther King
6.Bill Gates
7.Wilbur and Orville Wright
8.Bruce Lee
9.Audrey Hepburn
10.Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Durandal7]

Richard Feynman
Captain Kirk

[krossfyter]

some of you all are repeating.


dont mean to be anal. just saying.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by krossfyter
some of you all are repeating.


dont mean to be anal. just saying.

i wish the poll option was there

john holmes was the first big star in american porn and he was like a foot long or something ridiculous

i don't know if albert einstein became an american, but if he did, i would add him to my list of american icons

[pantagruel]

first off who cares if they are repeating, maybe they just agree, but everyone should add Nike and Bart Simpson to the list.

[wdlove]

Walt Disney

Steve Jobs

Ronald Reagan

Coke

Billy Graham

[Mr. Anderson]

I'd put my vote in for these:

Charles Lindberg
Neil Armstrong
J.F.K.
M.L.King
Thomas Jefferson

not popular icons necessarily, but these individuals have change America/the World in profound ways. There are tons more, some already mentioned, others I'm forgetting.....

D

[sparkleytone]

bill gates of course

eleanor roosevelt

john wayne

marilyn monroe

elvis

norman rockwell

louis and clark

george washington

john f. kennedy

the vietnam war

[void]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


i wish the poll option was there

albert einstein was the first big star in american porn and he was like a foot long or something ridiculous

i don't know if john holmes became an american, but if he did, i would add him to my list of american icons
are you sure about that?

[jelloshotsrule]

it's great... i'm probably embarrassed/sickened by over 75% of these "icons".... bah.

[DavidFDM]

1. Ben Franklin
2. Thomas Edison
3. Henry Ford
4. Walt Disney
5. John F. Kennedy
6. N.C. Wyeth
7. L.L. Bean
8. Marilyn Monroe
9. Steve Wozniak
10. Bruce Springsteen

[medea]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
it's great... i'm probably embarrassed/sickened by over 75% of these "icons".... bah.
ok so tell me which icons out of my 10 suggestions are you sickened or embarrassed over?

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by vjv

are you sure about that?

doh:p :eek: :confused:

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by pantagruel
first off who cares if they are repeating,



uhhh i do... but its not a big deal yo

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by jefhatfield



john holmes was the first big star in american porn and he was like a foot long or something ridiculous




oh okay... but isnt there a poet by that name?

[zimv20]

welll, when i'm overseas the two american idol names i hear the most are:

1. michael jordan (still)
2. rambo

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by medea

ok so tell me which icons out of my 10 suggestions are you sickened or embarrassed over?

wasn't yours... your list has very respectable people indeed...

i was thinking more of things like mcdonald's, enron, KFC, teeny boppers, etc....

not respected historical figures.

and while i don't think that the celebrities mentioned are necessarily embarrassing, the fact that they are considered "icons" is... matt damon? come on... helen hunt???

[3rdpath]

ralph waldo emerson

henry david thoreau

george gershwin

frank lloyd wright

ansel adams

harriet beecher stowe

walt whitman

jonas salk

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
wasn't yours... your list has very respectable people indeed...

i was thinking more of things like mcdonald's, enron, KFC, teeny boppers, etc....

not respected historical figures.

and while i don't think that the celebrities mentioned are necessarily embarrassing, the fact that they are considered "icons" is... matt damon? come on... helen hunt???

Dude...you left out Ben Affleck and J-Lo...come on!!!

[3777]

1: Jay Fiedler

2: Paul Kocin (TWC)

3: Natureboy Ric Flair

4: Hulk Hogan

5: Coca Cola

6: Wendys

7: Mc Donalds

8: David Hasselhoff

9: Jeep

10: Chevrolet

[jelloshotsrule]

hahaha jay fiedler....

and ric flair. he's the man... i remember his gross bleach blonde hair getting all bloodied against hogan..... ahhh

interesting that hogan and flair had the same hair color basically


ps. j-lo and ben are understood. like (you) understood.

[3777]

Jay Fiedler = GOD:cool:

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by 3777
Jay Fiedler = GOD:cool:

who dat?

[mcrain]

Originally posted by jefhatfield
who dat?

He's a porn star who plays for the Miami Dolphins. He's the one behind the center.

[krossfyter]

you porn freaks

[3777]

Originally posted by mcrain


He's a porn star who plays for the Miami Dolphins. He's the one behind the center.


.........................:mad:

[rainman::|:|]

The McDonalds arches are more recognizable, worldwide, than the Christian cross.

sadly McDonalds does have to go (high) on that list...

but i think the biggest american icon, as seen by the biggest world population, is cold hard cash. That's right, money. The stuff that every american has in abundance according to so many people...

i think rudeness is also an American icon, because NY is always touted as being so rude. Tho that has somewhat faltered since 9/11.

Oh, and while i'm on the subject, the World Trade Center.

:)
pnw

[Chomolungma]

Originally posted by wdlove
Walt Disney

Steve Jobs

Ronald Reagan

Coke

Billy Graham


Ronald Reagan was a mediocre president (I don't think he was a Lincoln republican...very controversial agrument...)

Steve Jobs? Give me a break....If you ask 10 people randomly in the USA and 4 of them know who he is, then maybe...

Coke? I'm confuse here. Some of us list people while other list material things. Be that as it may, I will agree with you.

Billy Graham...with respect to the Trent Lott mess... I don't think Graham's politics is far from Lotts (we can debate about this endlessly). As a minority, I beg to differ.

BTW it was interesting to note a recent John McCain comment...."The Republican party is a pary of Lincoln." How naive! Since Nixon, the GOP has been a haven for separatist, KKK, Conservative Value people, State Rights, or whatever the new code word or words these losers call themselves now. It was no coincident that McCain lost to Bush in the 2000 primary.

[Roger1]

Here is a few

Spandex (but it depends on whose wearing it :p)

Buzz Aldren

Grunge rock

Heavy Metal

the telephone

The aeroplane

[rainman::|:|]

i think we should define icon here... To me, an icon is simply the definition of a noun: a person, place, thing or idea. To limit American icons to people is to ignore vast cultural "achievements" (good or bad).

i will definitely agree that coca-cola is a big icon, in so many pictures of foreign cities you can see billboards with the "ribbon device" (that's what Coke used to call part of it's logo officially)... i think we've all seen movies in other languages where Coca-Cola is the only english...

:)
pnw

[wdlove]

Originally posted by Chomolungma



Ronald Reagan was a mediocre president (I don't think he was a Lincoln republican...very controversial agrument...)

Steve Jobs? Give me a break....If you ask 10 people randomly in the USA and 4 of them know who he is, then maybe...

Coke? I'm confuse here. Some of us list people while other list material things. Be that as it may, I will agree with you.

Billy Graham...with respect to the Trent Lott mess... I don't think Graham's politics is far from Lotts (we can debate about this endlessly). As a minority, I beg to differ.

BTW it was interesting to note a recent John McCain comment...."The Republican party is a pary of Lincoln." How naive! Since Nixon, the GOP has been a haven for separatist, KKK, Conservative Value people, State Rights, or whatever the new code word or words these losers call themselves now. It was no coincident that McCain lost to Bush in the 2000 primary.

I see no reason for your comments, this is not a political thread!!!! So I will not elevate your comments by responding!

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by wdlove
I see no reason for your comments, this is not a political thread!!!! So I will not elevate your comments by responding!

LOL...the irony...

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU


LOL...the irony...

sad, eh? :D

Anyway, I figured an icon here could be anything from American culture, which doesn't really limit itself.

A big one might actually be Democracy, but, damn, there we go again, getting political.... ;)

D

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by dukestreet
sad, eh? :D

Anyway, I figured an icon here could be anything from American culture, which doesn't really limit itself.

A big one might actually be Democracy, but, damn, there we go again, getting political.... ;)

D

Speaking of politics...;)

I'm thinking "the bird" would be a good one to add to the list.

The middle finger is certainly an icon of American attitude and...uh...chutzpah. :p

[Mr. Anderson]

We use it, but is it American? I've seen it in other countries, but I have absolutely no idea on this one.

And some more that have caught on are Baseball and Basketball.

D

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by dukestreet
We use it, but is it American? I've seen it in other countries, but I have absolutely no idea on this one.

And some more that have caught on are Baseball and Basketball.

D

I thought other countries used the fist, teeth, etc...?

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU


I thought other countries used the fist, teeth, etc...?

Maybe this is deserving of another thread - 'What do do (body language/sign) to tell people to **** off?'

Ha, it would be interesting to see what the different responses would be from the international MacRumors community.

D

[krossfyter]

Originally posted by Chomolungma



Ronald Reagan was a mediocre president (I don't think he was a Lincoln republican...very controversial agrument...)

Steve Jobs? Give me a break....If you ask 10 people randomly in the USA and 4 of them know who he is, then maybe...

Coke? I'm confuse here. Some of us list people while other list material things. Be that as it may, I will agree with you.

Billy Graham...with respect to the Trent Lott mess... I don't think Graham's politics is far from Lotts (we can debate about this endlessly). As a minority, I beg to differ.

BTW it was interesting to note a recent John McCain comment...."The Republican party is a pary of Lincoln." How naive! Since Nixon, the GOP has been a haven for separatist, KKK, Conservative Value people, State Rights, or whatever the new code word or words these losers call themselves now. It was no coincident that McCain lost to Bush in the 2000 primary.



dude you want a fight dont ya!


lott and grahm... come on... grahm is not or wasnt ever a racist.

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by dukestreet
Maybe this is deserving of another thread - 'What do do (body language/sign) to tell people to **** off?'

Ha, it would be interesting to see what the different responses would be from the international MacRumors community.

Done. :)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=15893

[Chomolungma]

Originally posted by krossfyter




dude you want a fight dont ya!


lott and grahm... come on... grahm is not or wasnt ever a racist.

Sorry, it takes so long to respond. I had a lot of work.

Graham's politics is closely align with Lotts' politics. Off course there are minor differences, but reasonable minds will agree with me. One defining word the comes to mind that binds them together is intolerance (e.g. of different ideological view) I don't remember all that well, but Graham ran into trouble a year or two ago on comments inline with the intolerance theme. I'm always suspicious of preacher(s) who proclaim the truth. A very famous man once said, "be weary of men who advertise the truth, for they are the least likely to possess it." I think this man was Time Magazine person of the 20th Century (This quote is paraphrase).

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by Chomolungma


Sorry, it takes so long to respond. I had a lot of work.

Graham's politics is closely align with Lotts' politics. Off course there are minor differences, but reasonable minds will agree with me. One defining word the comes to mind that binds them together is intolerance (e.g. of different ideological view) I don't remember all that well, but Graham ran into trouble a year or two ago on comments inline with the intolerance theme. I'm always suspicious of preacher(s) who proclaim the truth. A very famous man once said, "be weary of men who advertise the truth, for they are the least likely to possess it." I think this man was Time Magazine person of the 20th Century (This quote is paraphrase).

graham is sincere in the belief that his religion is the one true religion...but he is not intolerant

parade magazine, a few years back, profiled graham's contributions and he humbly mentioned that he is a democrat, but his main issue to to basically let the world know about jesus christ

i believe graham believes christ knows the truth and that graham himself is only a messenger

i have not seen any evidence that graham is involved in a messiah complex like jim jones or kip mckean of the boston church of christ...which was the other cultic spinoff that came after the people's temple to split from a mainline church...the church of christ (which is not a cult)

[Chomolungma]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


graham is sincere in the belief that his religion is the one true religion...but he is not intolerant

parade magazine, a few years back, profiled graham's contributions and he humbly mentioned that he is a democrat, but his main issue to to basically let the world know about jesus christ

i believe graham believes christ knows the truth and that graham himself is only a messenger

i have not seen any evidence that graham is involved in a messiah complex like jim jones or kip mckean of the boston church of christ...which was the other cultic spinoff that came after the people's temple to split from a mainline church...the church of christ (which is not a cult)

I don't mean to go as far as to suggest Graham has a messiah complex. My criticism of those claiming the truth is more mundane and the their proclaimations seem to go against common sense. This fault is not limited to preachers, but can be found in other discipline (e.g. science, of all things). Stephen Wolfram wrote a comprehensive work called "A new kind of science" is a good example. Most of his ideas were conveniently borrowed and he seems to not be aware of research in other field but went ahead and try to reinvent the wheel (e.g. biological evolution). A genius (properly used adjective here) he is, but now just a salesman.

[mcrain]

Originally posted by Chomolungma
I don't mean to go as far as to suggest Graham has a messiah complex. My criticism of those claiming the truth is more mundane and the their proclaimations seem to go against common sense. This fault is not limited to preachers, but can be found in other discipline (e.g. science, of all things). Stephen Wolfram wrote a comprehensive work called "A new kind of science" is a good example. Most of his ideas were conveniently borrowed and he seems to not be aware of research in other field but went ahead and try to reinvent the wheel (e.g. biological evolution). A genius (properly used adjective here) he is, but now just a salesman.

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