Current and future national treasures

[Orang Utan]

Not sure if you're serious.
Great campaigner for asylum seekers.

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I was serious. Most wouldn’t know who he was, and if they did, they probably wouldn’t be able to pick him out in a lineup’s

 

[pesh]

Toby Jones

 

[Orang Utan]

Stephen Fry is too divisive

 

[Sue]

Stephen Fry is too divisive

So smug and annoying.

 

[8ball]

Stephen Fry is too divisive

On urban. Not in reality.

 

[Silas Loom]

We could swap a few for those marbles we stole from the Greek.

Do you mean that we return the marbles and the Greeks exile Nana Mouskouri to London, or that we keep them and send Pat Sharp to Athens by way of compensation?

 

[Orang Utan]

On urban. Not in reality.

In reality
For comparison:

 

[8ball]

Toby Jones

Tricky - plays a lot of psychos..

 

[Silas Loom]

Stephen Fry is too divisive

Stately homo, as Quentin Crisp had it, rather than national treasure.

 

[8ball]

Do you mean that we return the marbles and the Greeks exile Nana Mouskouri to London, or that we keep them and send Pat Sharp to Athens by way of compensation?

The latter.

I saw those marbles and they ain't all that, but I think we at least need to send more than a Pat Sharp.

Maybe Pat Sharp and Ainsley Harriott.

 

[Silas Loom]

The latter.

I saw those marbles and they ain't all that, but I think we at least need to send more than a Pat Sharp.

There were the twins who co-presented Fun House. That gives them a complete set with no missing limbs.

E2A: no, you’re right, Ainsley is the clincher.

 

[8ball]

There were the twins who co-presented Fun House. That gives them a complete set with no missing limbs.

E2A: no, you’re right, Ainsley is the clincher.

I'm lost as to whether Pat Sharp is missing some limbs, or whether the twins are conjoined...

 

[Silas Loom]

I'm lost as to whether Pat Sharp is missing some limbs, or whether the twins are conjoined...

It’s a question which will baffle visitors to the Parthenon as they queue for the Harriott Experience.

 

[8ball]

In reality
For comparison:
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Celebrity Top Trumps is not a generally recognised polling sourcee.

 

[Orang Utan]

Celebrity Top Trumps is not a generally recognised polling sourcee.

You Gov innit

 

[Cid]

Michael Caine – no. Not lovable enough.

Graham Norton – no. Too vulgar, and too stupid at the time of the invasion of Iraq.

The actor, Adrian Lester, in years to come?

Yes to Fergal Sharkey (in about ten years from now).

Yes to Tom Baker.

Yes to the aforementioned Michael Rosen.

Yes to the historian Mary Beard.

Possibly, in about a decade or more, Brian Cox, the scientist, will become a national treasure.

Perhaps the scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock may become a national treasure, but she is not widely enough known at present.

In twenty or thirty years, perhaps the biblical scholar Francesca Stavrakopoulou will become a national treasure.

Bettany Hughes, the historian, in years to come?

Carlo Rovelli, the scientist (if he moves to Britain)?

Brian Cox the not scientist should be as well tbf, but doesn't quite have the reach.

e2a: Nah, fuckit, he is a national treasure. So there.

 

[8ball]

You Gov innit

Ain't me, Guv.

 

[Cid]

Tricky - plays a lot of psychos..

Michael Sheen has played Tony Blair. Multiple times.

 

[8ball]

Michael Sheen has played Tony Blair. Multiple times.

Fair point.

 

[cesare]

Brian Cox the not scientist should be as well tbf, but doesn't quite have the reach.

e2a: Nah, fuckit, he is a national treasure. So there.

Controversial but I put forward

Lucy Worsley, and
Jim Al-Khalili

 

[Orang Utan]

Tricky - plays a lot of psychos..

I can only think of one role - a sidekick in The Fifth Element. Too druggy for little England to consider him to be a national treasure anyway

 

[8ball]

I can only think of one role - a sidekick in The Fifth Element. Too druggy for little England to consider him to be a national treasure anyway

Hmmm, not sure whether the misreading was deliberate, but yes, I agree with your appraisal.

 

[8ball]

Controversial but I put forward

Lucy Worsley, and
Jim Al-Khalili

If Lucy Worsley then surely Hannah Fry.

 

[Sue]

Jim Al-Khalili

Definitely. He always sounds so interested in everything on The Life Scientific.

 

[cesare]

If Lucy Worsley then surely Hannah Fry.

Yeah I said Lucy but not really. I'm sticking with emotional Keith from GBP

 

[Orang Utan]

Roger Sloman if he was ten times as famous

 

[stavros]

Abbie and Georgia from Gogglebox

 

[Cid]

Al-Khalili has sort of floated out of the public consciousness though hasn't he? Yes, the life scientific, but not doing that much TV etc. Future national treasure hopefully.

 

[Orang Utan]

Abbie and Georgia from Gogglebox

Oh come off it.
Will people stop nominating people most of the nation are unaware of.

 

[8ball]

If OU's faith in YouGov as a divining rod has any merit, then National Treasure status seems some way off for Nigel Farage.