Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on May 05, 2016, 11:44:49 AM
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With it being the week that Sir David Attenborough turns 90, my mind turned to whether he will ever appear on a UK postage stamp.
Currently, the rule is that the only living person allowed to appear on a stamp is the Monarch and other Royals. If that were to change, which person - currently alive - would you like to see on a UK stamp, and secondly, who (now deceased) do you believe would have been worthy of appearing on a stamp within their lifetime?
I am happy to take 'bids' for people who lived before stamps came into being (so someone could suggest Christopher Marlowe - 16th century playwright and poet).
May I make one other condition: initially, will folk restrict themselves to one living person and one 'historical' person. After a while, I will lift this restricton, but it will allow people to have as wide a pool to choose from as possible in the early days.
The names I immediately came up with were Sir David Attenborough and Alan Turing.
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Shakespeare?
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Apart from me of course, LOL, I think David Attenborough is a good choice. I remember him so well from when I was very young, we had a TV in 1954.
As for a historical figure, I am struggling a bit, definitely NOT Shakespeare though.
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I'd go with David Attenborough too.
Just thought of someone else - Charles Babbage.
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If I had to choose a historical figure it would probably be Charles Darwin.
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Yes, there are so many. I recently saw a very moving film about Darwin and his family, still haven't quite got over it :'(. I hadn't realised his home, Down House, was so near to us, I will pop down there one of these days, in the summer. It looks interesting.
However, we digress. Brunel is a favourite too.
I've had more than one dead person, Hope. Sorry. Sticking with David Attenborough for the living one.
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Dear Hope,
Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.
https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg
Gonnagle.
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Ah well, if we can have fictional I'd say, ''Sherlock Holmes''.
Hope, don't give up hope on this thread :D, we are taking it seriously but it is fun too.
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Dear Hope,
Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.
https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg
Gonnagle.
Fictional - not at the moment, please. I may allow that once I lift the 'number of suggestions' limit from 1 living and 1 deceased.
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Note the rule no longer applies - see link as to its rather involved history
http://peterjennings.co.uk/articles/people.pdf
Good thread though and good suggestions to start off. The Turing suggestion triggers whether you might combine it as a series on computing and have Tim Berners Lee?
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Dear Hope,
Albert Einstein, Sir Terry Pratchett, actually can we have fictional.
https://sffbookreview.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/nac-mac-feegle.jpg
Gonnagle.
Albert Einstein? I assumed the people named would be British.
How about Yehudi Menuhin - a fine musician and a great human being? And living? I know - Richard Dawkins!
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Albert Einstein? I assumed the people named would be British.
How about Yehudi Menuhin - a fine musician and a great human being? And living? I know - Richard Dawkins!
Yes....he's used to getting a good licking.
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Stanley Stamp, the famous collector of Gibbons.
:) :) :)
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Note the rule no longer applies - see link as to its rather involved history
http://peterjennings.co.uk/articles/people.pdf
Good thread though and good suggestions to start off. The Turing suggestion triggers whether you might combine it as a series on computing and have Tim Berners Lee?
The internet has been a bit of a mixed blessing though.....perhaps we should treat Berners Lee in the same ''tone'' as Oppenheimer.