National Treasures that get on your thrupennies...

[Drago]

Nelson Mandela.

 

[Dirk]

Graham Norton.
Alan Carr.

 

[Drago]

Alan Carr.

Agreed. His entire live act is based upon a now deceased Northampton prosititute, 50p Lil. She was a real person and did only charge 50p for her services, but she was a sad old lady who suffered a massive breakdown after her husband died and received no support from the health and social services. To take the pith out of a dead lady who was very ill when alive, is an F ing disgrace.

 

[matiz]

Olly Murs
John Barrowman
Mel and Sue, especially Sue.

 

[hopless500]

Loved John Barrowman in Torchwood

 

[stephec]

I'm not sure that some of those named on here genuinely fall into the national treasure category, but one that does -

Stephen Fry.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I'm a national treasure

Edit - well not me I found some treasure

Edit - down the back of the sofa

(Apols for the senior moments)

Edit - it was a thrupenny bit

Ah - that's cleared that up

 

[PeteXXX]

Barbara Windsor.
That inane forced laugh gets on my thruppnies.

 

[User169]

Monty Don
Sandi Toksvig
The two Dimbledums
Attenborough

 

[John the Monkey]

[QUOTE 4748089, member: 259"]Reasonable reaction though[/QUOTE]
No jury in the land, etc.

 

[Tim Hall]

Bagpuss.

Not done anything for years but people still bang on about him.

Yebbut, Emily loved him anyway.

 

[srw]

The Daily Telegraph ran a poll a few years ago and came up with the following as the top three national treasures in four nominated categories:

Public Life: Lady Thatcher (1st), Stephen Fry and Tony Benn.

Enterprise: Sir Richard Branson, James Dyson and Norman Foster.

Arts: Dame Judi Dench, Alan Bennett and JK Rowling.

Science: Sir David Attenborough, Sir Patrick Moore and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

If that's the definitive national treasure list (even if some of them are dead), then Thatcher, Branson, Dyson, Rowling and Moore all get on my threepenny bits. It does reveal a certain lack of imagination in the readership of the Telegraph, doesn't it? The only half-surprising names on the list are Foster and Benn.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Maggie Smith
Dame Judy Dench
Hugh Dennis

I'm already too cross to name any others.

 

[AndyRM]

The Lewis Chessmen.

 

[swee'pea99]

I'm sure Douglas Bader was a daffodil - the evidence is overwhelming - but I did hear a cracking story about him...stop me if you've heard it....

As a ranking national hero after the war he used to go around giving talks, one of which was delivered at a posh girls' school. Reciting his standard tale of derring do, he got a bit over-excited and started ranting about 'I had four of the farkers on my tail and then another three of the farkers were suddenly coming down at me out of the sun" and etc etc. At some point the mousy headmistress piped up "I'm sure you gels are aware that the Fokker was a kind of German aircraft," to which Bader growled "That's as may be, Madam, these farkers were in Messerschmits."