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    Top 50 National Treasures

    Source: Daily Mirror Daily Mirror

    Top 50 National Treasures

    Britain's greatest national treasure was yesterday officially revealed to be...William Shakespeare.

    2.Buckingham Palace
    3.Fish and Chips
    4.Big Ben
    5.Red phone boxes
    6.Cup of tea
    7.The Beatles
    8.Bus
    9.The Queen
    10.Stonehenge
    11.Tower Bridge
    12.Charles Dickens
    13.Black cabs
    14.Cadbury chocolate
    15.Michael Caine
    16.Wimbledon
    17.Pubs
    18.Westminster Abbey
    19.St Paul's Cathedral
    20.Roast beef dinner
    21.Winston Churchill
    22.Cream tea
    23.Mini
    24.Strawberries & cream
    25.Edinburgh Castle
    26.Cricket
    27.Glastonbury Festival
    28.Oxford and Cambridge boat race
    29.Harrods
    30.The Royal Family
    31.Marks & Spencer
    32.Ant and Dec
    33.Coronation Street
    34.Rolls-Royce
    35.The NHS
    36.Bangers and mash
    37.David Attenborough
    38.The Grand National
    39.Great Ormond Street Hospital
    40.Royal Ascot
    41.Judi Dench
    42.Hampton Court
    43.Lord's Cricket ground
    44.Anthony Hopkins
    45.Stephen Fry
    46.Wembley Stadium
    47.Fry-ups
    48.JK Rowling
    49.Bentley
    50.Concorde

    Stephen Fry, a national treasure? I would of swapped him for Barbara Windsor.
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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    32 Ant 'n' Dec

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    Just shows what a POS rag the Mirror is.

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    32 Ant 'n' Dec

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Seconded. I think it's a sad comment on the human condition that they beat SF.
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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    'F' me backwards with a paralysed ferret - where am I and Clive, and Nick, Barney, Will.
    Huh! the politicians are right, never believe polls
    Hells pensioner - born to be mild
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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Daily Mail!!!

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    I feel the need to get a few new images of Nr 50 in its run pen some time soon.

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    I would have missed out number nine, Mrs ersatz Windsor, and indeed the whole of number 30.
    I would also have missed off the final 'e' of number 50. Isn't the version with an 'e' sort of frogish?

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    I would have missed out number nine, Mrs ersatz Windsor, and indeed the whole of number 30.
    I would also have missed off the final 'e' of number 50. Isn't the version with an 'e' sort of frogish?
    Yes and no, nr 50 with the 'e' is probably the best looking of the 50, and the only one I can lay hands on that isn't unhealthy, the cup of tea excepted..

    I could happily live without 8, 27 and 46 thanks.

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    At least we don't have to pay for Glastonbury Festival unless we want to.

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    Thank G*D I'm out of it!

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    Concorde????? Something we did with France is hardly a national treasure

    I could swap many of the above with the following:

    Tower of london
    Bedruthen Steps
    Molly Sugden
    James Herbert
    Ford cortina
    Wembley
    Pie Mash and Likka
    Blackpool Tower
    The Black swan
    Every castle in the UK!

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    I would have put fish and chips as the undisputed no.1 meself!

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    What fkwit chooses Shakespeare over fish & chips? Not even a Daily Wail reader would do that...


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    32 Ant 'n' Dec

    FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    What I thought!!!

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    I would have put fish and chips as the undisputed no.1 meself!

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    I would have put fish and chips as the undisputed no.1 meself!

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    I would have put fish and chips as the undisputed no.1 meself!

    BigWill
    A nation that puts vinegar on their chips ... yuk, yuk, yuk.
    The vinegar is essential, the best bit

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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    10. Stonehenge

    I live within spitting distance and see it every day - I would classify it as a national disgrace!

    27. Glastonbury Festival

    The fact that The Proms, regarded by many including many non-british people as the greatest music festival in the world, do not even feature is also disgraceful - (Oh, and I exclude the 'Last Night' which I never bother with).
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    Re: Top 50 National Treasures

    Nowhere have I seen the Great British Pint!
    A pint of real ale brewed in the proper way and kept in proper wood.
    Full of nail clippings and dead flies with a head you could lay bricks with (non of the suthern flat lagery pee coloured foreign stuff )

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