On 04-Nov-08 16:03, nemesis wrote:
> Stephen escreveu:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> scott wrote:
>>>>> Heh. Imagine going to school and learning about "Dave's forces" or
>>>>> "Bob's law". Wouldn't be quite the same as van der Waals forces and
>>>>> Hooke's law, would it?
>>>> Hooke was English.
>>> ...really?
>>
>> As was Lord Kelvin, Napier, Stephen Hawkins (Well British)
>>
>>
>>> Heh. You learn something every day.
>>>
>>> Did you see the episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? where 3% of
>>> the audience thought that "Ludwig van Beethoven" was English? :-D (I
>>> have no idea what his nationallity actually was, but I'm fairly sure
>>> it's not a typical English name...)
>>>
>>
>> German! O_O
>>
>> They (3%) must have been confusing him with Handel who lived in 
>> England and
>> composed Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music for the Royal Fireworks 
>> there.
> 
> "Ludwig" by itself should be enough. :)

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