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Morrissey voted the Greatest Mancunian in Manchester Evening News poll
posted by davidt on Monday November 04 2002, @10:00AM

 Jason Farrow writes:

Moz wins the Manchester Evening News Greatest Mancunian poll with a massive 51% of the votes! (now up to 59%)

(Second place went to Alan Turing, inventor of the modern computer, with 7%.)

Morrissey is greatest Mancunian - Nov. 2, 2002. Excerpt:

IT'S Morrissey by a mile! Manchester turned to its musical roots to elect the greatest of all its citizens - and what a landslide it was.---

 
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    Hopefully a record (Score:0)
    company or two takes notice.
    Johnny Marr -- Monday November 04 2002, @10:04AM (#47574)
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     There is no such thing in life as normal.
      Manchester Evening News (Score:2, Interesting)
      This is indeed a wonderful, albeit shocking result. But I'm wondering who the target audience for the Manchester Evening News is. For Morrissey to have 59% of the over-all vote leads me to believe that its audience is somewhat alienated, witty and depressed with a rather fay take on the world. I could be wrong.

      Manchester, please tell me whether or not this is anything to get truly excited over.
      haze <gallondrunk@hotmail.com> -- Monday November 04 2002, @11:27AM (#47590)
      (User #1115 Info)
       I don't want to die before I learn how to live...
      Sorted. (Score:1)
      The result.
      Furby -- Monday November 04 2002, @01:06PM (#47619)
      (User #4754 Info)
       in the silence you don't know,you must go on,I can't go on,I'll go on.
        phew (Score:1)
        Damn right too.
        Spineless Swine <kingbeer@morrissey.zzn.com> -- Monday November 04 2002, @02:15PM (#47630)
        (User #4968 Info)
         Leave your future behind you.
        • Re:phew by naturallyfled (Score:1) Monday November 04 2002, @04:19PM
          • Re:phew by naturallyfled (Score:1) Monday November 04 2002, @04:21PM
          Anybody believes the results ? (Score:2, Funny)
          I read there were some users of this site were connecting to the mancunian site all day to vote for Morrissey.

          God knows I love the guy but I really think a few Moz Fans went berzerck. Sorry.
          BuggerFace -- Monday November 04 2002, @03:59PM (#47644)
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          In his own words (Score:1)
          The Greatest Mancunian that never lived.
          English Martyr -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @02:57AM (#47676)
          (User #655 Info | http://website.lineone.net/~smilingontim/timstwin.htm )
            Boris Gardner voted greatest man to play new Q (Score:1, Funny)

            Jason Farrow's Faucet plights:

            Craig's Charles Hawtrey Mr T-Shirt wins the Captain Koresh's Mandolin Evening News Greatest Mansun b-sides Compo-lation poll with a massive 511% of the Clapham Grand Mufti! (now up to 519%)

            (Second place went to Alan Sugary Tea, inventor of the modern xylophone-unlocking pencil, with 117%.)

            Jack's Lemmon Meringue is greatest meringue in West Sussex - Nov. 2, 2002. Except Bill Bry's son:

            IT'S Emo Phillips by a mile! Peacehaven turned to its musical One-Michael Mann-Band to elect the greatest of all its Gazelle guzzlers - and what a slide made from croutons it was.
            Print version from the Manchester Evening Pewter Newt Round-up - Nov. 2 2002 (112KB scan) provided by Cliche Guevara.
            ---
            Anonymous -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @03:06AM (#47677)
              It was rigged but ... (Score:1)
              shall we keep it to ourselves? It's still nice to see some of the egotists coming nowhere near our Moz on the list. The poll does prove who has the most loyal and obsessive fans.
              English Martyr -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @03:07AM (#47678)
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              "rest assured..." (Score:0)
              "rest assured the technology was in place to allow only one vote per computer", yeah right, it really worked.........ahem!
              mozzerian <tri935@aol.com> -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @06:08AM (#47712)
              (User #3157 Info)
              the results say nothing (Score:0)
              so how tall is he then, in the end ?
              Anonymous -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @06:55AM (#47720)
                is this news?? (Score:1)
                i dont think it is cause we already knew he was the greatest mancunian or something~
                Frankly Vulgar -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @07:48AM (#47727)
                (User #1967 Info)
                 "You can tell, by the way, i sleep all day"
                  pointless poll (Score:0)
                  it might as well have been named the 'which Mancunian has the greatest internet presence' poll!

                  john steed, england
                  Anonymous -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @08:59AM (#47736)
                    now how about a road named after him or even...... (Score:0)
                    a statue?
                    On grounds of taste I think it's too early to do either of these.
                    Anonymous -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @09:13AM (#47738)
                      Well, I'm proud! (Score:1)
                      Congratulations, Morrissey! Well deserved, indeed.
                      hand in glove -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @09:22AM (#47741)
                      (User #827 Info)
                       Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. - William Blake
                        sorry but... (Score:1)
                        correct me if I'm wrong here (please) - Turing has more to do with AI than anything else in fact. True, he collaborated with some early projects like the Colossus, but Babbage (and Ada Byron) are credited as the creators of the idea of a computer and as far as the modern computer is concerned, well, we would have a problem even finding which was the first modern computer ever produced.
                        Now about the poll, I believe it is very hard to find the greatest personality in Manchester - I wonder what Tony Wilson would say about it :)
                        Havfine -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @09:58AM (#47743)
                        (User #284 Info)
                         "Have you forgotten how to love yourself?" Red House Painters
                          Congratulations Morrissey... (Score:1)
                          You deserve this more than anybody in that list. Don't bother reading the negative messages from this lunatics who seem to not have anything better to do than to anylyze whether people voted for you more than once.

                          I wish you all the best!
                          I Love Gary -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @10:27AM (#47747)
                          (User #7111 Info)
                          Best thing about this (Score:1)
                          Is that Manchester is a massive city and everyone in Manchester will read this. The NME poll putting The Smiths as the most influential band ever will have been read by far fewer people than the Manchester Evening News.
                          paulybob <draize1@hotmail.com> -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @10:53AM (#47751)
                          (User #2426 Info)
                            Sorry Moz (Score:0)
                            Soz Moz, but Ian Curtis pisses all over you matey. So does Mark E. Smith.
                            Anonymous -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @11:07AM (#47754)
                            Greatest Manchester Dude (Score:1)
                            Woah! 59% voted for Mozz! I meAN YEAH HES LIKE THE GREATEST BUT i thought his music was like for the lost n stuff. Cool
                            WilliamMozzChick <chumpny@yahoo.com> -- Tuesday November 05 2002, @06:54PM (#47799)
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                             There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
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