25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Nov 28th 2005, 9:24 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
16 MARK BURNETT, president of Mark Burnett Productions, age 45
The billionaire British-born Burnett has America by the eyeballs. The king of reality TV, his hits shows, including Survivor and The Apprentice, regularly pull in audiences of 20m. ... He arrived in America in 1983 with no work permit and took a series of jobs including nanny and chauffeur...
So...how did he get to stay we wonder?
The billionaire British-born Burnett has America by the eyeballs. The king of reality TV, his hits shows, including Survivor and The Apprentice, regularly pull in audiences of 20m. ... He arrived in America in 1983 with no work permit and took a series of jobs including nanny and chauffeur...
So...how did he get to stay we wonder?
Nov 28th 2005, 9:30 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Nice to see your sense of humour's still intact though.
Nov 28th 2005, 10:28 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by BritGuyTN
He heads up Gaylord
I have to admit, I often have a chuckle as I drive past the Gaylord Entertainment Center (GEC)
I have to admit, I often have a chuckle as I drive past the Gaylord Entertainment Center (GEC)
Nov 28th 2005, 11:40 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by Jabba1
So what if he does head up Gaylord Entertainment? I'm afraid I still can't quite see the humor there.
The name Gaylord is vaguely amusing (at least according to Meet the Fockers), and it's either funny or odd that Tennessee would vote for a Brit as Tennessean of the Year.
He's not your dad, is he?
Nov 28th 2005, 11:46 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by Partystar
You've gotta laugh, otherwise you'll cry!
Nov 29th 2005, 12:09 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by cutina
my gran used to say 'if you don't laugh, you die'. I was never sure if that was a misquote or a threat!
Nov 29th 2005, 12:25 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by izibear
Married a USC? Immi laws today, are pretty stringent to what even I encountered in 1997 when I moved here. I think that it was 1996 that they changed the law regarding SSN. Up till then, you'd land with a B1/B2, walk into the local SSA office and get yourself a number pronto, no problemo, just as an instance.
Interestingly he's now going out with that touched by an angel woman, Roma Downey.
Nov 29th 2005, 3:46 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by cutina
my gran used to say 'if you don't laugh, you die'. I was never sure if that was a misquote or a threat!
Nov 29th 2005, 8:56 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Huhh. Only one woman in the Top 25.... 
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Nov 29th 2005, 12:18 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by Angry White Pyjamas
Is it his birthday? Are you the male strip-o-gram then?
God I hope not, for his sake.
Nov 29th 2005, 12:29 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Wow! Jabba, you're a bundle of laughs today!
The name Gaylord is vaguely amusing (at least according to Meet the Fockers), and it's either funny or odd that Tennessee would vote for a Brit as Tennessean of the Year.
The name Gaylord is vaguely amusing (at least according to Meet the Fockers), and it's either funny or odd that Tennessee would vote for a Brit as Tennessean of the Year.
I made the list at No. 9,423 this time !
Nov 29th 2005, 12:30 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by cutina
my gran used to say 'if you don't laugh, you die'. I was never sure if that was a misquote or a threat!
Nov 29th 2005, 4:38 pm
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by TN-Dave
Does this mean next year I might get voted for as British Tennessean of the year ?????????
I made the list at No. 9,423 this time !
I made the list at No. 9,423 this time !
It'll probably help your campaign if you change your Location first though
Nov 30th 2005, 3:26 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Wow! Jabba, you're a bundle of laughs today!
The name Gaylord is vaguely amusing (at least according to Meet the Fockers), and it's either funny or odd that Tennessee would vote for a Brit as Tennessean of the Year.
He's not your dad, is he?
The name Gaylord is vaguely amusing (at least according to Meet the Fockers), and it's either funny or odd that Tennessee would vote for a Brit as Tennessean of the Year.
He's not your dad, is he?
Nov 30th 2005, 3:45 am
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Re: 25 Most Influential Brit Expats
Originally Posted by Jabba1
Ha! No, my father passed away 16 years ago. I'll have to take your word that it's funny.
if it hasn't then I'm completely flummoxed as to why you don't find the fact that a huge corporate entity is called Gaylord is funny
maybe I just have the sense of humour of a 6 year old