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Snowflake
02-04-2008, 10:10 PM
Instead of forgetting the past and being doomed to repeat it.....
I found this story (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat;_ylt=AhFBDcNTxpp_ys2yg be5lwus0NUE) in the news fascinating. Of course, they did only poll 3000 people.

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.
Kevy Baby
02-04-2008, 10:55 PM
The thing you also need to remember about polls is people like me. Often times, I give completely ridiculous answers like "Churchill was a myth and Sherlock Holmes was real."
Cadaverous Pallor
02-05-2008, 08:37 AM
The thing you also need to remember about polls is people like me. Often times, I give completely ridiculous answers like "Churchill was a myth and Sherlock Holmes was real."I do hope you're kidding.
Moonliner
02-05-2008, 09:00 AM
Last time I was polled, I said the Pacific ocean was located in Denmark.




(Yes, CP. There are a lot of us out there....)
blueerica
02-05-2008, 09:12 AM
Hehehe... Kevy, that would be very much like you! :)

I'm not entirely surprised, though. The percentages are rather small, and I have such a dim view of the general public, so I expected more. Many of the real-life characters were larger than life, so it's almost understandable that some would confuse it for fact or fiction. The only "majority" that found fiction to be fact (or vice versa) was over Sherlock Holmes. I know that when I was younger, I thought he might have been a real person, whose stories were embellished into a work of fiction.
Alex
02-05-2008, 09:55 AM
Time has a way of doing that. To most people these days I suspect that Aunt Jemima and Walt Disney are equally real historical/marketing creatures/creations.
Kevy Baby
02-05-2008, 10:40 AM
I do hope you're kidding.Depends on the poll and my mood. Yes, I have done this (though it has been a while).
Cadaverous Pallor
02-05-2008, 02:05 PM
Lying on polls? Blech on all of you sinners. :p
Alex
02-05-2008, 02:09 PM
I don't lie on polls, I just never participate in them.

Therefore it is a mathematical given that the overall responses will be stupider looking than if I were involved.

I apologize for skewing things.
€uroMeinke
02-05-2008, 02:14 PM
Someone has to play the part of Standard deviation...
Alex
02-05-2008, 02:17 PM
George Santayana called, he wants everybody to promise to memorize one of his other quotes.
mousepod
02-05-2008, 02:30 PM
George Santayana called, he wants everybody to promise to memorize one of his other quotes.

How about: "Wisdom comes by disillusionment."?
lashbear
02-05-2008, 02:32 PM
Time has a way of doing that. To most people these days I suspect that Aunt Jemima and Walt Disney are equally real historical/marketing creatures/creations.
Aunt Jemima ? She wrote "Song Of The South" with Walt, didn't she ?
Alex
02-05-2008, 02:43 PM
How about: "Wisdom comes by disillusionment."?

"Fanaticism consists of doubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
sleepyjeff
02-07-2008, 03:35 PM
Jonah Goldberg tied this story in with Disney:)



http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/jonah020608.php3