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	Churchill a Myth?

Kelika

2-3-2008 10:38 PM

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2-4-2008 12:25 AM

ratilfar

Damn!

2-4-2008 5:07 AM

carrerinyes

Sherlock & my dear Watson...fake?

2-4-2008 1:26 PM

Antara

But yet many think Jesus is real!!!

What a world, lol.

2-4-2008 2:17 PM

willhelm

Are you telling us you just learned something new, antara, or do you just find pleasure in applying your ignorance to the hurtful cause of Christian bashing. Either way more profound ignorance.

2-4-2008 3:00 PM

dulios

Truly painful. I shudder to think what a similiar poll of Americans would look like!

2-5-2008 2:07 AM

Brimstone

USA:
President Bush (both snr&jnr): MYTH
Easterbunny: REAL
Santa Claus: REAL
Geronimo: MYTH
Canada: MYTH
Mexico: MYTH( a land of legend, where everything is legal)

2-5-2008 3:40 AM

CoviwinklesNo1Fan

Holmes...Fake? Never!

Gotta luvv the british!

2-5-2008 4:37 AM

mickfinn

In defence of my countrymen in general, I can only repeat my comment made in response to an earlier clip on this subject:

The 3,000 UKTV viewers in the survey also probably don't read books without pictures or watch any film or TV programme in which the dialogue contains words of more than one syllable. They probably complain about the lack of actual news in their tabloid paper and about immigrants not speaking English whilst colonising towns and villages elsewhere yet steadfastly refusing to learn the local language; and probably don’t vote in any election because they can’t find their way to the polling station.

2-6-2008 9:37 PM

Kelika

Mickfinn - Sadly, your statement could also fit some of my countrymen. On the plus side, we can both rejoice at the growing number of informed Clippers out there.

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Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think <SPAN id="lw_1202084620_0" class="yshortcuts">Winston Churchill</SPAN> was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat"><P>The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century <SPAN id="lw_1202084620_1" class="yshortcuts">English king Richard the Lionheart</SPAN> was a myth.</p> <P>
And 23 percent thought <SPAN id="lw_1202084620_2" class="yshortcuts">World War II</SPAN> prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought <SPAN id="lw_1202084620_3" class="yshortcuts">Crimean War nurse</SPAN> <SPAN id="lw_1202084620_4" class="yshortcuts">Florence Nightingale</SPAN> did not actually exist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat"><P>
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