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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Up till now, most posters have attributed some of Big_Bird's odder statements to leftist propaganda, but now the truth has been revealed:

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

Read all about it here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat

For years everyone made fun of American education. We now know British education is no better.

It's up to the Canadians to save Western Civilization.

bacasper · Joined: 26 Mar 2007

Can you prove Churchill was real? If you think you can, then what is reality? Razz

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

According to David Irving in Churchill's War an actor gave his 'We shall fight ...' speech for BBC radio.

I'm pretty sure that the actor's claim is disputed, but I've never seen Churchill in person. And he's never seen me. Yikes! Am I real? Shocked

huffdaddy · Joined: 25 Nov 2005

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:27 am Post subject:

FUNNY WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTES

When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
"A sheep in sheep's clothing"
On Clement Atlee

A modest man, who has much to be modest about
On Clement Atlee

"An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out"
On Clement Atlee

"I wish Stanley Baldwin no ill, but it would have been much better if he had never lived"
On Stanley Baldwin

"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened"
On Stanley Baldwin

"He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe"
On Neville Chamberlain

Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it"

Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"

"What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time"
On Admiral Mountbatten

Laughing

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

Okay, I'd love it just as much as anyone if the Brits were proven to be as stupid as the Americans are reputed to be. However, I really find this Churchill factoid a bit hard to swallow. Even in my decidedly non-British identified Canadian hometown, we have things named after Churchill. I'd imagine that such memorials are tenfold more plentiful in the UK, and that almost all Brits would realize that such things aren't named after fictional characters.

I wonder how the question was worded? Did they just ask "was Winston Churchill a myth", or did they ask "was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC a real person?"

Plus, no word on how exactly the respondents were chosen.

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

jetrash · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Location: the united steaks

i thort a churchill was an insurance company.
you mean they named it after someone?
Laughing

anyway,churchill constructed, very carefully, both his own mythology,and a mythical british people(many books written by him on this subject)
..so in a sense he is a mythical creature from a mythical england..both of which no longer exist.
(im english,by the way)

jetrash · Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Location: the united steaks

and he was said to have quipped(could be a myth)
"never have your woman in the morning,because some thing better might come along during the day"

stillnotking · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Location: Oregon, USA

In the same poll, 58% of respondents thought that Sherlock Holmes was a real person.

I'm always suspicious of this type of thing, though, because you can never be sure how many people were just messing with the pollsters. This applies especially to the US high-school polls that are so often bandied about as "shocking" evidence of our kids' ignorance. When I was 15, I would never have given a straight answer to most of the questions they ask.

How about you offer them $10 if they get all the answers right? Then you might get a useful poll. Otherwise the incentives all run in the wrong direction.

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

This is an accurate poll. It is too good not to be true.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Justin Hale · Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Location: the Straight Talk Express

thepeel · Joined: 08 Aug 2004

Hasn't Europe always compared the lower, uneduated classes in America to the educated, eliete in Europe as a means to padding self-image? I've spent a good deal of time in Europe and have met pound for pound as many stupid people as I have in my extensive travels in the United States.

If you want a "real" Canadian experience, head on over to rural Sask or Alberta. Or hell, Trois Rivieres in Quebec.