Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

AFP/Yahoo ^ | 2/3/08

[martin_fierro]

Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll

1 hour, 1 minute ago

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.

The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth.

And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist.

Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of Britain's most famous writers, is a work of fiction himself.

Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi and Battle of Waterloo victor the Duke of Wellington also appeared in the top 10 of people thought to be myths.

Meanwhile, 58 percent thought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Holmes actually existed; 33 percent thought the same of W. E. Johns' fictional pilot and adventurer Biggles.

UKTV Gold television surveyed 3,000 people.

[americanophile]

[xmission]

Sure... post pictures of Alfred Hitchcock... ;)

[xmission]

Thanks. I tire of only seeing “dumb American” stuff from the brit TV sources.

[WakeUpAndVote]

How many were of M.E. descent?

[eyedigress]

ping for after the game.

[Mr. Mojo]

The impending Islamic domination of Europe — no myth.

[Cicero]

The Labour Party has been dumbing down education for a long time. Now we see the results.

The British School system not too long ago was superior to America.

[coloradan]

At some point, a majority of Brits will think “Great Britain” was a myth, too.

[kalee]

I am hardly surprised. If I remember correctly they aren’t supposed to teach about him in their schools anymore.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0724/p01s02-woeu.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=467889&in_page_id=1770

[Fiddlstix]

Unbelievable!! Freakin’ Unbelievable!!

[Graybeard58]

Sure... post pictures of Alfred Hitchcock... ;)?

Alfred Hitchcock wasn't real.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Looks like our school system is not the only one that sucks. This is truly sad for the future of Democracy around the world.

[ThomasThomas]

I could she how some people today could not believe such people really existed.

[Mo1]

Seems to me .. these folks need to pick uop a history book

[martin_fierro]

10% thought "WW II" was one of these.

(naah, not really)

[texanyankee]

The way things are going in America, it wont be too far off when a quarter of Americans will think Reagan was a mythological creature......

[AnnaZ]

The best argument against democracy
is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

~Winston Churchill~

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s probably because the public schools focus on political correctness and social engineering before anything else.

[yarddog]

I had an English guy on my crew a few years ago when I was recreation director at a large Summer resort. He was a really nice guy and fine athlete but I was shocked at his lack of knowledge of British history.

I knew it better than he did. Now soccer on the other hand, he knew everything about it.

[xmission]

LOL

[Fiddlstix]

Looks like he knew what he was talking about.

[rom]

Well, I suppose it’s good to know that ours isn’t the only educational system that stinks.

[Tamar1973]

And they accuse Americans of being dumb?!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

And the most popular boy’s name is...?

[Friend_from_the_Frozen_North]

How many were of M.E. descent?

There you go; how many of them believe "There is but one God and Mohammed is his Prophet"? Most of this idiots can easily believe that nutjob who announced himself to the world as a Prophet but do not allow for the possibility that there was already one G-d and that it wasn't Allah.

There is photographic and historical evidence of the existance of Churchill but all we have for the existance of Allah is the delusional rantings of a meglomaniac bandit, murderer, and pedophile who claimed a visit from an angel while he was meditating in a cave. A significant portion of Great Britain is made up of these lunatics these days (and they've already shown their willingness to kill the innocent).

It is no wonder that the United Kingdom is has-been world power!

[vetvetdoug]

Churchill’s Mother was a US citizen....US residents would do well to know their history also.

[bilhosty]

This sounds more like, “ask a stupid question and get a stupid answer”.

[Viking2002]

It's only taken the Brits a generation to rewrite their own history, insult the noblility of Churchill and The Iron Lady, disgrace a millenium of their ancestry, and crawl up their own politically-correctness-on-steroids, gun-grabbing, heathen-Muzzie-terrorist-appeasing asses. They're been overrun by Third World rabble, forced into social and cultural servitude by dictatorial, self-important elitists, and now The Second Coming will come to pass before they rediscover what it is that makes a man into Mankind. And they have brought it upon themselves.

No, there will not always be England.

[Hacklehead]

But at least those from inferior cultures feel better about themselves.

[Ann Archy]

Brits have worse schools than here, and more hillbillies, IF YOU CAN BELIEVE IT!!

[devere]

How many think Harry Potter is real?

[Emmett McCarthy]

Hell, a lot of Americans think Britney Spears is real.

[Tatze]

How many were of M.E. descent?

I had the same thought.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Wow. Looks like Adam and Eve (and the victims of the Holocaust) aren’t alone in having their reality questioned.

[Kirkwood]

They should be ashamed to call themselves Great.
Pathetic Britain seems about right.

[RanchoStash]

Our daughter’s sophomore year college roommate was from Great Britain. One day at lunch she asked the students at the table, “How did America become a country?” When the kids finished spitting food and laughing they told her not to worry about it!

[Wilhelm Tell]

At some point, a majority of Brits will think Great Britain was a myth, too.

It might as well be a myth, sadly, the way things are going.

[Tully Pettigrew 1]

While having a not so interesting lecture from a pompous Brit who told me that Americans were very ignorant of the world he bet me that I couldn't name all SEVEN of Henry the VIII's wives. When I told him that there were only 6 and named them in order he said what could anyone expect from an ill-informed American. Curiosity getting the better of me I had to ask just who was the 7th? "Eleanor," he replied. Eleanor who, I asked. "Eleanor Tudor of course," he said.

[madison10]

Cold must have gotten to the Brit’s brains.

[Hexenhammer]

makes me feel slightly better about these kinds of tests they do to show how stupid americans are about their own history (never the fault of the government education system however).

[Old Seadog]

Regean wasn’t a myth but his presidency wasn’t real. It was just an old movie.

[DesScorp]

Is it any wonder that Britain is disappearing under an Islamic horde?

[the invisib1e hand]

tv and public education, baby.

[dighton]

Any excuse will do for an early start at drinking, and this did better than most.

[StormEye]

"It’s probably because the public schools focus on political correctness and social engineering before anything else."

Just like American schools. All they do is spout diversity nonsense, history revisionism and new math garbage.

[Fiji Hill]

Last Independence Day, radio talk show host Sean Hannity sent a reporter out onto the streets of New York to pick passersby at random and ask them what the holiday commemorated. If I remember correctly, answers included the end of the Civil War and victory in World Wars I and II, but none of the interviewees had the right answer.

[StormEye]

"There is photographic and historical evidence of the existance of Churchill..."

Not to mention his is internment place and his actual living descendents.

[Fiji Hill]

Curiosity getting the better of me I had to ask just who was the 7th [wife of Henry VIII]? "Eleanor," he replied. Eleanor who, I asked. "Eleanor Tudor of course," he said.

Your British friend must have gotten his Henrys mixed up--Henry II had a wife named Eleanor--or perhaps he confused Henry VIII with FDR.

[gusopol3]

the bow tie.. that’s Archibald Cox isn’t it?