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| garrick92
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| 64842. Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:33 am |
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| Flash wrote: | | Charlie Chaplin (or someone) coming 3rd in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest? |
Although an inaccurate rendering, that's true and it's in 'my' wikipedia article on political decoys.
Possibly a good way into doppelgangers, as well as being a double-whammy GI question since everyone thinks it's an urban myth. |
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| MatC
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| 64845. Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:41 am |
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| Ooh yeah - if the Chaplin thing can be proved, I think it makes a brilliant double bluff question (with notes on all the other instances, which presumably are myths?) |
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| garrick92
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| 64847. Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:45 am |
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| Also intriguing that the whole premise of The Great Dictator is impersonation by a double ... but perhaps I'm suffering from drinking too much tea and am having a coinciclasm. |
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| MatC
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| 64849. Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:46 am |
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| Let’s see if we can start a rumour that Chaplin didn’t appear in the Dictator - it was his double ... |
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| garrick92
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| 64850. Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:48 am |
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| <head implodes> |
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| MatC
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| 70972. Mon May 22, 2006 6:51 am |
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| Flash wrote: | | Do doctors go on strike, then? |
“Hundreds of hospital doctors in the Indian capital New Delhi remained on strike for the fourth day yesterday in protest at a positive discrimination programme for lower-caste students.”
- Morning Star, 18 May 2006. |
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| MatC
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| 70973. Mon May 22, 2006 6:54 am |
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“Doctors in more than 100 hospitals across Poland staged a two-hour strike yesterday to demand a 30 per cent pay increase and higher government spending on the chronically cash-strapped national health-care system.”
- Morning Star, 6 May 2006 |
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| MatC
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| 70975. Mon May 22, 2006 6:58 am |
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“About 12,300 doctors across Germany walked out at public-sector hospitals yesterday, stepping up strike action for better pay and conditions.”
- Morning Star, 16 May 2006 |
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| MatC
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| 72978. Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:29 am |
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| Just for the record, as they say ... I’ve just discovered that I’ve been filing clippings on those lookalike stories (Chaplin, etc) in two separate places, so I’ve got some more stuff on the topic, should it ever turn out needed. For Series L, perhaps. |
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