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garrick92
64842.  Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:33 am Reply with quote

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.

 
MatC
64845.  Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:41 am Reply with quote

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?)

 
garrick92
64847.  Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:45 am Reply with quote

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.

 
MatC
64849.  Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:46 am Reply with quote

Let’s see if we can start a rumour that Chaplin didn’t appear in the Dictator - it was his double ...

 
garrick92
64850.  Tue Apr 11, 2006 8:48 am Reply with quote

<head implodes>

 
MatC
70972.  Mon May 22, 2006 6:51 am Reply with quote

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.

 
MatC
70973.  Mon May 22, 2006 6:54 am Reply with quote

“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

 
MatC
70975.  Mon May 22, 2006 6:58 am Reply with quote

“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

 
MatC
72978.  Tue Jun 06, 2006 9:29 am Reply with quote

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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