Sherlock Holmes Existed, but Winston Churchill is a Fictional Character
I usually don’t take the polls as gospel, but in this case the results are rather funny. The UKTv Gold commissioned a study that tested the nation on its historical knowledge. The 3000 polled people reserved several surprises. The 58 percent of Britons believes that Sherlock Holmes really existed, the 51 percent swears to Robin Hood, the 47 percent to Eleanor Rigby ( How about Father McKenzie?). For the 47 percent of the sample Richard the Lionheart is only a myth, for the 23 percent Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale are fictional characters. No one wanted to answer the question: “Who is Snow White?”. It’s always better to keep the mouth shut about the pushers.
Dutch Public TV Shows Deep Throat
A lot of Dutch people will be glued to the TV on 23 February. The public television will beam Deep Throat, the most famous pornographic movie of all time. The manifesto of oral sex, realised in 1972, will be the pièce de résistance of the programme Sex and Drugs. In the liberal Netherlands Deep Throat is considered a landmark of the big screen and, in a way, this film is really a milestone for the big impact had on the society. I suggest you to see Inside Deep Throat, a very interesting documentary that reveals what went on behind the scenes and describes how the porn came in within the American intelligentsia and the star system. It also digs in the mafia business that gravitated around the film. So, Deep Throat is much more than a simple skin-flick but, sincerely, I don’t believe it’s right to broadcast it on a public channel, where a kid can also see it. Then, to tell you the truth: free drugs, free prostitution, free porn movies on TV..what zest is there to live in the Netherlands?
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