This is funny! And I will no longer believe, after reading this, that Britain has the smarter people.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...oryoffbeat

Article:

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.

Is there something you wanna tell me about Mary Poppins? She is real, right? I saw a movie about her.

God damn there are some thick motherfuckas out there

HamsterHuey said:

she's an alcoholic who keeps monkeys in cages, and employs a small urchin boy to do all of her ironing

This was in our Tasmanian newspaper today

jami0mckay said:

Uhmmmm.

HamsterHuey said:

World is turning American

PANDURITO said:

PANDURITO said:

The world lets itself be turned, so why care?

The problem is right there.

Fucking hell, allthough i am not sure why i should be so surprised.

PREDOMINANT said:

I will be the fuck that they all knew who Jeremy Kyle was though

mdiver said:

WHo?

PREDOMINANT said:

I dunno, Val told me about him

mdiver said:

mdiver said:

I fucking hate Jeremy Kyle...I find myself even siding with Junkie Glaswegians hoping one of them will sink the head into him.

muirdo said:

me too, although the scum he gets on the show really make me feel like my life is wonderful

PANDURITO said:

How do you figure? I doubt there are many Americans who believe that pivotal leaders in our history (like Washington or Lincoln) were mythical.

mdiver said:

I have no clue who you are talking about...yet again.

Genesia said:

Lincoln wasn't real

That beard can never be real

Genesia said:

Many Americans haven't even heard of them at ALL, much less know if they were real or mythical.

Teacher said:

Really? And whose job might it be to enlighten them, I wonder.

If kids today don't know who Washington and Lincoln are, it's because all their multi-culti teachers and administrators have had their pictures removed from the classrooms.

Genesia said:

I'm Swedish

All intelligent Americans know the rest of the world is just a myth!

NDRU said:

Fucking idiots.

But to be fair, they polled the people who watch UKTV Gold, hardly the same generalisation that watches the 6 o clock news

susannah said:

All countries have fuckwits like this, its just that in some countries there should be no excuse.

PREDOMINANT said:

I was going to laugh until I realised you were referring to our (better than others) education system, and you're right

susannah said:

you can still laugh,

PREDOMINANT said:

I was trying to be all clever!