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Thank you! I love the nursery rhyme (although it was for Bingley). Am new in this sort of communication. Don't know how exactly to proceed. Subscribed mostly with the wish to learn more about the English language. Whether I myself can contribute to the conversations, am not too sure...
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re: your contributions but it's the most innocent of questions that get the quirkiest threads started! 
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>>. Hollywood is the history book of US for the rest of the world, unfortunately.<<
Ohmigawd, say it ain't so!! Though I'm "a-feard" it's the
same thing here. Reminds me of a Star Trek: Next Generation episode, where they happened upon a nightmarish
nightclub that had been set up for a crash survivor, that
was based wholly on the third-rate novel he'd had aboard
his ship. Drove him insane.
Thanks for explaining your name: cool!
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Jackie, manis, why should the US be immune? Hollywood garbles everybody else's culture and history.
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>>Jackie, manis, why should the US be immune? Hollywood garbles everybody else's culture and history.<<  Very true! Ever notice, especially in those about the Old West, or frontier days, for ex., how cleaneverybody's clothes and fingernails are, and how white and even their teeth are? To say nothing of war movies, or the ones that have cave-dwelling humans fleeing dinosaurs!
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>>Hollywood garbles everybody else's culture and history<< Hollywood is not the only culprit - film makers in New Zealand have been accused of similar misrepresentation with regard to the Maori culture, as have British film makers in other respects. I'm sure most other countries where films are made are guilty in some way. Like newspapers, which sell on sensationalism, the film industry seems to thrive on people's craving for the dramatic, regardless of the facts! p.s. Bingley, please elucidate "manis". I have found many definitions, none of which seem to be appropriate to your post. Thanks.
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And they apparently used to shave daily too -- the only people with beards seem to be in comedy roles. I'm also fascinated by the fact that the men, in particular, never seem to roll their sleeves up!
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Underwear in Westerns seems to be long johns, so perhaps they thought rolling up two layers just wasn't worth it.
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>>Hollywood garbles everybody else's culture and history.<<
Isn't history by its very nature garbled? I remember some line about history only being written by winners.
...and if you take that to its extreme, history might be considered as extremely successful propaganda. Look at Richard the Lionheart versus King John.
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I was most impressed when visiting Battle Abbey last year. The Battle of Hastings took place in Battle on the only date known by most British children. (Clue - it's not 1492)(Also the most popular number used as an alarm code in British libraries - I'm posting that so they change it!)
The particularly good thing about the interpetation of the site was that it presented the events leading up to the battle from two points of view along two opposite sides of a series of rooms. As the site is so close to France and must have lots of visitors from France I thought it was very interesting and something I would like to see more often.
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