Terrapin Tables

I saw that a few days ago...was it on FARK? My favorite stat was the number of people who thought the Battle of Helms Deep really happened. Yeah, remember the time that 10,000-strong army of orcs and goblins attacked that fort built into a mountainside? Key-Ryste. Can you believe 1% of respondents thought "Battlefield Earth" was based on real events? The enslavement of mankind by evil alien cyborgs? People are stoopid.

Yeah, I'd like to see the exact questions they asked, but still, this is a bit surprising, especially that Helms Deep question. Maybe they just asked about "Helms Deep" (not mentioning LoTR) and people just figured it happened since they've heard the name.

The other is 11% of British thinking Hitler was fictional. Bah!?

If that's the case, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make a movie called "Rick is the awesomest person ever" and have it be about me saving the world from aliens. And then get those stupid Brits to worship me.

My favorite: Battle of Endor- 1%.

I'd like to know more details about how the survey was done to better understand the stats. When they say 57% thought that King Arthur was real, did all those people believe that he was the character from Le Morte d'Arthur, or did they think that he was an early Briton king who's spawned a lot of myths and legends? But other stats are more easily interpreted, and more disturbing, such as the not believing events/people from WWII.

Why would we give the people the benefit of the doubt on King Arthur when 9% of them think their most famous Prime Minisiter is a figment of someone's imagination. What is a good parallel to this in the US? Washington is fictional? Lincoln? Roosevelt? Kennedy?
None of that matters because this is the line of the article: "Robin Hood, whose story has been featured in films by directors such as Kevin Costner and Mel Brooks," Mel Brooks? as in Men in Tights? I want to know how many people think the Star Wars stuff is real.

I think these people hold Mel Brooks in high regard because of the many true events in History of the World, Part I :)

Wow. Fatboy, you have cemented the TTables Nerd of the Year vote. Despite there being 6 months left in the voting season, you locked it up. How? Having already established yourself as a science geek on par with your main NOTY rival Rick through posts on such wide-ranging topics as evolution, aviation, and other things I can't remember, your referencing of Tennyson makes you an English nerd on par with, well, me. Such diversity of geekdom must be comended. So, hop on a plane and come get your wedgie.

Actually, I was referencing Malory, not Tennyson. But it's still a literary reference, so it should still count.

Boo Malory...that's prose, which isn't nearly as nerdy as epic poetry. Perhaps the NOTY comp isn't a done deal after all...