Things that never happened

Trollheart · 06-20-2015, 11:38 AM

Like Bogey never said "Play it again Sam", Kirk never once said "Beam me up Scotty", the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" was never spoken in Nineteen Eighty-Four and yet these things have come to be associated with, and identified with, these movies and there are no doubt people who would say they heard them or knew they were spoken. Any other examples of what I guess you''d call factual fallacies maybe? Doesn't have to be from film or TV.

I did notice, to my surprise, recently, that in the book "Alice in Wonderland" the character is never once referred to as the Mad Hatter, only the Hatter. That was news to me.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Things that never happened Like Bogey never said "Play it again Sam", Kirk never once said "Beam me up Scotty", the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" was never spoken in Nineteen Eighty-Four and yet these things have come to be associated with, and identified with, these movies and there are no doubt people who would say they heard them or knew they were spoken. Any other examples of what I guess you''d call factual fallacies maybe? Doesn't have to be from film or TV. I did notice, to my surprise, recently, that in the book "Alice in Wonderland" the character is never once referred to as the Mad Hatter, only the Hatter. That was news to me. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018