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Subject: Re: Once again Reuters buries the lead
Date: 14 Aug 2006 17:51:57 -0700
From: jmsatb5@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Kurt Ullman wrote:
> NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify
> two of Show White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two
> Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on
> Monday.
>
> Respondents were far more familiar with the Three Stooges -- Larry,
> Curly and Moe -- than the three branches of the U.S. government --
> judicial, executive and legislative. Seventy-four percent identified the
> former, 42 percent the latter.
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060814/en_nm/life_poll_dc_3
Clearly the supreme court needs to be a lot funnier.
jms