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Here is a parody of Rudyard Kipling's " If—", attributed to Winston Churchill:
similarly attributed here in this animated short by Hanna Rybak:
but which doesn't appear in Wikiquote:
Churchill was a fan of Kipling and had a good sense of humor, so such a parody from him wouldn't surprise me, but the tone doesn't sound right for Churchill and "sexual orientation" in the penultimate line sounds anachronistic. Who wrote this parody, and how did it become misattributed? -- ToE 14:28, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
I asked this on the talk page of Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands last year but it seems no one really watches that article, so I'll ask here: Did this colony exist? In the act creating British Columbia in 1853, it states the colony "shall include Queen Charlotte's Island". That not only contradicts the article saying the colony existed until 1863, but also, there's the general fact that this is the only official mention of any kind of colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida Gwaii that I can find. Which makes me wonder if this article is, not a hoax, but an incorrect synthesis of info. -- Golbez ( talk) 22:26, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
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Here is a parody of Rudyard Kipling's " If—", attributed to Winston Churchill:
similarly attributed here in this animated short by Hanna Rybak:
but which doesn't appear in Wikiquote:
Churchill was a fan of Kipling and had a good sense of humor, so such a parody from him wouldn't surprise me, but the tone doesn't sound right for Churchill and "sexual orientation" in the penultimate line sounds anachronistic. Who wrote this parody, and how did it become misattributed? -- ToE 14:28, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
I asked this on the talk page of Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands last year but it seems no one really watches that article, so I'll ask here: Did this colony exist? In the act creating British Columbia in 1853, it states the colony "shall include Queen Charlotte's Island". That not only contradicts the article saying the colony existed until 1863, but also, there's the general fact that this is the only official mention of any kind of colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands/Haida Gwaii that I can find. Which makes me wonder if this article is, not a hoax, but an incorrect synthesis of info. -- Golbez ( talk) 22:26, 17 October 2020 (UTC)