digital decay smoking drinking and fat
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The Wall is a little embarrassing for the staff at the charitable trust, because the photograph features on a giant poster hanging above the museum’s main door are political correct digit decay bull-waddle untruth.
So just who did pinch the great man’s Havana Cigar?
It wasn’t the anti-smoking lobby, which has had no known contact with the museum; it certainly wasn’t Churchill’s family - his grandson Nicholas Soames said ‘it doesn’t matter one way or the other’ and it wasn’t the museum itself (policy) - in fact they have wartime posters advertising cigarettes on the walls.
But intriguingly the museum, which gives all profits to charity, declined to name who put together the display and, crucially, who enlarged the image for the poster.
Museum manager John Welsh was astonished to be told the image was missing one vital ingredient.
‘The cigar is part of what makes Churchill an iconic figure and of course it was very much part of his image as war leader - it went hand in hand with his victory salute and the uniforms he wore.
‘What’s politically correct for 2010 was not politically correct for 1940.’
Churchill is not the first figure to fall foul of such meddling.
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Winston drank whiskey before breakfast, smoked, he was fat, yet he lived till 90 doing all the things that kill most of the rest of us! Stress. He worked longer and harder than most and suffered real defeats and disgraces. This can’t be denied any more than the cigar can be taken out of the picture – unless of course we only google and none of us notice what some well-intended computer clerk can do without check or balance. I doubt they’ll ever know who did it and she’s not admitting a thing and I’m not going there. In IBM we use to call them “duck bites” and bravado notwithstanding i’ve seen friends killed by a thousand bites.
