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*** Not to mention Sci-Fi, what with the occasional incursions of groups of people in ''[[Star Trek]]'' uniforms pretending to be an Away Team. |
*** Not to mention Sci-Fi, what with the occasional incursions of groups of people in ''[[Star Trek]]'' uniforms pretending to be an Away Team. |
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**** Or the obligatory Imperial Stormtrooper in a kilt, with a sword on his hip. |
**** Or the obligatory Imperial Stormtrooper in a kilt, with a sword on his hip. |
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* Cowboy Action Shooters love this [[Trope]]. While costumers are encouraged to wear |
* Cowboy Action Shooters love this [[Trope]]. While costumers are encouraged to wear |
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appropriate costume, there is no rule forbidding (for example) a Confederate soldier from using an M1887 Winchester shotgun. Part of this is because the governing organization permits and encourages Western movies to be used as inspiration, and classic Westerns are notorious anachronism stews. |
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* During the 2008 campaign, then-Senator Joe Biden said "Now, when this country entered the Great Depression, our president, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]], went on television and spoke of how to get this country out of it." ''[[The Daily Show]]'' had a lot of fun with this, since 1) [[Herbert Hoover]], not [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] was President at the time, and 2) Television barely existed... |
* During the 2008 campaign, then-Senator Joe Biden said "Now, when this country entered the Great Depression, our president, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]], went on television and spoke of how to get this country out of it." ''[[The Daily Show]]'' had a lot of fun with this, since 1) [[Herbert Hoover]], not [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Roosevelt]] was President at the time, and 2) Television barely existed... |
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** Hoover did appear on an early television broadcast, though. (And yes, this was either while or just before he was President, not at some point before he died in 1964.) |
** Hoover did appear on an early television broadcast, though. (And yes, this was either while or just before he was President, not at some point before he died in 1964.) |
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* Great Britain still has Kings, Queens, Princesses, Dukes, Counts, Knights, and even [[The Clan|chiefs]] in a modern technological society. That is just beginning all the stuff you can find. |
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* Modern printings of Old English works gleefully use the letter 'W', which would not be created for a few hundred years; [[Tropes Are Not Bad|however]], the only other option would be to use the contemporary letter wynn ('Ƿ'), which was abandoned due to constant confusion of it and 'P'. |
* Modern printings of Old English works gleefully use the letter 'W', which would not be created for a few hundred years; [[Tropes Are Not Bad|however]], the only other option would be to use the contemporary letter wynn ('Ƿ'), which was abandoned due to constant confusion of it and 'P'. |
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* People taken in by this [[Trope]] often turn up at antiques markets or pawnshops, honestly believing that some dusty old item they found in the attic is ''much'' older (or occasionally much newer) than it actually is. |
* People taken in by this [[Trope]] often turn up at antiques markets or pawnshops, honestly believing that some dusty old item they found in the attic is ''much'' older (or occasionally much newer) than it actually is. |
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