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== [[Fridge Horror]] ==
* A ''[[Cracked.com]]'' Photoplasty contest created [http://i-beta.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/1/0/3/57103.jpg?v=1 this]{{Dead link}} for (of all things) ''[[Mary Poppins]]''. Michael is just the right age and living in the right time... to be a soldier in World War I.
** Is he? The movie is set in 1910, and [[wikipedia:Recruitment to the British Army during the First World War#Conscription.2C 1916-18|conscription in Britain during WWI]] applied to men aged 18–41 and was in effect through 1918; If Michael Banks was eight (the age of the actor at the time of filming), he would have either been recruited at the very end of the war or narrowly missed it all together.
*** Boys under the conscription age frequently attempted to join the war. Many succeeded. Worse still, when generals started to realise the dire situation for Britain, they started illegally ''allowing'' it.
*** Even in real life the actor who played him died at 21 (of hepatitis).
** A more plausible theory would that be of Mary herself serving as a nurse during the Great War.
* What happened to all those people and talking animals in the chalk-drawing world when the rain came?
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