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** In Sweden and France, it's usually the mailman.
** In Spain one used to say "es hijo del butanero" (he is the son of the butane man) when a child did have very little resemblance to his father, implying the mother had been unfaithful with the bottled gas deliveryman.
** In any case, women aren't sitting at home all day anymore. They're in the outside workforce. Much of the adultery therefore ends up between colleagues, making the bit about a child unexpectedly "looking like the mailman" a bit of a dead horse trope.
* The image of a [[Starving Artist]] living in a garret apartment dates from a time when the top floor of a building was the most inconvenient to access and thus rented out for the lowest price. Thanks to elevators, landlords can now rent out lofts for a hefty markup relative to the rest of the building, and Starving Artists had best starve somewhere lower down.
** If you smear some [[Big Applesauce]] on this trope, it comes back to life with some [[Truth in Television]] on its side. Buildings of five floors or less in NYC do not have to have elevators. Guess who lives in fifth floor walk-ups in certain neighborhoods.
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