Out-of-Character is Serious Business: Difference between revisions

* A soldier from the [[Second World War]] managed to invoke this trope unintentionally; he was well known for having a very poor grasp of punctuation, and once joked with his wife that if he ever sent her a perfectly punctuated letter, she should underline the first word of every sentence and it would reveal a coded message. when he was captured by the Nazis and put into a labour camp, he remembered the joke, and sent his wife a coded message hidden inside a well punctuated one. It worked, and his wife, with the help of the British government, managed to smuggle various items to him which he used to escape the camp.

* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vyr1TylTE 1985]: the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) had gotten congress to pay attention to their concerns over music and wanted to produce a parental warning system on all music albums. Dee Snider of [[Twisted Sister]] was among the musicians who testified against censorship and the proposed warning system. What made Snider unusual was he didn’t have has usual make-up on - and it meant business. He had his sleeve-less shirt along with denim vest and jeans, but no makeup. He also gave a [[Real Men Wear Pink|straightforward speech]], which including his Christian upbringing, having a family of his own, and his straight-edge lifestyle.

 

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