Who fact-checks the Watchmen?

[rhu]

OK, New Yorkers who are eagerly awaiting the Watchmen movie: what's wrong with this picture? (OK, fine, it's set in an alternate universe. Still.)

Comments

[bourbon-cowboy.livejournal.com]

The only thing that stuck out to me was the phrase "affluent Greenwich Village." But god knows *I* can't afford to live there, so when I meet someone from the Village I assume they're either doing pretty well or living like a rat with three roommates in a closet.

Of course, I'm sure things were different when the fake Senator was born, so I assume that's what you're shooting for. When I read it, I immediately thought, "alternate history." So that's my vote. Good eye, though!

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Nope, that wasn't it, but nice try.

It probably helps to have grown up in the city, or to have children there now, as opposed to moving there as an adult.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

It took me to an open folder with photos clipped to it and a table of contents.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

It should have, after a moment, opened to an article about Senator Keene.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Ohmigod! What an error! No way they should have let that go through.

What picture?

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, I don't have an LJ account, but I don't see any picture. I do, however, see the words "this picture" as a link to a New Frontiersman article entitled "Senator Keene Acts". Is he in the movie?

-pd

Re: What picture?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

"This picture" is intended to be a link, with "this" referring to the thing the link points to, which is a .jpg of an article; a .jpg is a picture. Geez.

There's a factual impossibility in the article's text.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Hunter College High School was an all girl school when I was living there.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah!

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

I just looked it up and it went coed in the 1970's. Gee, I coulda sworn it was a lot later than that.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I think we just learned some previously unrelated backstory about the former Ms Keene. :-)

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Well, the guy was born in 1930 and at was Hunter College High School at age 12, and Wikipedia tells me that school was girls-only and didn't go co-ed until 1974. (I thought maybe it was that HCHS didn't open until the 70s or something, so if I hadn't fact-checked my answer I would've been wrong ....)

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

And, by a matter of mere seconds, we have a second winner!

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

And, yes, this makes me a proud member of the HCHS Alumnae Association. :-)

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Looks like a lawsuit made it go co-ed in 1974 - could that have happened sooner due to the activity of costumed vigilantes starting in the 1930s?

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Or maybe he's mad at the costumed vigilantes because they somehow turned him from a girl/woman into a boy/man somewhere along the way? :>

[sethg]

It was with this enormous public support that Senator Keene tabled the Keene Act;...

That sentence uses "to table" in the British rather than the American sense. But I don't know what that has to do with New York.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that irked me too, but Moore's British, isn't he?

[introverte.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Also "whilst" earlier; I imagine the Political Gazette is a British magazine.

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Ahem. You have also missed that New York's senators are Class 1 and Class 3, and that therefore New York would not have elected a senator in 1972.

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Perhaps his predecessor resigned following a scandal involving sexual impropriety with a costumed hero, and there was a special election.

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and who takes seven years to get a degree at Yale?

[bourbon-cowboy.livejournal.com]

I believe the episode where New York's senators were moved from Class 1 and Class 3 to Class 2 ad Class 4 was covered in an extremely dull issue of "What If?"

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

Ha! :)

[selinker.livejournal.com]

Dude! Elseworlds!

(I now retire to my Fortress of Geekitude.)

[tinhorn2.livejournal.com]

In a world where there are 51 stars on the US flag, the Hunter College High School thing seems like small potatoes.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Frankly, in a world where an omnipotent blue guy is walking around, the 51 stars thing seems like small potatoes to me.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention his big blue wang.

[jeffurrynpl.livejournal.com]

Wang wasn't around until 1951.

[cramerica.livejournal.com]

I thought he looked a little haggard for 47, but who knows what he's been through?

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

How about "the writing is so atrocious and full of typos that no editor would have let it go through"? "Keene was born 1930", "the seat of New York"...

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's the New Frontiersman. What do you expect?