Hattie Jacques, who played matronly roles in a bunch of “Carry On” movies, got the nickname “Hattie” when someone thought she looked like Hattie McDaniel while she was in blackface for the 1946 minstrel show “Coal Black Mammies for Dixie”.
This reads like a morality tale out of a 1950s horror comic:
It’s that “he was almost finished burying her” that adds that extra frisson of irony to the story.
Two thirds of identical twins are fraternal. That’s really nothing extraordinary, but since identical twins seem to get more attention (at least to me), you might think thru confirmation bias that that’s more common, but it’s not.
Doesn’t confirm and bias for me, I know more fraternal twins than identical. Many twins are similar in appearance but not actually identical. And if one twin is born a boy and the other a girl they are definitely aren’t identical. People may be forgetting those mixed sex pairs are twins also.
I’d like to see a more detailed breakdown. Fractions for female fraternal, male fraternal, female identical, male identical, mixed fraternal.
I can’t get over how incredibly stupid that name is! Can anyone provide a summary of the show? All I’ve found online is that it was a British production from 1946. I had no idea that minstrely was still a thing at such a late date and so far from home.
Oddly, about half of the Google hits appear to have something to do with cryptocurrencies.
There are some other types of twins to consider as well.
To correct a statement above, if one twin is born with XY chromosomes and the other with XX chromosomes they definitely aren’t identical, but sometimes due to a mutation a twin will be born with X0 chromosomes and will be assigned female at birth.
Semi-identical twins are very rare, where a single egg is fertilized by two different sperm cells and then splits, so they have the same chromosomes as their mother but two different sets from their fathers. In a related type of twinning an egg cell may divide before being fertilized and then is fertilized by two different sperm.
There are more types and more will be defined as the more precise details of the mechanisms of twinning are found.
The BBC had a show called “The Black and White Minstrel Show” that ran until 1978 (!) and the BBC responded to one complaint in 1967 by suggesting that “coloured people” should “for Heaven’s sake shut up”.
The Black and White Minstrel Show ran from 1958 to 1972 on the BBC. I don’t know what form the minstrelsy took over there. But 1946 would not be surprising here or there.
In 1952 the movie Torch Song had a black face minstrel performance. In 1954 the movie White Christmas featured a minstrel show, though done without blackface.
Philadelphia’s Mummers were using blackface into the 1960s and continue to use other racist imagery to this day.
Wow. 
Thanks for posting that. Whitley’s reply reminds me of the infuriating, double-talking attempts to turn the tables that are so common today among certain… Oh, fuck it. I don’t want to derail the thread, and I think I’ve made myself clear. Really, though, it’s appalling that such a well-worded complaint was given such a callous response.
Yeah, I’ve just seen the examples you’ve cited in the Wiki entry for “minstrel show.” I dunno, I still think 1946 is a bit late to expect that kind of thing on network TV in the US.
Don’t know what new TV productions may have done so, but they probably did into the 50s. They wouldn’t have hesitated to play those movies though.
Why does this thread not appear in the mainpage of the MPSIMS forum?
In 1942, there was an episode of the (very popular) radio show “The Great Gildersleeve” that had the cast putting on a minstrel show.
Archie Bunker was in a minstrel show in the 1970s. Obviously, this was intended to make Archie look bad, but it did happen (he showed up to Gloria’s son’s birth in blackface).
I remember that episode; but what really stuck with me was the desk nurse at the hospital was gossiping on the phone with someone, and Archie pointedly pushes on the receiver to disconnect her.
Or a Coen Brothers film.
The 1967 Porsche 911 S “atmos” (non-forced induction, i.e not supercharged or turbocharged) engine made 180 horsepower with only a 2,0 litrer displacement and only a single overhead cam (SOHC)
IMHO this engine was way ahead of it’s time regardng specific out[put (hrosepower per liter)
(Just my two cents) This car was very hard to get away from a stoplight with any form of grace, though.
I can remember watching a show called “The Black and White Minstrel Show” when we lived in the UK. We were there from 1968-72, so that sort of entertainment definitely hung around for a long time.
Ok. Did something get mixed up here?
When I think of Atmos, I think of the Ford FX-Atmos.