# Will The REAL Dennis Stand Up (Dennis The Menace)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 23, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-dennis-stand-up-dennis-the-menace/586576 "2011-06-23T17:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-dennis-stand-up-dennis-the-menace/586576/41 "2011-07-09T05:03:31Z")

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Just found out about the British one sometime in the last two months, but I still had to vote “Yes”. Doesn’t seem fair, somehow…

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-dennis-stand-up-dennis-the-menace/586576/42 "2011-07-09T12:12:03Z")

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Decades ago, when we used to spend the summers in Ireland, I know I read Beano comics, so I MUST have seen the British Dennis the Menace… but I have no memory of him. Strange. I DO remember “The Belles of St. Lemons,” “Roger the Dodger,” “Minnie the Minx,” and “The Bash Street Kids,” but Dennis made no impression.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-dennis-stand-up-dennis-the-menace/586576/43 "2011-07-09T12:57:47Z")

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As a Brit, I did know about the American Dennis until I had lived in America for some time, and for a while I was confused as to whether one was somehow meant to be a “version” of the other.

The British Dennis is much more menacing. He is a thug and deliberate troublemaker. The American Dennis, so far as I can tell (I can’t say I have gone into the matter deeply), is basically well intentioned, and only causes trouble inadvertently (although he does cause a lot of it).

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**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-the-real-dennis-stand-up-dennis-the-menace/586576/44 "2011-07-09T18:19:06Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> I learned about the UK one about a year ago. I think in a Cracked article.

+1

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