The results of the Marcuse / Mark Hughes poll are in.
Sparked by an unlikely pun on their two names by @MetalVicar, the vital question was - who has heard of these people? And in a poll with all the accuracy of a Daily Express house price survey, we have the shocking results.
Mark Hughes - 47-year-old Wales International and Football manager with the nickname "Sparky" - is known by 49% of people.
The name of Herbert Marcuse - 113-year-old German Jewish left-wing philosopher (well, he would be if he were still alive) - is known by 40% of people.
The overlap between these two figures is that the frankly underwhelming percentage of 25% of respondents knew of both. Which means that one in 4 of the Twittersphere and other people would get a joke based on whether a German Jewish philosopher was being lined up as the new manager of Birmingham City. I think. It's so long ago, I can't even remember the football club now.
36% had heard of neither person. I'm guessing they were people uninterested in left-wing philosophy and Manchester United.
I've no idea whether Mark Hughes every met Marcuse. I'm guessing the answer is "no", as Sparky was a 16-year-old wannabe footballer when the philosophy guy died. What a shame.
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