QUOTE(carbuncle @ Sun 3rd January 2010, 12:49pm)
Mods: Is it possible to split this into separate threads? To my surprise there seems to be a serious discussion about WP's "mascot" going on here, and I'm worried that it will get lost in the discussion of Jimbo's marital status, sex life, etc.
I think that's a good idea. The breakoff-thread happened because the story was about an imaginary sexual liason with Wikipedia's best-loved personnification. I say
personnification rather than 'mascot', because the latter is simply an emblem of some kind. A personnification is an image which makes an abstract idea (the idealised innocent helper that every 'Wikipedian' should strive to be) into a concrete person.
In this case it turns out that the idealised innocent Wikipedian
persona is someone whom Jimbo is portrayed as having sex with, and whose designer is clearly connected with an internet scene involving their genital mutilation of such
personae. All rather apt really.
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