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| CrazyGameOfPoker |
 Sun 25th April 2010, 5:14am
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Apparently all you need is 15 minutes of fame (well maybe an hour and a half)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman Her only claim to fame is winning a contest to host SNL for one episode. Article's been up for 5 or 6 years. |
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| Milton Roe |
Sun 25th April 2010, 6:39pm
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 Known alias of J. Random Troll Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Thu 28th Feb 2008, 1:03am Member No.: 5,156 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Tue 30th March 2010, 4:20am)  Damn me, that's actually a well-done and interesting article. I read it all and it was painless and informative and even entertaining. It's badly named, as it's too detailed to be a merely standard stand-alone WP:LIST article. I think should renamed to Presidents of the United States who knew a foreign language. |
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| NotARepublican55 |
Wed 28th April 2010, 9:47pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnout_Domin...dise_Soundtrack
 Mod note: Merged this post here as it's not really worthy of an individual thread - kamryn. |
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| CharlotteWebb |
Sat 9th October 2010, 6:53pm
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 Postmaster General Group: Regulars Posts: 2,740 Joined: Mon 18th Jun 2007, 2:09am Member No.: 1,727 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
Two-year-old redirect vandalism at Kim Jong-Ill, note the spelling.
The added specificity did make me lol out loud. Also I'm somewhat amazed that the edit wasn't swiftly reverted by some humorless bureauprat and that the section-redirect was still functional (the tortured ambiguity of the sub-title in question having remained untouched in the two years since it was introduced). By that I mean "waning" is to "health rumors" as "purple" is to "people eater" of course. In any case Al-Jazeera says he might be one step closer to retirement. |
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| Kelly Martin |
Wed 19th January 2011, 5:11pm
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Bring back the guttersnipes! Group: Regulars Posts: 3,270 Joined: Sun 22nd Jun 2008, 4:41am From: EN61bw Member No.: 6,696 |
Ran across Wikipedia's
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| CharlotteWebb |
Sun 13th February 2011, 9:56am
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Postmaster General Group: Regulars Posts: 2,740 Joined: Mon 18th Jun 2007, 2:09am Member No.: 1,727 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
Meet the Farquhars
Sorry but the Punnett square made me lol out loud. At least one related vandalism remains unreverted. |
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| Obesity |
Sun 13th February 2011, 3:45pm
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 I taste as good as skinny feels. Group: Regulars Posts: 737 Joined: Sat 5th Jul 2008, 8:02pm From: Gropecunt Lane Member No.: 6,909 |
QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's Alison wrote it. |
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| Alison |
Sun 13th February 2011, 6:48pm
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QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ... |
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| RMHED |
Sun 13th February 2011, 10:30pm
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Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 935 Joined: Fri 8th May 2009, 8:48pm Member No.: 11,716 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(Alison @ Sun 13th February 2011, 6:48pm) QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ... But then again, you would say that wouldn't you... |
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| Jon Awbrey |
Sun 13th February 2011, 10:45pm
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 τὰ δέ μοι παθήματα μαθήματα γέγονε Group: Moderators Posts: 6,739 Joined: Sun 6th Apr 2008, 4:52am From: Meat Puppet Nation Member No.: 5,619 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(Alison @ Sun 13th February 2011, 1:48pm) I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' … And if there's anything Wikipedia doesn't have enough of, it's gotta be odd photos. Jon  |
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| Obesity |
Tue 22nd February 2011, 6:06am
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I taste as good as skinny feels. Group: Regulars Posts: 737 Joined: Sat 5th Jul 2008, 8:02pm From: Gropecunt Lane Member No.: 6,909 |
QUOTE(Alison @ Sun 13th February 2011, 1:48pm) QUOTE(Obesity @ Sun 13th February 2011, 7:45am) QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Wed 19th January 2011, 12:11pm) Ran across Wikipedia's Alison wrote it. I think it needs to be pointed out that I never touched that article, nor is it a product I had anything to do with. I don't go near Apple articles for obvious reasons, other than to provide the odd photo. Jes' sayin' ... i am sorry for my disrespect sorry for my lies :-( |
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| Somey |
Tue 22nd February 2011, 6:36am
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 Can't actually moderate Group: Moderators Posts: 11,814 Joined: Sat 17th Jun 2006, 7:47pm From: Dreamland Member No.: 275 |
QUOTE(Obesity @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 12:06am) i am sorry for my disrespect sorry for my lies Sorry for my dialect, and my pumpkin pies... |
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| Obesity |
Thu 24th February 2011, 1:12am
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I taste as good as skinny feels. Group: Regulars Posts: 737 Joined: Sat 5th Jul 2008, 8:02pm From: Gropecunt Lane Member No.: 6,909 |
QUOTE(Somey @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 1:36am) QUOTE(Obesity @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 12:06am) i am sorry for my disrespect sorry for my lies Sorry for my dialect, and my pumpkin pies... i don't think Biggie Smalls, despite his physique, ever rapped about PUMPKIN PIES |
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| EricBarbour |
Thu 24th February 2011, 2:58am
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| Zoloft |
Thu 24th February 2011, 3:55am
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 May we all find solace in our dreams. Group: Regulars Posts: 1,332 Joined: Fri 15th Jan 2010, 11:08pm From: Erewhon Member No.: 16,621 |
Some say the spies, make the pies
Spec-tacular, make me lick it from da fork On da plate, then ya, shiverin, tongue deliverin Taste of that pumpkin, that pie is jumpkin Skip the milk and the cookies, no Oreos tonight If its alright with you, we slicin' dat pie |
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| Eva Destruction |
Sun 10th April 2011, 8:12pm
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I thought Wikipedia had lost its capacity to surprise me. I was wrong.
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| -DS- |
Sun 10th April 2011, 8:19pm
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Ethernaut Group: Contributors Posts: 163 Joined: Sun 23rd Jan 2011, 3:44pm Member No.: 39,458 |
QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 10:12pm) Where I come from, there is a word for this. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. |
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| radek |
Mon 11th April 2011, 7:09am
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QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 3:12pm) To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia. |
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| Milton Roe |
Mon 11th April 2011, 6:21pm
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Known alias of J. Random Troll Group: Regulars Posts: 10,209 Joined: Thu 28th Feb 2008, 1:03am Member No.: 5,156 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(radek @ Mon 11th April 2011, 12:09am) QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 3:12pm) To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia. Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it. Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. |
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| radek |
Tue 12th April 2011, 5:00am
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Über Member Group: Regulars Posts: 699 Joined: Sat 28th Nov 2009, 10:40pm Member No.: 15,651 WP user page - talk check - contribs |
QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Mon 11th April 2011, 1:21pm) QUOTE(radek @ Mon 11th April 2011, 12:09am) QUOTE(Eva Destruction @ Sun 10th April 2011, 3:12pm) To be fair, that's in good part a reflection on our general culture rather than being specific to Wikipedia. Ever culture has its reliquaries. The reliquary of the tooth of Mary Magdelene . The requiquary of the lock of hair of Justin Beiber. You can start to worry when either the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires Beiber's hair, or else they start building a cathedral around it. Even so, it's not THAT much more silly than Catholicism. Oh, I totally agree with that - I'm willing to bet that pretty much every culture at every point in history was more or less just as goofy as ours. It's just the fog of history and the dulling vapors of romanticism that make it seem otherwise. Seriously, when Mozart was around, how many people do you think actually listened to the guy (putting aside the fact that he's over rated). I tell you how many. Two. Everyone else was listening to some roadside tavern version of Justin Bieber (of course in those times, each village had to have its own version of JB, and some did worse than others). But that stuff never got recorded so we were spared it. Or it got passed through the generation but thanks to the passage of time it now seems quaint and "authentic" (ugh). But now we record every single damn thing. So anyway, my standard of comparison, was my somewhat idealized version of what culture we should have, rather than any kind of historical comparison. You know, I was being elitist. btw, that article was apparently created as a (very awesome and hillarious) violation of WP:POINT (bad editor! bad!), |
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