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EricBarbour
post Mon 31st January 2011, 4:23am
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I guess this is what Wiki-dorks consider to be a "funny article".
68 kilobytes, 128 notes, about 200 references.

And Reddit is now discussing it. Or making stupid jokes about it, whatever.
Needless to say, people are coming from Reddit to vandalize the article.

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Silver seren
post Mon 31st January 2011, 5:12am
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Oh wow...this is ooooold. Reddit is behind the times, this article has been joked to death a hundred times over already.
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post Tue 1st February 2011, 6:31am
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And now, after ~24 hours of total chaos....it's been protected.

Wasting your time, Seren. It's not "encyclopedic", it's a joke.

Go delete some Power Rangers cruft instead. It's needed less.
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post Tue 1st February 2011, 1:58pm
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Are the cats in the picture really "attacking" the toilet paper? They seem to be "making mischief" more than "attacking". Poor caption.
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post Tue 1st February 2011, 5:10pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 1st February 2011, 1:58pm) *

Are the cats in the picture really "attacking" the toilet paper? They seem to be "making mischief" more than "attacking". Poor caption.



Yerse, yawn and it's all been done before - a very long time ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bishonen...et_paper_holder. Some six years ago, that was intended as a satire on some of Wikipedia's more ridiculous pages. Little changes on Wikipedia. I seem to remember some people thinking it was all fact, and others shouting and wanting to delete it.

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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 1st February 2011, 5:58am) *

Are the cats in the picture really "attacking" the toilet paper? They seem to be "making mischief" more than "attacking". Poor caption.

It's a metaphor. The toilet paper represents Wikipedia, and the cats are "vandalizing" it.
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