This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

"Buddy Holly is gay"

But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".

OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?

ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.

Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt

Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.

The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:

Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.

However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?

One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.

If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?

ROFFLE

Plus, all the slang...

Track listing

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02
2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15
3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39
4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04
5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17
6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56
7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23
8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44
9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37
10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33
11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17
12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51
13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)

it appears to have been edited again, not by me:

"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)

Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.

The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.

After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.

"Plus, all the slang..."
But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?

Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.

First go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards

Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.

Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.

Note the expression on his face.

LOL

Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia.
(...)
His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.

On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life

And in the next chapter:

"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."

Did someone misspell "promo"?

The cartoon image has been there for more than a month:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black

(Phil) Hartman met comedian Paul Reubens while working with the group and the two became friends, often writing and working on material together. One such collaboration was the character of Pee-wee Herman and the script of the feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Hartman also met Jon Lovitz while with The Groundlings. Hartman was fluent in German and a video circulated once of him doing a standup routine in the language.

Hartman worked part time as a graphic artist, including designing album covers for popular rock bands. Hartman's covers include:

* Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja
* Poco's 1978 album Legend
* Firesign Theatre's 1980 album Fighting Clowns
* Three album covers for the band America
* Crosby, Stills & Nash's logo.

holy shit

List of culinary nuts:

* Almond
* Beech
* Butternut
* Brazilnut
* Candlenut
* Cashew
* Chestnuts, including:
o Chinese Chestnut
o Malabar chestnut
o Sweet Chestnut
* Colocynth
* Cucurbita ficifolia
* Deez
* Filbert
* Hazelnut
* Hickory, including
o Pecan
o Shagbark Hickory
* Kola nut
* Macadamia
* Mamoncillo
* Maya nut
* Mongongo
* Oak acorns
* Ogbono nut
* Paradise nut
* Pili nut
* Pistachio
* Walnut

The Santa Ana winds (or Santana winds[citation needed]) are warm, dry winds that characteristically appear in Southern California weather during autumn and early winter.

accompanied by a typhoon of timbales and a low pressure system of congas

woo, deez nuts had me laughing out loud

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tenzin_Gyatso%2C_14th_Dalai_Lama&diff=prev&oldid=165424870

(Rolf) Harris has played the didgeridoo on two albums by English pop singer Kate Bush, 1982's The Dreaming and 2005's Aerial. His biggest hit, however, was a gimmick-free rendering of the sentimental song "Two Little Boys" (1969), a departure for him in that he usually recorded either his own compositions or traditional songs. Harris also created one of his most famous roles in the 1960s, Jake the Peg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exploding_chicken&oldid=153643374

concerning William Huskisson, the first person to die in a railway accident:

A curious fact about Huskisson is that some years before his death, he narrowly escaped being killed when a horse fell on him during his honeymoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Huskisson

This is part of the entry for a village called Heol-y-Cyw, a small village near where I live (Heol-y-Cyw translates as Chicken Street, by the way):

The village, and its surroundings, have approx. 600 inhabitants. One of the newest, and surely one of the most exotic of all is... a peacock.

Actually though there were peacocks at one of the nearby farms as far back as the 1970's because I sat on them.

"Also, Heol-Y-Cyw has been the subject of apparent UFO and unexplainable noises from inside it's forestry interior."

Oh yeah forgot about that bit.

Actor Marcus Graham:

Graham was going out with Nicole Kidman but he found out the relationship was not longer working when Nicole came to visit him in Melbourne with Tom Cruise after filming "The days of thunder" in the States. His flatmate told her Graham is not in when he actually was at home crying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Price

he is cool, paul carey eats dick cheese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Gerrard

Aged 14, Gerrard had trials with various clubs, including Manchester United. In his autobiography he claimed that this was "to pressure Liverpool into giving me a YTS contract." During this time he had an accident involving a rusty garden fork and could have lost his toe

Wikipedia also thought it was worthwhile putting in a redirect from "Stevie G"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courteney_Cox

Cox is also notable for being the first person to use the word "period" on U.S. television in its physiological sense, in a 1985 advertising campaign for Tampax brand tampons.

....wonder who said it first in a punctuation sense?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_B.

In 2007 Eric was honored by the President of the United States with an invitation to the White House where he met President George W. Bush, the First Lady and other dignitaries.

I heard dude was a hardcore gangsta, but DAMN!

So someone presented Eric B. for (the) president!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doncaster

Paddington Bear - The toy bear was first made at Adwick Bear Garden by Jeremy Clarkson's mother.

^^^I knew that

Well you could have told me.

While shooting the stunt where Marty is being hanged by Tannen and his gang, Fox offered to try the stunt without using a box to stand on. He then miscalculated where his hand would slip between the rope and his neck, actually hanging himself, causing him to pass out. It was originally thought that there was a connection between Fox's Parkinson's symptoms and this incident.

From Laos national football team:

The 2006 Thai comedy movie Lucky Loser was originally filmed to be about a soccer team from Laos, but was later re-edited to replace Laos with a fictional country named Arvee, after complaints from Laotians, as the film mostly plays on stereotypes of Laos. Ironically, in the finished product, Arvee has made it to the second stage of World Cup qualifying as a lucky loser, just as Laos had really done during 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification.

"stereotypes of Laos"

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

heave ho?

"stereotypes of Laos"

http://i7.tinypic.com/21e3l7o.jpg

Just because Western people may not have stereotypes of Laos, that doesn't mean such stereotypes don't exist in, say, the neighbouring countries.

u right, just making a cheap joke.

Burmese people dial the phone like this... Laotians dial it like this...

From 1942 until his death in 1945, Adolf Hitler was given daily intravenous injections of methamphetamine by his personal physician, Theodor Morell as a treatment for depression and fatigue.

man if that namebase guy wants higher google hits he should hire a designer. that is one crappy-looking site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ken_Behring&diff=prev&oldid=178761974

Additionally, he was dodging accusations of laudering drug money during this time period. Some of his cocaine parties were truly epic in proportions

lol

unfortunately, they deleted my favourite detail :(

it WAS, under the "Fauxhawk" article, following the 'noted faukhawk wearers' list, a list of 'noted Phamhawk wearers', containing only one, a Tony Pham, student at *local high school*.

In the Wikipedia article on Dante, under the Life section it simply said "He had none", but that's been changed.

<i>Licorice has not been heard from since 1990, when her elder sister Frances reports receiving a letter which she says was 'certainly from Sacramento' — her last verified location. In fact, there is at least one person out there who is searching for her in Sacramento</i>

Why must I fail?

During Victorian times, teenage girls were forbidden to bring honeysuckle home because it was thought to induce erotic dreams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnerotomachia_Poliphili

The Ninth Gate

In 1999 Roman Polanski made a film about books and the devil staring Johnny Depp. During a scene where he is trying to scam some antique books from a collector's family he mentions that the family "might want to hold on to" their copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili amongst other super rare books. Great movie for bibliophiles!

Yo! It's the green machine

Seriously though, I mean the who only had so many albums of new material, and he's only had a handful of solo albums, wtf are the rest of these songs? WHEN WILL HE UNLEASH THIS ON THE WORLD?

if you want songs, write them. don't rely on someone else to do it for you. serious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namor

Silver Age and on

Namor returned in The Fantastic Four #4 (May 1962), where a member of the titular superhero team, Johnny Storm, the new Human Torch, discovers him living as an amnesiac homeless man in the Bowery section of Manhattan. Storm shaves the "bum" with his flames, recognizes Namor, and dumps him into the river in the hopes of restoring his memory, which it does.

What's the so unusual about that? It's a pretty accurate description of that story.

Storm shaves the "bum" with his flames, I assume.

Andy Gill (born January 1, 1956) is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands. Gill is known for his jagged style of playing on albums such as Entertainment! (1979) and Solid Gold (1980) and hit singles such as "At Home He's a Tourist," "Damaged Goods," "Anthrax," "what all men want," and "I Love a Man in Uniform."

Gill also produced much of Gang of Four's output, including their most recent 2005 release, and albums for many other artists including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Jesus Lizard, The Stranglers, The Futureheads, Michael Hutchence, Killing Joke and The Young Knives, who have been nominated for the 2007 Mercury prize.

Andy Gill should not be confused with the Andy Gill who writes reviews for The Independent newspaper. They are however, the same person.

So Johnny Storm's idea of a good time is going down to the Bowery and setting a homeless man on fire?

Steve-O attended the "Rock The Bells" Hip-Hop Festival in San Bernardino, California in August 2006 to some controversy. The Concert was headlined by the Wu-Tang Clan and the event was organized as a tribute to clan member Ol' Dirty Bastard. While on stage with the Wu-Tang Clan, Steve-O exclaimed that he shared the same cell with O.D.B, albeit at different times. He proceeded to show his affection for ODB by getting nude, tucking his penis between his legs and doing a back flip. This upset Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, and he threatened to assault him if he didn't apologize while tempers flared. [13][14]

Superbad is the soundtrack to the 2007 film of the same name. It was released on August 7, 2007 on Lakeshore Records. The album features original music by Lyle Workman and Bootsy Collins, as well as songs by artists such as Curtis Mayfield and Rick James. Interestingly, the film also included references of highly obscure and overlooked mid-1960s rock groups (the two police officers were featured listening to The Remains and The Amboy Dukes in their patrol car). Additionally, the film includes two songs (Pork and Beef & My Favorite Mutiny) by the militant hip hop group The Coup.

Also, it is awesome.

As can be seen in the screenshot, MacPaint included a "Goodies" menu that included the FatBits tool. This menu was named the "Aids" menu in prerelease versions, but was renamed "Goodies" as public awareness of the AIDS epidemic grew in the summer of 1983.

X-Rated adult versions of C + C Music Factory's popular hits were released by an artist known as 'Sissy Penis Factory'.

Road Tripping Today

Today, modern road tripping is a fast growing hobby, and not just a means of vacationing. Groups dedicated to the art of the road trip, known either as professional road trippers or road enthusiasts, are becoming prevalent online. One such online community, and one of the largest, is Roadtrip America.

Road tripping, to some, has indeed become an art. Road enthusiasts frequently debate on proper gear, attire, and electronics. Other frequent debates include type of road trip (a ‘moseying’ road trip vs. a set schedule), use of in-vehicle DVD players to pacify young passengers, and, to a lesser extent, destinations.

Professional road tripping has spawned other activities, including dashboarding, caravanning (multi-vehicle road trips), RV-ing, county collecting, welcome sign photography, and other facets of the road tripping hobby.

Urgh.

'Sissy Penis Factory'.

i propose new gay thread now.

also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipkIluJH8I

:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Don%27t_abbreviate_as_Wiki.png

"Don't abbreviate Wikipedia as Wiki!!"

Nevertheless, an examination of recent sources shows that snuck is sneaking up on sneaked.

I doubt this has ever really been on there (and it's screen/font/resolution dependent too) but anyway:

http://i18.tinypic.com/6t2mz3a.png

From 'California Games' entry:

There are some easter eggs in this game:

* On some random occasions, there is an earthquake during the skateboarding event. The H of the Hollywood sign falls down (The remaining "OLLYWOOD" might be a reference to the ollie.)
* You can hit the seagull in Footbag. Hitting the gull grants more points.
* There is a shark in Surfing who laughs. (This is not an easter egg. The shark, the dolphin or the gull appear quite often in surfing.)
* When practicing Flying Disc, a UFO occasionally 'abducts' the catcher of the disc.

The sound design for the original version of California Games was done by Chris Grigg, member of the band Negativland.
The gameplay for the footbag game was inspired by a scene in the movie The Great Dictator wherein Chaplie Chaplin juggles a balloon depicting the planet Earth with his feet.[citation needed]

whoa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_adaptions_of_The_Nanny

Not unusual, but weird to read:

Dom Leone died of cancer in 1989.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%27s_Redeeming_Qualities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria_national_football_team

I've had that up for 9 days now.

wowowow

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henry_Samueli&diff=prev&oldid=160425797

He has an intense daughter, Erin.

What are the unusual details in the Nanny and Algerian football articles?

David Copperfield (comedian)

He is friends with Mick Abrahams of Jethro Tull.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Boy_Smith

Smith's middle name, Boy, was the result of one of his parents mistaking the name field on Smith's birth certificate for the gender field.

Holy shit, I had no idea The Nanny was one of America's main exports!

I did not know this:

Hello, Dolly! was originally entitled Dolly, A Damned Exasperating Woman,[7] until Merrick heard Louis Armstrong's recording of the song and changed the name of the show.

According to the label, the name "Test Icicles" is derived not from the word testicles but rather from an alleged practice of early man involving the "testing" of icicles for their strength and fitness for use as weapons. This, however, is extremely debatable considering the fact that a previous side project of band members Sam and Rory was named "Balls".

lol

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9882/aackyl4.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington

This article is about the American Jazz composer and performer. For other uses, see Ellington,had a porn website called anal adventure.

title of picture: Duke Ellington is a fag

I know, that's even better!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin#Confrontation_with_parliament

See picture caption.

Oh. It was just changed. Below the picture of the tanks shelling the Russian Parliament, it said, "I'll fix your wagon."

Commingling

Commingling, which literally means "mixing together", is a breach of trust in which a fiduciary mixes funds that he holds in the care of a client with his own funds, making it difficult to determine which funds belong to the fiduciary and which belong to the client. This raises particular concerns where the funds are invested, and gains or losses from the investments must be allocated. In such circumstances, the law usually presumes that any gains run to the client and any losses run to the fiduciary who is guilty of commingling.
The problem of commingling is of particular concern in the legal profession. Attorneys are strictly prohibited from commingling their clients funds with their own, and such activity is grounds for disbarment in virtually every jurisdiction, because of the ease of embezzlement and the difficulty of detection. Similar rules apply for licensed real estate brokers handling earnest money and other professionals who hold deposits as agents for clients in absentia.
Commingling is also evidence that may be used in "piercing the corporate veil" of a sham corporation, where a person vainly attempts to shield himself from personal liability through "incorporation", yet fails to observe strict separation of corporate and personal property or accounts, among other improprieties.

Community property

In community property states of the United States, "commingling" non-marital property with marital property can make it community property. For example, depositing money received by an individual through inheritance – ordinarily considered non-marital, individual property – into a joint bank account may transform the money into community property. Most community property states apply a presumption of community property; where there is any commingling the burden of proof is on the party disputing the classification to "trace" the property back to individual property, and demonstrate an intent to keep it separated.

i Love diana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A#Recommended_daily_intake

Vitamin A is found naturally in many foods. Each of the following contains at least 0.15 mg (which is equal to 150 micrograms -500 IU). See Recommended Daily Intake of Vitamin A or beta carotene per 1.75-7 oz. (50-200 g):

* liver (beef, pork, chicken, turkey, fish) (6500 μg 722%)
* carrots (835 μg 93%)
* venttani (817 μg 91%)
* Broccoli leaves (800 μg 89%) - broccoli florets have much less- see below
* sweet potatoes (709 μg 79%)
* kale (681 μg 76%)
* butter (684 μg 76%)
* spinach (469 μg 52%)
* leafy vegetables
* pumpkin (369 μg 41%)
* collard greens (333 μg 37%)
* cantaloupe melon (169 μg 19%)
* eggs (140 μg 16%)
* apricots (96 μg 11%)
* papaya (55 μg 6%)
* mango (38 μg 4%)
* broccoli (31 μg 3%)
* peas (38 μg 4%)
* beetroot[6]
* winter squash
* Soylent Green - Soylent Red and Yellow, however, are not fortified with Vitamin A.

Artemis
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For other uses, see Artemis (disambiguation).

i like yummy tummy grape bread with cool purple spots having such a lovely ppppppppppooooooooooooppppppppppp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheeky_Girls

"The Cheeky Girls also love playing scrabble in their free time, and Monica once beat chat show host Jerry Springer in a game of scrabble that lasted nearly 12 hours."

The "What What" video contains numerous examples of imagery symbolizing male homosexuality, anal sex, and the United States. The brown heart which appears throughout the video can be read as a reference to human buttocks, which is where the anus is located. The brown star is most likely meant to invoke the appearance of an anus (although it could also represent the performer's own rising-star status, or both). With the lips located in the center of this star, the image of an anus is again invoked. The purple zeppelin as a phallic reference seems obvious, although the metaphor breaks down when the performer then penetrates it via a rectum-like tube at the base of the vessel. The red, white and blue stripes of the zeppelin's interior, while at first glance appearing to be the French tricolore, in fact more closely resembles the colors of the United States flag. The validity of this reading is strengthened by the presence of the subsequent fireworks display, a clear reference to the independence day ritual of the country in question. Also, the fact that the performer rises through a tube might be a reference to YouTube itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco#Further_reading

Further reading

Brewster, Bill and Broughton, Frank (1999) Last Night a DJ Saved my Life: the History of the Disc Jockey Headline Book Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7472-6230-6
Lawrence, Tim (2004). Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979 . Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3198-5.
Angelo, Marty (2006) - Once Life Matters: A New Beginning. Impact Publishing. ISBN 0961895446.
Peter Shapiro (2005) Turn The Beat Around - The Secret History Of Disco. Faber And Faber. ISBN-10 0865479526 ISBN-13 978-0865479524
Crazy Disco dance Tips by james "crazy disco" slim (2007)
Barney does the hustle by barney (1992)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khizi

Khizi
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Xızı (Khizi)
Map of Azerbaijan showing Xizi rayon
Population (1999): 13,080
Area (sq. km.): 1,850
Capital: Xızı

Khizi (Xızı) is the least-populous rayon of Azerbaijan. The tiny capital village now sports a couple of amusingly pointless traffic lights.

Not in the articles per se, but if I read the page database correctly, and assuming that low page ID reflects early entry, the first ten Wikipedia categories were

690070 Futurama
690451 World_War_II
690571 Programming_languages
690578 Professional_wrestling
690637 Algebra
690649 Anime
690672 Abstract_algebra
690747 Mathematics
690777 Linear_algebra
690803 Calculus

Category:Contents
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* Commons: CommonsRoot
* Meta: Categories
* Wikibooks: Categories
* Wikinews: Categories
* Wikiquote: Categories
* Wikisource: Categories
* Wiktionary: Fundamental
* Wikiversity: Categories

Shortcut:
CAT:
For the contents page of encyclopedic categories, see Wikipedia:Categorical index.

This is the top level of Wikipedia's category system, in terms of the functional category hierarchy.

Alphabetical index of all categories Random category
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Subcategories

There are 10 subcategories in this category, which are shown below. More may be shown on subsequent pages.
A

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[+] Articles

C

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[+] Categories

G

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[+] Glossaries

L

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[+] Lists

P

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W cont.

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Pages in category "Contents"

There are 3 pages in this section of this category.
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* André Brugiroux
* Portal:Contents

F

* Portal:Featured content

It's been edited out, but Jeff Lynne's (of ELO) entry used to say:

"Trademark: Has worn sunglasses indoors and out since the mid 70s."

Not in the articles per se, but if I read the page database correctly, and assuming that low page ID reflects early entry, the first ten Wikipedia categories were

690070 Futurama
690451 World_War_II
690571 Programming_languages
690578 Professional_wrestling
690637 Algebra
690649 Anime
690672 Abstract_algebra
690747 Mathematics
690777 Linear_algebra
690803 Calculus

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POLL

We Are 138 is a song written and performed by punk band The Misfits. There are several theories and rumors about the origin of the song, including (but not limited to):

* The lyrics are inspired by George Lucas' first film entitled THX 1138.
* Some say that 138 is the Police code for "Drunk and Disorderly conduct".
* 138 is the highest The Misfits had come on "the charts" at the time.
* It's about sex (69 x 2 = 138).
* It's police code for grave robbing.
* In the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, the number 138 is said to refer to any ghoulish display of horror.
* The song refers to the year 138 A.D., in which the Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius on condition that Antoninus adopt Marcus Annius Aurelius Verus. The song is told from the perspective of Marcus Aurelius.
* The song was originally an epic poem about the Triakis tetrahedron. In this version, all that remains of the original content is the number, which is the number of stellations in the shape.
* It's a secret code that the songwriter, Glenn Danzig, used as a child.
* It's the number of a union local that one of the members of the band was once a member of.
* The song refers to the asteroid 138 Tolosa, which was first observed by Henri Joseph Perrotin on June 23, 1875, exactly 85 years before Danzig's birth.
* It means nothing.
* $1.38 was the exact cost of a Whopper at the Burger King in Lodi, NJ, therefore suggesting that Glenn Danzig had a "whopper" at the time of recording.
* 138 was a number displayed by a wind-up robot toy.
* In Rocky III, there were 139 men auditioned for the role of "Thunderlips," a role which eventually went to Hulk Hogan. The song is from the perspective of the men who didn't get the role. This also explains the mention in the song of "Eye of the Tiger".
* The "1" represents a penis, the "3" a scrotum, and the "8" a pair of breasts, symbolizing that Danzig feels like an objectified, sexualized piece of meat.
* It was a prank to make people think it meant something.
* Killing without emotion.
* It was the number of Danzig's father's remarkably violent military unit in World War II.
* It means nothing but is just awesome to support it.
* police code for grave robbery

Danzig has commented on the different explanations that his former band mates have offered publicly about the song: "They didn't write it and they don't know what the fuck its about. It's about violence."[1]

* $1.38 was the exact cost of a Whopper at the Burger King in Lodi, NJ, therefore suggesting that Glenn Danzig had a "whopper" at the time of recording.

Actual lol

Cast

* Jack Black as Jerry
* Mos Def as Mike
* Danny Glover as Mr. Fletcher
* Mia Farrow as Miss Falewicz
* Melonie Diaz as Alma
* Arjay Smith as Manny
* Paul Dinello as Mr. Rooney (court bailiff #1)
* Sigourney Weaver as Ms. Lawson (court bailiff #2)
* Paul Barman as Guy on couch
* Thomas Pynchon as Guy returning movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunglasses_At_Night

The original lyrics for the song were about a totalitarian society that made everyone wear their sunglasses at night; however under pressure from Hart's record company to make something more marketable, the song was altered to be more "romantic".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Winter

Winter works between his American home base and London, where he has been very successful directing music videos and commercials. Highlights of his work include directing several installments of the popular Peugeot Thelma & Louise campaign, as well as campaigns for Ford, the global launch of the all CGI Tony the Tiger for Frosties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jonathan_Williams#WP:BLP

^ lololol guess who he's talking about

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Xeni_Jardin&diff=prev&oldid=202104439

^ anyone care to figure out this

"Dear Sir/Madam,
You have shit for brains"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandma%27s_Boy

#
# Allen Covert states on the commentary that for Jeff to be Grace's 3000th sexual partner, she'd "have to bang a guy a day." Actually, she would have had 55 sexual partners a year since she was 18 or 41 sexual partners a year since she was born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Guy_Thing#Film_Culture

Michael C. Dorf is a noted Constitutional scholar, and is currently the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia University.

[...]

He is a practitioner of blogging, veganism and, periodically, juggling.

Kraftwerk were originally uncredited as authors for the song, marking the beginning of a sampling trend towards the group's catalog that has continued to be abused by many other artists. Soon after, the group pursued legal action against Bambaataa and Tommy Boy Records which proved to be successful. It is claimed by many that Planet Rock elevated hip hop music to the next level, and was the genesis of electro music.

Mystery substance in Oakville

In 1994, over a two-week period in August, gelatinous substance reportedly fell from the sky six times. The mysterious goo allegedly contained white blood cells and several acids from the human stomach, and was reported to infect anyone it touched with symptoms of exhaustion, breathing problems, heavy perspiration, fainting, and other flu-like symptoms.[citation needed] Several animals in the area are reported to have perished because of this. [1]

The whole story was published in a 1995 episode of Unsolved Mysteries.[2] The mystery was later termed "acid rain" by authorities, although some believe it was evidence of chem trails.[citation needed]

A vampire is wearing a Hanson tee-shirt in the season 6 episode "Barganing Part 1" of the cult television series "Buffy the vampire slayer".

"Radar Love" was a hit by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. The song is considered by many to be among the greatest "driving songs" ever due to its lyrics about driving all night, its up-tempo beat, and its catchy sing-along chorus.

Taking the song at face value, its lyrics extol the virtues of the Young Men's Christian Association.

http://en.wikivisual.com/index.php/Big_Punisher

During the notorious video footage of Big Pun pistol-whipping his wife, Pun can be heard to shout "Oh wrinklepaws" repeatedly. Nobody knows why.

I think this is an even funnier detail in the "Y.M.C.A." article:

Producer Henri Belolo recalls that he saw the YMCA sign while walking down the street with composer Jacques Morali, who seemed to know the institution fairly well: "Henri, let me tell you something. This is a place where a lot of people go when they are in town. And they get good friends and they go out." And Henri got the idea: "Why don't we write a song about it?"

This must've been written tongue-in-cheek, there's no mention at all in the article about what YMCA meant to gay culture.

Gay square dancing:

Styling: Special styling variations (known as flourishes) are particular to gay square dancing (although they may diffuse into the community at large), and there are additional sound effects (dancers' vocal responses to the caller) connected with gay square dancing as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_square_dance

The whole entry on Odie is incredible:

In others he has been seen stting decoys, writing poetry, and finding a complete superhero outfit (making Garfield look like a loser)-In a few seconds! One theory is that there are two Odies, a smart one and the (more common) idiot. In one strip, Garfield went to see what was at the end of Odies tounge, and it turned out to be a second Odie!

From Talk: Steve Perry (musician) -

I've removed "Steve Perry is the best singer in the world.". -Nick

Wonder Woman is a fictional character with huge boobs, a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston and one of the three characters to be continuously published by DC Comics since the company's inception in 1944.

reverted now, but it was def. there a couple of days ago.

I've removed "Steve Perry is the best singer in the world.". -Nick

you can't wiki away the truth, Nick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wilcox :

His company runs under a number of names, including UC Hub Group Inc., Three Inc, Luminart Corp, PSPP Holdings, INC., Allcom USA, INC., United Communications Hub, INC., ESAFE, INC., Energy Hub, LLC, S & S Associates, LLC, DCL Environmental Systems INC., Titan Alarm Systems INC., New Vista Films INC., and Wilcox Industries INC, and they are all shell companies used to withdraw money from the bank accounts of customers without authorization and to steal from their customers (as reported by Ripoff Report).

http://i32.tinypic.com/2epsw46.jpg

( older version - one disgruntled customer vs. repeated wiki deletions?)

What would Ponch think.

from the article 'Fabric discography'

Fabric Live 38 - DJ Craze (February 2008)
Fabric Live 39 - DJ Yoda (April 2008)
Fabric Live 40 - Noisia (June 2008)
Fabric Live 41 - Simian Mobile Disco (August 2008)
Fabric Live 42 - Ronan Keating (October 2008)

The Mekon's widow is known to have written to Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, in 1993. Her letter reads: "Dear M. Delors, I used to be married to the Mekon, who, curiously, was remarkably endowed. Now widowed (you may recall his death when he was sucked into the planet Zurkon), I can only work upon his memory. The standard Essex cucumber has both the colour and, more importantly, the shape to give at least physical comfort. In the light of these points, I would be obliged if you were to inhibit the straightening of these vegetables - at least until after my death. Yours sincerely, Mrs Mekon"

Shyamalan was born in Texarkana, Mississippi, USA.[1] His father, Toby Matthew Shyamalan, a atomic engineer, is a lamewad, and his mother, Betty (called Betty), is a Frankenstein and a Tuba player by trade.[2] In the 1960s, after Clown College (at the Bozo the Clown Institute of Making Funny in Beirut) and the birth of their first child, Toby, Shyamalan's parents moved to the United States. Shyamalan's mother returned to Arkansas to spend the last five months of her pregnancy with Yank Perkins at her parents' home in Boston (Tokyo).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

Some popular quotes involving "pwn" include:
...
In a classic XKCD cartoon.
...

The Mekon's widow is known to have written to Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, in 1993. Her letter reads: "Dear M. Delors, I used to be married to the Mekon, who, curiously, was remarkably endowed. Now widowed (you may recall his death when he was sucked into the planet Zurkon), I can only work upon his memory. The standard Essex cucumber has both the colour and, more importantly, the shape to give at least physical comfort. In the light of these points, I would be obliged if you were to inhibit the straightening of these vegetables - at least until after my death. Yours sincerely, Mrs Mekon"

This was actually very funny, at least if you can remember the discussion about the infamous EU cucumber directive.

If WGN America is not on in your market be sure to let your cable operator know if you are interested in getting WKRP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_Chups#Logo

"The Chupa Chups logo was designed by the surrealist Salvador Dalí"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Nelson_Mandela

In 1984 the students' union at Wadham College, Oxford passed a motion to end every college "bop" (disco) with the song. The tradition continues despite his release.

The 880 is known as the Silver freeway according to the California Magic Freeway Color Code System. There is an association between the taste of a mountain-dew energy drink and the ambience of the silver freeway.

Ledge that is 100% true and adhered to religiously.

hey well why not, nothing wrong with a bit of tradition now and then.

Mama (Genesis song)

The music video for the song essentially plays out the lyrics, showing Collins singing to a mysterious woman while Banks and Rutherford play in the background. One memorable sequence involves an extremely evil-looking Collins, cloaked in shadows and illuminated by a greenish light, performing the aforementioned sinister laugh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Nealon

On a 1985 syndicated episode of the game show Sale of the Century, a relatively unknown Nealon is spotted as one of the friends congratulating and celebrating with champion Tim Holleran, who won everything on stage to win $166,875, including $90,000 in cash.

On February 22 2006, Nealon[5] contributed a story to the New York Times about being wiretapped by Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who has been indicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges. It was also revealed in a separate court case on February 27, 2006, that investigators working for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus may also have targeted Nealon for wiretapping.[6]

"In the first series, George buys Mildred a Yorkshire Terrier called Truffles (played by dog actor Pussy Galore)."

Blender was developed as an in-house application by the Dutch animation studio NeoGeo (not to be confused with the Neo-Geo game console) and Not a Number Technologies (NaN). It was primarily authored by Ton Roosendaal, who had previously written a ray tracer called Traces for Amiga in 1989. The name "Blender" was inspired by a song by Yello, from the album Baby.

from the Albert Fish page:

He boasted that he had "had children in every state,"[1] putting the figure at around 100...

* This disaster was included as one of several different disaster scenarios in the 1993 video game SimCity 2000.
* The game's designer Will Wright used his experience of rebuilding his life after his home was burned down due to the fire as basis for the concept of the best selling computer game in history, The Sims. [11][12]

* The game's designer Will Wright used his experience as a military helicoptor pilot as basis for the concept of the best selling computer game in history, Raid on Bungeling Bay. [11][12]

Robin's Nest was a British sitcom starring Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp, one of the lead characters in the sitcom Man About the House, which had ended in 1976. Robin's Nest aired for six series from 1977 to 1981, and co-starred Tessa Wyatt as Robin's girlfriend and later wife and Tony Britton as her father. It was made by Thames Television and aired on ITV.

Creators Cooke and Mortimer had to get special permission from the IBA (the then governing body of Independent TV in Britain) to be able to portray an unmarried couple living together; special concern arose at scenes in which Robin and Vicky were seen in an obvious state of undress in bed. In 1978, Robin and Vicky were married and later had a set of twins.

Among his fans, Todd Terry is known as Todd the God, God Terry, Todd Godrry, Godd Gerry (or, occasionally, simply God, because he might be a Five Percenter, but this is unconfirmed).

Project Dogwaffle

Project Dogwaffle can be used to animate stick figures, and is for the more experienced.[citation needed]

Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, was the highest bidder for a Martha's Vineyard Possible Dreams charity auction offering in which the prize was the revelation of the person whom "You're So Vain" was about. After making the winning bid of $50,000, Ebersol was given a private performance of the song at Simon's home. After a lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and vodka on the rocks, Simon whispered the subject into his ear. A condition of that prize is that Ebersol would not reveal to anyone the actual subject. Later, Ebersol revealed that he was allowed by Simon to divulge a clue about the person's name.

Emerging rap artist Plies released a dirty rap/R&B song with singer Tank called "You" where he makes graphic refernces to oral and anal sex as well as ejaculation. Most of Plies work focuses on drugs and violence and he is not a full-time dirty artist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9_Dondeyne

lolz

Born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Cormega grew up in the Queensbridge Housing Projects in Long Island City, Queens, forming childhood friendships with future rappers such as Nas, Mobb Deep, Nature and Capone-N-Noreaga. When he was 4, he witnessed his mother's murder. After that, he moved in with his father and stepmother. Cory's stepmother insisted that he read one book a week, which he credited with getting him interested in writing.[1][2] He has since denied it was "a book a week", saying "that’s probably some Wikipedia bullshit. Everything they ever say is wrong."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felching

In the United Kingdom felching by use of a straw or tube is known as Shrimping[1].

that article used to be more expansive and useful. I call bullshit

* The game's designer Will Wright used his experience of rebuilding his life after his home was burned down due to the fire as basis for the concept of the best selling computer game in history, The Sims. [11][12]

That's actually true, I have a couple of article about SC and Wright has mentioned it a few times.

Well, kind of: the fire thing isnt why he came up with the game, but it is why it had bushfires in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Young

excerpts from floyd landis's wikipedia page

The LeMond testimony

On May 17, 2007 Greg LeMond took the stand in the USADA arbitration hearing. Under oath, he described a phone conversation he had with Floyd Landis on August 6, 2006 as well as another with Will Geoghegan, Landis's business manager, on May 16th, the evening before the testimony. The major points of the testimony are as follow:

* In an August 6 phone conversation, LeMond allegedly told Landis that If you did (use banned substances), you could single-handedly change the sport. You could be the one who will salvage the sport, to which Landis allegedly responded What good would it do? If I did, it would destroy a lot of my friends and hurt a lot of people.[54]
* LeMond disclosed his childhood sexual abuse by a LeMond family friend to Landis. I was sexually abused before I got into cycling, and it nearly destroyed me by keeping it secret, LeMond allegedly said to Landis. (Lying about doping) will come back to haunt you when you are 40 or 50. If you have a moral compass and ethics, this will destroy you.[54]
* Will Geoghegan called LeMond at his personal mobile phone number the night before the scheduled testimony. LeMond's BlackBerry, with Geoghegan's phone number captured in the call log, was entered into evidence.[54]

According to Lemond quoted in the Sunday Times the conversation with Geoghegan was,
“

“Hello.”
“Greg?”
“Yeah, this is Greg.”
“Hi Greg, this is your uncle.”
“My uncle?!?”
“This is your uncle. Do you remember me?”
“Who is this?”
“This is your uncle and I’m going to be there tomorrow and we can talk about how we used to play hide the weenie.”
“Who the f*** is this?

Like the previous comic strip that portrayed a woman’s gyrating rear as B.E.T.’s only contribution to television was pulled from a majority of newspapers; two of McGruder’s episodes in Season 2 of The Boondocks were banned from the air in the U.S. and Canada after depicting B.E.T. as an evil, cheap and ignorant empire, but were later aired in Canada and still are today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casanova

Sancho Vasquez IV is also Casanova.

There was a movie made with his last name as the title. Awesome.

From Maury (TV series):

Jack Hanna

Animal expert Jack Hanna comes to the show with animals, normally with at least one urinating and/or defecating on stage.

("urinating" made into a link, just in case the reader needs further clarification)

Rachel Barton Pine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Barton_Pine

On January 16, 1995, Barton Pine was severely injured in a train accident in the suburb of Winnetka, where she taught violin lessons. As she was exiting a Metra commuter train with her violin over her shoulder, the doors closed on the strap to her case, pinning her left shoulder to the train. The doors, which were controlled remotely and had no safety sensors, failed to open, and she was dragged 366 feet by the train before being pulled underneath and run over, severing one leg and severely mangling the other.
She sued Metra and in 1999, the case went to court. Metra argued that she made the choice not to pull her arm out of the strap of the violin case due to the value of the instrument, a 400-year-old Amati valued at around $500,000, and thus she carried most of the blame for her injuries. The jury decided otherwise, however, and awarded her $29 million. Metra changed its conductor safety procedures following the accident and made other changes to the trains themselves.

...

Her taste in rock runs to heavy metal, with Van Halen, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Anthrax, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer and Megadeth being among her favorites. She has met and jammed with a number of these, and in 1997 released a heavy-metal-inspired CD.

In the first season, Jesse's last name was "Cochran", reportedly because one of the producers was a fan of attorney Johnnie Cochran. His name was changed after Season 1, when he came to be called "Jesse Katsopolis". The name change was due to Stamos wanting his character to better reflect his Greek heritage. No reason is given for the character's name change, but fans tend to believe it could have been a stage name, especially because the name "Cochran" also disappeared from his band's name "Jesse and the Rippers" after the first season.In one episode, Jesse admits his birth name was "Hermes", which actually happens to be his real-life paternal grandfather's name.

The protagonist of "All I Really Want" is a young, embittered female trying to find a connection in the world, yodeling and yelping after revealing that what she really wants is "some justice".

Sienna Rose Miller (born December 28, 1981) is a talent-free starlet and serial slut who has clawed her way up the greasy pole of show business, legs akimbo for every man Jack who cared to cast her a sideways glance.

Gervais Yao Kouassi (born 27 May 1987 in Ányama, Côte d'Ivoire), or simply Gervinho is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a striker for French Ligue 1 club Le Mans UC72.

He was named after comedian Ricky Gervais who part-sponsored the installation of drinking water in his family's village.

Charles-Valentin Alkan(November 30, 1813–March 29, 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day.

Alkan died in Paris in 1888 at the age of 74. For many years it was believed that his death was caused by a bookcase falling on him in his home, brought down as he reached for a volume of the Talmud from a high shelf. This apocryphal tale, which appears to have been circulated by Delaborde, has been effectively disproved by Hugh Macdonald, who reports a contemporary letter from one of Alkan's pupils explaining that Alkan had died following being trapped beneath a falling porte-parapluies (a heavy coat/umbrella rack).

It has also been reported as a practice in hazing[7] among athletic teams. This is described in an article by Robert DeKoven from Gay and Lesbian Times.[8]

“ One such story involved what school officials termed a hazing incident, which involved three varsity wrestlers and three coaches at Argo Community High School near Chicago. The school suspended the wrestlers and coaches for a hazing incident that involved the “tea-bagging” of several freshman wrestlers.
Cyd Zeigler Jr. reports that the incident occurred on a bus trip home last year on Dec. 1. ... According to the Daily Southtown, the three varsity wrestlers pulled freshmen, one by one, to the back of the bus. There, two of the boys held each boy down as the third boy shoved his testicles in the freshman’s face.
”

Teabagging again gained national attention in 2006 in the national media for a similar incident that occurred in Avoca, IA where the local wrestling team performed a similar initiation as the Dennis Horkenbach Chicago incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno_Balls

What's the unusual detail in that one? The mention of Prince?

Not from Wikipedia but from IMDB's bio section for Sean "P. Diddy" Combs:

Suffers from coulrophobia (fear of clowns), a condition so severe that he reportedly insisted on a "No Clowns" clause in his contract prior to appearing on the TV show "Fear Factor" (2001).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southfields

The area is also home to a significant South African community, who were supposedly originally attracted to the area in the early and mid 1990s through their awareness of its proximity to Wimbledon, a name which they knew from their fondness of sports in general and tennis in particular. New arrivals told their friends, and with the change in the job market in South Africa in the 1990s, a trickle of new arrivals became a stream in the years that followed. It is also rumoured amoung locals that the areas predominantly white population is a key reason for the large South African community.

is all that just an overwritten version of "where de white women at?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O'Sullivan

After a family holiday in Ireland as a boy, O'Sullivan returned with a strong Irish accent and was sent to stage school to try to get rid of it, thus starting a distinguished acting career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fluxblog&curid=2159420&diff=232558492&oldid=229464626

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hoy

Hoy shares his birthday - 23 March - with Sir Steve Redgrave, Roger Bannister and Marti Pellow of Wet Wet Wet.

Trivia
Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (December 2007)

The Back to the Future movie series is referenced often enough in Ozma songs to warrant mention here. The song Lorraine is about George McFly's girlfriend who is Marty McFly's mother. The song Game Over contains the lyric "where I go I don't need roads," which is a play off Doc Brown's dialogue at the end of Back To the Future, while Come Home Andrea contains the line "girl make one man cry, make another man sing" - referencing the Huey Lewis and the News song "The Power of Love" as featured in the first film. A less obvious reference is in the song In Search of 1988, which says "Warp me back at 88" - the speed in miles per hour required to travel back in time in the films. Most recently, in the song Motorology 3:39 the lyric "I'm still dreamin' of clock towers and synchronicity" is most likely a reference to the clock tower featured prominently in the film trilogy.

Ozma's first three albums all used a similar technique of using the acoustic version of a prominent riff from a song in some other section of the CD. However, Pasadena does not follow this pattern. On Rock and Roll Part Three the ending of Track 9 is the acoustic melody of Track 1. Track 1 on The Doubble Donkey Disc is the acoustic melody during 2:09 to 2:35 of Track 4 and 1:44 to 2:13 of Track 5. On Spending Time on the Borderline the end of Track 3 is a stringed instrument version of the melody for Track 4.

Daniel Brummel can be seen in the upper right side of the cover for Weezer's The Good Life EP. He's the one with light blonde hair.

Ryen Slegr is of Czech origin.

Ozma appeared on Track 1 of "Hear You Me! A Tribute to Mykel and Carli" with the song "Iceland". This compilation benefit CD of various artists was released in 1997.

The old official band website ozmaonline.com had a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) theme. Also, the song "In Search of 1988" references Mario and Luigi of The Super Mario Bros. games. "Maybe in an Alternate Dimension (Flight of the Bootymechanic)" references Link, "the Zelda warrior".

In the song Flight of the Bootymaster the lyric "Wesley Willis starts to break down, feels the beat, and hits the dance floor" is an accurate description of the artist, a diagnosed schizophrenic, as he would often join the audience and headbutt his fans.[1]

Prior to the 2002 Warped Tour, Star Wick was a passenger in a car accident that caused her to require eye surgery due to the airbag inflating and causing her contact lens to tear her cornea. She missed a few dates and Derek Grant from Alkaline Trio filled in for her on keyboards while she recovered. [2]

The title of the CD Rock and Roll Part Three is a reference to the Gary Glitter songs "Rock 'N' Roll (Part One)" and "Rock 'N' Roll (Part Two)."

The song Eponine is most likely an indirect tribute to the character Eponine from the novel Les Miserables. The character of Eponine had an unrequited love for the character Marius Pontmercy. The song merges the themes of revolution and bolsheviks which are only loosely related to Les Miserables.

Caballero probably attracted a lot of young skateboarders' interest to the band, but the music kept them coming back for more, and he wasn't the only skater in the band. Singer Gavin O'Brien was a heavy local at Winchester Skatepark and was more than able to hold his own in any session: vert, street, banks, whatever. Adam "Bomb" Segal's trademark high top Vans in all the bright, cool colors of the day had ollie holes on both shoes-the dude was doing switch tricks before anyone. Keith Rendon (drummer #1), Ray Stevens, II (bass) and Craig Bosch (drummer #2) were all accomplished skaters; Craig even has a trick named after him: the Bosch (a invert to blunt on a curb, ledge, etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Faction

Plagurism

This seems like it's taken directly from an article, which is called plagurism.Ollie the Magic Skater 14:17, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Paul Morley (born 26 March 1957 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English journalist, who wrote for the New Musical Express from 1977 to 1983, during one of its most successful and relatively notorious periods, and has since written for a wide range of publications. His style divided the NME readership of the time (an early, confrontational interview with Jerry Garcia was judged to have lost the paper several thousand regular readers),[citation needed]. British Alternative band The Cure played a version of their song 'Grinding Halt' with new lyrics parodying Morley's writing style after an unfavourable review of their debut album Three Imaginary Boys. He has been described as 'a nodder' and a 'pretentious git' on more than one occasion.
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Dr. Octagonecologyst

The music on the compact disc was originally recorded on a thermo-nuclear 387-bit, non-linear tracking system dithered down to 20-bit compact disc format. Because of its high resolution, however, limitations can be heard in the compact disc format.

(Bill) Paxton has the unique distinction of being the only actor who has played characters killed by an Alien (as Private Hudson in Aliens), a Predator (as Jerry Lambert in Predator 2), and a Terminator (as the punk leader in The Terminator, he also had a cameo role in Terminator 2 as a resistance soldier but was not killed). (Lance Henriksen would be worthy of this distinction but for the word 'kill': his android character was dismembered but still functional and he requested deactivation in the sequel.)

the asperganoid point of order about Lance Henriksen elevates that one imho

# Eli Wallach appears in "The Wrap Party" as an old mischievous man with an interesting[citation needed] – and familiar[citation needed] – past. Wallach was nominated for an Emmy for this role.

Music video

A music video is being shot in Miami. Cameoes include Fat Joe, Trey Songz, The Inkredibles, and Jeezy's lamborghini.[1]

Kathryn Jean Lopez, (born March 22, probably 1976), a native of Manhattan, is an American conservative columnist, who is nationally syndicated by the United Feature Syndicate/Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is also the editor of National Review Online. Her nickname on National Review Online's group blog "The Corner", is "K-Lo", a wordplay based on "J-Lo", the popular nickname for Jennifer Lopez. She is noted for being hideously obese.

http://www.sadlyno.com/wordpress/uploads/2007/04/kathryn-jean-lopez.jpg

srsly though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_%22Rudy%22_Ruettiger

Rudy also had another part in the making of the movie, where during the recording of the score for the final game sequence, Rudy himself conducted the orchestra while composer Jerry Goldsmith looked on in tears.[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enough

The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator Metacritic, the film had an average score of 95 out of 100, based on 32 reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, 91% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 121 reviews.

Renee Graham of The Boston Globe said the film "portays the horror of domestic violence in a realistic way, but keeps viewers interested." BBC film critic Jamie Russell said "this reactionary thriller is matched only by the realisticness of its premise." Jim Judy of Screen it! said "it's just great that so much of the film is thrilling, interesting and well thought-out, or simply amazing." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a movie that feminists everywhere will appreciate." New York Magazine critic Peter Rainer said "Realistic, suspenseful, dramatic, the movie will likely move the cause of woman warriors forward decades." Richard Roeper said "It's a wonderful movie, it really is and it makes perfect sense."

Joe Leydon of the San Francisco Examiner called it "a juicy, exciting, but serious drama, the kind of flick that manages the difficult feat of appealing to your instincts while making you feel proud of yourself." Joe Baltake of The Sacramento Bee said the film was "perhaps the guiltiest guilty pleasure in a long time."

I actually screen-grabbed this and saved it while ILX was down just to put it up here. It's been edited out now:

http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=interestingwikibi3.jpg

Gah.

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/9698/interestingwikibi3.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/britfilms56.gif

detailed analysis of the logic behind the Purple People Eater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_people_eater

"Written by Barry Cryer" (!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Goodwin

James "Jim" Goodwin (born November 20, 1981 in Waterford, Ireland) is an Irish footballer, currently playing for Huddersfield Town in Football League One.

Born in Tramore, he began his professional career with Celtic before moving to Stockport County.

Jim played at the heart of defence with Manchester United's fellow Waterford man, John O'Shea when Republic of Ireland won the 1998 under-16 European Championships in Perth, Scotland.

He was capped once at senior level by the Republic of Ireland (coming on as a substitute for Robbie Keane against Finland in Helsinki in August 2002) and he has been captain of the Republic of Ireland U-21 team.

He signed by Scunthorpe United in 2005, but was released on May 8, 2008, along with two other players, with his last game being the victory at home against Cardiff City, when he was substituted at half-time, driving away from the ground and vowing only to return to pick up his tin of WD40 which he uses to lubricate the hinges on the metal opening in the top of his head. He left behind his pink matador cape with which he guided attacking midfielders through to the United defence.

On June 5, 2008, he signed a 3-year deal at Huddersfield Town. He along with 5 other players made his Town debut in the 1-1 draw against Stockport County at the Galpharm Stadium on August 9, 2008.

You took that from the WSC email

i took it from a friend of mine who sent me the link on MSN, and yeah he's a WSC subscriber so blame him

Tévez has a distinctive burn mark from his right ear, down his neck to his chest which was caused by an accident with Wayne rooney when he was a child[3].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Tevez (obviously)

From the 'Fetal alcohol syndrome' entry:

Facial features

Several characteristic craniofacial abnormalities are visible in individuals with FAS. [...]

* A smooth philtrum — The divot or groove between the nose and upper lip flattens with increased prenatal alcohol exposure. This, sadly, puts fetal alcohol syndrome out of the running as an explanation for Robert Mugabe's personality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagles

On July 31, 1980, in Long Beach, California, tempers boiled over into what has been described as "Long Night at Wrong Beach."[7] Frey and Felder spent the entire show describing to each other the beating each planned to administer backstage. "Only three more songs until I kick your ass, pal," Frey recalls Felder telling him near the end of the band's set. Felder recalls Frey making a similar threat to him just as they began to sing "The Best Of My Love."

Not necessarily unusual but full of a sweaty obsession for very specific details, it's Linda Lusardi's wikipedia page:
Lusardi began her topless modelling career as a Page Three girl at the age of 18 in 1976 and in 1977 she appeared nude in the February edition of 'Mayfair' magazine. She was also nude but with her legs fully apart to completely expose her unshaven vagina in the November 1977 edition of 'Fiesta' magazine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micheal_R._Williams

In the 2007-2008 edition of the Tennessee Blue Book, Williams lists his party affiliation as "Independent NASCAR Fan."[3] In 2008 he ran for re-election to the State Senate as an independent candidate.[4]

lol "Micheal"

Lokomotiv Plovdiv's major opponent is the other local team, playing in the First division - Botev Plovdiv. Hooligans of the two teams often organise mass fights, usually on the derby days, at some secluded location in the city. Botev fans usually have their asses kicked by the Lokomotiv's supporters. Most people in Plovdiv, especially the educated ones, people of knowledge, support Lokomotiv. The team is the most popular one outside the capital. It is well-known that Botev was a communist party-favoured team during the communist era in Bulgaria. As such, the team was linked to the army, which was somewhat a common sructure with the communist party. Thus, plenty of army officials supported Botev. It is well-known that people in the army during the communist era were in the lower strata of the society in terms of knowledge and intellectual capacity. That is why well-educated people supported the other clubs in Plovdiv, most part of them being Lokomotiv fans. Obvisously intellectual capacity may be genetically inherited as nowadays, years after the fall of the Iron curtain and the communist regime, Lokomotiv Plovdiv is still supported by the intellectual elite in Plovdiv, while on the contrary, undereducated people claim their allegiance to Botev. Rivalry exists both on and off the pitch, inside and outside the ground. As time goes on the glory Botev achieved during the "golden" commo era of the club" fades away. This being so, some Botev supporters occupying some influential or representative positions take all and any actions, even not reasonalbe ones, to bring their team back to life but alas. History has turned to the right direction.

the educated ones, people of knowledge
but alas. History has turned to the right direction.
the educated ones, people of knowledge
but alas. History has turned to the right direction.

Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke was at one time the world record holder for fastest sculling of a yard of beer.[3]

that's not an unusual detail, that's a point of national pride

Hear hear!

At Rock the Universe 2006, an annual Christian rock festival held at Universal every September, Relient K lead singer Matt Thiessen asked the fans to ride Back to the Future while it was still open, as they learned earlier that day it was closing. Each band is taken on a tour through the park every year.

"Brookes is also known as a supporter of the Conservative Party, and an admirer of Margaret Thatcher."

from Bruno Brookes entry.

Back to the Future is one of the best rides there!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Because I can't imagine it'll stay up there:

William Shakespeare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OBAMA WILL WIN TOMORROW!!!! SUCK IT, DAMN GMS!!!! :P

Formatting is key here:

"The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web for obvious reasons) is a system of [...]"

I'm totally going to start calling it that. Well not really.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u288/robins3000/recession.jpg

Although it has now been removed, the end bit of the entry on Harbinger was curious -

Notable believers

Famous people who believed in harbingers:
Abraham Lincoln
Shirley MacLaine
Hilary Swank
Tupac Shakur
David Pleat.

---

What a team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbinger&oldid=234094666

Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor. He's best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the critically-acclaimed television series The West Wing, and as Burton "Gus" Guster in the television comedy-drama Psych. He also has a role in Holes as Sam. He is often confused with actors Deon Richmond of The Cosby Show fame and Phill Lewis of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody series.

Deon Richmond (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, known for his semi-regular childhood role as Rudy Huxtable's friend Kenny (nicknamed "Bud") on the popular NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
Richmond was born in New York, New York. After The Cosby Show, Richmond went on to appear as a supporting character in sitcoms such as Getting By and Sister, Sister, and in feature films such as Scream 3 and Van Wilder. He starred in the 1999 feature film Trippin''. He also played the role of the "token black guy" in Not Another Teen Movie. He also had a role on the short lived NBC series Teachers. Most recently, he performed in independent horror film Hatchet. Richmond is currently in talks with several films such as Trippin' 2, The Louie Armstrong Story, Pablo & Ping Go To Hollywood, and a top secret big budget film.
He is often confused with Dulé Hill, co-star of the USA Network show, Psych

A common law marriage is legally binding in some jurisdictions but has no meaning in others. In some jurisdictions without true common law marriages (e.g. Hungary), the term "common law marriage" is used as a synonym for non-marital relationships such as domestic partnership or reciprocal beneficiaries relationship (i.e. "shacking up").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_478

While the Intel mobile CPUs are available in 478-pin packages, they in fact only operate in a range of slightly differing sockets, Socket 479, Socket M, and Socket P, which are also incompatible with each other. All in all this board was considered "the shit" mobo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)

The commemorative plaque left on Earth's moon in July, 1969 uses Futura.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Birchall

Further recognition for Birchall came in 2008 when Trinidad author VS Naipul got a tattoo of Birchall in a goalscoring pose.

The commemorative plaque left on Earth's moon in July, 1969 uses Futura.

For some reason it makes me happy to know this. I'm glad it's not Comic Sans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Birchall

Further recognition for Birchall came in 2008 when Trinidad author VS Naipul got a tattoo of Birchall in a goalscoring pose.

― Ludo, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 13:48 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I added that about six months ago. It was original qf'd with the Naipul Wiki but that got edited back.

History of Dog Breeds

Aboriginal groups or pariah dogs establish themselves near human population, and further develop and maintain themselves without further selection. Neither they carry any specialized working dog functions. Working, hunting and other functional breeds most likely appeared when there is a demand for certain traits that are prevalent to the extension of the point one can devote his time and efforts to establish and maintain the group of dogs that perfect in certain traits valuable for that individual.

^ this has been babelfished, right?

Onoo began working on the independent circuit and was associated with the short-lived WrestleXpress and X Wrestling Federation.

Onoo owns a small car dealership in Iowa which, ironically, uses the same X as the before mentioned wrestling promotion - "X".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott_Heron

Scott-Heron's father, Giles "Gil" Heron of Jamaican descent, nicknamed "The Black Arrow" was a football (soccer) player who, in the 1950s, became the first black athlete to play for Glasgow's Celtic Football Club.

Zillah is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States, with a population of 2,198 at the 2000 census. Tourist attractions include the Teapot Dome Service Station, the fortuitously named Church of God Zillah, and the El Ranchito restaurant.

heh reading on...

Although the church is fairly conservative and some are unamused by this coincidence (the church was named long before the Godzilla movies began[citation needed]), the church embraces it, even putting a wireframe Godzilla float outside.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/God_zillah_1.jpg/250px-God_zillah_1.jpg

The Clique's plot mainly follows the first novel in this series by Lisi Harrison. The books lead you through the middle school lives of five girls: Massie Block, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, Alicia Rivera, and Claire Lyons. The girls belong to the most popular group at their private all-girls school Octavian Country Day (OCD) called the Pretty Committee aka The Clique. Hi I'd like to mention that.. THIS MOVIE ROCKED!!!!! THAT IS ALL! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clique_(film)

Abi Titmuss

She also starred in a sex tape, which is widely available on the internet. In The video also starred John Leslie and he described her vagina as a menace

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Elastica_The_Menace_Cover.jpg/200px-Elastica_The_Menace_Cover.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/288/jewelxk1.png

XD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Girls

This article or section has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality.

...

Music video

"Quality" is not an adjective that would be applied to the music video for "Summer Girls", nor for any other music videos in LFO's oeuvre. The video features the three gentlemen in the band, dressed like classic late-90s vintage d-bags, on a pier of some sort and later a beach. Our dignity-free trio walks around flirting with bikini-clad girls, some of whom are implausibly cute given the trio of men in question. Many, however, would more likely be classed as "anorexic" by 2008 standards. At one point in the video there's some break dancing. The guy with blond hair "raps" to the camera, demonstrating the remarkable ability to deliver lines like "When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet/Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets" with no evident impulse to kill himself.

from the entry about Jimmy Edwards:

A Brighton and Hove bus is named after him. He had been married to wife Valerie for many years, however during the 1970s he was publicly outed as a lifelong homosexual by others much to his annoyance.

I guess it's just the phrasing that amuses me.

The series was so popular in Germany that the TV Movie was released there theatrically under the name Alf - Der Film (Alf - The Movie) and was panned by critics and by fans, particularly for the Tanners' absence. At the time the show ALF was on in Germany, the roadside signs for the Moselle River town of "Alf" were frequently stolen by souvenir hunters.

Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979), a worker at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan, was one of the first individuals killed by a robot.

Blanche Knott is the credited author of the politically incorrect Truly Tasteless Jokes book and its many follow-ons. According to the New York Times, the first volume was the biggest-selling mass-market book of 1983. The name is a pun directing the reader to "blanch not" at the offensive nature of the jokes within and an obvious pseudonym.

The actual author was a fresh-from-college employee at St. Martin Press named Ashton Applewhite, who ironically, given the many AIDS jokes contained in the TTJ books, went on to write an inspirational volume for AIDS victims.

Danzig is one of few albums labeled as "explicit" despite the virtual absence of profanity (save for one use of the word "whore" in "Possession").

Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan when he was 24 in 1942. His local chapter unanimously elected him Exalted Cyclops.[2]

Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979), a worker at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan, was one of the first individuals killed by a robot BUT NOT THE LAST

http://www.reelmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/terminator_robot.jpg

To this day, no one knows exactly how the Les Paulverizer works.

Production notes

In the film's original cut, McAlester lived, but test audiences made it clear how much they disliked the character (going so far as to shout "Die, bitch!" at the screen) as her actions had caused all that had gone wrong.[citation needed] Thus, the decision was made to re-shoot the ending so that her character died. Conversely, Sherman 'Preacher' Dudley, played by LL Cool J, was to die but test audiences loved the character so much that filmmakers re-shot the ending and had him live.[citation needed]

From 'Spoon':

It is used primarily for serving and eating liquid or semisolid food (sometimes called "spoon-meat")

I always get excited when I see this thread has been revived, and spoon-meat is no exception.

from "André the Giant":

Actor Cary Elwes explains in his video diary of The Princess Bride that Samuel Beckett was a neighbor of the Roussimoff family while living in France. The Nobel Laureate would sometimes drive André to school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_giant

cool beans

spoon-meat!!

from max weinberg's

Weinberg was born in Newark, New Jersey. His sister, Nancy Winston, is a professional pianist and singer who is well known in New York City for her regular appearances at the Cafe Pierre, the Plaza Hotel and other top piano rooms. Weinberg played drums on Winston's self-titled debut CD. Weinberg also has another sister, Abby, a clinical social worker in the New England area. And Abby's two sons Jake and Noah are fans of their uncle.

lol

Haha that Beckett & André in Paris thing!

Sam: These bloody traffic jams.
And: But I can be late to school without getting the blame!
Sam: No matter. Always the same. Always the same. No matter.
And: Oh look! A lady with a very very small dog!
Sam: God fuck a cunt.
And: I'm bored. Got any comics?
Sam: And the fog. The fog is truly l'innomable
And: You just wiggled your finger. That's wonderful!

(yes yes I know he wasn't the one with that line)

oh sorry sloppy editing, last parenthesis shouldn't be there. I just decided against "I do not think that word means what you think it means".

One of the world's largest food companies, Kraft Foods, came under fire with consumer complaints and lawsuits regarding Kraft's commercial guacamole[2]. The main issue was that Kraft's guacamole contained less than 2 percent avocado and contains hydrogenated oils and artificial colors to try to approximate the consistency and color of avocados.

Chris Hawkins

Chris Hawkins (born 23 September 1975, in Loppington, North Shropshire, England) is a presenter, performance DJ, reporter, journalist, producer, and music pundit and all round nice guy.

Chris Hawkins also went back in time to be reborn on the 6th Feb 1985 and went on to be a great scientist.

Ulvaeus has suffered from severe memory loss and no longer remembers much of his life. He has little memory of being famous and has even turned to hypnotism to try and bring back his memory.

True, too, apparantly.

Steven Edwards was born in the South Bronx, to parents from North Carolina and North Virginia. He was also a former bodyguard for Muhammad Ali. He met Tommy DeSimone as a struggling blues-rock musician, singer and songwriter on Queens Boulevard sometime during 1967 while earning money as a street performer. At the time DeSimone was selling stolen Rolex watches. Thomas began to think of Parnell as a "brother" and the two became close friends. It was around this time that Thomas adopted the same integrationist stance of Martin Luther King, that was adopted by Colombo crime family mobster Joe Gallo.

The US Postal Service released a stamp featuring Ogden Nash and six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on 19 August 2002. The six poems are "The Turtle," "The Cow," "Crossing The Border," "The Kitten," "The Camel" and "Limerick One." It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word "sex," although as a synonym for gender. It can be found under the "O" and is part of "The Turtle".

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/51_sm.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(filmmaker)

Weitz is the son of the actress Susan Kohner and novelist/fashion designer John Weitz. Paul Kohner and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar are his grandparents.

Growing up in New York City, he attended The Allen-Stevenson School and later Collegiate. Then, he graduated from Wesleyan University, where he wrote the play Mango Tea. The play was performed off-Broadway.

WHO WONT Release OFF CENTRE ON DVD. SO please be free to download it off of bittorrent. He is the reason why illegal downloads are acceptable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_g

Kenny is a qualified pilot and has been known to fly to many events. He is also one of the original investors in the Starbucks coffee house chain. He has one sister, Paula, and one brother, Brian. His brother's sons, David and John, both play guitar and are in several different bands.

Kenny is allergic to shell fish.

OK, I know this isn't exactly an unusual detail, but I was trying to remember where "you can't handle the truth!" came from and I typed it into WikiPedia instead of Google -> it worked! Even though the quote isn't in the article at all!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can%27t_handle_the_truth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Alex_Ferguson

grew up in a tenement at 667 Govan Road

^Neighbour of the Beast!

Best thing in that horribly over-acted "You can't handle the truth!" scene is Jack going "you fucking people" - the phrase is permanently stuck in my head and floats to the front of my consciousness every time something irritates me, like people stopping in front of me in a doorway or people not standing on the right on the escalator - you know, important stuff.

"Sorkin took that information and wrote much of his story on cocktail napkins while bartending at the Palace Theatre on Broadway"

that's pretty unusual. dude couldn't afford a pad of paper?

i had no idea this was a play first, i actually assumed it was a john grisham thing.

horribly fabulously over-acted. "I'm gonna rip out your eyeballs and piss in your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong marine!" Could watch that whole climax over and over.

Lori Barbero (born November 27, 1961 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was the drummer for the Minneapolis-based band Babes in Toyland. She subsequently played drums for the bands Eggtwist and Koalas.[1]

She was also part owner of the now defunct Minneapolis label Spanish Fly Records, whose roster included Smut, Dumpster Juice, Milk, REO Speedealer, Sleep Capsule, and Likehell.

In 2006, Lori was awarded with an Artist of Distinction award by Sound Unseen for her continuous contribution to the Minneapolis Rock and Roll scene.

In 2008 Lori drunkenly drove her car into somebody's house and then asked what was left of her fan base to pay for her DUI charge. She was last seen frying eggs at a Minneapolis Denny's.

She now works at Hole in the Wall in Austin, TX as a cocktail waitress.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm

http://www.ivygateblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/occidental.png

GZA explores many motifs and themes, such as chess, crime and philosophy.

lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), are you 82.24.167.192? I note that that edit was only made on 5th March. It is, of course, quite easy to edit any wikipedia page, insert something absurd, then do a quick screen grab before the edit gets reverted.

http://www.blogadilla.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/face.png

lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), are you 93.106.227.48? I have noticed some vvv strange edits being made on Wikipedia from this IP address, and honestly, I suspect you.

She's not 93.106.227.48 at all! Based on her WDYLL pics I'd guess she's about 36.29.38

:-)

oh dear...this was one of my favourite threads as well.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/OfMarrow/coulterapple.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chopper_Read&action=edit&undoafter=276024170&undo=276064593

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathory_(band)

In an interview Quorthon stated that he was not conscripted for Sweden's army because of his long hair.

page: Jesse Katsopolis

Relationships

In the episode 13 Candles, it is revealed that his first kiss was with Diane Van Zant.

During the show's first season, he is seen with several girlfriends. Some of them are:
Vanessa ("Our Very First Show")
Adrianna ("Daddy's Home")
Robin ("Half a Love Story")
Jill ("Half a Love Story")
Samantha ("The Seven-Month Itch, Part I")
Roxanne (Sea Cruise)
Eva Braun (World War II)

irlol

Ronald Fraser

The pallbearers at his funeral were Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward (who had played his son in The Misfit) and Chris Evans.

Sailors sometimes called Madagascar "Island of the Moon",[12] a name by which it is referenced in the 1988 single "'Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)'" by artist Enya.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was homosexual, and the 32nd President of the United States.

However, despite some areas of Europe, such as Norway, still clinging to the use of oats in brewing until the early part of the 20th century, the practice had largely died out by the sixteenth century, so much so that in 1513 Tudor sailors refused to drink oat beer offered to them because of the bitter flavour.[15][16]

stupid Tudors.

same article:
Benjamin Disraeli is said to have enjoyed a meal of oysters and Guinness in the 19th century, though by the 20th century oyster beds were in decline, and stout had given way to pale ale.

(Kristen) Bell has also stated that she still has the Catholic school uniform she wore in high school and is planning on wearing it on her wedding night .[50]

Actually Kristen Bell's entire "personal life" section is filled with desultory facts that are tinged with heavy creep factor.

It's not exactly wikipedia, but I had to post this somewhere:

scroll down to Learn More

i would pay a large sum of money for a night with kristen bell in a schoolgirl uniform.
i don't care if this makes me a crepe to some of you.

Kristen Bell is from Royal Oak. Neat.

It's not exactly wikipedia, but I had to post this somewhere:

scroll down to Learn More

― mehlt, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 03:05 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ask Tuomas!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism#Radical_feminist_theory_and_ideology

Maybe you mean this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radical_feminism&diff=281449271&oldid=281343729

Gaylord Perry was named after a close friend of his father's, who died while having his teeth pulled.[3]

i thought this was pretty sweet:
Košarka (meaning basketball in Macedonian and Serbo-Croat) is an abandoned Turkish village in the mountains of the eastern mountain valley of the municipality Demir Kapija in the Republic of Macedonia. Most of its residents moved down, close to the highway to develop another village, Laki. Laki is not a registered village, yet, but electricity has been brought to the villagers. There is a fountain where the village used to be, yet, difficult to find, as the footpath has been worn, hardly ever used.

also i browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lambie_(footballer_born_1940)

Lambie left the club in March 1996 after a well publicised incident in which an enraged supporter, Keith G (for Grrr) Young, allegedly attempted to run the manager's car off the road.

browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

[The French town of] Ferney was first noted in 14th-century Burgundian registers as "Fernex." Four centuries later, however, Voltaire changed the "x" to a "y" due to the excessive number of towns in the region with names ending in "x," such as Maconnex, Saconnex, Gex, Versonnex, Ornex.

My preferred unusual wikipedia details are those where I can't tell whether it's interesting actual facts or someone making stuff up!

(aka [citation needed])

Haha there's more, whatta guy:

The château includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room (moved from its original location by later private owners), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God. In the church's inscription, "Deo erexit VOLTAIRE" ("Erected to God by VOLTAIRE"), Voltaire's name is written in the largest characters.

Steve Summers (born Steve Podwal) is the singer of the American hard rock band Pretty Boy Floyd (not to be confused with the now defunct Canadian band of the same name). Summers has appeared on all of the band's albums to date and boasts that he earned the nickname "Sex" for his sexual prowess.

On the Beach Boys' last album, released 1992:

The album sold very badly (reportedly less than 1,000 copies) and was received less favorably than any album put out by the band to date. Critics attacked the album upon release and are still going at it today.

The Roger Rabbit dance

The Roger Rabbit became a popular dance move in the early 1990s.[37][38] It was named after the floppy movements of the Roger Rabbit cartoon character. In movement, the Roger Rabbit dance is similar to the Running Man, but done by skipping backwards with arms performing a flapping gesture. Both The Running Man and The Roger Rabbit have since been called "outdated."[39]

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

this entire page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Peron

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

so yeah you're right, there's nothing really wrong, but it did amuse me (i knew nothing about Yello before visiting those pages)

ah yeah, if you'd never known about Meier, that could come off as one grand wikivandalism prank!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndoMie_Mi_Goreng

Indomie® Mi goreng is an instant noodles product line made under the Indomie brand by the Indofood company, the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer, located in Indonesia. It is distributed in many countries around the world.

We must stop buying palm oil products if we want to save the critically endangered orang-utan.

“Only 7000 orang-utans are left, in Indonesia and Malaysia, due to their homes in the rainforests being cut down,” says Dr Peter Pratje, the director of Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme (SOCP).

Shame on Indofood for using palm oil.

Not a lol at wikipedia; a lol at the French and their administrative divisions... Background: the most local level of administration in France is the commune, of which there are about 36 000. For instance, the city of Paris is one, with more than two million people, then there is...Rochefourchat:

Rochefourchat is a commune in the Drôme department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. In the commune there is a single house, a converted barn, and the ruins of an old castle. The nearest communes to Rochefourchat are Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Les Tonils, Pradelle and Brette.

As of the 1999 census, there was just one permanent inhabitant, a 38-year old divorced man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_and_cheese_sandwich

In some American homes, ham and cheese sandwiches are a common element of hastily prepared, impromptu home meals. Thus, in a detective novel we read:

Bosch went into the the kitchen and got a beer out and made a ham and cheese sandwich. He stood by the sink eating and drinking and trying to organize things about the case in his head.[2]

[2]

Well it's only fair that Mr Connelly is credited for his literary effort.

During his time at the Dutch club Ajax, Benni McCarthy and then teammate Mario Melchiot formed a critically acclaimed jazz expressionist band, Benni and The Melting Melchiots. Releasing one album, Benni and Mario Go South. A change in musical direction forced the duo to put the band on indefinite hiatus. Although a reunion is believed to highly possible in late 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogie_Howser

In an episode of Roseanne, Roseanne has a dream after having undergone breast reduction surgery. She goes to the mirror and realizes that she has comically larger breasts than before. Doogie Howser (Harris) comes in and asks an upset Roseanne if they were supposed to be bigger than they are in the dream. Dan steps and excitedly remarks "Way to go, Doogie!" before Roseanne passes out. She wakes up to realize it was only a dream.

Skirting board incident

On Thursday 17 March, 1983 Dustin Gee purchased four packs of 6 foot skirting board from Wickes Building Supplies on Stirling Road, York. Gee was helping a friend with a DIY project at his home on Hall Rise in the nearby village of Haxby. Gee inexpertly lashed the packs of skirting board onto the roof of his brand new Austin Maestro. Gee drove down the A1237 towards his friend's house. However, as he turned left at the roundabout onto Haxby Road, the packs of skirting boards slid loose and caused two other vehicles to collide. Local magistrates subsequently fined Gee and endorsed his driving licence with penalty points. Gee spoke to the local press about the incident and said, “I’m not a very practical sort of person. Today, I learnt a lesson. Tomorrow I'll learn how to tie a proper knot.”.

It is conceivably possible that Richard Herring has vandalised "Andrew Gonk Collins" wikipedia entry:

In the podcast he often makes reference to Herring's collection of 80s toys and in particular to his massive lifesized pork cutlass of which he is particularly envious.

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

All this is pretty much consistent with what Dieter Meier has told of himself in all the interviews I've read. Of course it could all be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him (this would actually fit his character), but I wouldn't imagine some random Wikipedia contributor doing independent research on Meier's life.

The performance piece where he placed a plaque at a railway station in 1972 saying that he would stand there in 1994, and then kept his promise in 1994, has been documented though, I've seen pictures of it.

That same year, whilst covering the war in Bosnia Bell was seriously wounded by shrapnel while recording a report. The grenade was fired by Serbian forces. He is often noted for wearing a white suit.

The performance piece where he placed a plaque at a railway station in 1972 saying that he would stand there in 1994, and then kept his promise in 1994, has been documented though, I've seen pictures of it.

Yeah, I heard about the Kassell plaque on Norwegian radio in 1986, so it's def not invented later than that at least.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlito%27s_Way

To achieve the rough and choppy nature of the East River a WOW Wave Ball (a sophisticated Belgian device, which churns up controlled waves) was used.[12] The ZOW Wave Sphere from Portugal was originally considered, as it is a far more sophisticated device and can shape waves based on the target water temperature, salinity and ocean floor depth. However, the CEO of ZOW Waves, Fernando Trerrero, was indicted on (what some considered trumped-up) conspiracy charges just before principal shooting of the Rikers Island escape scene was to begin, and as such the ZOW Sphere was unable to be delivered on time. Belgian's WOW team was ready to take over, and eventually became the de facto wave generating spherical device supplier to the film industry.[11]

Band members have stated that their first shows after the release of Shape of Punk to Come were devastating to them emotionally and that their final tour was not a good time at all, but awful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocker_(film)
The movie's "title song" was recorded by The Dudes Of Wrath, which was composed of KISS' Paul Stanley and producer Desmond Child both on vocals, Def Leppard's Vivian Campbell and Guy Mann-Dude on guitars, Whitesnake's Rudy Sarzo on bass guitar, and Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee on drums. Also backing vocals by Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony & Kane Roberts.

References to Guy Mann-Dude always make me happy - I keep forgetting about that... fellow.

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Moond is a clan of Jats found in Rajasthan, India. Ramesh Chandra Gunarthi in his book “Rajasthani Jatiyon ki khoj” (1977) has mentioned about the origin of this gotra. One of the sons of Raja Mangal Rao Bhojsi of Bhati clan was Moonda who joined Jats. The descendants of Moonda are known as Moond. The capital of Moond Kings was at village Mandore in Jodhpur district. Other places connected with the history of Moonds are villages Munda (Churu district), Mundsar (Bikaner district), Mundara (Pali district), Mandawa (Jhunjhunu district), Mundwa (Nagaur district) etc. in Rajasthan, India.

Moond Jats are presently found in district Sikar, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Barmer and Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan. SURENDER MOOND BUSINESSMAN SRI GANGANAGAR

Note that the title incorporates an intentional misspelling (contéee instead of contée). It may or may not incorporate an intentional dropping of acute accents in Sibérie/Siberie and m'était/m'etait.

The grammatically correct title would be Sibérie m'était contée. The title as written in capital letters on the album cover is SIBERIE M'ETAIT CONTÉEE. To interpret this, it is necessary to understand that the French language usually drops accents (diacritics) on capital letters, but nevertheless very often retains the accent for capital É (E with acute accent) when it occurs in a word-final or near word-final position, because in this position it could be mistaken for silent "e" and the word could be mistaken for another word: eg, conté (told [masculine]), conte (tale).

Thus, nearly all French language references interpret the title as Sibérie m'était contéee (Amazon.fr, album reviews, etc). However the official Manu Chao website manuchao.net gives the title as Siberie m'etait contéee (without accents on Sibérie or m'était) even though Sibérie appears elsewhere on the same webpage with the accent. It is not known if this dropping of accents in Sibérie and m'était actually reflects the singer's intentions or was merely done by the site's webmaster.

Uno H2O Splash - Features a special "whirlpool" device that has you shake the Magic 8 ball type of thingy to reveal what you must do such as Wave Left or Wave Right

from the entry for the Belushi/policedog buddy movie K-9:

The German Shepherd Dog "Jerry Lee" was played by Koton, a real-life police dog from the Kansas City, Missouri police department. In 1991, Koton was shot and killed while trying to apprehend a suspect in the murder of a police officer.

That is the saddest thing.

But it will also make me watch K-9 in a whole new light: Koton didn't just play a police dog, Koton died in the line of duty

Here's to you, Koton -- actor, police officer, role model, and friend

ya what they don't mention is that he was working undercover at the time

that just gave me an awesome idea for a kid's movie named doggie brasco

That's right up there with this from imdb:

In the middle of the film, Dolly Parton and her colleagues send a nosy secretary to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado to learn French. The particular TWA 747 shown in the film later was used in reality on the ill-fated flight of TWA 800, which exploded off of Long Island, NY.

later was used in reality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kattan

Kattan married model Sunshine Tutt on June 28, 2008, in California after proposing to her at her grandparents' home in Gainesville, Texas on Christmas Eve 2006.[2] Kattan's publicist told E! News on August 19, 2008 that the couple had separated but had no plans for divorce.[3] However, on August 22, 2008, Kattan filed for legal separation from his wife, claiming that the couple separated on August 10.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosport

Eurosport offers viewers varied sports such as UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup football, the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, the Olympics, cycling events such as Le Tour de France and Britain's Premier Calendar road racing series, tennis events including the French Open and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, World Championship Snooker, Australian Football League, wintersports, (although biathlon is usually cancelled to extend coverage of other sports) and youth sports like skating and surfing.

a frustrated biathlon-fan?

I don't know which part of this story is the least plausible.

The idea of Chris Kattan being attractive to a woman in the first place, obv.

Sveinung (born Frunz Dønezal, 1976 in Levanger, Norway) is a singer, songwriter and piano player. A 6 ft 5 in, 350 lb. gentle giant with a habit of pinching people's behinds (as a greeting),

From Talk: Steve Perry (musician) -
I've removed "Steve Perry is the best singer in the world.". -Nick
― J0hn D., Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:48 (1 year ago)

Still on Steve's wiki:

Steve Perry is eligible for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, both as a solo artist (since 2009) and as a member of Journey (since 2000).

In the IBM entry:

Intelligent dance music, or Internet Dork Music(commonly IDM) is a popular name for an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s at the end of the British rave era.

Er...that would be the IDM entry. godammit.

put a dork on it

Delta Burke has compulsive hoarding syndrome. "At one time I had 27 storage units. I don't have a big enough house!" she said. "My mom had it, it's my mother's fault. She saved the diaper I came home from the hospital in!"[6]

In an episode of The Golden Girls, Sophia complained about the high price of Pepperidge Farm cookies and said not to buy them with her money.

hahaha

Hurricane #1 were a UK indie/Britpop band, formed in 1996 by former Ride guitarist Andy Bell, along with vocalist / guitarist Alex Lowe, bassist Will Pepper and drummer Gareth Farmer. Signed to Creation Records (along with fellow bands such as Oasis, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream) they released their debut album in 1997, entitled Hurricane #1. This included their first single, "Step Into My World", which reached number 29 in the UK Singles Chart (and a remix of which reached number 19 in 1997),[1] and other less successful singles "Just Another Illusion" and "Chain Reaction". Their other biggest hit single was "Only The Strongest Will Survive", which also reached number 19 in 1998,[1] and which featured on their second album, Only The Strongest Will Survive.

Bell quit the band in 1999 to become the new guitar player for Gay Dad.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

what's unusual about a wiki entry for a band noting the year and reason that they split up?

Audition also found its place at the number 11 spot in Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for its infamous torture scene. It is here that Rob Zombie and John Landis claim that the film is extremely disturbing.

Harold's best friend & roommate, free spirit Kumar, is not afraid to let go of his inhibitions, making Harold the symbolic personification of the suppressed Asian-American employee and student in the United States. Harold, at times, lets go of his inhibitions, but only during moments of extreme duress, to the point where he amazes even the free-spirited Kumar. Harold is the yin to Kumar's yang, with the both of them being united through their enjoyment of cannabis smoking after a long day's work and or leisurely fun (such as aboard an airplane in the sequel, and an after work "Friday night special" in the first film).

A bit of Punky Brewster o_0:

After suffering from gigantomastia as a teen, Frye underwent a breast reduction three months before her 16th birthday

what's unusual about a wiki entry for a band noting the year and reason that they split up?

― Man GoGo (sic), Sunday, 14 June 2009 03:47 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Apart from that 10 minutes after accepting the Gay Dad job, he got offered Oasis instead?

So they should leave it out?! I don't get it.

probably echoes of Why do people who hate music write about music?

The cover photo was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe using natural light in a penthouse in Greenwich Village. The triangle of light on the wall was the product of the afternoon sun. The record company wanted to make various changes to the photo including airbrushing out Patti Smith's moustache but Smith overruled such attempts.

Accidentally read that last line as including airbrushing out Patti Smith's moustache but Smith overruled such armpits.

Albums by Black Lace

1984 Black Lace
1984 Party Party
1985 Party Party 2
1986 Party Crazy
1987 16 Greatest Party Hits
1990 20 All Time Party Favourites
1991 Black Lace Bukkake Party Album
1993 Action Party
1995 Saturday Night
1997 Greatest Hits
1998 What a Party

I thought the lol about the Hurricaine entry was the whole "became X for Gay Dad" meme.

yes

but it's not unusual. he did leave My Singer's A Boxer So Don't Mess to join Gay Dad. this is like linking Gay Dad's wiki and going "lol it mentions Gay Dad!"

Apparently this is true. General Santa Ana played a key role in inventing chewing gum.

In 1869, exiled former Mexican president and general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (infamous for his victory over the Alamo defenders) was living in New Jersey. He brought a ton of Mexican chicle with him, in hopes of selling it to raise funds to help him return to power in his own country. He persuaded Thomas Adams of Staten Island, New York to buy it. Adams, a photographer and inventor, intended to vulcanize the chicle for use as a rubber substitute. Adams' efforts at vulcanization failed, but he noticed that Santa Anna liked to chew the chicle, which the ancient Mayans had done. Disappointed with the rubber experiments, Adams boiled a small batch of chicle in his kitchen to create a chewing gum. He gave some to a local store to see if people would buy it; they did and he began production.

"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is one of Robert Frost's most famous poems. Written in 1923 , this poem was published in The Yale Review in October of that year. It was later published in a collection called 'New Hampshire' (1923), which featured other notable poems of Frost such as Two Look at Two and Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Some say the poem helped Frost to win a Pulitzer Prize. Only eight lines long, this poem is still considered one of Frost's best. "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is also featured in the novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and its film adaptation.

Stylistic devices

The relatively simple rhyme scheme is as follows:
AABBCCDD

The poem's meter is Iambic Trimeter.

nothing lasts forever and ever!!!!!

Delmore Schwartz had the rock star, Lou Reed, as one of his students at Syracuse University and reportedly told Reed at one point, "You can write—and if you ever sell out and there's a Heaven from which you can be haunted, I'll haunt you," and Reed never forgot..[citation needed]

In November 2006, Furtado revealed that she once turned down US$ 500,000 to pose fully-clothed in Playboy.[35]

from the reference:

And although the singer turned it down - she says she still wouldn't rule it out.

"I (was) offered half a million dollars to pose fully clothed," she said. "(To do it would be a) vanity thing, an egotistical thing Its not to say that I would never do it. Its intriguing, its very tempting. Its got to be under the right terms. We will see what happens."

Nelly Retardo never more aptly mocked

Gay Dad were one of the last UK Britpop bands to be launched in the late 1990s. They generated massive news media interest and had moderate chart success, but they failed to sustain their popularity and broke up in 2002. The best-known line-up of the band (during their most successful period) was Cliff Jones (guitarist/vocalist), James Riseboro (keyboardist), Nigel Hoyle (bassist), Charley Stone (guitarist) and Nicholas "Baz" Crowe (drummer).

lol!

Seeing the reference in the Low thread about Travis from Days of the New being on A&E's Intervention ended up leading me to this nugget from the Tantric wiki page:

On March 9th 2009, Tantric announced through MySpace that their new album will be entitled Mind Control and that the band were in the process of recording the album. Produced by Brett Hestla (Creed), they have announced a tentative release date of August 4th, released exclusively through Arby's store locations, with the title track released to radio in June.

Really? Arby's?

that needs placement on the LOL thread

Do we have those anymore?

LOL threads or Arby's?

cause I haven't had Arby's in over a decade

huh gigantomastia, never heard of it.

An early case study dates to 1670. The initial patient died four months after the onset of enlargement. One breast removed after a woman's death weighed 64 lb.

what the

Black Lace also appeared as themselves in the 1986 Film "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" performing the song "Gang Bang"

The Arby's thing is actually making me giggle, I don't know why!

it is without question the most giggle-worthy music-distribution scheme I have ever heard of

"Yeah, I'd like a Beef n' Cheddar, with curly fries, a coke... and say, is that the new Tantric album? I'll have one of those too."

"the blazing new album Mind Control, available exclusively at ... you like roast beef, right?"

Black Lace also appeared as themselves in the 1986 Film "Rita, Sue and Bob Too" performing the song "Gang Bang"

Anybody who's never heard that should get right on it btw.

An early case study dates to 1670. The initial patient died four months after the onset of enlargement. One breast removed after a woman's death weighed 64 lb.

― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, June 19, 2009 4:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've heard of this, it was 1/3 of her body weight i think???

I did some googling on the Arby's thing and apparently some members of Tantric used to work at Arby's before they started the band, so I think this is a pretty fun (and I guess meaningful, for them) joke.

Exhumator had an industrial thrash metal sound, but its members weren't into the style.[8]

This is the first Cage album ever that contains no misogyny in the form of the word "bitch". It is not said once.

Also recently Red Stripe began sponsoring the International Festival of Thumb Wrestling held annually in Mason City, Iowa. Red Stripe Vice President of Marketing Randolph Samuelson III was the first black man to win this festival, and it has held a special place in his heart since he broke the color barrier and won the championship in 1971.

lol @ tantric w/horsey sauce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation_(disambiguation)

damn you, ) .

In Utero is featured article, it lists its chart positions, and then 2 years later it finally hits the charts in Wallonia. (that probably happens a lot, but i still found it amusing)

The chicken fingers are often diced and stuffed in a baked potato topped with butter, Cheddar cheese, and cream gravy.

^^^ have never heard of this, but think it sounds kind of delicious???

The Jackson 5's influence on later performers has been profound, inspiring a number of performers from diverse fields, including pop emo band Dashboard Confessional,[3]

Notable posters have included Momus,[2] Simon Reynolds, PappaWheelie, Philip Sherburne, Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth,[3] John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats,[4] Frank Kogan, Ned Raggett,[5] former The Wire editor Mark Sinker, former Village Voice music editor Chuck Eddy, Peter Chung (creator of Æon Flux) and Fluxblog author Fatthew Perpetua. (citation needed)

A++

Cartoon Network showing

When Cartoon Network aired the film, a mild profanity was left uncensored during the scene where the robot first appears, only three inches tall, and Walter orders it to "Get me a juice box, Biotch" The word was censored, however, for the second showing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ironside

He is best known for playing villains, "tough guy" heroes and amputees

As the Crimson Tide do not have a logo on their helmets or uniforms, Big Al's likeness appears on much team merchandise and such.

Mung bean, also known as green bean, mung, moong, moog dal (in bangla), mash bean, munggo or monggo, green gram, golden gram, and green soy, is the seed of Vigna radiata which is native to Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. The split bean is known as moong dal, which is green with the husk, and yellow when dehusked. The beans are small, ovoid in shape, and green in color. The English word "mung" derives from the Hindi moong.

The mung bean is one of many species recently moved from the genus Phaseolus to Vigna and is still often seen cited as Phaseolus aureus or Phaseolus radiatus. These are all the same plant.

It is also known by a select few that Mr Aiden Tinney dances like a mung bean. He is the only human being maybe even primate that can do this and though it is said to be embarrassing, scary and some what retarded, it does attract the affection of kuwaiti girls.

hahaha

Rickman was chosen by Empire as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (No 34) in 1995 and ranked No 59 in Empire's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list in October 1997. Rickman became Vice-Chairman of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 2003. He was voted No 19 in Empire magazine's Greatest Living Movie Stars over the age of 50 and was twice nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor (Play): in 1987 for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and in 2002 for a revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives.

Alan Rickman was recently set up by BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers programme. The programme satirised Rickman's distinctive inflection when playing 'baddies.'

The episode "Peter's Progress" of the television cartoon Family Guy included a scene mocking Rickman's voice, by portraying him repeatedly calling his own answering machine.

Research to find 'the perfect voice' has indicated that Rickman's voice is one of the best.[15] The combination of his voice along with Jeremy Irons' voice was deemed the best voice based on intonation, trustworthiness, and soothingness.

Deep in the San Pedro article in re: notable residents:

The Couches, nautical post-apocalyptic death rock band consisting of three nautical post-apocalyptic death rock dudes.

Real-life parallels

-- During the 2007 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers added an infielder named Chin-Lung Hu. After Hu singled in a game against the San Diego Padres, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully remarked "And Hu's on first."

-- In 1920, Allie Watt played one game at second base for the Washington Senators.

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C major
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C major

Relative key A minor
Parallel key C minor
Component pitches
C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
See also: C minor and C-sharp minor
C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical major scale based on C, with pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Its key signature has no flats/sharps.
Its relative minor is A minor, and its parallel minor is C minor. Many instruments, such as the piano, are tuned in C.
C major is one of the most commonly used key signatures in music. Most transposing instruments playing in their home key are notated in C major; for example, a clarinet in B-flat sounding a B-flat major scale is notated as playing a C major scale. The white keys of the piano correspond to the C major scale (however, some electronic keyboards are in B-flat). The Western concert flute and piccolo both have C major as their home key. A harp tuned to C major has all its pedals in the middle position.
C major is often thought of as the simplest key, owing to its lack of either sharps or flats, and beginning piano students' very first pieces are usually very simple ones in this key, and the first scales and arpeggios that students learn are usually C-major ones. However, going against this common practice, the composer Frédéric Chopin regarded this scale as the most difficult one to play with complete evenness, and he tended to give it last to his students. He regarded B major as the easiest scale to play on the piano, because the position of the black and white notes best fitted the natural positions of the fingers, and so he often had students start with this scale. A C-major scale lacks black keys, and thus does not fit the natural positions of the fingers very well.

A one-octave C major scale.
Nineteen of Joseph Haydn's 104 symphonies are in C major, making it his second most often used main key, second only to D major. Of the 134 symphonies mistakenly attributed to Haydn that H. C. Robbins Landon lists in his catalog, 33 of them are in C major, more than any other key. Before the invention of the valve trumpet, Haydn did not write trumpet and timpani parts in his symphonies, except those in C major. H. C. Robbins Landon writes that it wasn't "until 1774 that Haydn uses trumpets and timpani in a key other than C major ... and then only sparingly." Most of Haydn's symphonies in C major are labelled "festive" and are of a primarily celebratory mood.[1] (See also List of symphonies in C major).
Many Masses and settings of Te Deum in the Classical era were in C major. Mozart wrote most of his Masses in C major, and so did Haydn.[2]
Of Franz Schubert's two symphonies in the key, the first is nicknamed the "Little C major" and the second the "Great C major."
Although not that difficult for a guitar, C major is not considered ideal for the instrument. The three notes of the dominant chord (G, B & D) are available as open strings, but the root of the tonic chord is not.
French composers such as Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Rameau generally thought of C major as a key for happy music, but Hector Berlioz in 1856 described it as "serious but deaf and dull." Ralph Vaughan Williams was impressed by Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 in C major and remarked that only Sibelius could make the key sound fresh. However, C major was a key of great importance in Sibelius's previous symphonies.[3] Claude Debussy, noted for composing music that avoided a particular key center, once said, "I do not believe in the supremacy of the C major scale."
In musical catalogs that sort the musical pieces by key, whether they go by semitones or along the circle of fifths, they almost always begin with those pieces in C major.
A notable modern use of the key is Terry Riley's In C.
Most slot machines sounds are in C major to avoid sounding dark or sinister.[4]
Whereas traditionally key signatures were cancelled whenever the new key signature had fewer sharps or flats than the old key signature, in modern popular and commercial music, cancellation is only done when C major or A minor replaces another key.[5]

Most slot machines sounds are in C major to avoid sounding dark or sinister.[4]

Another version is that Cordet was in the booth next door doing the photo shoot for the cover and was on top of fibre glass, when she poured the honey on herself the honey fused with the fibre glass and her legs sticking her to the floor, as she tried to get up the skin got ripped off her legs, thus the scream, this put an end to her modeling career she then said that she would sue the band for everything they had, at this point the band manager stabbed her to death. This, however, is highly improbable as Ester Cordet is still alive

In 2009, Hufty will be appearing in the new Lowri Turner tv vehicle, Lowri Turns'er! in which Turner attempts to convert straight women to lesbianism, with the aide of Hufty's lesbian charms. The show will be broadcast on Bravo in the Summer.

Peter Jackman became England's best-known gurner, winning the world championship four times, beginning in 1998 with a face called the "Bela Lugosi."[3] He had his teeth removed in 2000 to make his features easier to manoeuvre. Three years later, he died playing golf in Spain when a cliff face collapsed underneath him.[4]

Revolution

In the year of 2008, West Memphis started to get vast Economic Development. The city began building its largest hotel by floors, the city's second skyscraper. During this time land developers started to invest in West Memphis' land. At the end of 2008 West Memphis' population doubled, getting to be the 14th largest city in Arkansas. In 2009 the city bought seven acres of land near the city's airport, making the city a little bigger. Later in 2009, West Memphis council members voted to get a kitchen incubator.

good to know!!

The city began building its largest hotel by floors, the city's second skyscraper.

Prime would appear in the U.K. Marvel comic issue #234, "Prime's Rib!" This story is set in the near future, 1995, where Optimus Prime, Jazz and Hot Rod introduce the latest Autobot, Arcee, to the human feminists. She was met with displeasure by the humans, being called a token female and disliked for her pink color. They were then attacked by Shockwave, Fangry, Horri-Bull and Squeezeplay, who thought the Autobot would be unveiling a new weapon. The Autobots fought off the Decepticons, who escaped, but nothing seemed to please the human feminists.

Umm here are some things Wikipedia just taught me about Alicia Witt:

- "was discovered by David Lynch when she appeared on the television show That's Incredible! in 1980; she had recited Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" *

- was home schooled by her parents and earned her high school diploma at age 14

- her mother "was noted from 1988–93 in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest hair"

- "On June 14, 2004, Witt modeled what is believed to be the most expensive hat ever made"

* this is not so unusual until you start imagining David Lynch kicking back watching That's Incredible!

https://www.atomicavenue.com/Covers/Medium/M/Marvel%20UK/Transformers,%20The%20(Marvel%20UK)/287545.jpg
someone please track this down and scan!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxblog

Fluxblog is a street stall selling crepes created and updated by Matthew Perpetua.

The street stall selling crepes began in 2002 and began to differentiate between crepes and pancakes at the end of that year. Two crepes are commonly posted every weekday along with toppings such as whipped cream and Nutella and a separate savoury menu where a crepe containing shredded cheddar or bolognese sauce can be purchased.

I guess one person's "unusual detail" can be someone else's "blatant vandalism".

i lol'd

no ham sandwich, no credibility

* this is not so unusual until you start imagining David Lynch kicking back watching That's Incredible!

― nabisco, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:15 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that weird? what's weird about it, really?

she does a killlllll boogie-woogie piano exercise during the credits of one of the first season eps of twin peaks.

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