This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Regardless, many still believe that double spaces is correct. The debate continues, notably on the World Wide Web—as many people use search engines to try to find what is correct.

citation required...

Bloody LeRoy: Barbecue sauce replacing tomato juice, garnish with rib bone. Invented by the Reverend Horton Heat and Gibby Haynes during the recording of The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat, which Haynes was producing.[16]

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

Actually goes through the whole of the made up story in 'Forrest Gump' concerning its creation under the heading Historical Fiction. This section is longer than the rest of the article put together.

According to authoritative Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior financial decision makers in the world’s largest financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 36% of the galaxy, 11% more than The Wall Street Journal, its main rival.

This list has been split between:

List of words having different meanings in British and American English: A–L
List of words having different meanings in British and American English: M-Z

(found via this goldmine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists)

a sausage, as in "bangers and mash"
an old motorcar in a state of disrepair (US: beater)

a type of firework

a particularly club-friendly beat or song
a gang member (gang-banger)

Legend states that a boy from Wendover can only become a man once he has completed the course for the first time.

great choice of words - 'legend' instead of something more appropriate like 'tradition' makes it sound like puberty is actually delayed

After his appearance in AvP, Henriksen joined Bill Paxton as the only actor to be killed by an Alien, a Predator, and a Terminator.[10]

^^^ v v important detail

however the android Bishop was disconnected by Ripley and There is no solid, explicit reference that Vukovich was killed during the shootout at the West Highland Police Station

(usual details in terminator wiki articles)

In Egypt, the lower classes would wear pale colors and when the high society color changed to red, that is the color Cleopatra would often wear, even though she actually liked pink the best, but it was a close tie for second between blue and purple.[4]

By the turn of the 9th century, nails were tinted with scented red oils, and polished or buffed with cinnamon, rather than simply polished with almonds.[5] In the 19th and early 20th centuries, people pursued a polished rather than painted look by massaging tinted powdered sugar and whipping creams into their nails, then buffing them shiny. One such polishing product sold around this time was Graf's Hyglo nail toothpaste. Some people during this period painted their nails with four candy canes ("You go glen coco!!!!!!!")[6]. After the creation of automobile paint, Cutex produced the first modern nail polish in 1917.[7] Later the Charles Revson Company (later Revlon) produced their first nail polish in 1932.

Once nail polish was refined, it was often used in the place of gloves to cover up the grime underneath the feet.[8]

Nail polish is now one of the main exports of Francily (along with banana chips).

This article is about the actor. For the JavaScript library, see jQuery.
Jake Weary (born February 14, 1990) is an American actor, singer and musician.

Paul O'Grady is credited with the choreography of the Running Man dance troupe.[2]

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

link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flute_of_Shame_Torture_Museum_Amsterdam.jpg

In years to come, the bird would not only learn to talk but, by mimicking its owner's cough, would spur McTell to give up the hand-rolled cigarettes he'd smoked all his adult life.

In 1935, Pan American Airways constructed a small village, nicknamed "PAAville", to service flights on its U.S.–China route. The village was the first human settlement on the island, and relied upon the U.S. mainland for much of its food and water supplies. However, Wake Island is credited as being one of the early successes of hydroponics, which enabled Pan American Airways to grow vegetables for its passengers, as it was prohibitively expensive to airlift in fresh vegetables and the island lacked natural soil.[19]

wow

Is this a joke, or...

Yasiel grew up in a nuclear family. His parents were both engineers.

262 BCE Zeno of Citium founder of the Stoic philosophical school tripped and broke his toe and then died from holding his breath.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Daylight

Broad Daylight is an album of original material from Pittsburg, CA rapper The Jacka released on the Berkeley-based record label Town Records. The album consisted of 14 songs, and was released on January 12, 2009.[2] It features different artists, like Keak da Sneak, Lee Majors, Agerman.[3]

Broad Daylight A term commonly used in the English language as an idiom for a brazen act that has taken place where other people may see.

"The secret lovers were together in broad daylight." "The house was broken into during broad daylight."

For example a crime committed in front of a crowd of people may be described as having been committed in "Broad Daylight" even if it was dark outside. The idiom in this instance referring to the crime being committed without any stealth. There is a book titled In Broad daylight written about such a crime.

The term may also refer to behavior that is strange or not socially acceptable. Even if they were inside a mall with artificial lighting it may be stated that "The two girls walked around in "broad daylight" with fake mustaches on".

In rare circumstances the idiom is used to describe the exposure of a secret. "It has been brought into the light" or it has been brought from the darkness into broad daylight that......" Something that was not known is now understood. "Shed some light on the situation"

JESUS CHRIST, WE GET IT.

In the printed lyrics on many websites "Wacaday" is incorrectly written as "Why Good Day"

Are there many songs with "Wacaday" in them?

Oh, wait, i'm thinking of one now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zZpTRlNvk

The 2007 debut release by British trio Scouting For Girls contains a tribute to Michaela Strachan and Wacaday in a hidden track 11.

^features "wacaday"/"why good day"

ta.

"Broad Daylight" might be my fave wiki entry ever.

I imagine some dude sweating, thinking "did I include enough examples? want to make sure my readers can follow me."

the single word hyperlinks here are killing me http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett

learning, courage, world, born, means, hope, book, read, intellectual, reality, joy, sorrow, sun, nothing.

its like a beckett poem in itself

best part of wikiquote is always the pictures running along the right

"They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance."

under photo of baby Hitler

High Amiable is seen with a complexion of indigo blue, two protrusive buck teeth, bright red knotted hair, and an exceedingly bright royal red robe. During the first attack upon Baby Tooth, High Amiable would unleash his skills against Good Lob the Lobster. Once Yang Forest was being bound to death by Good Lob, High Amiable would immediately launch himself into the air and unleash his Coalesce Pearl technique (a technique that instantly sent Lobster's head askew). Once the death of Wang Magus had been heard, and High Amiable also expressed his inner anguish, he would personally battle against Baby Tooth the following morning. Instantly, however, High Amiable would be strucken in the head by Baby Tooth's Devil Beating Whip, and would thus be killed instantly.

Will you please review next the 'Good Lob the Lobster' lp by High Amiable in the west coast thread?

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

Sweaters were a featured wardrobe choice for the characters in the 2002 Diane Lane and Richard Gere film Unfaithful. All three of the main characters wear sweaters for the majority of the film for symbolic purposes.

wtf

It was so good of that film to finally bring sweaters to prominence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McBride_(writer)

McBride is currently a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at New York University. He has three children and lives between New York City and Pennsylvania. He is proud of the fact that he dances with one finger in the air like a white guy.

Drakon takes place in an alternate universe version of our 1995-2000. It begins in the year 2442 (aka 442 FS, or the 442nd Year of the Final Society) of the Draka history. The Domination is pitted against the post-American world of Samothrace in the Alpha Centauri system, which is a colony of Alliance refugees from the Final War. A failed experiment intended to research wormholes (called "moleholes") for FTL travel causes a single Drakensis (the genetically-engineered posthuman species of Draka), Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, to be sent to the 1995 of an alternate universe very similar to our own. The only notable difference is that Kenneth Branagh played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel, (though his casting occurs after Ingolfsson's incursion in 1995, indicating that the introduction of "holo-projectors" by IngolfTech might have attracted a higher-quality lead in the 1999 film of our universe).

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

He has five sisters. Two are named Achiely Barnett and Summer. The others are triplets.

Triplets don't have names and share a hive mind, apparently....

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

Cool's autobiography, Phil Cool Died Here (And Lived To Tell The Tale), was followed by a book of 'Art Brut'-inspired sketches of children.

In a 2002 production on BBC comedy performers, Karl Howman recalled how he and Cool obtained tickets and backstage passes for a World Championship Wrestling (WCW) event while both were in the United States during the early 1990s. Cool's humour and impressions of wrestling stars such as Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair were well received by the wrestlers backstage who were told of his BBC work and keen to have Cool involved in the product in some way. Cool's schedule would not allow a long term commitment, but he did appear at one live show, portraying masked wrestler Kendo Nagasaki (also known as The Dragonmaster). Cool was unmasked and revealed as an imposter sent by Nagasaki to throw off his opponent. The real Nagasaki, played by Kazuo Sakurada (who is also well known as the trainer of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and WCW superstar Bret "The Hitman" Hart), appeared on the rampway as Cool delivered some amusing facial expressions and a brief monologue in the ring.[7]

Gonzalez has refuted the idea of ever taking steroids multiple times, and is in fact a vegetarian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_born_with_cleft_palate

Missing 1 x Stacy Keach

http://listen.hatnote.com/#en,de,ja,ar,nl,es,it,fa,hi,ru,fr,sv,id,bn,ta,or,te,kn,gu,as,pa,mr,sa

beautiful!

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

"Throughout the film, Spicoli serves as the comic relief, usually opposite Mr. Hand in a series of amusing sketches. He was also late when he stayed in the food lines to get a bagel."

♪♫ i've got the midas touch ♪♫

oh lol wrong thread

i think

Noodles is also allegedly color blind. For the better part of the band's career, it was a popular belief that Noodles liked to pick on and annoy Greg K, The Offspring's bassist.