This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Andy Duncan's short story, "Senator Bilbo," which appears in the collection, Seekers of Dreams (2005), edited by Douglas A. Anderson, takes the coincidence of Bilbo sharing a name with J. R. R. Tolkien's character as an excuse to imagine racial segregation in Tolkien's fictional village of Hobbiton.

misread that as "sneakers of deems". too much time on ilx.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_removal#Laser_removal

That's so gross. What logo is that on dude's face?

http://i41.tinypic.com/20tky86.jpg

oohhhhhhh shit!

File:RomneyTat.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tyson.JPG

He attended college at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he had many friends[citation needed]

Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez (born 21 April 1992), commonly known as Isco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisko]), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid mainly as an attacking midfielder. He wears the number 23 shirt as a tribute to his hero Shola Ameobi

As on past Fiery Furnaces' albums, the backing tracks have a narrative aspect, excuse the expression. For instance, the long 'bassoon' and altered tabla part in "The Philadelphia Grand Jury" might indicate the singer in the song's waiting for the word (verdict). The loud guitar-drums-and-Chamberlin 'thunderstorm' part towards the end of "Ex-Guru" indicates the thunderstorm brought about by the jilted ex-guru. The synthesizer filtering of the acoustic guitar in "Duplexes of the Dead" indicates the odd light that filters through the dirty curtains a duplex of the dead would no doubt have. The swelling melody at the end of "My Egyptian Grammar" indicates the pride that likely swells up in the breast of a blue jay referred to therein. The monkey and cow noises in "The Old Hag is Sleeping" indicate the rooster at dawn. The guitar solo at the end of "Cabaret of the Seven Devils" counts to seven. The train sound effect in "Japanese Slippers" indicates a train. And so forth.

I feel you should have bolded up "excuse the expression" tbh. And "And so forth". Also this paragraph is a rich bounty of possible display names.

so i'm guessing the reviewers who liked the fiery furnaces are the ones who believe everything they read in press releases

An altered version of the song, with the refrain "They're Crumbelievable", was used in a 2005 US television advertisement for Kraft Crumbles.[17]

Another altered version of the song, with the refrain "They're Twin-believable" was used during the Minnesota Twins 1991 championship drive and eventual World Series victory.

In the late 1990s, a band in Milwaukee incorporated the word into its name--NLTA, which stood for Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is Longer Than Antidisestablishmentarianism. Only later did they discover that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis started with a P, not an N[citation needed].

bobblehead dolls have been made with a wide variety of figures such as breakfast cereal mascot Count Chocula, beat generation author Jack Kerouac, and Nobel-prize-winning geneticist James D. Watson

Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez (born 21 April 1992), commonly known as Isco (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisko]), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid mainly as an attacking midfielder. He wears the number 23 shirt as a tribute to his hero Shola Ameobi

― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), 1. syyskuuta 2013 13:56 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What's the "unusual" part in this one?

Unusually florid and cod-bio in style.

José Paronella arrived in nearby Innisfail, Queensland, Australia in 1913, having sailed from Catalonia in northern Spain to plan a splendid life for himself and his fiancée Matilda. José worked hard for 11 years, creating his wealth by buying, improving and selling cane farms. While travelling through the beautiful countryside he discovered a virgin forest alongside spectacular Mena Creek Falls - perfect for his dream.
Upon returning to Spain, José discovered that Matilda had married another! Determined to sail back with a bride José proposed to Margarita, Matilda's younger sister. One year later the happy newlyweds were ship bound for Australia and by 1929 had purchased the land of José' dreams. He first built the grand 47-step staircase to shift building materials between the lower and upper level. Here the fun-loying couple had their cottage hand built of stone, and moved in on Christmas Eve.

also, holy fucking LOL at Sasha's Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis one.

The back cover shows their road crew gathered in the same spot with 0.47 lt (16 oz.) cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer provided by the photographer as a reward to the roadies for lugging out and stacking the band's heavy equipment for the photo shoot. Their expressions certainly seem to signify their displeasure at having to stack cases for a photo shoot.[6]

In an interview with Rap-Up TV, Mario revealed details on the new single and the album. Mario explained that the first single really pays homage to women who are comfortable with being sexy outside and they’re sexy with their men when they get home.

In June 2013, Case announced a new album, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, to be released on September 3. M Ward of She & Him was paid in full for his guitar work on Neko's record.

That point is then explained, but on it comes off as so random on first read.

Almost tempted to start a "rolling was M.Ward paid for..." thread on ilm.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardigan_(sweater)

The photos are slaying me

For Australians, pick the odd one out in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Coprophagous_animals

haw

fabulous

Kerrigan then chose not to attend the closing ceremonies at the Olympics; her agent claimed this was because Norwegian security had advised her not to do so due to death threats that had been made against her, but this was later denied.[23] Instead, Kerrigan left Norway to take part in a pre-arranged publicity parade at Walt Disney World, her $2 million sponsor. During the parade, she was caught on microphone saying to Mickey Mouse, "This is dumb. I hate it. This is the most corny thing I have ever done."[24] She later said her remarks had been taken out of context: she was commenting not on being in the parade, but on having to wear her silver medal in the parade because showing off and bragging about her accomplishments was something that her parents had always taught her not to do. She went on to say that she had nothing against Disney or Mickey Mouse by responding, "Whoever could find fault with Mickey Mouse? He's the greatest mouse I've ever known.

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

The shopping center's claim to fame came in 1972, when Alabama Governor George Wallace was wounded in an assassination attempt while campaigning for the presidency on May 15. Wallace survived the assassination attempt but was left paralyzed from the waist down. A bank branch remains near the location of the assassination attempt – Equitable Trust at the time and currently Bank of America.[3][4]

A lesser known involvement in another significant part of American history came three days before the September 11 attacks. Hijacker Mohamed Atta sent $5000 to Mustafa Ahmad via a wire transfer he initiated at the Giant Food store located in the shopping center.[5][6]

Holmes played the piano for both The Cuff Links and The Buoys,[3] with whom he had his first international hit, "Timothy", in 1971, a top-40 song about cannibalism.[4] He also wrote "Give Up Your Guns", "The Prince of Thieves", "Blood Knot" and "Tomorrow" for the band. "Timothy" charted in the U.S. at number 17 and "Give Up Your Guns" at number 84. Holmes also wrote jingles and pop tunes (including for Gene Pitney, the Platters, the Drifters, Wayne Newton, Dolly Parton, Barry Manilow and television's The Partridge Family).[3][5]"

I'd either never heard this song before or didn't know it was about cannibalism. Stealing as we speak!

Oil business[edit source | editbeta]
In early 2010, Birdman formed an oil and gas exploration company, Bronald Oil and Gas, LLC. The company was a joint venture founded by Birdman and his brother Slim, and the name was a combination of the brothers' first names, Bryan and Ronald. Evidence of the company's actual business operations was scant, limited mostly to a website and the appearance of a "pumpjack" tattoo on the side of Birdman's head.[18] The website indicated that the company's strategy would be to first develop existing land holdings and seek out new oil and gas leases. In February 2010, Birdman told Ozone magazine that he had been in the oil business for "4 or 5 years" and was "making good money off that".[19]
However, by March 2010, Birdman had almost completely covered the pumpjack tattoo, which sparked speculation that the Bronald Oil project had stalled.[20] An investigative report from Bloomberg revealed that official regulators in charge of oil and gas permits had never heard of Bronald. In addition, Bronald Oil and Gas' website which provided scant details on the venture had since late 2011 been no longer operational.[21]

The following year, she directed National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) with Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo, a sequel to the popular National Lampoon's Vacation. With it, Heckerling scored her second solid hit, earning $74,964,621 at the box office. The film, like many of Heckerling’s films, received poor reviews from critics but proved to be very popular with audiences who just wanted to watch a funny movie. Heckerling, despite being well educated and loving the work of such deep writers at Franz Kafka [5] admits that she loves "silly things", which has proven to make her commercially successful in the comedy genre.[8]

Suggestions varied from enshrining Joe Hill's ashes at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC to Abbie Hoffman's suggestion that they be eaten by today's "Joe Hills" like Billy Bragg and Michelle Shocked. Bragg did indeed swallow a small bit of the ashes with some Union beer to wash it down, and still carries Shocked's share for the eventual completion of Hoffman's last prank. Bill Bragg has since give Michelle Shocked's share to Otis Gibbs.

well thank goodness!

http://huckkonopackicartoons.com/billy-bragg-saved-joe-hill-from-michelle-shocked/

This is the individual who pulled his shirt over his head and said, "I don't want to be on the news, dawg" to which Hansen replies, "It's a little late for that, dawg." This segment resulted in 20 convictions.

The band rose to prominence following the resignation of Labour MP Tom Watson from the Shadow Cabinet in July 2013,[1] who wrote in his resignation letter on his blog "be that great Labour leader that you can be, but try to have a real life too. And if you want to see an awesome band, I recommend Drenge",

In all cases when Sterling emphasizes the word "the," as is one of his signatures, he uses not the long ē ("thee") but the schwa ə ("thuh").

From the article on "Harry Braff" by the Bee Gees:

The song's story was a driver who was a winner of the race as Barry explains, "It's nice to come up with things that give people pictures. For about a week afterwards Robin walked around with a helmet with goggles on. He really did! And in those days you could. You could literally wear anything, 'cause the flower power thing had taken over and whatever you were wearing was just fine. I remember standing in a lift dressed as a priest and Eric Clapton was dressed as a cowboy cause that was his Western time. You would just look at each other and not say anything like it was just fine".

South Redondo is a bit more on the gentrified, quiet side. Its wide streets, wide sand beaches and laid-back feel make it a prime destination for those seeking a "bike to the grocery store" community. Several close-knit neighborhoods exist; South Broadway hosts street parties in the summer where children play on jumping gyms and the local Fire Department judges the best dessert contest while kids climb their pumper truck.

Is that on the Patti Smith page?

Not yet.

While doing some research for the king of research thread, this tickled me:

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

He is the son of Hervé and Anne Hoppenot. Hervé Hoppenot is the President of Novartis Oncology. He's friends with Mike.

Modern critics like Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusiclike to rewrite history and create an alternate universe where this album was shunned and considered a failure. In fact, contemporary critics raved about Who Do We Think We Are! and magazines like Circus, Circus Raves and Hit Parader all had glowing reviews for it. How big was it? It sold 500,000 copies between February 1973 and April 11th, 1973 in the US alone! Certified gold with half a million records and tapes sold in two months. (For an example of how good that is, the legendary Machine Head was released in March 1972 and wasn't certified gold until November 1972, EIGHT MONTHS LATER... "Other classic Deep Purple albums" spent much more time than that. Deep Purple In Rock was released in August 1970. It was certified gold July 27th, 2001. Fireball was released in July 1971 and certified gold in July 2001. Who Do We Think We Are! was an immediate fan favorite and radio followed suite. Woman from Tokyo received heavy airplay, along with Rat Bat Blue, Smooth Dancer and Our Lady. Fans were quick to point out the thundering production, the aggressive playing and the overall heaviness of the record. This WAS Deep Purple and a mighty fine one at that. Years later, the revisionists would get involved and turn a great album into a failure and the band themselves do it no favors whatsoever.

^^^ one of my fav things is partisan fans rewriting wiki pages so they're filled with typo-laden opinion

lol awesome

It's funny, I was just playing "Rat Bat Blue" to myself on my harmonium, just now.

The physics of Weebles:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Weebleprinciple.jpg

One of numerous obscure cultural references present in Midway's video game Mortal Kombat 3 was a lo-res image of Frankie Avalon's face that would dart up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen when Goro killed his opponent by knocking him into the spike pit on the Bridge level.

He has a tattoo which says in French "My life, my menstruation" instead of "My life, my rules".[57]

Rock was the subject of a well-known Irish catchphrase—"spit on me Dickie", the origin of this being that rebellious young women in the 1960s wanted to be covered in his saliva in a manner similar to American women idolising the hips of Elvis. The phrase took off in Belfast in the 1960s and spread all over Ireland.

In 2008, an anonymous employee of the stricken financial company Anglo Irish Bank made lewd comments about Dickie Rock on this Wikipedia page. The bank launched an investigation into how this had happened and the incident was reported in the Irish media some months later. Rock himself commented on the incident.[6]