This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

lol the very first thing on his personal talk page is his justifying himself for Gamergate related stuff. we also learn that his attempt to create an article for Non Stop Chuck Norris because "Plot section reads like and advertisement. Gameplay section appears to be copied from (online review)." the problems with the norris article are extensively discussed but he's stubbornly refusing to get it.

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Games such as Revelation 7 and Xibalba, for instance, have attempted to avoid claims of violence by using "off the wall" absurdist humor with enemies such as flying, bat-winged clown heads (modeled after the biblical Jezebel) that shoot rays out of their nose

"When he died his computer was found logged on to a pornographic website." - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Donaldson

Ben Schwartz is an American actor best known for voicing Dewey from the 2017 reboot of DuckTales. He will voice Leonardo in the next Nickelodeon series, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

…ok

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idgi (the detail or the meme)

DuckTales may well have a larger audience than House Of Lies or Parks & Recreation, but he's far more likely to be known for shows that his face and body appeared in for 5-6 years than a voice job that started last year.

especially since I think even in this day and age relatively few young cartoon watchers are all that interested in who the voice actors are

ahhhh okay. had never heard of him for any reason so it went over my head.

(also but less relevantly

is an American actor

what has he screenwritten that would give him all of this income?

freelance Letterman jokes

Attack (disambiguation)

Attack may refer to:
* In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes "criticise"

He had a day job writing at College Humour for years, and has had multiple production deals in film & TV.

today i was reading about "swill" tuomey. if he was alive today he would be the brains behind the trump administration. inspired this headline:

"They Ought to be Beaten: 'Swill-Milk' Tuomey," New York Times (October 29, 1878)

why doesn't the new york times run headlines like this anymore? jesus, no wonder newspapers are dying out.

Don Shaw is a British screenwriter and playwright. His credits include Survivors, Doomwatch, Orde Wingate, and Bomber Harris.[1][2][3] Shaw stated that before he took on writing for Survivors, ' I was very much an up-and-coming hot-shot writer. I was being sought after by The Wednesday Play and Play for Today and things like that. ^^/^^^^/^^^ +++ &=M-(DE-)/CAR& L/EMK//15/33-(03-04-33)/11823+11833PS &/WAREN-D VE-WINS/20CWT/M/CM/Xe/L 2909-1500-BEL-(1)65950-000 app924/ (R/DE/IC/AR/US/DDC) El-ack -STVC -C/R/I/20CWT-L/EG/EM' [4]

In 1999, the satirical newspaper The Onion published a story with the headline, "Christopher Cross Finally Reaches Mexican Border"; the headline was a reference to the song, and the three-sentence story made several specific allusions to the lyrics. Cross appreciated the honor.

Aston suffered from manic depression and spent time in hospital. His behaviour, at times very difficult for colleagues to bear, led to problematic relations within the college and to a separation from his wife. He was found dead in his rooms in Corpus Christi on 17 October 1985 after a drug overdose.[1] The then President of the College, Sir Kenneth Dover, admitted in his memoirs that he had been exasperated with the effects of Aston's illness and, having exhausted all other tactics, he knowingly pushed Aston into a pressured situation which might precipitate suicide.[2]

Pretty much the bulk of the entry for Foghat's "Rock and Roll Outlaws" album: The album cover shows a picture of the band near a Learjet in the Mojave Desert. Though the airplane displayed the band's logo, it did not belong to them; instead, the band simply borrowed it and stuck on the logo.[1]

Leading an advance platoon in the Battle of Flers–Courcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) in September 1916, he was severely wounded, and lay for ten hours in a slit trench, sometimes feigning death when Germans passed, and reading the classical playwright Aeschylus in the original Greek

Chairman of the Board is a 1998 "comedy" film directed by Alex Zamm, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and Carrot Top.

"They told me not to make something so sexual", she told New York writer Christopher Glazek, recalling a conversation she had with her record executives about the music video for her song "I Wanna Fuck Right Now",[5] whose refrain is: "I wanna fuck right now / I wanna fuck right now now".

yeah i've been reading aretha's wiki page too. rip <3

He frequently lectured on pattern recognition using the concept of multi-dimensional space, and the 'caltrop', and would demonstrate the presence of feature-detection in the human visual system by means of a flash gun, the persistence of vision in the audience leading them to observe disintegration of a character fragment by fragment. 'Doc' Coombs was notable for a facial 'tic', which gave him something of the appearance of the 'mad professor', and these days would probably be classed under Tourette's syndrome.

Glenn Medeiros and his wife, Tammy, have been married since 1996. They have a son, Chord, and a daughter, Lyric.

Darts is a sport in which small missiles/torpedoes/arrows/darts are thrown at a circular dartboard fixed to a wall.

it's called a torpedoboard

in other news I was not award there are pro darts competitions televised where you can watch darts for hours - goes to who when the machines take over all jobs humans will never be bored

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the wikipedia pages listing recipients of keys to the city are poorly monitored, thoroughly inaccurate, and a delight to trawl through. (the one on the detroit history page is almost poll-worthy.)

I was just listening to King Crimson's "Lizard" and wondered who played drums on it. Turns out it's one Andy McCulloch. You know, the yachtmaster. Yeah, you read that right:

Andrew McCulloch (born 19 November 1945, Bournemouth) is an English drummer who worked with Fields, Greenslade, Manfred Mann, Anthony Phillips, Peter Banks, Crazy World of Arthur Brown and King Crimson in the 1970s before becoming a yachtmaster.

After drumming for Manfred Mann in early 1970, he became Michael Giles' replacement in King Crimson. He appeared on just one King Crimson album, the jazz-influenced Lizard, released in 1970.

He joined Greenslade at its inception in 1972, remaining with them until their dissolution in 1976. He then guested on several releases, including "Opus One" with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, before leaving the music business. Despite at the time being referred to in The Guardian as being one of the most skillful and inventive drummers working anywhere in the jazz or rock spectrum, he left to become more involved with his other love, sailing.

As an RYA Yachtmaster instructor he skippered and taught on several yachts around Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Italy, France, Spain, Lebanon and Antigua.

He now charters his own yachts around the Greek Islands in the summer season, as well as teaching, skippering and examining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pat_Sajak_Show

Two weeks before The Pat Sajak Show was canceled, on March 30, 1990, radio host Rush Limbaugh made headlines when he guest hosted the program...

After a commercial break, Limbaugh attempted to address the topic of affirmative action, but was heckled again by several male audience members wearing ACT UP T-shirts, calling him a "murderer" before he could make a point. Limbaugh sat silently with the camera focused on him for nearly a minute while audience members continued shouting phrases such as "You want people to die!" Limbaugh responded with, "I am not responsible for your behavior."

A note for future expansion of this article: In Chapter 6, McGee is thinking "Not necessarily Helo'ise and Abelard, Romeo and Miss Capulet, or even Nappi and Joe. But just a crumb of some kind of love there, lad." Nappi and Joe is a reference to Napoleon and Josephine, popular romantic figures at the time, and there was a silent movie with that title, directed by Alexander Butler, in 1924.

Bruckner was a good-natured man, but lacked social graces. He was also retiring, awkward, and childishly naïve, and his almost primitive ingenuousness and simplicity was mixed with a generous portion of rustic cunning. His short, corpulent, comfortable figure and his quiet, easy manner contrasted as strongly with such a romantic appearance. Coming from humble origins, his clothes were generally far too big and/or untidy. He was slightly above average height, but was rather overweight and so looked shorter. His eyes were blue and he had a big nose. He kept his hair so short that he appeared bald.[31] He was a very private man, and a deeply devout Catholic.[7] He liked beer and was a hopeless romantic. He never married, but proposed marriage to many young ladies only to be always turned down.[7] For a period he was obsessed by numbers.[32]

I love Bruckner's symphonies but was half expecting to read that he liked wearing xxl t-shirts and enjoyed a hand shandy on the quiet.

1980: Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President at that time, was awarded the key to the city by Mayor Coleman Young, for having donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a local church.

The origin of the name 'toad in the hole' is unclear. It is often thought to refer to the sausages peeking out through the gaps in the batter and may derive from the "Antediluvian Toad", a phenomenon of live frogs or toads being found encased in stone, which was a scientific fad of the late 18th century.

During the 1820s, English geologist William Buckland conducted an experiment to see how long a toad could remain alive while encased in stone. He placed toads of different sizes and ages into carved chambers within limestone and sandstone blocks, then buried the blocks in his garden. A year later, he dug up the blocks and found that most of the toads were dead and decayed. A few toads that had been in the limestone (which did contain small pores) were still living. However, Buckland found them all dead after reburying them in the limestone for another year. Buckland concluded that toads could not survive inside rock for extreme lengths of time, and determined that reports of the entombed animal phenomenon were mistaken. Most scientists agreed.

In 2007 the richest 1% of the American population owned 35% of the country's total wealth, and the next 19% owned 51%.

xp Lol I found a much longer report on that experiment in a 19th century encylopedia. An outstanding contribution to science.

Tizer is lemon, lime and apple flavoured. Also mentioned in Rick Riordain’s book “The Ship Of The Dead” in his series “Magnus Chase and the Gods Of Asgard”.

“Paul Roland writes nice melodies and has a very particular personality but he is too intellectual for me!" (Frank Zappa, 1988).[citation needed]

In 1996, he offered $1 million to anyone who could produce a video showing where Whoopi Goldberg was funny.

Through a series of background noises and spoken dialogue, the man reaches New York by bus, but is then promptly framed for a crime, arrested, convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison.

Merritt is an atheist, wears only brown clothing, is openly gay and a vegan, saying, "I ain't eat an animal since 1983." However, he can be seen eating what he identifies as a brisket sandwich from a truck stop in the documentary Strange Powers.

A volume of their letters, My Darling Pussy, has also been published; Lloyd George's nickname for Frances referred to her gentle personality

The material composition or geocultural origin must be specified when discussing noodles.

The EGOT acronym was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas in late 1984, when his role on the new hit show Miami Vice brought instant fame, gregariously stating a desire to complete his own EGOT-winning collection