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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Mar 7, 2015 11:11:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 11:50:21 GMT -5
i love how the words "challenging accuracy" made it into that article. |
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Post by sarapen on Mar 15, 2015 14:15:25 GMT -5
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Post by rainbowsherbert on Mar 18, 2015 13:20:40 GMT -5
This is slightly off topic from the Wikipedia Pages, but I found a Heathcliff Wiki that just blew me away. Why is there a Heathcliff Wiki and who would spend their free time editing it? Anyway, here's a great entry on the Garbage Ape, which includes the immortal line, "His only known quality is wanton filth." heathcliff.wikia.com/wiki/Garbage_Ape |
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Post by The Prighlofone on Mar 24, 2015 20:27:41 GMT -5
I was just made aware of this on Ludacris' Reddit AMA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_Codes_(song)Its description... "The song's lyrics focus on U.S. telephone area codes that denote the location of women with whom the rapper has had sexual relations in cities across the United States." And its legacy: "Because telephone area codes are increasingly becoming less constrained to particular geographic areas, scholars and cultural critics have noted that "Area Codes" may be incomprehensible to future generations of listeners." That made my day. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Apr 10, 2015 9:59:07 GMT -5
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Post by Logoboros on Apr 10, 2015 10:19:31 GMT -5
It's not the main article page, but I find the talk page for the article "Rook (chess)" pedantically hilarious. It basically is entirely devoted to arguments over the phrase "In English-speaking countries, some non-players call the piece a 'castle.'" You get this confluence of reason bumping up against one user (who has clearly decided to be in charge of this article) wielding Wikipedia policies to resist any changes to this phrase. Doesn't matter how many people assert that they do play chess and call the piece a "castle," this is dismissed (validly, but frustratingly) as "Original Research" which cannot be admitted, whereas the "non-player" assertion comes from the Oxford Companion to Chess. There are attempts to find a more inclusive term than "non-player" but they all end up with negative connotations (such as "less knowledgeable players" and "inexperienced players"), which continues to piss people off who don't believe that it diminishes them as chess players if they say "castle" instead of "rook." Spoiler alert: the current language in the article (still somewhat inflammatory, from the castle-lovers perspective) is "The term castle is considered informal, incorrect, or old-fashioned." |
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Post by Great Unwashed on Apr 14, 2015 23:48:49 GMT -5
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Post by Nudeviking on Apr 20, 2015 1:04:47 GMT -5
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Post by Great Unwashed on Apr 20, 2015 5:51:08 GMT -5
The 70's does seem like the most appropriate decade for a botched a burglary attempt at an animal park to take place. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Apr 20, 2015 6:59:11 GMT -5
Going down the wormhole from Phantom Kangaroos, I found this: Super Sargasso SeaI finally know where all my socks go! |
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Post by sarapen on Apr 20, 2015 16:53:56 GMT -5
The 70's does seem like the most appropriate decade for a botched a burglary attempt at an animal park to take place. That Dudley Moore movie just writes itself. |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Apr 21, 2015 21:04:45 GMT -5
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Post by The Prighlofone on Apr 21, 2015 21:20:57 GMT -5
Most interesting surprise there: "Toilet Tisha" by Outkast retells the 18th-century Russian short story "Poor Liza" by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 21:40:21 GMT -5
LUUCAANNNNN! you are a treasure trove of vocabulary words and rare idioms, please don't ever change.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Apr 21, 2015 21:45:36 GMT -5
LUUCAANNNNN! you are a treasure trove of vocabulary words and rare idioms, please don't ever change. Oh, thank you, dear songstarliner. It's nice to be appreciated  |
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Post by monodrone on May 10, 2015 5:18:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 11:45:52 GMT -5
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Post by The Prighlofone on May 28, 2015 22:36:12 GMT -5
I’m not entirely sure if this is still there, but a few years ago there was an article on the 2011 Texas summer drought.
I copied a part of the article down for a document in which I keep my favorite Internet things. (To clarify the first sentence, when Rick Perry was Governor in 2011, he set aside several Days of Prayer as sort of festivals to pray for rain to come and end the drought.)
The drought continued to worsen for four months following the Days of Prayer. While only 15-17% of the state was undergoing exceptional drought by late April, the percentage grew to 50% a month later, and by late June, more than 70% of the state was experiencing exceptional drought conditions, a level at which it persisted until August 18, 2011.[7][8][9][10][11] Most of the drought conditions subsided by the end of summer, when rain returned to various parts of Texas.
The first major rain in the state after the Days of Prayer came on October 9th, 2011, the final day of the Atheist Alliance International's 4th Annual Texas Freethought Convention.[12]
I know a lot of people here either don’t believe in God or feel like they cannot be sure one way or the other, but to me, that’s proof enough that God exists and has an awesome sense of humor.
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Post by Trurl on May 29, 2015 7:40:03 GMT -5
Found this the other day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_daysSo May 28 is International Hamburger Day and June 2 is National Burger Day. I'm guessing the difference in observance is one of those Catholic/Orthodox things. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 29, 2015 7:45:50 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 10:02:19 GMT -5
list of presidential petsso many good ones but here are some of my favorites: John Adams had a dog named Satan Andrew Johnson didn't have any pets, but apparently would feed the white mice he found in his bedroom (but not the brown ones? racist) President with the most pets? Yes, of course it's Teddy Roosevelt. Among many others he owned five guinea pigs - Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, and Fighting Bob Evans - a lizard named Bill, and a garter snake named Emily Spinach. FDR had a great dane named President Amy Carter's cat was named Misty Malarky Ying Yang
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Post by The Prighlofone on Jun 17, 2015 10:30:31 GMT -5
list of presidential petsso many good ones but here are some of my favorites: John Adams had a dog named Satan Andrew Johnson didn't have any pets, but apparently would feed the white mice he found in his bedroom (but not the brown ones? racist) President with the most pets? Yes, of course it's Teddy Roosevelt. Among many others he owned five guinea pigs - Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, and Fighting Bob Evans - a lizard named Bill, and a garter snake named Emily Spinach. FDR had a great dane named President Amy Carter's cat was named Misty Malarky Ying Yang I love that Andrew Jackson had a parrot that not only he taught to swear, but started swearing so much at his funeral that it had to be taken away. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Aug 13, 2015 16:30:17 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Leif_Segerstam#122 "Tsunamic Zoomings" #129 "Spurting notative sounds" #132 "Pasting Sounds thinking Numbers zig-zagly" #171 "Skinpumply pumpskinned musical pumpkins" #228 "Cooling my beard too (2) on "Sval"bard, "Spit"sbergen farewelling (on the "seal"ed waters) the blinding "spittingly" ice- (& eyes) cracking Sun (setstart on 22.8...!) with my Son (J. S.) remembering nostalgically "lace"- (spets-) coverings of (e.g.) Venusmountains as well as all those got... (lays...) - It is very windy on the tops, "the picked peaks for peeking into the ∞s...", "spets"-listening too... 2... 8!" #252 "Surfing on Higg's bosons to Kepler - 22b" [sic] #253 "Crazyly alone at Christmas, but in the family of universes of sounds" #264 "2B - EIJING, AAAAA; NONONONONONO:: NOW!!!" #276 "Successful mental & corpsal combinationcopulations in creative chaoses" #280 "Feeling the Healing surfings in Clouds of Inspirative Iridescence streaming from Grandiose Grandchildren... "in the days After..." (with gratitude resonance vibrating eternally)"
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 14, 2015 14:52:20 GMT -5
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 19, 2015 19:27:40 GMT -5
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Post by The Prighlofone on Sept 23, 2015 23:39:58 GMT -5
John Oliver's Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption:
""On September 13, 2015, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was shut down by Oliver due to donations to the church of four vials of what appeared to be semen.[7][8] This was presumably in response to the satirized "seed faith" in which donations are referred to as seeds. While Oliver made it clear that the church preferred monetary donations, some supporters sent actual bags of seeds, and eventually a different definition of the word. Altogether, the church received tens of thousands of dollars. Oliver announced all monetary donations received to date would be donated to Doctors Without Borders, and mockingly said that "if people are still interested in sending money to a fake church then send it to Scientology.""
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Sept 24, 2015 6:37:45 GMT -5
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