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** During the Nuremberg trials, The nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they [[TheAlibi were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II]].

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** During the Nuremberg trials, The nazis the Nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they [[TheAlibi were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II]].

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** The democratic and republican party have the exact same entry, with the only difference being the parties are swapped out for each other.

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** The democratic Democratic and republican party Republican parties have the exact same entry, with the only difference being the parties are swapped out for each other.



* TakeThat: The book claims that Music/LimpBizkit literally emerged from the bowels of Hell.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot[[invoked]]: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union completely blew a golden opportunity to have one hell of a war.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot[[invoked]]: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States and the Soviet Union completely blew a golden opportunity to have one hell of a war.
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* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible[[invoked]]: Yoko Ono’s bizarre art was so good, Music/TheBeatles broke up due to imtimidation.

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* %%* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible[[invoked]]: Yoko Ono’s bizarre art was so good, Music/TheBeatles broke up due to imtimidation.
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Anything That Moves is a disambiguation


* AnythingThatMoves: Omnigamy is the practice of being married to every person on the planet.
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* TheNapoleon: Napoleon’s deep insecurities about his small physical stature pushed him to conquer much of Europe while driving around in a Porsche 911.

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* TheNapoleon: Napoleon’s [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon’s]] deep insecurities about his small physical stature pushed him to conquer much of Europe while driving around in a Porsche 911.
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* IronicHell: OsamaBinLaden is in a dimension of hell where he's the sole mail-room clerk in the still-standing World Trade Center, the elevators are always out of order, and he must carry numerous filing cabinets, televisions, and couches up the stairs all by himself.

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* IronicHell: OsamaBinLaden UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden is in a dimension of hell where he's the sole mail-room clerk in the still-standing World Trade Center, the elevators are always out of order, and he must carry numerous filing cabinets, televisions, and couches up the stairs all by himself.
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* AirQuotes: $142.5 million were devoted to research, while another $84 million were devoted to "research."


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* ScareQuotes: $142.5 million were devoted to research, while another $84 million were devoted to "research."
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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* KillEmAll: Sports is over when everyone dies.

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* TheAlibi: During the Nuremberg trials, The nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they [[BlatantLies were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II]].

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* TheAlibi: During the Nuremberg trials, The nazis the Nazis who were on trial said they didn't aid in the Holocaust as they [[BlatantLies were out of town, on vacation, or otherwise busy during the entirety of World War II]].



* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Happens a few times, usually played for laughs. For example, Leon Czolgosz shot UsefulNotes/WilliamMcKinley ''by accident'' while trying to get him to autograph his gun.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Parodied a number of times.
** The Aztecs were big on human sacrifice even by Mesoamerican standards, but according to the book, they incorporated it into every aspect of daily life.
** While James Buchanan is on the short list for the title of "worst American President", he wasn't a depraved madman who personally murdered his first Vice President and hosted bloody gladiator tournaments.
** The Warren G. Harding administration was one of the most corrupt in American history, but Harding himself wasn't involved in it and was probably [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter ignorant of just how crooked many of his cabinet members were]]. Here, he's a CorruptPolitician to the Nth degree, doing things like selling the state of West Virginia to a German coal company.



* KarmaHoudini: Despite his pas as a Klux Klan leader, anti-Semite, and extremist, Thomas Robb continues to live happily to this day.

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* KarmaHoudini: Despite his pas past as a Ku Klux Klan leader, anti-Semite, and extremist, Thomas Robb continues to live happily to this day.



* OvershadowedByControversy[[invoked]]: Warren Report was criticized for including a tiny collectible shard of JFK’s skull in every edition.

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* OvershadowedByControversy[[invoked]]: The Warren Commission Report was criticized for including a tiny collectible shard of JFK’s skull in every edition.
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* CaligulasHorse: James Buchanan appointed his dog Excelsior as Vice President after murdering his running mate John C. Breckinridge with a golden scimitar.
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** StarWars is a silly old children's film that has no cultural significance whatsoever.

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** StarWars Franchise/StarWars is a silly old children's film that has no cultural significance whatsoever.

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Not So Different has been renamed, and it needs to be dewicked/moved


* MirroringFactions:
** Atheism is a belief in which one deeply devotes oneself to the nearly nonstop studying, writing, thinking, and talking about God.
** The democratic and republican party have the exact same entry, with the only difference being the parties are swapped out for each other.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Pete Rose killed himself on national television after “bringing disgrace upon the national pastime” by gambling on his own team.



* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Pete Rose killed himself on national television after “bringing disgrace upon the national pastime” by gambling on his own team.



* NotSoDifferent:
** Atheism is a belief in which one deeply devotes oneself to the nearly nonstop studying, writing, thinking, and talking about God.
** The democratic and republican party have the exact same entry, with the only difference being the parties are swapped out for each other.
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Per this ATT, reverting this to that pending formal name change.


* SunkenCity: In the future, [[ClimateChange all of Earth will be underwater.]]

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* SunkenCity: In the future, [[ClimateChange [[GlobalWarming all of Earth will be underwater.]]
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* BrowserNarcotic: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Website/YouTube is a device that can transfer users, hours into the future without consciously experiencing or being aware of the intervening period.

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** Examples of reptiles include lizards, crocodiles, and [[TheReptilians upright creatures wearing the skin of your next-door neighbor,Jeremy]].

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** Examples of reptiles include lizards, crocodiles, and [[TheReptilians [[ReptilianConspiracy upright creatures wearing the skin of your next-door neighbor,Jeremy]].



* TheReptilians: Reptile come in all shapes and sizes, including 6-foot, upright creatures wearing the skin of your next-door neighbor, Jeremy.
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* SunkenCity: In the future, [[GlobalWarming all of Earth will be underwater.]]

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* SunkenCity: In the future, [[GlobalWarming [[ClimateChange all of Earth will be underwater.]]

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* DrosteImage: The [[http://i.imgur.com/rPlFswt.png image for “Meta”]] is this.

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* DrosteImage: The [[http://i.[[https://i.imgur.com/rPlFswt.com/cuRctLy.png image for “Meta”]] is this.“Meta.”]]



* Eternal Recurrence: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet.

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* Eternal Recurrence: EternalRecurrence: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet.



* TerribleArtist: The artist for the [[http://i.imgur.com/vrdXz66.png picture of the turnip]] is this.

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* TerribleArtist: The artist for the [[http://i.[[https://i.imgur.com/vrdXz66.com/hV5rhdw.png picture of the turnip]] is this.



* ViciousCycle: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet.
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** The [[hhttps://i.imgur.com/gLjWPif.png entry for Cthulhu]] is in [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos r'lyehian]].

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** The [[hhttps://i.[[https://i.imgur.com/gLjWPif.png entry for Cthulhu]] is in [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos r'lyehian]].
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** The preface has [[http://i.imgur.com/S6KPcnI.png "A note to our Filipino readers"]], which is in Tagalog.
** The [[http://i.imgur.com/d3k4oog.png entry for fascism]] starts to define it normally, before SuddenlyShouting in Italian.
** The [[http://i.imgur.com/ZxjZW5M.png entry for lorem ipsum]] is in [[GratuitousLatin Latin]].
** The [[http://i.imgur.com/QnWJWxP.png entry for Cthulhu]] is in [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos r'lyehian]].

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** The preface has [[http://i.[[https://i.imgur.com/S6KPcnI.com/2zekuqu.png "A note to our Filipino readers"]], which is in Tagalog.
** The [[http://i.entry for fascism starts to define it normally, before SuddenlyShouting in Italian.
** The [[https://i.
imgur.com/d3k4oog.png entry for fascism]] starts to define it normally, before SuddenlyShouting in Italian.
** The [[http://i.imgur.com/ZxjZW5M.
com/gLjWPif.png entry for lorem ipsum]] is in [[GratuitousLatin Latin]].
** The [[http://i.[[hhttps://i.imgur.com/QnWJWxP.com/gLjWPif.png entry for Cthulhu]] is in [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos r'lyehian]].

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* ArtifactOfDoom: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet.

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* ArtifactOfDoom: Every 2 million years the The Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet. planet every 2 million years.


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* Eternal Recurrence: Every 2 million years the Washington Monument emits a powerful beam of energy that eradicates all life on the planet.

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* CoolButInefficient: People sprayed acid on cars to clean them and lit them on fire to dry them before anyone realized water and towels were probably an easier solution.



* CoolButInefficient: People sprayed acid on cars to clean them and lit them on fire to dry them before anyone realized water and towels were probably an easier solution.

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* CorruptPolitician: UsefulNotes/WarrenGHarding, who among other things gave the Grand Canyon to his uncle, sold West Virginia to a German coal company and signed the Harding’s Buddy Is Getting 25 Percent of Our Tax Money Now
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* CorruptPolitician: UsefulNotes/WarrenGHarding, who among other things gave the Grand Canyon to his uncle, sold West Virginia to a German coal company and signed the Harding’s Buddy Is Getting 25 Percent of Our Tax Money Now
Now Act.
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* CorruptPolitician: UsefulNotes/WarrenGHarding, who among other things gave the Grand Canyon to his uncle, sold West Virginia to a German coal company and signed the Harding’s Buddy Is Getting 25 Percent of Our Tax Money Now
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* MasterOfNone: UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin was a man of many talents, but he ultimately spread himself too thin and never truly accomplished any one full objective.

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* MasterOfNone: UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin Creator/BenjaminFranklin was a man of many talents, but he ultimately spread himself too thin and never truly accomplished any one full objective.
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* MasterOfNone: BenFranklin was a man of many talents, but he ultimately spread himself too thin and never truly accomplished any one full objective.

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* MasterOfNone: BenFranklin UsefulNotes/BenjaminFranklin was a man of many talents, but he ultimately spread himself too thin and never truly accomplished any one full objective.



* WhoShotJFK: Apparently, Kennedy shot himself.

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* WhoShotJFK: Apparently, The entry on the UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm says that recently discovered missing frames reveal that Kennedy actually shot himself.

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** Bill Clinton was not impeached by House Republicans because that would have been a laughable waste of time.



** Bill Clinton was not impeached by House Republicans because that would have been a laughable waste of time.
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** The Harry Potter series has netted JKRowling more than $32,500.

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** The Harry Potter series has netted JKRowling Creator/JKRowling more than $32,500.

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* {{Intervention}}: The entry for addiction is one for the reader.


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* StagingAnIntervention: The entry for addiction is this for the reader.
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** ReneMagritte, artist behind "The treachery of images”, must have been a fool, as the image is clearly a pipe.
--> "He can’t just paint a pipe and then say it’s not a pipe, just because he feels like it. We know a pipe when we see one, and that right there is a fucking pipe."

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** ReneMagritte, Creator/ReneMagritte, artist behind "The treachery of images”, must have been a fool, as the image is clearly a pipe.
--> "He --->"He can’t just paint a pipe and then say it’s not a pipe, just because he feels like it. We know a pipe when we see one, and that right there is a fucking pipe."

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