he had drag his 'lawyer[;into it,didn't he
New theme music also a boxAnd that's the thing. Wanting the names of your toddler-aged kids off Wikipedia, even though said names are available elsewhere (including the very article I was using as a source in the Wikipedia page)? Fair enough, protecting the identity of a minor and all that. But this is the first time I've seen not one, but two different artists trying to scrub Old Shames off their pages.
Men's Marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics. This thing was such a mess it's actually pretty hilarious.
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)That was amazing
You must agree, my plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity! My TumblrFrom the page on Angra Mainyu:
Truly the supreme act of malevolence!
The brief moment this was on the Sport in Australia page:
Unparliamentary language. It's basically a list of amusing insults that have been uttered at parliaments around the world and deemed unacceptable. Have a load of the Canadian list:
- parliamentary pugilist (1875)
- a bag of wind (1878)
- inspired by forty-rod whiskey (1881)[3]
- coming into the world by accident (1886)
- blatherskite (1890)
- the political sewer pipe from Carleton County (1917)
- lacking in intelligence (1934)
- a dim-witted saboteur (1956)
- liar (consistently from 1959 to the present)
- hypocrisy, hypocrite (from the early years through the tenure of Speaker Gilbert Parent; apparently not ruled unparliamentary by Speaker Peter Milliken)
- a trained seal (1961)
- evil genius (1962)
- Canadian Mussolini (1964)
- pompous ass (1967)
- fuddle duddle (1971)—probably the most famous example in Canada
- pig (1977)
- jerk (1980)
- sleaze bag (1984)
- racist (1986)
- scuzzball (1988)
- girouette (French for "weathervane", Québec 2007)
- bully (2011)
- a piece of shit (Justin Trudeau to Peter Kent, Question period 2011)
I got to the page on Mark Twain's risque piece 1601 through a wiki walk, and was particularly amused by the following sentence:
"This Geometrinae-related article is a stub."
edited 11th Nov '15 6:14:51 PM by CounterShadowform
From the New Zealand list:
- idle vapourings of a mind diseased (1946)
...That one's actually rather clever.
edited 16th Nov '15 10:24:48 AM by Specialist290
The article for Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey (yes, there is one) links to a number of articles about anti-French sentiments... and french military history.
Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a choreLooking at a list of films directed by Bob Clark...
She-Man is a 1967 film directed by Bob Clark.
Plot
A soldier is forced to take estrogen and wear lingerie when he's blackmailed by a violent transvestite.
Well then.
edited 30th Mar '16 1:28:39 PM by WackyPancake
"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."British comic book writer Warren Ellis considered Brokencyde's "Frea XXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture". A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. Broke NCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."
The New Musical Express stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."
August Brown of the Los Angeles Times writes:
"This 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for My Space emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."
And of course, the talk page has someone worrying about the lack of mention of good reviews, followed by someone pointing out that there are, in fact, no good reviews.
Another talk topic has someone suggesting that calling the band "terrible" (in the opening paragraph, no less) would be objective fact and thus well within Wikipedia standards.
edited 4th May '16 4:40:40 AM by Aetol
Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a choreI know this is old news, but anyone remember the Star Trek Into Darkness incident?
simple asAh, the great capitalization controversy, you mean? How did that even come about?
The ink flows into a dark puddle, just move your hand- write the way into his heartLinks for those who have no idea?
I don't have links to the actual discussion that took place over it, though.
edited 8th May '16 7:02:14 PM by cake1
The ink flows into a dark puddle, just move your hand- write the way into his heartGo here and look at the archives. Prepare to laugh (and probably cry).
simple asThe article for the folk song 99 Bottles of Beer" has this gem of a pothole :
Alternate line:
This thread hasn't seen much in a while, has it? Still, I figured some would appreciate this image◊ I stumbled across on the article for fridge magnets. The full poem can be found as an earlier version of said image.
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse Alberia
Holy shit, thats creepy