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Xopher001 Since: Jul, 2012
Ultimatum Disasturbator from Second Star to the left (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Disasturbator
#1227: Aug 23rd 2015 at 8:04:09 AM

he had drag his 'lawyer[;into it,didn't he

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#1228: Aug 23rd 2015 at 7:36:31 PM

And 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.

DrFurball Two-bit blockhead from The House of the Rising Sun Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
Two-bit blockhead
Luthen Char! from Down Under Burgess Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Playing Cupid
Char!
#1230: Sep 7th 2015 at 10:28:57 PM

That was amazing

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Fluid Since: Jan, 2001
#1231: Sep 14th 2015 at 2:10:11 PM

From the page on Angra Mainyu:

Zurvanism's principal feature is then the notion that both Ahura Mazda (MP: Ohrmuzd) and Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) were twin brothers, with the former being the epitome of good and the latter being the epitome of evil. Further, this dichotomy was by choice, that is, Angra Mainyu chose to be evil: "It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not." And to prove this, he created the peacock.

Truly the supreme act of malevolence!

Luthen Char! from Down Under Burgess Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Playing Cupid
Char!
#1232: Sep 14th 2015 at 3:22:53 PM

The brief moment this was on the Sport in Australia page:

Sport in Australia is an important part of the country's culture, dating back to the early colonial period. The main national sport is the Leadership Spill which fixates the nation on a random but regular basis.

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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#1233: Sep 20th 2015 at 1:52:04 PM

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 like girls, but now, it's about justice."
MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#1234: Oct 1st 2015 at 11:45:34 PM

I got to the page on Mark Twain's risque piece 1601 through a wiki walk, and was particularly amused by the following sentence:

Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare (referred to as 'Shaxpur') also deny having farted, though they have different opinions about the merits of the fart.

CounterShadowform Since: Dec, 2014
Specialist290 Since: Jan, 2001
#1236: Nov 16th 2015 at 10:23:36 AM

[up][up][up] 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

Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#1237: Mar 1st 2016 at 5:48:48 PM

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.

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WackyPancake from My computer. Since: May, 2011
#1238: Mar 30th 2016 at 1:28:24 PM

Looking at a list of films directed by Bob Clark...

She-Man

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."
hamza678 Red Like Santa from Christmas Beacon. Since: May, 2015
Red Like Santa
#1239: Apr 19th 2016 at 9:04:33 AM

Brokencyde's article

Brokencyde is generally panned by critics. Cracked.com contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet".,while another Cracked contributor Adam Tod Brown commented on their song Frea XXX "I hate that song so much that I would hold it face down in a bathtub until it drowns if I could."

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."

Now known as Cyber Controller
Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#1240: Apr 21st 2016 at 1:56:59 AM

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

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MrLavisherMoot dizzy from So'ton, Hants Since: May, 2014
dizzy
#1241: May 8th 2016 at 6:46:13 AM

I know this is old news, but anyone remember the Star Trek Into Darkness incident?

simple as
cake1 Welcome to the Literature club! from A parallel universe Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#1243: May 8th 2016 at 6:49:15 PM

Ah, the great capitalization controversy, you mean?evil grin How did that even come about?

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war877 Grr... <3 from Untamed Wilds Since: Dec, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Grr... <3
#1244: May 8th 2016 at 6:55:08 PM

Links for those who have no idea?

cake1 Welcome to the Literature club! from A parallel universe Since: Feb, 2016 Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#1245: May 8th 2016 at 7:00:36 PM

Here.

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 heart
MrLavisherMoot dizzy from So'ton, Hants Since: May, 2014
dizzy
#1246: May 9th 2016 at 5:14:42 AM

Go here and look at the archives. Prepare to laugh (and probably cry).

simple as
Aetol from France Since: Jan, 2015
#1247: May 13th 2016 at 10:24:54 AM

The article for the folk song 99 Bottles of Beer" has this gem of a pothole :

The same verse is repeated, each time with one bottle fewer, until there are none left. Variations on the last verse following the last bottle going down include lines such as:

No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.
Go to the store and buy some more, 99 bottles of beer on the wall...

Alternate line:

If that one bottle should happen to fall, what a waste of alcohol!

Worldbuilding is fun, writing is a chore
NesClassic Inheritor of the Wing from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
Inheritor of the Wing
#1249: Jun 21st 2016 at 10:03:00 AM

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.

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