Wikipedia's deadpan attitude.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009

Jamais vu

#26: Mar 11th 2011 at 7:31:44 PM

"Damn" is also used colloquially as an emphatic exclamation; e.g. "Damn, he/she is fine" or perhaps "Damn, he has a nice car!".

UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI

Charlatan Since: Mar, 2011

#27: Mar 12th 2011 at 1:06:20 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbase_Alpha_%28video_game%29

JOHN MADDEN

Videogamer07 from the U.S. Since: Oct, 2010

#28: Mar 13th 2011 at 9:10:15 PM

He is a vegetarian, an anarchist, a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon.

It almost sounds like part of a profile from a dating website.

merton defiance from my heart to yours. Since: May, 2009

defiance

#29: Mar 13th 2011 at 10:01:19 PM

How do you know it's not?

Words cast into the uncaring void of the internet.

Videogamer07 from the U.S. Since: Oct, 2010

#30: Mar 14th 2011 at 12:36:20 AM

I can't conform or deny if that's actually true, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it is.

DrStarky Okay Guy from Corn And Pig Land Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky

Okay Guy

#31: Mar 14th 2011 at 2:08:04 PM

I feel the same way about the Homestar Runner Wiki. A surealist cartoon dedscribed in complete serious business. Awesome.

We Are Not Wikipedia because we'll never be that funny.

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu

Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing

#32: Mar 14th 2011 at 3:53:33 PM

I've always found this funny.

Insertion of the trochaic word fucking can also be used as an exercise for diagnosing the cadence of an English-language word. This is the use of "fuck" or more specifically "fucking" as an infix, or more properly, a tmesis (see expletive infixation). For example, the word in-fucking-credible sounds acceptable to the English ear, and is in fairly common use, while incred-fucking-ible would sound very clumsy (though, depending on the context, this might be perceived as a humorous improvisation of the word). "Absofuckinglutely" and "motherfucking" are also common uses of "fuck" as an affix.

Sophisticated as Hell at its finest.

edited 14th Mar '11 3:55:46 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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DrStarky Okay Guy from Corn And Pig Land Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky

Okay Guy

#33: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:34:00 PM

Why dose Wikipedia not have CMOF page yet.

edited 14th Mar '11 5:34:32 PM by DrStarky

Put me in motion, drink the potion, use the lotion, drain the ocean, cause commotion, fake devotion, entertain a notion, be Nova Scotian

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010

Laugh it off, everybody

#34: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:42:51 PM

Duz now.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Roundy210 Since: Apr, 2009

#35: Mar 15th 2011 at 1:34:49 PM

I remember that at one time on the page for MS Paint Adventures, the particularly verbose paragraph about Homestuck detailing the plot and advancements in the author's style ended with the sentence "Also Nicholas Cage."

Sadly, it has been removed at this point, but it was funny when it lasted.

edit: Also, on the paragraph for S Ba HJ,

A popular internet meme, which involves someone falling down stairs despite someone warning them,

edited 15th Mar '11 1:37:11 PM by Roundy210

Yowuza Since: Sep, 2010

#36: Mar 15th 2011 at 1:46:13 PM

[1]

"A player announcing her loss of The Game."

"The Game has been variously described as pointless and infuriating, or as challenging and fun to play."

Wikipedia, I love you...

edited 15th Mar '11 1:46:38 PM by Yowuza

EmilyD Since: Aug, 2011

#37: Mar 16th 2011 at 9:39:59 PM

I like the (probably accidental) suggestion here that someone might confuse Earth with an asteroid called Gaea.

NONAMEGIVEN from Nowhere Since: Jul, 2013

#38: Mar 17th 2011 at 11:53:43 AM

What so funny/weird/whatever about that?

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death itself may die."

Videogamer07 from the U.S. Since: Oct, 2010

#39: Mar 17th 2011 at 4:21:28 PM

The Game is a meme.

EmilyD Since: Aug, 2011

#40: Mar 17th 2011 at 7:38:57 PM

"The prince then meets a railway switchman and a merchant who provide further comments on[citation needed] the ridiculousness and absurdity of much of the human condition."

It's the "citation needed" that really makes this one.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001

#41: Mar 21st 2011 at 11:02:27 AM

I happened to look up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the other day. I don't know why this made me laugh so much, but...

The turtles are also well known for their use of idiomatic expressions characteristic of the surfer lingo of the time, especially by Michelangelo. Words and phrases, such as "bummer," "dude," "bogus," "radical," "far-out," "tubuloso," "bodacious," and possibly the most recognized, "cowabunga."

edited 21st Mar '11 11:05:45 AM by MikeK

slowzombie Platypus! from Way up North Since: Jan, 2001

Platypus!

#42: Mar 21st 2011 at 11:09:49 AM

I stumbled across this article, and it was quite possibly the first time I've laughed at a wikipedia article. The best bit?

[A Baptist Preacher] proposed based on his interpretations of the prophecies in the book of Daniel (bible verse snipped), that Jesus Christ would return to the earth during the year 1844. A more specific date, that of October 22, 1844, was preached by Samuel S. Snow. Although thousands of followers, some of whom had given away all of their possessions, waited expectantly, Jesus did not appear as expected on the appointed day and as a result October 22, 1844, became known as the Great Disappointment.

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BadWolf21 The Fastest Man Alive Since: May, 2010

The Fastest Man Alive

#43: Mar 21st 2011 at 11:36:37 AM

My biblical studies teacher once told us about that guy. The did the whole thing again, like six years later or something.

Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001

DUMB

#44: Mar 21st 2011 at 11:44:41 AM

And theology'd around it, which is why Seventh Day Adventism is still around.

[1] This facsimile operated in part by synAC.

melloncollie Since: Feb, 2012

#45: Mar 21st 2011 at 11:47:16 AM

Found this in Wikipedia's article about wands.

Given their various symbolic and other associations, wands are suitable pervertibles, especially for role play.

That was... not expected.

Zyxzy Embrace the mindscrew from Salem, OR Since: Jan, 2001

Embrace the mindscrew

#46: Mar 21st 2011 at 1:17:39 PM

suitable pervertibles

I must incorporate this into my vocabulary.

What's the frequency Kenneth?|In case of war.

mmysqueeant I'm A Dirty Cowboy from Essairrrrcks Since: Oct, 2010

I'm A Dirty Cowboy

#47: Mar 21st 2011 at 3:05:40 PM

Awesome.

From the article on A Shoggoth On The Roof ;

The action is set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The action opens in a manner reminiscent of Fiddler, with a shoggoth on the roof of the Miskatonic library building. Armitage addresses the audience, speaking of all the strange things in Arkham and its horrific history. He then explains how a shoggoth can stay up on "such a pointed roof": Tentacles! ("Tentacles")

lol.

EDIT:

The scene then changes to Prudence and Herbert's wedding, with almost everyone in the town present. Carter and Warren turn up, and head to the buffet table. Asenath and the head cultist then turn up, and they try to explain to Armitage how they're part of the same community. ("Arkham, Dunwich - second reprise") The song is interrupted by Wilbur Whateley, who is enraged at both being denied Prudence and at not being invited to the wedding. He vows revenge, and reads an incantation from the Necronomicon to summon Cthulhu, who appears behind the library and crushes many of the villagers. He then eats Wilbur, and demands to know what's going on. ("Do You Fear Me?") Cthulhu goes on a rampage, destroying the university and killing the entire cast. He then departs, and Herbert West uses his reanimating formula to return himself to life, as well as the rest of the cast. They discuss what to do, now that the Great Old Ones have returned. Armitage explains that no matter what the Old Ones do, they can't kill knowledge, and that knowledge is the only weapon against them. ("Miskatonic")

edited 21st Mar '11 3:08:18 PM by mmysqueeant

Tumbril Since: Feb, 2010

#48: Mar 23rd 2011 at 7:38:00 PM

From the page "Kinky boots":

A related term is "fuck-me boots", which is, however, often used in a more tongue-in-cheek, humorous way. It is a term more common to the U.S.

...Ah, Wikipedia.

Tumblr here.

steampowered Phonomancer Since: Jun, 2010

Phonomancer

#49: Apr 5th 2011 at 8:14:21 PM

Externally, Daleks normally resemble human-sized salt and pepper shakers[2] with a single mechanical eyestalk mounted on a rotating dome, an exterminator arm containing an energy weapon (or "death ray") and a telescopic manipulator arm which is usually tipped by an appendage resembling a sink plunger. Daleks have been seen to be able to use their plungers to interface with technology,[1] crush a man's skull by suction,[1] measure the intelligence of a subject,[10] and extract information from a man's mind.[11] Dalek casings are made of a bonded polycarbide material dubbed "dalekanium" by a member of the human resistance in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and by the Cult of Skaro in "Daleks in Manhattan".[10][12]

The "salt and pepper shakers" description made me laugh.

edited 28th Apr '11 4:06:52 PM by steampowered

We must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001

#50: Apr 28th 2011 at 10:48:25 AM

Thanks to one of my facebook friends for this one:

"Chick-fil-A claims that it was the first restaurant to serve a chicken sandwich, though such claims cannot be verified due to the fact that they are claiming to be the first to put chicken between bread."

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