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Healy
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Check out the left box of text
Also feel free to post your favorite wikipedia edits in this thread. |
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A Bear
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:51 am |
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During the month or two that I fancied myself an editor of Wikipedia, I ran into an article called "Brain Dump" which seemed to have something to do with the transfer of a large body of information from one thing to another, but though it was quite long it didn't actually explain what kind of information was being transferred between what kind of entities. I think it's been deleted though.
There's also the weirdo version of the Homunculus page that gives you detailed instructions on creating one, but I can't find that.
("itt refer tantalizingly to weird and hilarious wikipedia pages and then not link to them") |
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trainwreck
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:15 am |
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On the cucumber sandwich page I changed "British cucumber sandwich purists conventionally frown on these variants and many would not consider the modern variants to be variants at all, but simply a different sandwich" to "British cucumber sandwich enthusiasts conventionally frown on these variants and many would not consider the modern variants to be variants at all, but simply a different sandwich". |
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DTZ Reunion Tour
Joined: 18 Sep 2008
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:52 am |
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Lol, Tyler.
Lol. |
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djsaxon2
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Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:02 pm |
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pretty sure some guy sat down to write alot of the articles anbout english sandwiches they all read in the same wierd obsessive way |
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MafiaTipster
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:05 pm |
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djsaxon2
Joined: 04 Oct 2007
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:07 pm |
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i laughed. [citation needed] |
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Hides-His-Eyes
Joined: 08 Aug 2006
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:04 pm |
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my friend got a year's ban for saying that sudoku "took the nation by storm"
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the encyclopedia that anyone can edit so it will be reverted by a bot |
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CAPTAIN LAZERS
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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Location: the new board
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 3:55 pm |
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i like wikipedia because it's mostly by internet people
internet people tend to know about family guy and windows
internet people tend not to know about things that matter |
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Raziel Lafleur
Friend to Man and Beast alike
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 5:07 pm |
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oh man i remember reading that homunculus article, that was pretty creepy and awesome |
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Miles
away from ordinary
Joined: 06 Apr 2007
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Location: Jet City
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Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:26 pm |
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Didn't you have to soak a body in vaginal juices for a year or something. |
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Go on, take a swig of that poison and like it
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dri-ft
as in, "get my"?
Joined: 15 Apr 2006
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Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:54 am |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homunculus&oldid=105334113 (final paragraph of the alchemy section)
really consider myself so lucky to have stumbled across that as it surely can't have been around for more than a few days, but it rules everything on wikipedia imo |
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Roll Fish
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Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:33 pm |
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| Hides-His-Eyes wrote: |
my friend got a year's ban for saying that sudoku "took the nation by storm"
wikipedia
the encyclopedia that anyone can edit so it will be reverted by a bot |
that's pretty odd. |
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A Bear
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Dri-ft you are a hero. |
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crazydiamond
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 1:53 am |
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When I was doing research for a speech on wordplay for my creative writing class, one article lead to another and I ended up here and the attention box or whatever it's called made me laugh and laugh, more than any of the examples did. |
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dri-ft
as in, "get my"?
Joined: 15 Apr 2006
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Fri Jan 09, 2009 11:50 am |
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haha i also love how the person doing the knocking is referred to as the punster (new batman villain imo)
and this line reminds me of tommy for some reason:
"(this is a joke referring to a price drop in crops, as well as a joke about the heat in hell)" |
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Hides-His-Eyes
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Dezro
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Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:51 pm |
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Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:01 pm |
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thought that was the warheads symbol at first |
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Shandy
Only passingly familiar with keyboards.
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I totally get something like this, which is linked to in the article. They're called brain zaps, apparently, although mine have an auditory component that isn't mentioned.
It feels like an electric shock in my head, with a fairly low pitched buzzing which very rapidly (within a second or two) increases in volume to a peak, at which point it stops immediately and I feel disoriented/vertiginous for a couple of seconds. I thought I had some mild form of epilepsy, but I rationally I don't suppose that is how an electrical disruption in the brain would feel like. What are the chances it would actually feel like an electrical disruption when your brain isn't a sensing organ for electrical disturbances? |
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Chadwick Wellingsworth
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The Flying Ubermensch
Joined: 10 Dec 2008
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I have now. |
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Elias_Aquarius
Joined: 03 May 2007
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Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:09 am |
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I love this part:
| Why Did the Chicken Cross The Road Wikipedia Article wrote: |
Why did man invent god?
To get to the other side.
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trainwreck
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Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:09 am |
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they were pretty up in arms
"oh no my secret clubhouse where will i talk about what anime i want to have sex with"
p. funny i thought |
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Healy
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Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:36 pm |
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From this article:
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| "Octopus's Garden" is a song written by Ringo Starr with a little help from his friends (although it is credited solely to Starr, as "Starkey"). |
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dri-ft
as in, "get my"?
Joined: 15 Apr 2006
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:44 pm |
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the most 'wikipedia' illustration possible for an article on humour. |
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Roll Fish
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:50 pm |
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can we all please add things to that See Also list. I just added Wikipedia because srisly guys this is humor |
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dri-ft
as in, "get my"?
Joined: 15 Apr 2006
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Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:56 pm |
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also, only an xkcd fan could write could write something as terrible as this imho:
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Root components [of humour]:
- appealing to feelings or to emotions.
- similar to reality, but not real.
- some surprise/misdirection, contradiction, ambiguity, or paradox.
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this rules though:
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Rowan Atkinson explains in his lecture in the documentary "Funny Business"[12] that an object or a person can become funny in three different ways. They are:
- By behaving in an unusual way
- By being in an unusual place
- By being the wrong size
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Jhayes94
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Holy cow this exactly describes what I have! The last time it happened I was almost asleep and I heard a loud voice saying JIM! and I jumped awake and had an increased heart rate and was kind of freaked out for a while.
shit this is like the start of a new chapter in my life I now know that I have exploding head syndrome  |
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