Topic: Amusing Wikipedia Stuff [split topic]

[samadriel]

He claims he became interested in punk rock after reading about Johnny Rotten vomiting on an aeroplane

Now I'm imagining Johnny Rotten standing on the wing, vomiting onto the fuselage.  Don't vomit on that plane, John!

Not worth a new page!

[FerriswheelBueller]

Busta Rhymes Island is a proposed name for an otherwise unnamed island in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4]; The name refers to the rapper Busta Rhymes. The island is located in Mill Pond in Shrewsbury and measures 40 by 40 feet (12 m × 12 m).[5] The proposal was made by Shrewsbury resident Kevin O'Brien who began frequenting and caring for the upkeep of the island. O'Brien stated he wanted it to be called Busta Rhymes Island as it had "rope-swinging, blueberries, and ... stuff Busta would enjoy."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busta_Rhymes_Island

[An tSaoi]

"Work Bitch" is an electronic dance music (EDM) song containing mostly spoken lyrics, where Spears repeatedly exhorts "bitches" to "get to work".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Bitch

[kalowski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Bitch

You know it makes sense...

You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti?
You want a Maserati? You better work bitch
You want a Lamborghini? Sippin' martinis?
Look hot in a bikini? You better work bitch
You wanna live fancy? Live in a big mansion?
Party in France?
You better work bitch, you better work bitch
You better work bitch, you better work bitch
Now get to work bitch! (Ahh)
Now get to work bitch! (Ahh)

[An tSaoi]

To paraphrase S Lee: an an artist, she's not concerned with the possibility of duality of meaning.

[dissolute ocelot]

From the article on Tibetan cuisine:

Butter tea is the national beverage. It is ideal in the extreme climatic and geographical conditions of the Tibetan plateau due to its high butter content.

[famethrowa]

From the article on Tibetan cuisine:

butter wouldn't melt so I put it in me tea

[Wonderful Butternut]

Someone snuck some interesting captions onto photos of a barely used Irish railway station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoole_railway_station

Kilcoole Railway Station, platform "services". The display sign doesn't work but it's rumored that the voice of the Fat Controller can be heard at midnight on a clear night with a full moon

Kilcoole Railway Station. In anticipation of the Mediterranean climate expected due to Global Warming the station is in the new Irish Rail al fresco style. The rocks will protect the station from the inevitable rise in sea level. This is a fine example of Irish Rail planning.

The commuter stop at Kilcoole. The rocks are to prevent the Irish Sea from washing away the railway and to provide shelter to the commuters in the windy conditions prevalent at the sea shore. To maximise the benefit, commuters are advised to lie in the ground during stormy weather.

[phes]

From the article on Tibetan cuisine:

This is probably because the higher altitude and lower pressure lowers the boiling point of water. If the altitude is high enough (likely in tibet) and the boiling point gets low enough then the water isn't hot enough to make good tea. The dairy presumably raises the boiling point.

Edit: na, apparently they just boil it for fucking hours instead

[Famous Mortimer]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busta_Rhymes_Island

I just keep thinking of Busta Rhymes Island and laughing. I would vote for this change.

[dissolute ocelot]

This is probably because the higher altitude and lower pressure lowers the boiling point of water. If the altitude is high enough (likely in tibet) and the boiling point gets low enough then the water isn't hot enough to make good tea. The dairy presumably raises the boiling point.

Edit: na, apparently they just boil it for fucking hours instead

There are very few carbohydrates in Tibet, just barley and a few potatoes, so they need all the calories they can get. I guess. Butter in everything.

Anyway, I was looking up Lovecraft film adaptations and found List of squid-faced humanoids. Shorter than Giant squid in popular culture but much longer than the list of human-faced squid, which appears not to exist. Not even as a section of Cephalopods in popular culture:

As of 2016, Beatport's electronic music catalog includes 75 releases which include the word 'octopus' in their title.

[Jittlebags]

Not even as a section of Cephalopods in popular culture:

Hmm, they seem to have overlooked our Japanese cousins' interest in tentacle porn. And squid-ink themed bukkake.

[Mr Trumpet]

Anyway, I was looking up Lovecraft film adaptations and found List of squid-faced humanoids. Shorter than Giant squid in popular culture but much longer than the list of human-faced squid, which appears not to exist. Not even as a section of Cephalopods in popular culture:

Pfft, they don't even list the Rubbery Men from the Fallen London games. Embarrassing stuff Wikipedia.

[dredd]

[jenna appleseed]

Gurn/gurning/gurning contest / Michaela Strachan wierdness.

The page for Gurn/Gurning suggests you should "see also: duck face" (plus is there really a famous gurning contest champion, who appeared on They Think It's All Over, and had his teeth removed so he could gurn better, or is wiki just trolling me seeing I'm about to have my shit teeth removed and replaced with dentures on Friday & only googled it because I was making anxiety distraction jokes with one of my support workers  about how 'with no teeth I'd be able to gurn now like one one of those old ladies who used to be on the local news, why was that a thing?' with one of my support workers (I also tried googled those things you put your false teeth in to clean them and more info on dental surgery, ended instead finding a story about an old man who went in for unrelated surgery, somehow accidentally swallowed his false teeth, forgot/failed to mention he's had them in before the surgery, and had to go back to have them surgically removed  - thanks phone).

The mobile version has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaela_Strachan as a related article.

Aparentally "While filming an item for Countryfile in 2002, Strachan entered the World Gurning competition at Egremont Crab Fair. To her surprise she won the Ladies' World Gurning Crown." unrelated weird are we sure this is genuinely a fact
"Strachan is allergic to elephants".