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Amusing Wikipedia Stuff [split topic]

Started by dr_christian_troy, July 25, 2010, 11:46:13 AM

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Cohaagen

Perhaps inevitably, it was lack of sources which did for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rainbow&action=history

Quote(cur | prev) 01:04, 13 May 2011 Tbhotch (talk | contribs) (49,906 bytes) (Undid revision 428851138 by 90.197.249.57 (talk) sources?) (undo)

Eager to please, I placed this message on his talk page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tbhotch#Rainbows

QuoteHello my good friend. I see you have reverted my edits to the page on rainbows due to lack of sources.

Unfortunately at this time I cannot chase down a reference on the internet (my original source is from a natural world almanac), but I was able to find this picture of the Qingdai shootdown incident which shows the intruder making contact with the terrain.



I note that English is not your first language. In my tongue we have an idiom: "a picture is worth a thousand words". Perhaps this is better than a written source?

For the other incident I have nothing as yet, but will try my best to investigate this strange and troubling anomaly.

Best Wishes,

Lance Jack —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.197.249.57 (talk) 02:17, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

The picture must have satisfied him, because it brought me the reply:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:90.197.249.57

QuoteRE: Rainbows

Well, online sources are not mandatory, we can use offline as well. You can use the {{cite book}} template to source your information. So feel free reverting me with the source. Tbhotch* ۩ ۞ 02:20, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Yeah! Fucking barry! Now all I need to do is scare up some hardcopy source. I am pleased at having sated the intellectual rigour of Wikipedia's "#308 Editor".

jutl

QuoteCohortative-hortative
Although the cohortative is itself a fairly neutral mood with regard to attitude, usually reflecting a mutual encouragement to partake in the proposition of the utterance with little more than tacit urging, it can be combined with the implied meanings of the other six hortative moods.
This creates constructions which have dual hortative modalities but which remain overall cohortative. Observe:

Let's go in the cave.
(cohortative) - mutual encouragement with no added connotations

Let's not go in the cave.
(cohortative) - mutual discouragement with no added connotations

Come on, let's really go in the cave.
(cohortative-exhortative) - mutual encouragement with added intensity and urging

Please! Please, let's not go in the cave. I'm scared!
(cohortative-infrahortative) - mutual discouragement with added absolute urging; a plea against the proposition
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohortative_mood#Cohortative-hortative

boki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatman_Scoop

Highlights:

QuoteFatman Scoop received his stage name after appearing in the Fugees 'Killing Me Softly' video as a cinema worker serving popcorn and ice-cream. Lauryn Hill was a massive ice-cream fan herself so would shout 'scoop, scoop, fatman scoop' when she wanted a tub of her favourite snack. Lauryn Hill and Pras also made a spoof version of their most popular song, exchanging the lyrics 'killing me softly with his song' for 'filling my belly with popcorn'. Fatman Scoop was laughing for weeks.[citation needed]

QuoteAs a hype man for various artists, he had some appearances and had performed with other artists. The following list are people he had done a song with and may contain other artists he appeared with in that song:

Demet Akalin
Miri Ben-Ari
Missy Elliott
Elephant Man
Pitbull
Jasmine Trias
Mariah Carey
Rod Stewart
Moses
Far East Movement
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Busta Rhymes
B*Witched
The Who
The Beatnuts
Deacon Blue
Pras Michel
Gary Mullen
Polyphonic Spree
Nine Inch Nail
X-ecutioners
Ciara
Rush
Funkmaster Flex
Slaughterhouse
Chingy
Del Amitri
Sean Paul
Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew
Lumidee
Timbaland
The Cast of High School Musical
Ying Yang Twins
Bobby "Boris" Pickett
Wisin & Yandel
Three 6 Mafia
David Bowie
Young Buck
Lieutenant Pigeon
Lauryn Hill
Hugh Edwards
Earth, Wind & Fire
Jimmy Nail
Fat Joe
New Order
Jimmy Chung's
The Crooklyn Clan
Timbaland & Magoo
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Nick Cannon
Fatman Scoop
The Wiggles
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nephew
DJ Kool
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Thara
Ken of Overground
Scooter
Enya
Janet Jackson
Pussycat Dolls
Massive Töne
Kool Savas
Sonic Youth
Lil Jon
Hale and Pace
David Guetta
DJ AM
Darin Zanyar
Fergie
Brian Eno
Cypress Hill
T.a.t.u.
Public Enemy
DJ Tomekk
Wyclef Jean
N.O.R.E.
MF Grimm
MF Doom
Mary J. Blige
Clinton Sparks
Whitney Houston
Girlicious
De La Soul
Exile
Notch
Swizz Beatz
Mogwai
Girls Aloud
The View

Jemble Fred

At last, the link between Mariah Carey and Hale & Pace we've all been waiting for! What a dude...

(This is coming from the only person in the world who hopes that H&P's current Australian tour comes to the UK.)

Cohaagen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Baldwin

QuoteIn 1998, he was found running naked through the halls of New York's Plaza Hotel shouting "Baldwin!"

Ambient Sheep

Quote from: jutl on May 09, 2011, 09:02:19 PM
QuoteEarly advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk". These slogans were used seemingly oblivious to the fact that spunk is slang for semen in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom
I assumed this was vandalism, but no, it has sources!



(from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/03/11/introducing_dasani_the_water/)

When the shit really hit the fan about the bromate and they withdrew it all, my then-g/f found some bottles still on sale in the local newsagent and so we bought a few, thinking they'd be collectors items some day.  They sat in the corner for years, probably gone now though.

oilywater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oj_borg

From the page of erstwhile lottery draw monkey OJ Borg, possibly the most mediocre sentence ever constructed:

QuoteIn August 2009, Borg was voted "Personality Most Likely To Turn On Cathedral Square Christmas Lights" by readers of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. The lights were in fact switched on by former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Jakki Brambles.[citation needed]

AlkyBastard

Quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

1975: Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old from Norfolk, England, died laughing while watching The Goodies. A particular scene had caused Mitchell to laugh nonstop for twenty-five minutes before dying of heart failure.

1993: Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer and a senior partner at the Holden Day Wilson Law firm in Toronto, Canada, fell to his death on July 9, 1993, after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visiting law students that the glass was "unbreakable." The glass didn't break, but popped out of the window frame, and he fell over 300 feet to his death.

2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Gig Harbor, Washington, U.S. died of acute peritonitis after receiving anal intercourse from a stallion. The case led to the criminalization of bestiality in Washington state.

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.

2010: Jimi Heselden, owner of the Segway motorized scooter company, was killed when he accidentally drove off a cliff on a Segway at his estate and drowned in the River Wharfe.

Subtle Mocking

Quote from: oilywater on May 28, 2011, 10:04:48 PM
From the page of erstwhile lottery draw monkey OJ Borg, possibly the most mediocre sentence ever constructed:

He disproved it in an interview, but then went on to describe a similarly mediocre experience:
QuoteQ. In August 2009, you were voted "Personality most likely to turn on Cathedral Square Christmas Lights" by readers of the Peterborough Evening Telegraph. It never happened, could it be this year?

"I wish. Now stop reading Wikipedia will you... someone keeps spamming it... and it's funny spam so I don't mind. The only lights I've turned on were the Gorton ones when I worked for 96.2 Revolution. Two people turned up, we had a wooden box to stand on and the actual turning on was telling the park warden to flick the fuse box on. Now that one is true!"

The Duck Man

Quote from: AlkyBastard on May 28, 2011, 11:10:38 PM
1975: Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old from Norfolk, England, died laughing while watching The Goodies. A particular scene had caused Mitchell to laugh nonstop for twenty-five minutes before dying of heart failure.
Makes TC look like something of a casual fan.

Cohaagen


rudi



Pepotamo1985


NoSleep

Quote from: Bob The Skutter on June 06, 2011, 11:33:57 PM


He's patting his imaginary dog on the arse whilst she's humouring this obviously disturbed man.

Quote from: The Duck Man on May 28, 2011, 11:26:28 PM
Makes TC look like something of a casual fan.

This was serialized in a US TV Series about unusual deaths, I believe the episode of the show I saw also featured the case of a teenager who fell to his death from the balcony of a tenth floor appartment whilst attempting to spit further then his two mates.

The Tourist

High five girl there looks a bit like a blonde Sharon Horgan.

Cohaagen

In a similar vein...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Chant



QuoteA man demonstrates the "Tomahawk chop."

doppelkorn

From the otherwise rather well-written article on Siberia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_conquest_of_Siberia

QuoteIn 1583 on the orders of Ivan IV has made a great tour of Moscow "ship battle" in Western Siberia. Pitched Voguls (Mansi) in Pelym, the army is on Tavda, followed by Toure and the Irtysh to the mouth of it in the Ob River. As a result of this campaign is set vassalage Vogul princes of Muscovy, Ivan IV and receives the title of Grand Prince Ugra, Prince Kondinsky and Obdorsk

doppelkorn

Is this true?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Kenwright

QuoteIn 2009 he received a Guiness world record for "the biggest collection of wagon wheels".

Cohaagen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat_display

First, second, and fourth ones.



Human threat display (snarling, with a paper party hat on head)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Game_of_Death

A neat synopsis of this film:

QuoteThe film begins with lengthy footage of Bruce Lee's funeral. The narrator then announces that there is a new actor "who looks quite like him" that will become Lee's successor. He is played by a man credited as "Bruce Lee Hsao Lung," and is introduced by a very, very long training montage.

The film proper begins with Hsao Lung filming a movie. On the set, he is approached by gangsters who want a piece of the Hsao Lung action. Hsao Lung doesn't bite, so they go after his girlfriend Alice, making her poison Hsao. During a lovemaking session, the poison takes action and Hsao dies.

Or does he? Actually, Hsao survives, and goes on a journey of vengeance that leads him to a tower of death not unlike the one seen in Bruce Lee's Game of Death. Along the way, there are a lot of stock clips of Bruce Lee.


mycroft

I had a vague childhood memory of Nicholas Witchell talking at length on kids' TV about his research into the Loch Ness Monster, so turned to Wikipedia to see if I remembered correctly.

QuoteIn 1974 Terence Dalton Limited published Witchell's book, "The Loch Ness Story". The book provides a history of the alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster and includes a chapter entitled "The "Monster" on Land". Witchell's belief in the existence of the creature is described as "quite unshakeable".

You'd think he and Prince Charles would get on better if that's the case.€

buttgammon

It's very true. My mum has a signed copy of his book about the Loch Ness monster, which she got at a book signing in Inverness.

Kazuo Kiriyama

When I was a child, I wrote to Witchell, and sent him a felt-tip drawing of him riding on the back of Nessie. I got a CCed reply from a secretary, but I'm assuming he fucking loved it.

Cohaagen

From http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fucking_hell

Quote(vulgar, idiomatic) An exclamation of great surprise.

    Fucking hell, that wrestler's huge.


Hee hee.

Famous Mortimer


Retinend

is facebook's html messing up for anyone else?

pk1yen

Stumbled upon this fact yesterday while looking at some Jewish demographic figures for some reason (check out the estimated number of Jews in Afghanistan):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population#By_country

This then led me to this page explaining the figure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_Afghanistan#Recent

"By the end of 2004, only two Jews were left in Afghanistan, Zablon Simintov and Isaac Levy (born ca. 1920). [...] They lived at separate ends of the dilapidated Kabul synagogue. Both claimed to be in charge of the synagogue, and the owner of its Torah, accusing the other of theft and imposture. They kept denouncing each other to the authorities"

Wonderful story -- if it hadn't already been turned into a play, I'd have been tempted to write it.

Cohaagen

While doing some research...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lob%C3%B3n

QuoteThe town originated the slang phrase 'lob-on' due to the high propensity of its residents getting partial erections.

It's been there since February. Someone even corrected the spelling. If it goes after my posting this, I will lose all faith in CaB.

Also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sworn_virgin

QuoteNational Geographic's Taboo estimated that there are fewer than 102 sworn virgins in the world. [1]

No shit.