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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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doppelkorn

Quote from: Cohaagen on July 20, 2011, 07:21:35 AM
While doing some research...

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

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.

That made me laugh heartily!

doppelkorn

Found a very weird bit of peurile vandalism on the Czech language page:

QuoteCzech is also one of the 23 official jizzes in the European Union (since May 2004).

QuoteThe name "čeština", Czech, is derived from a Slavic tribe of jizzers ("Čech", pl. "Češi" or "Čechové" (archaic)) that inhabited Central Bohemia and united neighbouring Slavic tribes under the reign of the Premyslid dynasty ("Přemyslovci").

QuoteThe phonology of Czech may seem unattractive to English speakers as some words do not have vowels: jizz (frozen solid), ztvrdl (hardened), scvrkl (shrunk), čtvrthrst (quarter-handful), blb (dimwit), vlk (wolf), or smrt (death).

Treguard of Dunshelm

More puerile vandalism:

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_debatePolicy debate is a form of research-based speech competition in which teams of two retards with tourettes advocate for and against a resolution that typically calls for policy change by the United States federal government.

Cohaagen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Pittsburgh_police_shootings

QuoteAfter he returned home, he adopted two pit bull mixes from a local animal shelter, one of which would later urinate on his mother's carpet, triggering the April 4 shootings.[8]

The Duck Man

Rather endearing illustration from the article for the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway:



WikiBus!


Retinend


Ambient Sheep

I usually can't stand British Teeth jokes, but for some reason, the fact that the very top of the London article now has

Quotethey should have stole dental suppies

crudely inserted into it, tickled me somehow.

Schlippy

It never ceases to amuse me that celebrity racist Jim Davidson's wiki page is still listing Manimal as one of his TV credits. Been there for years, now.

Although, sadly, it seems CSI: Miami has since been removed. Perhaps it's only a matter of time...

The Duck Man

I love the section headings of Jason Donovan's page so much, I might not even read the article,[nb]I really shouldn't be anyway.[/nb] as it'll only spoil it by removing the stark singularity of it all with bloody detail and nuance.

Quote1.1 Neighbours
1.2 1988–1991: Singing sensation
1.3 1991–1993: Joseph and "The Face"
1.4 1995–1999: Drugs
1.5 2000–2005: Fatherhood
1.6 2005: Virgin Mobile viral marketing
1.7 2006: I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
1.8 2007–2009: Return to soap operas and singing
1.9 2010 – Onwards: TV Work, 80s Album & War Of The Worlds

Particularly love the five years he was solely on drugs, and the six he spent just as a father. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO 1994?!

lazyhour

On Salvador Dali's page:

"The entertainer Cher and her husband Sonny Bono, when young, came to a party at Dalí's expensive residence in New York's Plaza Hotel and were startled when Cher sat down on an oddly shaped sexual vibrator left in an easy chair. When signing autographs for fans, Dalí would always keep their pens."

I like how there's no pause before launching into the pens anecdote.

Old Nehamkin

The last line from Pat Shortt's page made me laugh:

QuoteHe also played the part of crazy man Tom in Father Ted. His character had a uni-brow and wore an "I shot JR" shirt.


Old Nehamkin


Subtle Mocking

It is quite matter-of-fact. Still, nowhere near as funny as that needlessly detailed trivia section of the Flight Into Terror episode of Father Ted.

Old Nehamkin

Ah, I remember that! Just visited the page and sadly that section's been cut down to a single airplane inaccuracy fact. It does feature  one of the most detailed plot sypnoses of a sitcom episode ever, though:

QuoteTed asks Dougal to hand him the dispenser he bought back at the airport (although Dougal initially hands him the "joke telephone" dog toy and Ted waves it about smugly before realising his mistake).

QuoteJack is shown to have landed in a tree: the trolley load of drink is hanging just out of Jack's reach and he is heard shouting: "Drink! Feck! Arse!" as he is revealed to be dangling from a tree desperately trying to reach the alcohol, but ended up breaking down in tears, since the trolley was beyond his reach.




samadriel

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

QuoteThe Troma DVD removes a lot of the jizz from the feature film. These scenes are available to be seen in the bonus features.[4]

Wait, what?

Cohaagen


jutl

QuoteIn 2006, Lyonne was in the Caron Foundation, a drug and alcohol treatment center, and appeared in court after missing several court dates to face earlier charges of mischief, trespass and harassment after she entered a female neighbor's Gramercy Park apartment and allegedly threatened to sexually molest the neighbor's dog.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Lyonne

Cohaagen

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

QuoteAuto workers who called themselves "jobbies" would pick a Friday and take off work at noon to party at Gull Island (Lake St. Clair, Michigan) for the day[2].

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

QuotePartly as a result of these misfortunes, young Sherwood found various odd jobs to help his family, which earned him the nickname "Jobby."

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

QuoteLittle brown jobbie or LBJ is an informal name commonly used by birders for any of the large number of species of small brown passerine birds, many of which are notoriously difficult to distinguish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_(actress)

QuoteAnnie Jobbie, popularly known as Annie ( ആനി ) is an Indian film actress.

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

Quote^ White, Peter (24 June 1999). "Football: Wolves will sell Jobbie". The Sunday Mirror. Retrieved 31 July 2008.






JOBBIES

doppelkorn


Famous Mortimer

She had a pretty rough time of it, apparently (or, she just did loads of drink and drugs and messed up her life / career). Looks like she's back for the new American Pie, and I bet her and Jason Biggs are both praying that it does well.

doppelkorn

Do you reckon they now do the "college circuit" (or whatever the US version of the student union circuit is)?

Famous Mortimer

I wonder if that's a thing over there. If so, then yes. She seems to still be working, though, and I always quite liked her in those films.

ThickAndCreamy

From Grimsby in the Media;

Quote- Grimsby was featured in the Open University documentary Coast, which despite the food heritage of historic significance, chose to show only a 'fish-finger' production line.
- A rash of lottery winners in the late 1990s saw the town being officially designated "Winsby" by the Grimsby Evening Telegraph but despite popular support this new name never really caught on.
- In January 2001, Nicholas Griffin, the owner of the Little Amsterdam sex shop on Freeman Street was fined £5,800 at York Magistrates Court for four offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 because angry customers had complained to Trading Standards officers in York that some of the films he sold were not pornographic enough.
Things are always happening in Grimsby.

phantom_power

From Natasha Leggero's entry:

"She now resides under an old railway bridge in detroit, locals say she can be heard cackling at the moon whenever an idiot is born. A strange bearded figure known only as "Dunk" periodically drops scraps of mdma and wisdom via a bucket and pulley system to her waiting maw."


The Masked Unit

Terry Waite:

- For a while in the 1980s, Waite was known for his catchphrase, Hello, I'm Terry Waite.

- The term Terry is synonymous with the method of cutting a straight line into the back of someone's hair on the nape of the neck. This is due to the rhyming slang Terry Waite - Straight.


- Waite had a curry named after him, the Terry Waite Special, which was allegedly what he ordered on his release from captivity from a restaurant in Blackheath (SE London). It consisted of a bed of curried beef, curried eggs, a whole curried chicken, and rice with cheese melted over the top, accompanied by two nan breads.

The last one in particular sounds made up.


CaledonianGonzo

I realise I'm late in seeing it, but Cohaagen's post a few up is the funniest thing I've read all day [/childishscottishperson]

doppelkorn

I see you've been researching the subjects of your fake TV shows. You loon. Anyway:

QuotePavel is a keen golfer and recently won a Peugeot 306 at Alton Towers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Srn%C3%AD%C4%8Dek

It's the fact that Alton Towers sin't hyperlinked that gets me. It seems very parochial compared to Wikipedia's general tone.

Cohaagen

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA who writes this shit.

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

Quote(...)also known as "TGO" (a nickname coined by his good friend Brian Enos, it stands for "The Great One"(...)

QuoteFrom the time he could walk, he always carried a stick with him wherever he went. His mother believes it was his weapon of choice before the introduction to guns.

QuoteOn Leatham's twelfth birthday, he received his first gun. His family surprised him with a new Smith & Wesson Model 34 revolver

QuoteAt the time, the computer room was a room full of mainframes that had less computing power than the average PC today. Leatham loved the job, especially when things went wrong, as he loved the challenge and pressure of being under the gun.