Amusing Wikipedia Stuff [split topic]

[biniput]

From the Paul Masson of "mwwaaaaa the french champaigns" fame:

Paul Masson and NASA
In the 1970s, NASA bought Masson Rare Cream Sherry for a Skylab mission and packaged some for testing on a "zero-G" aircraft. Unfortunately, the smell quickly permeated the cabin making astronauts physically sick, and public pressure over taking alcohol into space led NASA to abandon their plans

[The Lurker]

Jason McAteer:

McAteer was nicknamed "Trigger", after an Only Fools and Horses character of low intelligence.[27][28] He said in 2005 that he cultivated this image in order to play more matches, as managers would be comfortable putting him in different positions.[29] Anecdotes spread about McAteer's purported low intelligence, including that he had asked for a pizza to be cut into four pieces and not eight because he was not hungry;[30] he confirmed in 2005 that this story is true.[29]

McAteer said that when they clashed during Sunderland's match against Manchester United in August 2002, he had said to Keane: "Put it all in your next book". Keane responded by elbowing McAteer on the side of the head.[26]

[Ferris]

Jason McAteer:

That pizza story is brilliant.

[dissolute ocelot]

^ There's lots of gold in there (his Irish passport, Roy Keane...). It's probably all written by the ghostwriter of his autobiography.

[Inspector Norse]

Some crazy guy on a street corner has a longer entry than many heads of state or significant cultural figures

[Hobo With A Shit Pun]

Some crazy guy on a street corner has a longer entry than many heads of state or significant cultural figures

"Although there were objections to spending $70,000 to build a statue to a man still living, Barnes said in Mr. Happy Man that he appreciated the gesture while he was still alive, saying he would not be able to enjoy it if he were dead."

[Ferris]

He's got them there

[PlanktonSideburns]

Thats how you commit to the bit, fair doos

[Buttered Ghost]

The wiki page for Don't Stop Believin' by Journey takes great pains - two whole paragraphs - to emphasise that despite the line 'Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit', there is no actual place in Michigan called 'South Detroit' and there never has been, despite the very vast majority of people who have heard that song easily interpreting the lyric as 'Ah yes, the city boy grew up in an unspecified area south of the city of Detroit'.

... And then you discover they also have an article on how a significant population of Wikipedia editors are severely autistic and it suddenly makes perfect sense.

[George White]

The wiki page for Don't Stop Believin' by Journey takes great pains - two whole paragraphs - to emphasise that despite the line 'Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit', there is no actual place in Michigan called 'South Detroit' and there never has been, despite the very vast majority of people who have heard that song easily interpreting the lyric as 'Ah yes, the city boy grew up in an unspecified area south of the city of Detroit'.

... And then you discover they also have an article on how a significant population of Wikipedia editors are severely autistic and it suddenly makes perfect sense.

reminded of Kim Wilde singing about East California

[JesusAndYourBush]

Charlene singing about The Isle of Greece.

[dissolute ocelot]

Maybe the guy believes he's from south Detroit and the song is about his refusal to accept he's mistaken. Or maybe he's Canadian.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Its a pretty Canadian sounding song tbf

[famethrowa]

Its a pretty Canadian sounding song tbf

Perhaps because they ripped it off from a Rush song from 2 years before?

[Rolf Lundgren]

Jason McAteer:

On the latest Undr the Cosh podcast, McAteer says the pizza anecdote is not him and thinks it originates with David Burrows. Although he does confirm that when his hero Jimmy White walked past him in a nightclub he got nervous and shouted '180!'.

Definitely not as thick as the stories make out but it does give Razor something to say on the after dinner circuit.

[PlanktonSideburns]

Perhaps because they ripped it off from a Rush song from 2 years before?

Rush version would have been specifically about a particular boulevard in Toronto, who built it and what its like now

[The Lurker]

This guy (Francis Charteris) has an, erm, interesting legacy

Colonel Francis Charteris (baptised 4 April 1675 – 24 February 1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General",[1] was a Scottish soldier and adventurer[1] who earned a substantial sum of money through gambling and the South Sea Bubble.

Shortly before he died, he was said to have stated that he would pay £150,000 to anybody who could prove to him that there was no hell. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard; his coffin was attacked on its way to the graveyard, and it is said that dead cats were thrown into his grave.

[Lordofthefiles]

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

[The Lurker]

Imagine your joke bombing so much it got made into a Wikipedia page

When a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word

During oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, a major abortion rights case, Texas Assistant Attorney General Jay Floyd began his remarks with a reference to his opposing counsel, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee: "Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the Court.[a] It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they are going to have the last word."[2] The joke was met with silence in the courtroom and, according to abortion rights lawyer Margie Pitts Hames, visible resentment from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Widely viewed as sexist[3] and often considered "the worst joke in legal history",[4] Floyd's attempt at humor has been cited by commentators including Justice Antonin Scalia as a cautionary tale about comedy in court.

Floyd did not recover from the faux pas and struggled in the rest of his remarks, twice being laughed at by the audience.

[convulsivespace]

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

Not to be confused with John Lennon.

Ok?

[popcorn]

[The Lurker]

Went on Wikipedia to see what our former player Theo Robinson is up to nowadays and this amused me

On 13 October 2022, Robinson had signed for League Two side Hartlepool United.[91] Interim manager Keith Curle said that "Theo is a player we've tried signing before and he's turned down other offers to join".[92] Robinson left the club on 26 November 2022, with Curle stating that: "Theo is no longer with us. It was my choice."[93]

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Graham Bonnet is an English rock singer. He has recorded and performed as a solo artist and as a member of several hard rock and heavy metal bands including Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatrazz, and Impellitteri. He is known for his powerful singing voice but is capable of also singing soft melodies. His singing has been noted as "very loud" by both his contemporaries and himself, and he claims to be a self-taught singer with "no discipline for lessons". Bonnet's visual style, considered uncharacteristic of hard rock musicians, has been described as being a cross between Don Johnson in Miami Vice and James Dean.

[PlanktonSideburns]

His mum clearly wrote that

[DelurkedToHelp]

I've not got anything against the guy personally but this did make me laugh.

Rhydian James Roberts (born 14 February 1983), also known mononymously as Rhydian, is a Welsh former baritone singer, television presenter and musical theatre actor. He rose to fame in series 4 of The X Factor (2007), and subsequently became less widely known.

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