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God-dammit Wikipedia!
Dammit, stupid Wikiholes. Someone in the office mention Kyrgyzstan, and half an hour later I’m reading about the Indo-European family of languages, and how they spread from their (probable) origins in central Asia.
I need to put Wikipedia on a blacklist, I really do.
The Donner Party
I’d half heard of this before, but didn’t know all that much about it. Believe it or not, we don’t really get taught a lot about the Gold Rush in British schools, although anything you want to know about the history of our kings and queens, I’m your man. The mind boggles as to what these people experienced, it really does. You just can’t picture it, can you? This Wikipedia article is really well written, and it’s got that nicely detached voice which juxtaposes the quotes in the text, describing the horrors.
Selected winners of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year, awarded annually by Bookseller magazine to the book published that year with the strangest title:
The Joy of Chickens (1980)
Versailles: The View From Sweden (1988)
How to Avoid Huge Ships (1992)
Bombproof Your Horse (2004)
Of these, I think “How to Avoid Huge Ships” is my favourite, and my vote for this year’s prize is “Afterthoughts of a Worm Hunter”.
More at the Wikipedia page.
Paraskevidekatriaphobia - The fear of Friday the 13th
Today’s apt phobia. Also, things you will not be able to say after five beers.
Dammit, just got lost in Wikipedia for an hour.
I’ve spent the last hour reading about the Titanic and her sister ships, naval disasters and various other nautical matters.
DAMN YOU WIKIPEDIA!!!
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- Great British Trees
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(Via pterodactyls)
I’m intrigued as to whether this is a list of quite fantastic trees from Britain, or if Wikipedia as a whole has had a complete brain-freeze when it came to titling this page.
EDIT: It turns out that it is actually a list of 50 trees selected as worthy of honouring the Queen’s Jubilee in 2002. Utterly, utterly ridiculous. Makes me wonder what else was listed in that year…
Reblogged from: pterodactyls
Originally posted on: vicky j dot org
Idiot”, “imbecile”, and “moron” were once neutral terms for a developmentally delayed adult of toddler, preschool, and primary school mental ages, respectively.
Euphemism Treadmill, on Wikipedia.
These are words that I use “affectionately” towards the girlfriend. Handy to know their etymology.
Wikipedia - Exploding whale
I couldn’t help but smirk all the way through reading this article. Be sure to check out the other entries in the ‘Exploding Animals’ category at the bottom of the page.
