It’s this colour-coded table of every cheese mentioned in the Monty Python sketch and the reason it was not available.
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Incidentals (category archive)
This has been my favourite portrait on Wikipedia for a while. I found out about the guy depicted, John Mandeville, through reading about the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary and the history of cotton. According to Mandeville,
There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie.
That paragraph itself is pretty great. I thought the accompanying illustration of the little lambs sprouting from the plant was good, but then I clicked through to Mandeville’s article:
Ridiculous or ridiculously cool? You decide.
As the commercial says, it’s “a wagon with the word ’sport’ in front of it”.
Bruce Edwards Ivins (April 22, 1946 — July 29, 2008), was a scientist for 36 years and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland for 18 years. In July 2008 he reportedly committed suicide just as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was about to charge him with a crime and seek the death penalty for his alleged connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five people and made 17 ill and terrorized the whole nation.
That’s the current opening paragraph for the Bruce Edwards Ivins article on Wikipedia and there’s nothing strange about it, unlike the image which accompanied when I checked it out earlier today:
As far as I can tell, an editor was WP:POINTing by adding this picture because fair use was disputed on an image he was trying to add to the article, but whatever. It’s a triumph, just like the uploader’s comment asserting it’s an “artistic interpretation of Bruce Edwards Ivins”.
Guernsey’s parliament is called ‘The States of Deliberation’. I like that.
Also, my favourite entry on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index:
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
What am I talking about, you ask? The terrorist attack infobox on Wikipedia has a field for listing the “attack type”—aircraft attack, car bombing, that kind of thing; or, in the case of the Wall Street bombing, horse-drawn wagon bombing.
Goddamn fascist elephant.
“Calendars have long been held as suspect in Lynchburg, Tennessee, just like suffrage for women and negroes.”
Humour and Incidentals