Incidentals (category archive)

The Holden Sportwagon

As the commercial says, it’s “a wagon with the word ’sport’ in front of it”.

Categories: Humour, Incidentals and Local

The best portrait formerly on Wikipedia

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:

An image of Bruce Ivins

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”.

Categories: Incidentals and Humour » The best of Wikipedia

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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.

Categories: Humour, Incidentals and Politics

The best “attack type” on Wikipedia

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.

Categories: Incidentals and Humour » The best of Wikipedia

THE BEST ARTICLE ON WIKIPEDIA EVER

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusually-shaped_vegetable

Categories: Incidentals and Humour » The best of Wikipedia

The best serious description of an imperialist French elephant on Wikipedia

“Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar’s rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic.”

Goddamn fascist elephant.

Categories: Incidentals and Humour » The best of Wikipedia

I’m being biased against biased Southerners so it cancels out?

“Calendars have long been held as suspect in Lynchburg, Tennessee, just like suffrage for women and negroes.”

Categories: Humour and Incidentals

The best closed caption on Wikipedia

The not-quite-as-brilliant sequel to the best caption on Wikipedia is this transcription: “Goma’s face goes through four distinct expressions in under five seconds: shocked realisation; blind terror; crafty resolve and his best “Guy Kewney” face.”

Categories: Humour and Incidentals

PETA euthanises the majority of animals it takes in

Unlike most things they do, I don’t have a problem with that. Curiously though, co-founder Ingrid Newkirk says she got into the whole animal rights movement because she was shocked to find out that some kittens she took to an animal shelter were put down.

Categories: Incidentals

The best caption on Wikipedia

“The lowly photon is now king of the Universe as the last of the supermassive black holes evaporate.”

Categories: Incidentals and Humour » The best of Wikipedia