This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

At this point, Waylon Jennings left the recording studio for a short time when it was suggested by some that the song be sung in Swahili.[17][18] A heated debate ensued, in which several artists also rejected the suggestion. The "sha-lum sha-lin-gay" sound ran into opposition as well and was subsequently removed from the song. Jennings returned to the studio and participated in the recording, which bears his name in the end credits. The participants eventually decided to sing something meaningful in English. They chose to sing the new line "One world, Our children", which most of the participants enjoyed.[17]

Is there a separate thread for the weirdness of wikipedia summaries of music videos? They've really been tickling me lately.

Towards the end of the video, Oates rises, dons a jacket with long cuffs, and proceeds to perform his guitar solo with his hands completely covered by the sleeves of his jacket, which makes it appear as if he has fish fins for hands.

The Explicit version contains profanities (including "fuck") and carries a Parental Advisory sticker, but it is still censored, even for lesser profanities, such as "goose shit".

i always wondered what the g stood for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Johnny

The video features El Debarge singing in a courtroom, where a judge is presiding over the trial of Johnny 5 (the robotic protagonist of Short Circuit). A representative of NOVA, the government defense contractor that created Johnny, sits at the prosecutor's table as El Debarge sings his testimony from the witness stand. Stephanie Speck (Ally Sheedy) and a cardboard cutout of Newton Graham Crosby, Ph.D. (Steve Guttenberg) are also in attendance as adversarial witnesses for the prosecution, implying that El Debarge is playing the co-lead role of Ben Jabituya, played by Fisher Stevens in the film. The prosecutor's sole question during these examinations is the titular line of the song "Who is Johnny?" She plays a VHS tape, labeled "Short Circuit," containing various clips from the movie. Meanwhile, Number 5 wreaks havoc in the courtroom (only his robotic hand is visible to the viewer) with various hijinks, including giving the prosecuting attorney a pair of funny-nose glasses, turning up the ceiling fan to create a windstorm of papers, swapping the judge's gavel for an exploding one and calling the fire department, resulting in the judge being sprayed with water. Stephanie and El Debarge sneak out of the courtroom at the end, covering the camera with a slate on their way out. The prosecutor, still wearing the trick glasses, pops up to deliver the last "Who's Johnny?" The video does not show the outcome of the trial.

Ok, I'm in. brb.

A revolving platform was rigged at the center of the set, and the members of the band climbed on it individually to give the illusion of the song being performed as a crew member spun the giant turntable by hand. Vedder appeared with black gaffer's tape around his biceps as a mourning band for the real Jeremy.

Doroschuk, and others in the video, can be seen repeatedly forming an "S" sign by jerking both arms into a stiff pose, one arm in an upward curve and the other in a downward curve, apparently referring to the first letter in 'safety'.

The last line of the "Who's Johnny" one is worth the long setup, kudos.

A woman in a relationship is shown convincing her partner not to use a condom. Afterwards, he looks in the mirror and sees that he has an early symptom of AIDS visible on his face, in the form of Kaposi's sarcoma. He then sees a small photo frame on the dresser, showing all the people she has had sex with previously… The couple both fade away, as they both die from AIDS.

"wow, you've got a lot of pictures in here. You from a big family?"

WOW A+ never seen that "Who's Johnny" video before. What fun! LOL @ carboard cutout of Guttenberg

Maybe it's just that I've heard Weird Al's (lame) parody way more than the actual song, but that is the most Weird Al-looking video for a non-Weird Al song I've ever seen. The mugging, the edits, the jury reaction shots, everything.

Seriously crushing on Ally Sheedy now though <3

Alko is the national alcoholic beverage retailing monopoly in Finland...

During the 1939-40 Winter War the company mass-produced molotov cocktails for the Finnish military, production totalling 450,000 units.[5]

"The script was presented to NBC for production as a television miniseries, but NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too cerebral for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as man-eating extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction."

Dassin died of a heart attack during a vacation to Tahiti on August 20, 1980. He is survived by his two sons, both living in France, as well as his two younger sisters, Richelle (b. 1940) and Julie (b. 1945) and his parents Jules Dassin (1911-2008) and Béatrice Launer (1913–2005). His body is interred in the Beth Olam section of Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. We are sad because he died

Dassin studied at the International School of Geneva and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland, and graduated in Grenoble. Dassin moved back to the United States where he attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan from 1957 to 1963, winning an undergraduate Hopwood Award for fiction in 1958 and earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 and a Master of Arts in 1963, both in Anthropology.[4] Jetem you(I love you)

ArnoldC is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. "hello world" looks like this:

IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

Willa Paskin of New York magazine thought that the show's premise was faulty, noting that an enormous penis is unlikely to have much effect on your social life in high school.[12]

The Mr. Yuk symbol has been used as a replacement for the traditional skull-and-crossbones (a.k.a. Jolly Roger) warning label for poison. Since children may associate this symbol with pirates, the symbol may be less effective at deterring ingestion.[2]

11. "I'll Cry Instead" (Live, B-Side of An Innocent Man) (credited John Lennon, Paul McCartney but written by John Lennon) - 2:25

Fatty Fudge as his name suggests is a fat child. He is also sometimes called upon to assist Minnie in a particularly elaborate plot since his services can always be bought with a bag of sweets. He was briefly the subject of a spin-off strip in the early 1990s that parodied famous films, usually in ways involving the character's love of food (examples including 'You Only Eat Rice' and '20,000 Leeks Under The Sea').

1226: Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain, erenagh of Cong, a man eminent for chanting and for the right tuning of harps and for having made an instrument for himself which none had made before, distinguished also in every art such as poetry, engraving and writing and in every skilled occupation, died.

Categories: Medieval Gaels

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The Nuuk Tourist Office was built in 1992 to house the headquarters of the new National Tourist Board of Greenland.[25] It was built not only to provide information to tourists but as an attraction, with a fake Christmas tree and an extremely large postal box.

that is beautiful

Willa Paskin of New York magazine thought that the show's premise was faulty, noting that an enormous penis is unlikely to have much effect on your social life in high school.[12]

Wasn't there some product that had skull/crossbones on it, and captioned "this will turn you into a pirate", until the outcry? some smoothie, maybe.

Oh hang on, wrong cutpaste:

The Mr. Yuk symbol has been used as a replacement for the traditional skull-and-crossbones (a.k.a. Jolly Roger) warning label for poison. Since children may associate this symbol with pirates, the symbol may be less effective at deterring ingestion.[2]

The Nuuk Tourist Office was built in 1992 to house the headquarters of the new National Tourist Board of Greenland.[25] It was built not only to provide information to tourists but as an attraction, with a fake Christmas tree and an extremely large postal box.

― JoeStork, 28. oktober 2014 01:40 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As a Dane, I don't find those details unusual in the slightest. Makes perfect sense.

Wait, let's go back a step, Mark G.

not so much the detail that gave me pause with this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cocks

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

Using the name Katie as an example, the song follows this pattern:
Katie, Katie, bo-batie,
Banana-fana fo-fatie
Fee-fi-mo-matie
Katie!
A verse can be created for any name, with X as the name and Y as the name without the first consonant sound (if it begins with a consonant), as follows:
(X), (X), bo-b (Y)
Banana-fana fo-f (Y)
Fee-fi-mo--m (Y)
(X)!
If the name starts with a vowel or vowel sound, the "b" "f" or "m" is inserted in front of the name.
And if the name starts with a b, f, or m, that sound simply is not repeated. (For example: Billy becomes "Billy Billy bo-illy"; Fred becomes "banana fana fo-red"; Marsha becomes "fee fi mo-arsha".)
Playing the game with certain names such as Danny, Alice, Tucker, Bart, Mitch, Maggie, Judy or Ruby can result in risque, impolite or vulgar words being unintentionally sung out loud, such as Fanny, Phallus, Fucker, Fart, and so on.

Judy?

Booty?

what, like "Boodie" sort of thing?

Does Alice with an f really sound like "phallus"?

It actually sounds more like Alicef.

Well, Alice with an m sounds like 'malice', which is just bad vibes all around.

I could go on for hours and I probably will / But I'd sooner put some joy back in this town called Phallus
Ooo-ooh yeah

1226: Aed mac Donn Ó Sochlachain, erenagh of Cong, a man eminent for chanting and for the right tuning of harps and for having made an instrument for himself which none had made before, distinguished also in every art such as poetry, engraving and writing and in every skilled occupation, died.

― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:45 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I will relate

In some countries, the video censors out a scene where one of the members of the group installs a silencer on a MAC-10, and fires it later in the video, due to it being deemed as an "Instruction in the Use of a Firearm".

Ha (xpost @ Dmac).

Little Ann Little told the court how Boop oop a doop had started out as ba-da inde-do, which developed into bo do-de-o-do and finally to Boop Oop a Doop.

Jones' manager testified that he and Kane had seen her act together in April 1928, and just a few weeks later, Kane began to "boop."[1]

Warner/Chappell Music acquired Birch Tree Group Limited in 1988 for $25 million. The company continues to insist that one cannot sing the "Happy Birthday to You" lyrics for profit without paying royalties: in 2008, Warner collected about $5,000 per day ($2 million per year) in royalties for the song.

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

Using the name Katie as an example, the song follows this pattern:
Katie, Katie, bo-batie,
Banana-fana fo-fatie
Fee-fi-mo-matie
Katie!

...suddenly an odd Krusty bit on the Simpsons makes sense.

When Welcome Back, Kotter[15] first aired in 1975, some Baltimoreans were shocked to hear the word "sweathog" which, at that time, meant "whore" in many Baltimore neighborhoods. Nowadays, sweathog is used to describe an overweight, smelly woman.[16]

Wall was first proclaimed "King of the Dudes" at the resort town of Long Branch, New Jersey in the summer of 1883.[9]

Wall was again proclaimed "King of the Dudes" in 1888 by the New York American newspaper. A journalist named Blakely Hall judged that Wall had won the "Battle of the Dudes" against Robert "Bob" Hilliard, another sartorial dude when, during the March Blizzard of 1888, he strode into a bar clad in gleaming boots of patent leather that went to his hips.[5] Nevertheless, some historians still consider it was Hilliard who won that dude battle.[10]

Wall won another fashion contest in August 1888,[7] in Saratoga Springs, New York. To win a bet against John "Bet a Million" Gates, Wall changed clothes 40 times between breakfast and dinner.[11] He appeared on the race track "in one flashy ensemble after the other until, exhausted but victorious he at last entered the ballroom of the United States Hotel in faultless evening attire."[5]

From the page on the Goiania Incident in Brazil, in which scavengers stole a radioactive unit from a disused hospital, leading to 4 deaths and 249 cases of serious radiation poisoning:

On September 13, 1987, the guard in charge of daytime security, Voudireinão da Silva, did not show up to work, using a sick day to attend a cinema screening of Herbie Goes Bananas

Chris Jagger (born 19 December 1947, in Dartford, Kent) is an English musician. He is the younger brother of Mick Jagger.

Jagger released his first two albums in 1973 and 1974 but remained in his brother's shadow.[1][2]

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

The unusual detail is the bit underneath the 'external links' section. The footer, in other words.

"Chris Jagger : He knows he's not Mick (but he likes it)". Time. 23 April 2011

that is disgraceful. for shame time sub