This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

David keeps a blog, titled "Dave's Blog," which is accessible only to Domino's Pizza franchisees and corporate store managers. In his blog he talks about such topics as his personal unannounced visits to stores and the price of cheese.

the other day I was thinking about starting a thread for extracts from the internal blog of the ceo of the company I work for, but I don't want to get sacked

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His area of responsibility was Poland, and his relations with the chief Polish delegate, Roman Dmowski, were antagonistic owing to Dmowski's anti-Semitism and Namier's anti-Polonism.

Misconceptions about lemmings go back many centuries. In the 1530s, the geographer Zeigler of Strasbourg proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather (also featured in the folklore of the Inupiat/Yupik at Norton Sound), and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.[5] This description was contradicted by the natural historian Ole Worm, who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation.

lol

there's scope for a thread of pleasingly bizarre historical explanations

The Wesson Oil & Snowdrift Company merged with Hunt's Foods, Inc. to become Hunt-Wesson Foods. Hunt-Wesson merged with the McCall Corporation and Canada Dry to form Norton Simon Inc. in 1968. Norton Simon was acquired by Esmark in 1983, which merged with Beatrice Foods the next year. In 1985, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts acquired Beatrice with the goal of selling off businesses. Hunt-Wesson, the company which included the Hunt's brands, was sold in 1990 to agribusiness giant ConAgra Foods.

Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England. His father, Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Young Winwood became interested in swing and Dixieland jazz as a boy and started playing drums, guitar and piano. He first performed with his father and older brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight.[5]

In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of bigoted and racist questions during an on air interview.

In 2010, the inhabitants of Shitterton, Dorset, purchased a 1.5-ton block of Purbeck Stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet's name to prevent theft.[20] A truck and crane were hired by volunteers to put the stone in place, at a total cost of £680.[21][20]

In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of inane questions during an on air interview.

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In 2014, he caused controversy after subjecting Martin Shanahan of IDA Ireland to a litany of bigoted and racist questions during an on air interview.

Truly mind-bending interview.