This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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.

xp

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.

Not there

I don't know what that link is! Google CNBC and IDA for it in all of its woejus glory.

The Daily Telegraph has published at least four premature obituaries:

Cockie Hoogterp, the second wife of Baron Blixen, in 1938 after the Baron's third wife died in a car accident. Mrs. Hoogterp sent all her bills back marked "Deceased" and survived her premature obituary by over 50 years.[37]

(crosspost to "great real names")

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Feed_The_World_Logo.GIF

Band Aid

Band

Band Aid was a charity supergroup featuring mainly American, British, and Irish musicians and recording artists. Wikipedia

Lead singer: James Kerr

Origin: London

Founders: Bob Geldof, Midge Ure

not a supergroup for geography

Fran Healy: woo

NEVARR FORGET

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Awww_cute_Koni.jpg

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

"Although amateur aficionados of mathematics are quite interested in this concept, professional mathematicians generally are not."

hahahahah

It is rare for Punch to hit his baby these days, but he may well sit on it in a failed attempt to "babysit", or drop it, or even let it go through a sausage machine.

Personal life

Father MC appeared nude in the August 1996 issue Playgirl in a photospread taken by Greg Weiner.[1] Despite the critical attention, posing nude opened an international fan base of admirers of Father's music and increased record sales.

dunno if pictures count as details but:

http://i.imgur.com/nAd3o12.jpg

Sam Slom is the sole Republican in the 25-member [Hawaii] Senate since it reconvened after the 2010 elections and is, therefore, minority leader. Slom technically serves on all fifteen Senate committees but cannot physically attend all of the meetings. He must depend on a Democratic colleague to second a motion that he makes on the Senate floor or the motion will die for lack of a second.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Senate_diagram_2014_State_of_Hawaii.svg/250px-Senate_diagram_2014_State_of_Hawaii.svg.png

http://i.imgur.com/HIeOD7r.png

This article is about the television sitcom. For the social concept, see friendship. For other uses, see Friends (disambiguation).

"Central Perk" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Central Park.

I don't think this has been posted here
http://citationneeded.tumblr.com

Despite urging by Grohl, though, Smear did not play a guitar solo during band introductions. On March 6, 2008, Smear joined the Foo Fighters for all portions (acoustic/plugged) of their show at the Forum in Inglewood, California. Urged by Grohl, Smear did play a guitar solo (eight notes) during band introductions. Since then, he has played a solo whenever asked to by Grohl.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Usafl_rend.jpg

I made this image with computer-generated imagery. 2 views of a man with an M2A1-7 United States Army flamethrower.