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When thinking of a subject to write about for the website, he picks something that he is interested in and writes about it. He usually works at home. But as he finds it difficult to do in long periods, because of the lack of social contact, he often goes to a coffee shop to work. Inman finds that it is much easier to gain exposure for his work with the web than it would have been 20 years ago. He enjoys making people laugh at his work. And although he notes that he cannot actually see the reaction of others to his work, he still appreciates seeing the high number of page views that his website receives.

hmmm, what do we think: writing own entry, or interview in print being strip-mined for facts by a fan?

Megatrend University has awarded an honorary doctorate to Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya. When asked to comment on this subject, the deputy Minister of education, prof. Srbijanka Turajlić just said that "this is not a deed on which any University should be proud of, but taking into account the quality of the university, it is not surprising that the doctorate was awarded to the dictator".[10][11]

In Series 22 Episode 3 of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson makes a brief humorous reference to the song during a sequence in which he comes face to face with a mannequin's genitals.

In 1890s Wyckoff Villa was built by William O. Wyckoff, a sales agent for E. Remington and Sons, who later formed the Standard Typewriter Manufacturing Company, Incorporated in 1886. Designed by William Henry Miller, the Richardsonian Romanesque-Tudor Revival hybrid mansion was occupied briefly as Wyckoff died a day after moving into the mansion in 1895

Among the early Mellotron owners were Princess Margaret, Peter Sellers, King Hussein of Jordan and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (whose Mellotron is now installed in the Church of Scientology's head UK office at Saint Hill Manor)

Ray fired Foreman as his attorney, and derisively called him "Percy Fourflusher" thereafter.[citation needed]

In 1890s Wyckoff Villa was built by William O. Wyckoff, a sales agent for E. Remington and Sons, who later formed the Standard Typewriter Manufacturing Company, Incorporated in 1886. Designed by William Henry Miller, the Richardsonian Romanesque-Tudor Revival hybrid mansion was occupied briefly as Wyckoff died a day after moving into the mansion in 1895

Maybe an "Either those curtains go or I do" scenario

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The Duke of Bedford's Vole (Proedromys bedfordi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in China.

Harvey Spencer Lewis F.R.C., S:::I:::I:::, 33° 66° 95°, PhD (November 25, 1883 – August 2, 1939), a noted Rosicrucian author, occultist, and mystic, was the founder in the USA and the first Imperator of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), from 1915 until 1939.

Notes

Note 1: F.R.C. is a Rosicrucian title.
Note 2: S:::I:::I::: is a Martinist title.
Note 3: 33°66°95° are degrees given to him by the Rite of Memphis-Misraïm.

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He attended the wedding of Victor and Brandi Quintanilla who were married at Calvary Christian Center in Yuba City, CA.

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Volunteers in a combat unit will experience a unique level of 'agreement' among participants, termed unit cohesion, that cannot be equaled in any other human organization because each team member is a mindless sheep, subject to it's heirarchic suicidal shepard.[citation needed]

Born Bernard Adolphus McFadden in Mill Spring, Missouri, Bernarr Macfadden changed his first and last names to give them a greater appearance of strength.[2] He thought "Bernarr" sounded like the roar of a lion

Blackmore is a heavy drinker, plays football once a week, and watches German language television on his satellite dish when he is at home. He has many German friends and a collection of approximately 2,000 CDs of Renaissance music.

Winning one coming up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain

Disc jockey Jimmy Savile found his own way to support the campaign by volunteering to work nine days as a hospital porter at Leeds General Infirmary over two months, stating that at his rate of pay, nine days' work would have earned him £1,600 (equivalent to £20,000 in 2015).[39][40]

Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin, two University of Southern California college graduates unhappy with their employment, began the company in 1948 as "WHAM-O Mfg. Co." in the Knerr family garage in South Pasadena. Their first product was the Wham-O slingshot, made of ash wood, which Knerr and Melin would promote by showing off their own skills at demonstrations. The powerful slingshot was used by clubs for competitive target shooting, as well as for small game hunting.[2] The name "Wham-O" was based on the sound of the slingshot's shot hitting the target.[3] When they outgrew the garage they rented a building on S. Marengo Ave in Alhambra, California, in 1955, the company eventually moved its manufacturing plant to neighboring San Gabriel, California.and the owner of the frisbe also knon as the pluto platter

uh oh, enbb's dad has found wikipedia

Paper Lace did send the song to Mayor Richard J. Daley, who was not impressed with the song and greatly disliked it.[2]

There were three different covers to Who Needs Guitars Anyway? when the album was released. The first was of Judith Pronk sitting on a record needle naked with only a cowboy hat on in a blur. The second was of Judith pointing a glowing finger and smiling. The third was much like the first but with Judith clothed. There was much controversy over the original cover, with some of its defenders slating the release of the other two covers. The original cover was briefly used to promote the album – promo posters and flats were produced but quickly removed.

Before finding success with Violent Femmes in the 1980s, band members Brian Ritchie and Victor DeLorenzo were members of a group called "Hitler's Missing Testis".[11] During the 1980s, the Brisbane anarcho-punk scene included the band "Hitler's Other Testicle". They regularly played songs on the subject of Hitler's possible monorchism, including "Where Did It Go?" and "The Sadness of Autumn".

Many between 2 and 12 years of age find the index finger particularly useful for "picking" their nose. This is done when the index finger is thrust upward into the nasal passage.

The book On the Warrior's Path quotes Feyerabend, highlighting the similarities between his epistemology and Bruce Lee's worldview.

i generally avoid behind-the-scenes wiki meta-pages for this thread but sometimes i'll find myself on one and be just gobsmacked, as with:

The question on whether a poor but improvable article ought to be deleted has been a major point of contention, and has given rise to the wiki-philosophies immediatism and eventualism.

Hmmmmm that's pretty interesting. Seems like there would be some parallels with existing anthropological theories.

Artavazd Ashoti Peleshyan (Armenian: Արտավազդ (Արթուր) Փելեշյան; born February 22, 1938, Leninakan) is an Armenian director of film-essays, a documentarian in the history of film art, and a film theorist. However, his work, unlike Maya Deren's, is not avant-garde, nor does it try to explore the absurd. It is also not really art for art's sake, like the work of Stan Brakhage, for instance, but is generally acknowledged, rather, as a poetic view of life transferred onto film.

Waynesville is classified a 3rd Class City with an elected mayor and city council.

As of the April 2014 election, the mayor is Luge Hardman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AUday_Hussein#Uday_Hussein.2C_lover_of_Air_Bud

So, we are trying to alert the world to the fact that Uday Hussein owned three copies of the American family/comedy film Air Bud, and apparently other people are as well, since some other anonymous user has re-inserted our edit, but a certain editor keeps removing it as non-notable information. We feel that this fact, the owning of three copies of Air Bud speaks to a certain aspect of Mr. Hussein's character that might otherwise remain obscured by his crimes. At the present, the impression this article makes is that Uday Hussein was a monster, but perhaps his love of Air Bud speaks to a childish simplicity or even a small spot of innocence within an otherwise dark soul. As such, we believe that the fact that Uday Hussein owned three copies of Air Bud is definitely notable and should, nay, must be included in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.118.190.135 (talk) 01:25, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

As well as his television appearances he has had many notable stage and film roles since 1980. In 2015 he revealed he is unable to feel physical pain and considers himself "a shadow of his former self".

oh man, the unsigned uday hussein air bud commenter had it all perfect up until the "should, nay must."

Iron Chef
Takata was a commentator and judge on the show. She has no culinary training.

In February 2007, he began a tour of the UK with the Donald Churchill play The Decorator. In April 2007 it was announced that he would play Private Walker in a stage production of Dad's Army, leading the Daily Mail to comment that "At least there'll be one member of the cast who has actually shot a German"[citation needed] – in reference to Grantham's killing of the West German taxi driver some 40 years earlier.

2002: Seven deadly sins (Lust (vanilla ice cream and strawberry chocolate), Sloth (caramel swirl ice cream and chocolate), Greed (tiramisu, amaretti and chocolate), Gluttony (chocolate ice cream and white chocolate), Jealousy (pistachio ice cream and chocolate), Revenge (raspberry ripple ice cream and chocolate), Vanity (champagne ice cream and white chocolate)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(ice_cream)#Flavours

that air bud thing is amazing

A Platonist or Neoplatonist would find any description of the material world trivial. A humanist or Ciceronian would likely find the indepth descriptions of animals and physics to be trivial (as Petrarch finds the study of natural philosophy to be in On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others). So does that give those individuals the right (on Wikipedia) to delete what they find to be trivial?

that air bud thing is hilarious

im also amazed that i never knew that dirty den was a convicted murderer

While working on "Swing Street" at night, Gibson was a fellow at the Juilliard Graduate School during the day.[6][7] At the time, Juilliard was strictly a classical music academy, and Gibson excelled there, which partly explains the richness of the music he brought to the jazz world (citation needed). ( if anything he brought a richness to classical music, with his boogie WOOGIE training). The other part of the explanation is, his own inventiveness, and Gibson was almost always billed and promoted as a musical genius.

excellent twitterbot work here https://twitter.com/DeletedWiki

President Obama has not attended a Washington Capitals game.

This article is about the type of Italian leader. For the meme, see Doge (meme). For other uses, see Doge (disambiguation).

In American slang, a "lounge lizard" is typically depicted as a well-dressed man who frequents the establishments in which the rich gather with the intention of seducing a wealthy woman with his flattery and deceptive charm.[1]

The sessions were filmed, with a small audience, and released as Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album (1985). The documentary shows Sinatra meeting Michael Jackson for the first time, with [Quincy] Jones affectionately calling Jackson "Smelly".

That was his nickname! He would habitually touch his nose bcz he was nervous! I read it in a John Jeremiah Sullivan article.

Personal life

At the age of eleven, Hammett was left traumatized after he witnessed his pet dog Tippy being raped by his next door neighbor.[37][38] On the subject, Hammett recalled:

I went to my neighbor's. The guy took down his pants and started having sex with the dog! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When he got up, I just took the dog and left. She was still wagging her tail.[37]

From the page about the town of Staines:

Notable residents

All Alone, important war pigeon

From Barbara Follett (former UK MP) entry:

In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley,the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa.

Apparently true - on her own webpage she says:

In 1957, at a banquet given by the Emperor for Yugoslavia's President Tito, Mr Hubbard fell into a drinks trolley during the loyal toast. This was deemed an insult to the emperor and Hubbard was asked to leave the country.