This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

On December 2000, Mattel filed a lawsuit against the Aqua's record label Mattel v. MCA Records, 296 F.3d 894 9th Cir. 2002, claiming that "Barbie Girl" had damaged the reputation of the Barbie brand. Judge Alex Kozinski writing for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court finding the use of Mattel's trademark in "Barbie Girl" fell within the noncommercial use exemption to the Federal Trademark Dilution Act. Judge Kozinski concluded his opinion by writing, "The parties are advised to chill."

lol

Judges produce some excellent comedy sometimes

Michael Anderson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Anderson may refer to:

Other

Michael Anderson, Jr. (born 1943), British actor
Michael T. Anderson (born 1950), American mathematician
Michael Anderson (director) (born 1920), British film director
Michael J. Anderson (born 1953), American actor, notable for being a dwarf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

In 1996, due to his contributions to the arts, he was honorably mentioned in the rock opera Rent during the song "La Vie Boheme", though his name was mispronounced on the original soundtrack.

#PettyOrHelpful?

Plot retelling of a film that's clearly not wellknown in the west:

Woman cop, Michèle Varin can not forget the death of his son, February 29, despite medication, alcohol and psychotherapy. She spends her evenings doing puzzles, alone with her pet rabbit. Terrified, like every four years by the approach of a new February 29, it must investigate the murder of a woman found hanged in the forest. The starting point of an unforgettable intimate adventure.

E. E. Cummings, who lived across the street, would check on her periodically by shouting out his window, "Are you still alive, Djuna?" Bertha Harris put roses in her mailbox, but never succeeded in meeting her; Carson McCullers camped on her doorstep, but Barnes only called down, "Whoever is ringing this bell, please go the hell away."

Michael Anderson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michael Anderson may refer to:

Other

Michael Anderson, Jr. (born 1943), British actor
Michael T. Anderson (born 1950), American mathematician
Michael Anderson (director) (born 1920), British film director
Michael J. Anderson (born 1953), American actor, notable for being a dwarf

― Tuomas, Monday, May 2, 2016 8:14 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is even more fucked up because anderson is not a dwarf

"There's every emotion from the ballad to the rocker," observed Jon Bon Jovi. "All the influences were evident, from Hendrix to Chic."

(From the Purple Rain entry.)

She spends her evenings doing puzzles, alone with her pet rabbit. Terrified, like every four years by the approach of a new February 29, it must investigate the murder of a woman found hanged in the forest.

I'm reeaally hoping the last sentence is totally accurate and it's the pet rabbit who's investigating the murder.

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Rabbit would be my go-to guy for a Leap day murder.

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"The Columbia picture sleeve issued with the "Red Rubber Ball" single is a very rare and oft-sought item amongst record collectors with near-mint copies fetching three figures."

This is the lowest number of figures I've ever seen somebody cite.

i wonder what could reasonably be described as being two figures. i guess if/when gas gets there. nothing else comes to mind.

Does it ever come up in a moderately high-scoring soccerball game?

yeah sports is the very obvious thing i am overlooking

They might be more commonly used to signify especially low quantities. Like buying a car for three figures.

The oldest will be turning 10 next year, so we've talked about double-digits, but yeah, I don't think I've heard anyone go down to two figures.

Solid references for the sex act the 'rusty trombone' (which is nsfw so I won't link):

References[edit]

Tate, Jordan. (January 9, 2007) The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms. Publisher St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-36298-6
Wolford, D. McMillan,W. (September 23,2015) From previous experience together!

Not so much "unusual details," but wasn't sure where else to post this latest examples of the failings of the Wiki enterprise:

Box office

According to Kinematograph Weekly the film performed well at the British box office in 1945.[10]

Critical reception

Although it received positive critical reviews, the film was a box office failure on both sides of the Atlantic, but it is now widely regarded as a classic.[9]

They often played at the LA clubs The Troubadour and The Ash Grove, which burned down in 1973 and was not rebuilt.

Cormac was a male character who was Charlie Brown's swimming buddy and Sally's classmate. He loves to go swimming at summer camp, but he did not know how his nose goes under water. He tells Marcie that she is beautiful. He calls her smooth. Later, after summer ends, Cormac meets Charlie Brown's sister, Sally at her class. He is in love with her, but Sally calls Linus "Sweet Babboo" because she is in love with Linus. When he became taller, he gave a love letter to Sally, but Snoopy ate it.

Participants

Emus
Sir George Pearce
Major G.P.W. Meredith
Royal Australian Artillery

The group had toured with Vice President Hubert Humphrey during his presidential campaign. Humphrey showed his appreciation by writing the liner notes for the Crimson and Clover album.

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While at school, Blackmore participated in sports including the javelin. Blackmore left school at age 15 and started work as an apprentice radio mechanic at nearby Heathrow Airport.

The songwriter Dave Paich explained the song is about a guy's love of a continent: Africa.[3] In the song "Africa" the repeated words, "rains down in Africa" form a noted key phrase, ending the chorus refrain, "I bless the rains..." in the first lines written for the song, also noted by Paich

Hospicio Cabaña was made a Unesco World Heritage site in 1997 ...

In popular culture

In the video game Super Street Fighter 2, the character T. Hawk's stage is based on this locale.

Topical one on Russian national team manager:

Slutsky's playing career ended at just 19 years of age. He had to retire due to a knee injury sustained after falling out of a tree while rescuing a neighbour's cat.

In Slovakia, the team is typically referred to as the Repre (Representation)

In 1975 Growing Up Skipper was released. The gimmick of the doll, which led to much controversy in the newspapers, was that if Skipper's arm was rotated, the doll would become an inch taller and small breasts would appear on her rubber torso.

In September 2004, former pop singer Cat Stevens (who converted to Islam and changed his name to "Yusuf Islam" in 1978) was denied entry into the U.S. after his name was found on the list.[47]

In February 2006, U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) stated in a committee hearing that his wife Catherine had been subjected to questioning at an airport as to whether she was Cat Stevens due to the similarity of their names.[44][48]

In the early 1980s, the Naval Investigative Service was investigating homosexuality in the Chicago area. Agents discovered that gay men sometimes referred to themselves as "friends of Dorothy." Unaware of the historical meaning of the term, the NIS believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive "Dorothy", hoping to find her and convince her to reveal the names of gay service members.[6]

Oh my.

Surrender Dorothy

http://i.imgur.com/10q1Xgq.png

don't know why but that is killing me

Oh god I remember those things! We had some in the 70s but I recall school banning them, everyone was ending up with wrist injuries.

In her autobiography Life Is Not A Stage, she acknowledges her occasional infidelity during her marriage to Bernstein, including an affair with then-New York City Mayor, John Lindsay, who the actress claims gave her crab lice.

They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To is a 1998 self-released album produced by Hoobastank (then known as "Hoobustank"). It is significantly different from "modern" Hoobastank as its songs fit more into the genre of funk metal rather than post-grunge, especially through extensive use of a saxophone. A few tracks, notably "Naked Jock Man", contain rapped vocals as well.

!!!!!!!

That's a bombshell right there

An internet meme related to confabulation is the Mandela Effect, a situation where a number of people have memories that are different from available evidence. The term was coined by paranormal enthusiast Fiona Broome, who says she and other people remember Nelson Mandela dying in 1980s, rather than in 2013.[61][62] A common thread of discussion regarding this "effect" is remembering the Berenstain Bears with a different spelling.[63] [64]

go nuts

http://mandelaeffect.com/major-memories/

We've discussed that site before in some other thread, haven't we?

Or in another timeline

North Carolina native, Jim Newman, is frequently asked if he is related to Lee Marvin. A quick look and you will know why (see photo).

File:Jim Newman.jpg l Jim Newman

Schmidt has refined his Schmidt Sting Pain Index (scaled from 1 to 4) with extensive anecdotal experience, culminating in a paper published in 1990 which classifies the stings of 78 species and 41 genera of Hymenoptera.

ow!

Not sure if its online, but that paper has surprisngly evocative descriptions, like wine notes