This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

http://roberthanks.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5500b4fae88330120a67025f5970b-pi

stolen from http://roberthanks.typepad.com/zoo_in_the_head/2009/11/sorry-ive-been-busy.html

Brel worked on the song at his house overlooking the Mediterranean at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the house he shared with Sylvie Rivet, a publicist for Philips, in the place she had made known to him in 1960. It was the ideal place for him to create, and to indulge his passion for boats and planes. One morning at six o'clock he read the words of Amsterdam to Fernand, a restaurateur who was about to set off fishing for scorpion fish and conger eels for the bouillabaisse. Overcome, Fernand broke out in sobs and cut open some sea urchins to help control his emotion.[2]

Before its new use, the word crunk meant a hoarse, harsh cry.[6] The first known use of the word crunk was in 1972 by Dr. Seuss in his book Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!.[7] In the book, crunk was used as a part of crunk-car compound, which meant inexistent type of transport.[8] In the mid 1990s, crunk was variously defined either as "hype, phat" or "the past tense of 'crank'" on rec.music.hip-hop newsgroup.[4] In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine published "glossary of Dirty South slang", where to crunk was defined as "to get excited".[4] The lyrics of "Who U Wit?", 1996 song by Lil Jon, contained the very first use of the word crunk in the context of crunk music.[2]

COPS was created by John Langley and his producing partner Malcolm Barbour. In 1983 Langley was working on Cocaine Blues, a television series about drugs in which everyone seemed to enjoy South Florida. As part of his research he went on a drug raid with drug enforcement officers, and was inspired to create a show focusing on real-life law enforcement.

Silly Putty is flammable. When lit, the flame is a very bright white but burns slowly. The leftover ash crumbles very easily. When Silly Putty is microwaved for about 3 minutes, it becomes very sticky. However, when cooled, the putty returns to its original state. When Silly Putty is baked in an oven at 450 degrees F for 15 minutes, it gives off noxious fumes. The cookie sheet on which the Silly Putty was baked will have a combination of dried putty and very hot, sticky putty.

lol @ "everyone seemed to enjoy South Florida"

Mr. Prokhorov stated that he initiated the deal to push the Russian basketball to a new level of development.[13]

In the sequel, she often wears a purple gown, as well as the usual blue outfit. In the third movie, she wears a white wedding dress. Her garb throughout the series changes, usually due to events of some sort or another.

imagine that!

Norman Bulansky is a middle-aged retarded man who works at a doughnut shop. The Doughnuts at his job has tempted to the point of him becoming overweight. He has a girlfriend, Sheila, a woman from another group home. He is very proud and possessive of a large ring of keys and of his dougnuts. This character relates to Jack as if a father. Though Arnold has the vindication to correct everyone he looks up to him also. Though Barry and Norman conflict, Norman still looks up to him also. Norman Bulansky may be considered the little brother of is apartment complex.
Lucien P. Smith is a large, black man who is profoundly retarded. He checks out armloads of books from the library, despite the fact he cannot read. He is in danger of losing his disability funds, when the state senate accuses him of faking his condition. He doesn't understand what is going on when he goes to the "State Sneck" and has a very profound scene when there.

Graham's former boss, Jack Crawford, calls on him to help find a killer called "The Tooth Fairy" who is murdering entire families. Graham is a profiler who has an uncanny ability to (figuratively) enter the mind of a killer and think and feel as he does.

Folk-rock songwriter Freddy Blohm's "Catherine, You're Great!" relates Catherine's most infamous urban myth from an equine point-of-view.

A review of Holmes' films over the course of his career shows that most of his early co-stars tended to be short and slender, whereas women with whom he engaged in onscreen sex later in his career were much taller and had proportionately larger bodies; as a result, the size of Holmes' penis appears to fluctuate in his films, relative to the height and mass of his co-stars.[8]

"review"

Well, rewatching.

I thought that was about Sherlock Holmes movies, so that last bit made me wonder what parts of Basil Rathbone I hadn't been seeing when I fell asleep during all of them as a kid.

"Good heavens, Holmes!"

"Elementary."

Rathbone, fnarr

re alton brown:

...and was the director of photography on the music video for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love."

not funny, really. just a huh, how bout that kinda thing

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In Peru the Maruchan brand ramen have been sold for a long time, as the only brand that provided this product. But, a few years ago, the Aji-released Aji-no-men ramen in a wide range of flavors, including beef, pork, pineapple, lemon-lime and soggy-muffin.

"Let's get to Ramen"

Anybody whose breath has been bated the past week over Ned's Catherine the Great posting, here's where to find the goods: www.myspace.com/freddyblohmband

Springsteen, however, has never liked this nickname, due to his dislike of bosses.

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

He has acknowledged that his surname is similar to the French word oiseau, which means "bird" in English.

The Fighter, a film slated to star Christian Bale as Eklund and Mark Wahlberg as younger brother Micky Ward is scheduled to begin filming in late 2009.[4] The film will chronicle the brothers growing up in Lowell and how Eklund pushed Ward back into the ring after his early retirement leading to three bouts with Arturo Gatti. Three of Ward's post-retirement fights were voted fight of the year by Ring Magazine. Eklund served as Ward's trainer until his retirement after his third fight with Gatti on June 7, 2003.

References
^ Dick Ecklund
^ Lowell Sun, January 4, 2008
^ Lowell Sun, January 6, 2008
^ The Fighter (2009)

many of dickie eklund's attempts at trying to quit crack for his son have failed

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from andrew WK entry:

In 2008, Andrew's self-help work led to his second appearance as a sit-down guest on Late Night With Conan O'Brien[10]. In November 2008, Time Magazine called him "truly cute."[2]

In several states, "idiots" do not have the right to vote:

* Arkansas Article III, Section 5[12]
* Kentucky Section 145[13]
* Mississippi Article 12, Section 241[14]
* New Mexico Article VII, section 1[15]
* Ohio (Article V, Section 6)[16]

^^^ "LIKE"

The line, "Ride, Sally, Ride," is blasted out of loudspeakers at speaking engagements by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, as Ms. Ride rides a wooden pony and waves her cowboy hat, to furious applause.

hahaha

"The all-flute quartet The Flutefuckers covered "I Love Living In The City""

Alas, this intriguing combo is mentioned nowhere on the Internet save for Fear's Wikipedia entry.

On Sunday morning Lennon brought in the newspapers, laying them down on the coffee table, but when Ono tried to pick up one of the papers Lennon slapped her hand, saying "I read them first".[135]

The line, "Ride, Sally, Ride," is blasted out of loudspeakers at speaking engagements by Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, as Ms. Ride rides a wooden pony and waves her cowboy hat, to furious applause.

― Popture, Monday, December 14, 2009 3:28 AM (Yesterday)

h8 her imo. y r u wiki-ing this POS?

Why would anyone hate an astronaut?

space crimes, my friend

SPACE CRIMES

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

Rapaport made an appearance on the June 7, 2008 edition of "The Dirt Sheet" on WWE.com, giving his support to the hosts, John Morrison and The Miz, saying such comments as "they are my favorite hosts" and "they are awesome".[citation needed]

Leigh's least favorite role was as a normal girlfriend in the popular 1991 firefighting drama Backdraft; Hollywood legend has it that Leigh told director Ron Howard, "The only role I want to play in this film is the fire."[citation needed]

According to an old Hungarian saying, good paprika burns twice. Paprika contains strong spices, these may cause a burning sensation in the mucuous membranes of the anus.[2]

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

For the next couple of centuries the island was known as Savage Island, until its original name Niu ē, which translates as "behold the coconut",[6] regained use. Its official name is still Niuē fekai (wild Niuē).[citation needed]

By all accounts Tim Dog had a comfortable middle class upbringing but suffered many personal psychological insults of a Compton based variety that many sources claim led to his later disdain and outright hostility towrds the US West Coast locality: a pertinent example of the psychological defence mechanism of geographical counter-projection.

Recently, the band has started work on their second album in The House Of Supreme Mathematics, a communal house where members of Foals and other Oxford bands live. The record in its inception has been described by the band members as sounding like “tropical prog” and “like the dream of an eagle dying”[3]. Neither of these descriptions is thought to be accurate.

hahaha

actual lols

Later that year he began dating Madonna, who wanted to have his child; the two would continue to date until friends of Shakur encouraged him to end the relationship but in return of Madonna's affinity for Shakur; before his death a kinship of Madonna whose named Maria Bouzane rapidly became Tupac's promising Goddaughter. Bouzane goes under the alias Maria Machiavelli for Shakurs' inspiration and further continuous devotion of the romantic and emotionally intense affair the couple had belovely loss.[31]

What the.

the couple had belovely loss

I'm belovin it!

belovely lols

The idea of creating a park for large, contemporary sculpture in Seattle grew from a discussion in 1996 between Seattle Art Museum director (and wife of William Gates Sr.) Mimi Gardner Gates and Martha Wyckoff while stranded on a fly fishing trip in Mongolia due to a helicopter crash.[4][5]

with two citations because you can't make that shit up!