This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

Hear hear!

At Rock the Universe 2006, an annual Christian rock festival held at Universal every September, Relient K lead singer Matt Thiessen asked the fans to ride Back to the Future while it was still open, as they learned earlier that day it was closing. Each band is taken on a tour through the park every year.

"Brookes is also known as a supporter of the Conservative Party, and an admirer of Margaret Thatcher."

from Bruno Brookes entry.

Back to the Future is one of the best rides there!

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

Because I can't imagine it'll stay up there:

William Shakespeare
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OBAMA WILL WIN TOMORROW!!!! SUCK IT, DAMN GMS!!!! :P

Formatting is key here:

"The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web for obvious reasons) is a system of [...]"

I'm totally going to start calling it that. Well not really.

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u288/robins3000/recession.jpg

Although it has now been removed, the end bit of the entry on Harbinger was curious -

Notable believers

Famous people who believed in harbingers:
Abraham Lincoln
Shirley MacLaine
Hilary Swank
Tupac Shakur
David Pleat.

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What a team.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harbinger&oldid=234094666

Karim Dulé Hill (born May 3, 1975) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actor. He's best known for his roles as Josiah Bartlet's personal presidential aide (body man) Charlie Young on the critically-acclaimed television series The West Wing, and as Burton "Gus" Guster in the television comedy-drama Psych. He also has a role in Holes as Sam. He is often confused with actors Deon Richmond of The Cosby Show fame and Phill Lewis of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody series.

Deon Richmond (born June 2, 1978) is an American actor, known for his semi-regular childhood role as Rudy Huxtable's friend Kenny (nicknamed "Bud") on the popular NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
Richmond was born in New York, New York. After The Cosby Show, Richmond went on to appear as a supporting character in sitcoms such as Getting By and Sister, Sister, and in feature films such as Scream 3 and Van Wilder. He starred in the 1999 feature film Trippin''. He also played the role of the "token black guy" in Not Another Teen Movie. He also had a role on the short lived NBC series Teachers. Most recently, he performed in independent horror film Hatchet. Richmond is currently in talks with several films such as Trippin' 2, The Louie Armstrong Story, Pablo & Ping Go To Hollywood, and a top secret big budget film.
He is often confused with Dulé Hill, co-star of the USA Network show, Psych

A common law marriage is legally binding in some jurisdictions but has no meaning in others. In some jurisdictions without true common law marriages (e.g. Hungary), the term "common law marriage" is used as a synonym for non-marital relationships such as domestic partnership or reciprocal beneficiaries relationship (i.e. "shacking up").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_478

While the Intel mobile CPUs are available in 478-pin packages, they in fact only operate in a range of slightly differing sockets, Socket 479, Socket M, and Socket P, which are also incompatible with each other. All in all this board was considered "the shit" mobo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futura_(typeface)

The commemorative plaque left on Earth's moon in July, 1969 uses Futura.

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

Further recognition for Birchall came in 2008 when Trinidad author VS Naipul got a tattoo of Birchall in a goalscoring pose.

The commemorative plaque left on Earth's moon in July, 1969 uses Futura.

For some reason it makes me happy to know this. I'm glad it's not Comic Sans.

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

Further recognition for Birchall came in 2008 when Trinidad author VS Naipul got a tattoo of Birchall in a goalscoring pose.

― Ludo, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 13:48 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I added that about six months ago. It was original qf'd with the Naipul Wiki but that got edited back.

History of Dog Breeds

Aboriginal groups or pariah dogs establish themselves near human population, and further develop and maintain themselves without further selection. Neither they carry any specialized working dog functions. Working, hunting and other functional breeds most likely appeared when there is a demand for certain traits that are prevalent to the extension of the point one can devote his time and efforts to establish and maintain the group of dogs that perfect in certain traits valuable for that individual.

^ this has been babelfished, right?

Onoo began working on the independent circuit and was associated with the short-lived WrestleXpress and X Wrestling Federation.

Onoo owns a small car dealership in Iowa which, ironically, uses the same X as the before mentioned wrestling promotion - "X".

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

Scott-Heron's father, Giles "Gil" Heron of Jamaican descent, nicknamed "The Black Arrow" was a football (soccer) player who, in the 1950s, became the first black athlete to play for Glasgow's Celtic Football Club.

Zillah is a city in Yakima County, Washington, United States, with a population of 2,198 at the 2000 census. Tourist attractions include the Teapot Dome Service Station, the fortuitously named Church of God Zillah, and the El Ranchito restaurant.

heh reading on...

Although the church is fairly conservative and some are unamused by this coincidence (the church was named long before the Godzilla movies began[citation needed]), the church embraces it, even putting a wireframe Godzilla float outside.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/God_zillah_1.jpg/250px-God_zillah_1.jpg

The Clique's plot mainly follows the first novel in this series by Lisi Harrison. The books lead you through the middle school lives of five girls: Massie Block, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, Alicia Rivera, and Claire Lyons. The girls belong to the most popular group at their private all-girls school Octavian Country Day (OCD) called the Pretty Committee aka The Clique. Hi I'd like to mention that.. THIS MOVIE ROCKED!!!!! THAT IS ALL! :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clique_(film)

Abi Titmuss

She also starred in a sex tape, which is widely available on the internet. In The video also starred John Leslie and he described her vagina as a menace

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/Elastica_The_Menace_Cover.jpg/200px-Elastica_The_Menace_Cover.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/288/jewelxk1.png

XD

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

This article or section has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality.

...

Music video

"Quality" is not an adjective that would be applied to the music video for "Summer Girls", nor for any other music videos in LFO's oeuvre. The video features the three gentlemen in the band, dressed like classic late-90s vintage d-bags, on a pier of some sort and later a beach. Our dignity-free trio walks around flirting with bikini-clad girls, some of whom are implausibly cute given the trio of men in question. Many, however, would more likely be classed as "anorexic" by 2008 standards. At one point in the video there's some break dancing. The guy with blond hair "raps" to the camera, demonstrating the remarkable ability to deliver lines like "When you take a sip, you buzz like a hornet/Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole bunch of sonnets" with no evident impulse to kill himself.

from the entry about Jimmy Edwards:

A Brighton and Hove bus is named after him. He had been married to wife Valerie for many years, however during the 1970s he was publicly outed as a lifelong homosexual by others much to his annoyance.

I guess it's just the phrasing that amuses me.

The series was so popular in Germany that the TV Movie was released there theatrically under the name Alf - Der Film (Alf - The Movie) and was panned by critics and by fans, particularly for the Tanners' absence. At the time the show ALF was on in Germany, the roadside signs for the Moselle River town of "Alf" were frequently stolen by souvenir hunters.

Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979), a worker at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan, was one of the first individuals killed by a robot.

Blanche Knott is the credited author of the politically incorrect Truly Tasteless Jokes book and its many follow-ons. According to the New York Times, the first volume was the biggest-selling mass-market book of 1983. The name is a pun directing the reader to "blanch not" at the offensive nature of the jokes within and an obvious pseudonym.

The actual author was a fresh-from-college employee at St. Martin Press named Ashton Applewhite, who ironically, given the many AIDS jokes contained in the TTJ books, went on to write an inspirational volume for AIDS victims.

Danzig is one of few albums labeled as "explicit" despite the virtual absence of profanity (save for one use of the word "whore" in "Possession").

Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan when he was 24 in 1942. His local chapter unanimously elected him Exalted Cyclops.[2]

Robert Williams (c. 1954 – January 25, 1979), a worker at a Ford Motor Company factory in Michigan, was one of the first individuals killed by a robot BUT NOT THE LAST

http://www.reelmovienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/terminator_robot.jpg

To this day, no one knows exactly how the Les Paulverizer works.

Production notes

In the film's original cut, McAlester lived, but test audiences made it clear how much they disliked the character (going so far as to shout "Die, bitch!" at the screen) as her actions had caused all that had gone wrong.[citation needed] Thus, the decision was made to re-shoot the ending so that her character died. Conversely, Sherman 'Preacher' Dudley, played by LL Cool J, was to die but test audiences loved the character so much that filmmakers re-shot the ending and had him live.[citation needed]

From 'Spoon':

It is used primarily for serving and eating liquid or semisolid food (sometimes called "spoon-meat")

I always get excited when I see this thread has been revived, and spoon-meat is no exception.

from "André the Giant":

Actor Cary Elwes explains in his video diary of The Princess Bride that Samuel Beckett was a neighbor of the Roussimoff family while living in France. The Nobel Laureate would sometimes drive André to school.

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

cool beans

spoon-meat!!

from max weinberg's

Weinberg was born in Newark, New Jersey. His sister, Nancy Winston, is a professional pianist and singer who is well known in New York City for her regular appearances at the Cafe Pierre, the Plaza Hotel and other top piano rooms. Weinberg played drums on Winston's self-titled debut CD. Weinberg also has another sister, Abby, a clinical social worker in the New England area. And Abby's two sons Jake and Noah are fans of their uncle.

lol

Haha that Beckett & André in Paris thing!

Sam: These bloody traffic jams.
And: But I can be late to school without getting the blame!
Sam: No matter. Always the same. Always the same. No matter.
And: Oh look! A lady with a very very small dog!
Sam: God fuck a cunt.
And: I'm bored. Got any comics?
Sam: And the fog. The fog is truly l'innomable
And: You just wiggled your finger. That's wonderful!

(yes yes I know he wasn't the one with that line)

oh sorry sloppy editing, last parenthesis shouldn't be there. I just decided against "I do not think that word means what you think it means".

One of the world's largest food companies, Kraft Foods, came under fire with consumer complaints and lawsuits regarding Kraft's commercial guacamole[2]. The main issue was that Kraft's guacamole contained less than 2 percent avocado and contains hydrogenated oils and artificial colors to try to approximate the consistency and color of avocados.

Chris Hawkins

Chris Hawkins (born 23 September 1975, in Loppington, North Shropshire, England) is a presenter, performance DJ, reporter, journalist, producer, and music pundit and all round nice guy.

Chris Hawkins also went back in time to be reborn on the 6th Feb 1985 and went on to be a great scientist.

Ulvaeus has suffered from severe memory loss and no longer remembers much of his life. He has little memory of being famous and has even turned to hypnotism to try and bring back his memory.

True, too, apparantly.

Steven Edwards was born in the South Bronx, to parents from North Carolina and North Virginia. He was also a former bodyguard for Muhammad Ali. He met Tommy DeSimone as a struggling blues-rock musician, singer and songwriter on Queens Boulevard sometime during 1967 while earning money as a street performer. At the time DeSimone was selling stolen Rolex watches. Thomas began to think of Parnell as a "brother" and the two became close friends. It was around this time that Thomas adopted the same integrationist stance of Martin Luther King, that was adopted by Colombo crime family mobster Joe Gallo.

The US Postal Service released a stamp featuring Ogden Nash and six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on 19 August 2002. The six poems are "The Turtle," "The Cow," "Crossing The Border," "The Kitten," "The Camel" and "Limerick One." It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word "sex," although as a synonym for gender. It can be found under the "O" and is part of "The Turtle".