This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

In the comic book "GI Joe", the character Scarface lived under an abandoned roller coaster on Coney Island.

About the balance beams used in women's gymnastics:

Most beams in the US are designed and supplied by "Hugo's Beam Store" based in Germantown, Ohio. The most popular models as of June 2009 were: "Racecar," "United States Flag," and "Rock-climber." Add-on components include special bolts, small wrist pads, and an extensive selection of decals. Because the price of stickers for the side of a beam is often high, most gyms choose to select one or two decals, at most. The decals displayed on a beam club's "home beam" are a source of much pride, and also carry great influence over the judge's scores in most sanctioned matches, so careful consideration is made before stickers are purchased and applied.

In re: the Macc Lads:

Their last gig was a private one in 1997 for Muttley's local football team Mary Dendy, in Macclesfield. The line up was Muttley, Winston Dread, Al O'Peesha and Johnny Mard.

The last time the band were together was in 1999 for an interview in the Ivy House pub, Park Lane, Macclesfield for 'The Bear's Head' fan website. The line up present was Stez Styx, The Beater and Muttley. Also present was Al O'Peesha and the interview was conducted by long time fan and Bear's Head site contributor Liquid Goblin.

An appearance on some obscure cable TV channel in the early noughties was planned with the band booked to perform 'Buenos Aries 2003'. However Dubya invaded a week too early so the appearance was shelved.

Dubya invaded Buenos Aries?!

A major element of the plot is based on a Wuxia film series Palm of Ru Lai (如來神掌) released in 1964. Sing studied the same Buddhist Palm Kung Fu style from a young age and realised it at the end of the film. In reality, it does not leave palm-shaped craters and holes on impact.

From "The NeverEnding Story (song)" entry: "Kurt Cobain had planned to do a version of the song during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert, but was talked out of the idea by Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic."

I'm glad he didn't, that's way too good a song to be ruined by Kurrt.

Kurt.

I don't remember that movie very well, was there a troll in it?

All you need to know:

http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32494&stc=1&d=1256409691

All you need to know is that the director's next movie was DAS BOOT

I actually watched The Neverending Story anew just last year. Turns out it's incredibly boring when you're not nine years old. Even the Limahl song was disappointing.
Odd how all the old guys (y'know, like Atreyu, pictured above) have become kids in the interim.

I was going for joke.

My face is turning into a heart?

The movie is okay, but the book it's based on is awesome. I was kinda disappointed that they changed Fuhhuur, who is a Chinese dragon in the book, into that dog thing in the pic above.

I think they still call him a dragon in the film even though he's clearly a flying dog.

Falkor: Having a luck dragon with you is the only way to go on a Quest. Things will work out fine Atreyu. Never give up hope and good luck will find you.

The movie is okay, but the book it's based on is awesome. I was kinda disappointed that they changed Fuhhuur, who is a Chinese dragon in the book, into that dog thing in the pic above.

^^ Yes! I loved the beautiful lettering and the change of fontcolour when he switches from the story to the school and vv. Very captivating book.

In August 1979 The French Minister of the Interior had had enough and forced police departments to unify their efforts to track Mesrine down. They found out where he lived on October 31, and waited for him to come out. Three days later on November 2nd, he left his apartment with his girlfriend. At Porte de Clignancourt, on the outskirts of Paris, a truck loaded with armed policemen veered in front of his BMW and police sharpshooters shot 19 rounds through the windshield, killing Mesrine and seriously injuring his girlfriend. The ultimate fate of their small fluffy poodle is still to this day unknown.7

English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as A-List, B-List, C-List, D-List or Z-List. These informal rankings indicate a placing within the hierarchy. However, due to differing levels of celebrity in different regions, it is difficult to place people within one bracket. A Nicaraguan actor might be a B-list action film actor in the US, but be an A-list star in the Czech Republic. An objective method of placing celebrities from any country into categories from A-List to H-List based on their number of Google hits has been proposed[1], but while this method is quantitative, it only works for individuals with distinctive names, e.g., Jason Mewes, not Kevin Smith.

Heheh. Actually, the number of languages in which Wikipedia has articles on a person is pretty much the best heuristic I've ever found in this respect.

Regarding his career, Seagal has stated, "I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol."[10]

Half of it came true, that's not bad.

Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, DBE (born July 19, 1965 in Aberdeen), is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She was the first full-time solo percussionist in 20th-century western society.

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

One must also realize the importance of ASL to the Deaf community. ASL represents the liberation of language minority, oppressed for many years by the turmoil of oralist teachings. That is why the language is so precious to the identity of the Deaf community.

hmm not so unusual after wikipediaing 'oralism'

More than 50 percent of the world fish oil production is fed to farmed salmon.[3]

Toro Y Moi is often popular among employees of "The Shack" (Radio Shack), do to the fact that they often listen to the Sirius station: XM U in the store.

Hmm:

The name 'Band-Aid' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound.

The group has formed on three occasions, each time from the most successful British and Irish pop music performers of the time, to record the same song at the same time of year. fvcjhndgcwdfhgfcvherivkr4tgx2kut2xcructwxcgjkyfjkl;'l;'l; lmjcgl;g;loi

Julian Rios may refer to:

* Julián Ríos (b. 1941), Spanish postmodernist writer
* Julian (pornographic actor) (b. 1970), U.S. pornstar (8")

looooooooooooooool

The black and white video featured a young, 20-year-old Marky Mark working out and boxing with his nude torso, and making out with a girl on a bed. The video made famous his sexy, well-toned body, which impressed many and was considered the main attribute that made Mark one of the sex symbols of the early Nineties.

It was included in the 1992 hit Disney movie, The Mighty Ducks, as well as the 1999 movie Analyze This.

Seriously loving that one so much.

Feel that Uncyclopedia deserves a mention in this thread somehow.

There's gold in them thar Beatles related pages......

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/John_Lennon

oh, by coincidence...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band

Year Chart Position
1967 US Billboard 200 1
1967 UK Albums Chart 1
1967 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1
1967 Norwegian Album Chart 1
2009 Finnish Albums Chart 9

This morning I was thinking about Marky Mark's nude torso in the Mighty Ducks.

It was included in the 1992 hit Disney movie, The Mighty Ducks, as well as the 1999 movie Analyze This, and in Tracer Hand's thoughts in 2010

That uncyclopaedia: slight smile, followed by much giggling, and then:

In the album Magical Mystery Tour Lennon wanted to succeed his famous "I am the Walrus" with "I has a Bukkit," a joyous scherzo. Sadly, the idea was shot down by the other members of the group. He described the incident later in his solo tune "Nooooo They be Stealin' Mah Bukkit!"

thumbs down

yeah, the Lennon page had some lafs, but the rest of uncyclo is poor.

Suggs got his nickname from randomly sticking a pin in an encyclopedia of jazz musicians while he was still in school, to avoid being labelled as the member of an ethnic minority owing to his Scottish name.

That's c&p from a Word article, pretty much.

It is a double entendre for dessert and sex, with a party attitude and a rouding backbeat. A cowbell can be heard during some parts of the song's bridge and solo (it is unclear if this is played by Sammy Hagar or Alex Van halen).

Dental Work

In September 2009 Eubank revealed his new dental work which he had undertaken to correct his famous lisp- at a cost of £31,000. The use of crowns, veneers, implants and a bridge had removed the gaps in his teeth and reduced the lisp to a mild whistle. He also claimed he wanted to win back his wife with his new smile.

On his return, he lived in Stoke Newington, Dalston, Hackney and then Peckham; largely poverished.

that's a fairly common trajectory for a poverished artist these days i suppose

The Government of Hong Kong has extended Unicode and the Big-5 character set with the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS), which includes Chinese characters only used in Cantonese, including the Five Great Profanities. The government explained that the reason for these characters being included is to allow for the Hong Kong Police to record criminal suspects' statements. Consequently, these characters are now also in Unicode.

You are to tell us what the Five Great Profanities are this instant.

they are so Great ilx won't let me post them :>

In the Land Before Time series, two wise and philosophical Troodon make an appearance as mysterious, possibly space-faring dinosaurs called Rainbow-Faces.