This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

I don't know if this counts as unusual, but I was wondering what happened to Bridget Fonda, so I looked her up on Wikipedia, and confirmed she has not made a movie or TV show or anything since about 2001. But I also learned that since 2003 she has been married to Danny Elfman!

It is her private life.

Spacey has an older brother, Randy Fowler, who is a limousine driver and Rod Stewart impersonator in Boise, Idaho

Guitarist John Goodsall:

Goodsall also played on several film scores including No Small Affair, The Doorman, Can't Buy Me Love, North Shore, Anal Intruder 9, Wave Warriors 2, Wave Warriors 3, Point Break etc.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/PitifulShadyAyeaye-size_restricted.gif

This movie plot summary is a masterpiece:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Minute

Heh, that's quite the find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rialto_(band)

In September 1998 Rialto played a gig at the University of Leeds during freshers’ week. Whilst on stage Eliot described the gig as “so raw” in a really wanky fashion. The guitarist even stuck a smoking cigarette on the end of his guitar. Members of the audience that evening have subsequently described the band and the gig as “fucking shite”.

wiki otm

Did not know this

The Honourable Louis Robert Eliot (born 11 April 1968 in Plymouth) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, formerly of Kinky Machine and Rialto.[1]

Eliot is the second son of Peregrine Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans, and grew up at Port Eliot, a 6,000-acre estate on the Tamar Estuary where his family have lived since 1564.[1] He is the heir presumptive to the earldom, which is currently held by his nephew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eliot

1564, jesus

I bet he has more swagger than almost any other musician who will be guillotined

i looked up "musicians with a dukedom" and the second entry is prince

(the first is country singer jimmy work, but that's bcz he lives in dukedom tennessee)

don't tell gene chandler

A pissing contest among females can refer to an insentient need to feel important and right when talking to other females about topics that have absolutely nothing to do with them. When one female continually yaps on spewing information that is not relevant to the topic of discussion. When the female who initiated the conversation says "I don't want to get in a pissing match with you" it generally should be interpreted by the yapping insistently female that she should just stop talking because she is becoming extremely annoying and talking about shit that has nothing to do with her.[7]

the citation just says "Cindy Dawson"

"Insentient".

Milius was signed to direct at a fee of $1.25 million, plus a gun of his choice.[11]

Not unusual if you know anything about Milius.

On 21 September 2006, Blair and comedian Alan Carr helped save a man about to fall from a pier in Blackpool. The man was holding on by his fingers.[15]

... Lionel, that is, not Tony. Tony Blair palling round with Alan Carr in Blackpool seems a bit unlikely.

In 1990 original Foghat vocalist Lonesome Dave Peverett formed his own version of Foghat, and the version including Erik Cartwright became known as Roger Earl's Foghat. Cartwright worked with Earl until 1993, when the original Foghat members reunited and Cartwright then found himself out of a job with many pairs of multi-tone Wingtip shoes on hand.

After leaving the Foghat organization in 1993, Erik Cartwright was hired by Pat Travers as second lead guitarist in his band. The relationship lasted only a few weeks, and Cartwright was again out of work, but still with the shoes.

people who wrote their own Wikipedia in-jokes?

Today, baked beans are a staple convenience food in the UK, often eaten as part of the modern full English breakfast and particularly on toast (called simply "beans on toast").

the most usual detail i may ever have seen in a wikipefia article tbh

I’m LOLing @ ‘the Foghat organization’.

*bangs gavel* “I hereby call this meeting of THE FOGHAT ORGANIZATION to order!”

“Excellent work, Agent 47. The FOGHAT ORGANIZATION will be pleased!”

"Peter Lemongello (born February 11, 1947) is an American singer known for his double album Love '76, the first album to be sold exclusively through television advertising."

Lemongello later worked as a housing contractor in Florida. In the early 1980s he was sentenced to ten years probation on charges of arson and insurance fraud involving luxury houses his firm was building; after violating the terms of the probation, he was in prison for 17 months.

On January 15, 1982, Lemongello and his brother, pro bowler Mike Lemongello, were kidnapped from a construction site, Mike was forced to withdraw more than $50,000 from a bank, and both were then left in the woods. Manny Seoane and Mark Lemongello (the brothers' cousin), both former Major League Baseball pitchers, turned themselves in to police and in 1983 were sentenced to seven years' probation for the crime.

Randi Mayem Singer, the writer of Mrs. Doubtfire, credits "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" as one of the most important songs ever written and as the direct influence for writing the script.

lol I definitely remember posting that here

Superior to ordinary mayonnaise, Danish remoulade can be very fat (up to 80%), but leaner versions are not hard to find. It's usually made with mayonnaise mixed with lots of tiny bits of cauliflower, cabbage and cucumber-(pickles) but no garlic.

In his contribution to the 1961 book The Shadows by Themselves Meehan gives very useful, timely and helpful advice to all would-be drummers on drum-kit care and maintenance.

Somerset club Yeovil Town F.C., who traditionally wore an all-green shirt, modified their uniform to emulate Celtic's, inspired by the Scottish club's 2003 UEFA Cup run.

As of 29 November 2018, Bros: After The Screaming Stops with a limited release, grossed £13,248 in the United Kingdom from 24 screens in its opening weekend, for a total gross of £13,248.

Belgian magazine Le Soir Illustre claimed in their November 1979 issue (No. 2471 on page 26) that the French inventor Lucien Rosengart (1880 – 1976) came up with the game of table soccer in the 1930s when he was looking for things to keep his grandchildren entertained during the cold winter months. He called the game “babyfoot” instead of foosball. Employed at the Citroen automobile factory, Rosengart is credited with inventing the minicar, front-wheel drive, and the seat belt, among other things.[3]

and a writer for Crank, an early-20th-century periodical

this is ethel voynich, is the daughter of the inventor of boolean algebra and the wife of the polish revolutionary and bibliophile that the voynich manuscript is named after

Her mother decided to send her to live in Lancashire with her brother, believing that it would be good for her health. Described as "a religious fanatic and sadist",[5] who regularly beat his children, he apparently forced Ethel to play the piano for hours on end. Ethel returned to London at the age of ten. She became withdrawn, dressing in black and calling herself "Lily".[5] At the age of eighteen, she gained access to a legacy. This allowed her to study piano and musical composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, which she attended between 1882 and 85. During this period she became increasingly attracted to revolutionary politics. Back in London she learned Russian from Sergei Kravchinski, known as Stepniak who encouraged her to go to Russia.[5] From 1887 to 1889 she worked as a governess in St. Petersburg, where she stayed with Kravchinski's sister-in-law, Preskovia Karauloff. Through her, she became associated with the revolutionary Narodniks.[6

anyway, CRANK is a great name for a magazine imo

(in fact it was her mum who wrote for it, and also named it with its good not bad name)

On October 9, 2001, Durst was arrested in Galveston shortly after body parts belonging to his elderly neighbor, Morris Black, were found floating in Galveston Bay. He was released on $300,000[43] bail the next day. Durst missed a court hearing on October 16 and a warrant was issued for his arrest on a charge of bail jumping. On November 30, he was caught inside a Wegmans supermarket in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, after trying to shoplift Band-Aids, a newspaper and a chicken-salad sandwich with roasted red peppers on a pumpernickel baguette, even though he had $500 cash in his pocket.[24][43]

someone has put a bunch of fake shit in Sam Elliott's filmography for some reason

1981 Time Bandits Luke Peck
1982 The Thing Flik Whistler
1984 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Lock

good work, someone

Etymology 3
Edit
From Romper Room, name of a children's television series. See romp.

Verb
Edit
romper (third-person singular simple present rompers, present participle rompering, simple past and past participle rompered)

(Ireland, historical, transitive) To abduct (a victim) to a room where they are tortured and murdered.

i mean "romper room" has some of the darkest connotations i can think of but obv that hasnt carried over

Lads.

doesn't romp and its attendant implication of fun predate "romper room"

ladies, tbf, in the worst case ive read

ulster scots of course imo

I imagine so.

xp im sure it does but id never seen/heard "romper room" used in another context (may even be imagining ever hearing it in any context tbf) but even if only in my head its def a concrete janitors room they beat you to death in on sandy row

just a bit of fun eh

tbf ive skimped the most unpleasant details

On 19 August, the prime minister wrote an inflammatory letter to the President of the European Council, hilariously describing the agreement that he had previously voted for as "anti-democratic", and not consistent with his interpretation of "sovereignty". Despite the backstop explicitly being agreed as a temporary measure, he continued to highlighted that it was "inconsistent" with the UKs desired final destination for it's relationship with the EU. He also suggested that, despite Northern Ireland voting to remain in the EU, that this agreement would somehow undermine the Northern Ireland Peace process. Following much laughter, Mr. Tusk reminded Mr. Johnson that those opposing the arrangement without "realistic alternatives" supported re-establishing a hard border on the island of Ireland.

(Sorry for polluting yet another thread with this garbage)