This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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

Fluxblog is a street stall selling crepes created and updated by Matthew Perpetua.

The street stall selling crepes began in 2002 and began to differentiate between crepes and pancakes at the end of that year. Two crepes are commonly posted every weekday along with toppings such as whipped cream and Nutella and a separate savoury menu where a crepe containing shredded cheddar or bolognese sauce can be purchased.

I guess one person's "unusual detail" can be someone else's "blatant vandalism".

i lol'd

no ham sandwich, no credibility

* this is not so unusual until you start imagining David Lynch kicking back watching That's Incredible!

― nabisco, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:15 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that weird? what's weird about it, really?

she does a killlllll boogie-woogie piano exercise during the credits of one of the first season eps of twin peaks.

the fluxblog wiki edits never fail to brighten my day

http://www.fluxblog.org/fluxtees.html

available up to size 3XL!

under http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hoboken_Chicken_Emergency

"Issaquah Middle School located in Issaquah, Washington (duh) used this as the fall play. "

It gets much worse after that.

While reading up on the phenomenon of fainting and being knocked out, I found this tidbit in the entry for "vagus nerve":

Research has shown that women who have complete transection of the spinal cord can experience orgasms through the vagus nerve, which can go from the uterus, cervix and probably the vagina to the brain.[8][9]

Hott.

on Johshua Kennedy, Australian soccer player. this is the start of the article :)

Joshua Blake Kennedy (born 20 August 1982 in Wodonga, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a striker for the Australian national football team and Nagoya Grampus.[1] His general look is commonly compared to that of medieval and contemporary depictions of Jesus.[2]

o rly?! important to know :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_&_Bernie_Winters

Schnorbitz once fell into a swimming pool at Terry Scott's house, only to be rescued by Barbara Windsor.

.. while Sid James stood and laffed.

If it has not been already mentioned, I salute the description of how my home town's train station features "two large square hoardings featuring messages about available products at a given time, or 'billboards'."

hahaha

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

This article is about the Star Wars character. For the Australian cricketer, see Shane Watson.

this is not really "unusual," given how Wikipedia works, but in the article for a popular children's book:

* Minnesota-based jam band group Wookiefoot references The Giving Tree in "Giving Tree (Taking Boy)," a pro-environment acoustic ska-punk number found on their 2006 album ACTIVATE.

ick, Wookiefoot.

1. lol

2. that the thing i hate about wikipedia the most

yes^

haha pleonasm of "jam band group", or is it that "jam band" has turned into a genre of music?

(I don't really hate that pop-culture thing about wp, I think it's a bit fun randomly coming upon something I've never heard of and checking if it is on Spotify or similar. I don't think I will here, though.)

Over the New Year weekend, Katt was slapped by a man at a club in Detroit while attempting to perform a freestyle. He began singing about audience members in the club and began with the man calling him out on his jewelry. Unlike most celebrities, Kat Williams is known for not surrounding himself with body guards and denying ANYONE to talk to him, whether it is a fan or someone who really dislikes him. After his freestyle the man walked up to Katt while he was smoking a cigarette in one hand an a drink in another with his entourage (who the man did not know they were acquaintances). The man walked up to him and slapped him across the face, however, the slap was so weak his face did not even move. Right after this, Katt and the people around him (his entourage) all gave mean muggs prepared to stomp him out. Kat Williams intelligently calmed his entourage down and wisely let it past to save himself the legal trouble of causing serious bodily harm against the man and hurting his career and reputation. In his own words, he said, "I lose if I stomp him out and I lose if I do nothing. That's the risk I take for allowing anyone to approach me in public, but I would prefer living my life this way any day."

He once had been asked, "How the hell can you play a chainsaw?" to which he responded, "How the hell can you not play a chainsaw?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_(dog)

Bo Obama (born October 9, 2008) is the Obama family dog. Barack Obama is the head of the household and President of the United States.[8] and is a neutered[9] male Portuguese Water Dog, or Portie.[10]

(Sadly, this edit's been baleeted since the other day, boo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Taylor_(footballer)

Although viewed as being aesthetically unattractive by the often losing opposition, Taylor's style proved incredibly successful in terms of club football, although less so when applied to the more composed pace of international football. In fact during his short time in charge of the national side he led them on a downward spiral from which they have yet to recover. A combination of a disregard of technique and skill and selection of players based on the ability to 'motor up and down the pitch' led to a systematic misplacement of footballing fundementals which to this day plague this great nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Ray#Band_members

* Mark McGrath - Vocals, guitar
* Rodney Sheppard - Guitar, vocals
* Murphy Karges - Bass guitar, vocals
* Stan Frazier - Drums, percussion, Guitar, vocals
* Craig 'DJ Homicide' Bullock - Token Black Guy (To make the band look cooler) (joined in 1996)

hahaha

wow

Couldn't bring myself to hit the 'save' button................................

Fluxblog is an MP3 blog created and updated by Matthew Perpetua and musician Michael Sembello.
The blog began in 2002 and began to host MP3s at the end of that year. Two Michael Sembello MP3s are commonly posted every weekday along with descriptions about how each song relates to the deeper emotions of Sembello's pet dolphin, Trigger.
Media sources have cited Fluxblog as a key influence in the founding and development of MP3 blogging.[1][2][3] According to Rolling Stone, "almost all of the MP3 blogs trace their roots to Fluxblog",[4] and an article in The Guardian stated that Fluxblog "is acknowledged as a pioneer of Sembello blogging."[5] Fluxblog was reviewed positively in The New York Times.[6] In 2006, Entertainment Weekly named Fluxblog the tenth best website for discovering anything Sembello related.[7]
References

^ Huculak, Chad (2004-05-27). "Last night Sembello saved my life". Vue Weekly. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
^ Dougher, Colleen (2005-01-05). "Bringing Sembello to the masses". Daily Press. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
^ Mitter, Siddhartha (2005-07-31). "Listen And Learn". The Boston Globe.
^ Werde, Bill (2004-09-24). "The Sembello Blog Boom". Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
^ Alden, Chris (2005-04-14). "The internet Sembello". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
^ Balk, Alex (2004-10-17). "Sembello Calling, Even Louder". The New York Times. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
^ Endelman, Michael (2006-05-26). "Totally Totally Sembolic". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2009-02-20.
External links

Fluxblog (official website)

On the 24th February 2009, The BBC website reports that Stigers has begun work on a side project developing a new Clarinet in collaboration with the Hetton-le-Hole[1] Musical Historical Society. The new Clarinet based upon the 1923 "Hetton-Thunderstorm" will be "Triple Bassed" and reverberate lower than any other modern Clarinets.

On the 17th of July 2009, whilst on BBC Breakfast News, Curtis Stigers confirmed that reports of him developing a new Clarinet are untrue. Mentioning that the claim is on Wikipedia and adding that he has no intention of developing a new Clarinet and only ever played the Clarinet for a short time at school.

Born: Eunice Mary Kennedy
July 10, 1921 (1921-07-10) (age 88) still living, thank you

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

His daughter Julie was a member of the Pop Group "The Plasmatics" and Guys n' Dolls. She later formed the duo "Grant & Forsyth" with her husband Dominic Grant who has also been a member of Guys n' Dolls.

is that true? his daughter was in the plasmatics?!

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

An 11-year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) tires of his parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus), who never pay any attention to him, legally emancipates himself from them, and wanders around the world seeking a new family. Along the way, he encounters parents that are Texan, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Amish, etc (all of which are very stereotypical). He tries to blend in with each group of parents. After he realizes all the events that happened up to this point was a dream, he finally decides that his own parents are the best with the help of a guardian angel (Bruce Willis) who uses several guises throughout the film. And they all live happily ever after...except for North who dies four weeks later of Hepatitis B.

Dolla's funeral was held May 23 in the Word of Faith Love Center in the East Point neighborhood of Atlanta.[12] The funeral was held in a Muslim style, known as Janazah.[13] He was buried in Atlanta's Westview Cemetery.[14] Singer T-Pain recently paid homage to the slain rapper by having a mural of Dolla painted on the hood of his vintage car.[15] Additionally, a YouTube video using unreleased Dolla song "Georgia Nights" has been made as a tribute to him.[16] Jay Rock sends his prayers and condolences out to Dolla's family and states that these kinds of acts have to stop.[17]

hahaha

Waldo appears in the cinema version of Apocalypto for just one frame, in a field of corpses.[5][6]

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_doWSpbPRtC4/SWmqaPmYlyI/AAAAAAAAA3o/fAu_KiLSRa0/s400/WheresWaldo_Banned_original.jpg

really nothing but unusual details in this one

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

She is also well known as a gun-rights activist, and has asserted that private gun ownership is the only true protection of individual freedom (a topic touched on in several of her songs). Because of her distrust of the stability of modern society, she has in the past worked to organize groups for carrying on civilization after what she (at one time at least) considered the imminent collapse of the current society. Her album Firestorm was in large part meant as a set of instructions for surviving a nuclear war, on the reasoning that it would be easier to recall them if they were in lyric form.

...

In addition to her work as a filk artist, Fish is also well-known within the Star Trek fan community for her works of fan fiction, which include "Shelter" (1976), one of the first Kirk/Spock stories ever published, and the fan-published Star Trek novel The Weight. She has also written original novels and short stories, both alone and in collaboration with C. J. Cherryh and others. Her song, "Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three," inspired a collection of short stories with the same title, edited by Don Sakers and featuring stories by Anne McCaffrey and C. J. Cherryh.

She is an avid roleplaying gamer, especially in regard to LARPing. She has also been a member in the Society for Creative Anachronism since the 1970s. In recent years, she has been the driving force behind in the establishment of Fan Haven, a 230-acre private park in Arizona meant to serve as a safe space for LARPers, Pagans, naturists, SCAdians, and other marginalized groups associated with fandom. However, the Federal government has disputed the validity of the mining claim that she proposed to use to establish ownership.

Liskula Cohen (born February 3, c.1972) is a Canadian-born fashion model based in New York, who has appeared in, and on the covers of, various fashion magazines including Vogue, Elle, and Cleo.[1]

In January of 2007 a doorman apparently became incensed with the model and struck her in the face with a bottle, damaging her career. The bottle was purportedly Bundaberg Ginger Beer. [2]

Before that, he starred in the band, "The Saints" with fellow guitarists David Crosswell and Philip Taft with Steve Mickley on drums.

starred.

The whole of list of unusual personal names is nothing but unusual details but some are especially lolworthy.

* Wonderful Terrific Monds III was a baseball player in the Atlanta Braves farm system in the early 1990s. WTM I, his grandfather, was given that name because his own parents were so pleased when their son was born.

* Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State. Name is based on a misspelling of the Italian musical term 'con dolcezza' which means '[to be played] with sweetness'.

* Mister Thorne — So named because his mother believed that he'd become a high school geometry teacher when he grew up, "and then everyone will know him by that name."

* Yorkshire Bank PLC Are Fascist Bastards. Born Michael Howard but changed his name legally after being charged £20 for a £10 overdraft. Having subsequently been forced to close his account, he asked that the remaining balance be paid by cheque made out to his new name.

* Jaime Sin, Filipino clergyman, was known as Cardinal Sin because of his status within the Catholic Church. Sin was said to play a joke on his title, welcoming visitors to his archbishop's residence with the greeting "Welcome to the House of Sin"; journalist P.J. O'Rourke, an occasional visitor to the Philippines, has cited such actual newspaper headlines as "Sin requires sobriety". (He is not to be confused with the term "cardinal sin").

i was reading a guide line on Wikipedia somewhere, where it stated that IMDB could not be considered a reliable source since lots of people edit it without facts being properly checked by an editor. :)

Then, in 1996, Warrant released the more experimental, yet catchy, Belly to Belly.

actual lol

Lord Worm has stated he was mostly Drunk during the Recording of the Album.

(I'm mostly Fascinated by the Use of Capitalization)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry!_(TV_series)

In a bid to boost flagging ratings the writers introduced Rick (Bedding), Timothy's younger and less good looking brother. Alas his mother's liking for clean and proper language appeared to have passed Rick by and in most episodes he could be heard to utter his hilarious catchphrase 'The name's Rick, the p's silent'. Audiences reacted angrily to what until now had been regarded as a family show and sadly for the cast and crew the show's long and successful run ended with Series 7. Bedding has maintained a low public profile ever since, apart from an incident in August 2009, documented in various local Hampshire newspapers, in which he came very close to losing his penis and both testicles brought about by a long-term addiction to wearing his girlfriend's underwear.

not so much unusual as complete fiction, I think, on further investigation

People are entitled to their opinions, but...
http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/790/ginblast.png

i dont see what the issue is

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

This is the routine he performed at the Olympic Trials: From hang, kip to iron cross, felge forward to maltese hold, roll back to L hold, hollow body press handstand, bail from handstand to back uprise planche, azarian roll to straight iron cross, roll back to momentary L hang immediate kick out to dislocate swing, uprise to inverted cross, shoot up to handstand, guzchogy (x6), to double layout backflip dismount.