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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #125 on: July 23, 2012, 05:47:39 PM »
I don't think it really depends.

Unless the billionaire is in Depends.   


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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #126 on: July 23, 2012, 07:42:12 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer

One of my favorites.  I read about this and then a few months later I am living in the same county.  Did not realize it until someone mentioned him and I was like "Holy crap!  This is home of the Killdozer!"

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #127 on: July 23, 2012, 07:56:45 PM »
lol

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #130 on: July 25, 2012, 02:41:13 PM »

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #133 on: July 25, 2012, 03:42:06 PM »
I spent like a whole workday once going through serial killer articles. pretty much traumatized myself

Any good ones?

Not a serial killer, but some seriously nutty crap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #134 on: July 25, 2012, 03:59:22 PM »
I spent like a whole workday once going through serial killer articles. pretty much traumatized myself

Any good ones?

Not a serial killer, but some seriously nutty crap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
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S.outhern ignorance +
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« Reply #136 on: July 25, 2012, 04:02:01 PM »
I spent like a whole workday once going through serial killer articles. pretty much traumatized myself

Any good ones?

Not a serial killer, but some seriously nutty crap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
:barf:

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I need to bring my wife and my dog, is that ok sir?
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #137 on: July 25, 2012, 04:06:46 PM »
I spent like a whole workday once going through serial killer articles. pretty much traumatized myself

Any good ones?

Not a serial killer, but some seriously nutty crap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
:barf:

Hey are you interested in a free place to live?
I need to bring my wife and my dog, is that ok sir?

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #138 on: July 25, 2012, 10:57:52 PM »
I spent like a whole workday once going through serial killer articles. pretty much traumatized myself

Any good ones?

Not a serial killer, but some seriously nutty crap

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes
:barf:

Hey are you interested in a free place to live?

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #139 on: August 01, 2012, 02:05:12 PM »
Not wikipedia but the Official North Korean Newspaper's website is full of lol's

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm



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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #140 on: August 01, 2012, 02:58:55 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

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"Irregardless" is a word. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary states that, "The most frequently repeated remark about it is that 'there is no such word.'?"[96] According to Mignon Fogarty, this is an English misconception. "You shouldn't use it if you want to be taken seriously, but it has gained wide enough use to qualify as a word."[97]


Nope sorry this is complete horseshit. Just because enough people say it wrong all the time does not make it a word. If I say a word wrong but you know what I meant, that doesn't make my wrong word all of a sudden be the right word.

How do you feel about the whole "return to normalcy" thing?

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #141 on: August 01, 2012, 03:32:06 PM »
Not wikipedia but the Official North Korean Newspaper's website is full of lol's

http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

Oh my.  Writing for that has got to be the best job ever.

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Pyongyang, July 31 (KCNA) -- All the people of the DPRK feel rising anger at the hideous politically-motivated state-sponsored terrorism by the U.S. and the rat-like Lee Myung Bak group of traitors of south Korea aimed to hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

Sin Won Il, manager of the Pukchang Area Coal Mining Complex, said:

"I can hardly repress resentment at the heinous crimes by the U.S. and its puppet group of traitors in south Korea.

Just thinking of it sends my blood boiling. With nothing can the U.S. and the group of rat-like Lee redeem their crimes before the history, nation and mankind."
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #142 on: August 02, 2012, 04:22:11 PM »
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The U.S. newspaper USA Today, Australian newspaper Herald Sun and other Western media guessed that only Kim Un Guk among DPRK athletes would snatch a silver medal in London.

But, the DPRK garnered three gold medals as of today, one in women's judo and another two in men's weightlifting.

Media of south Korea and the world said that the world's attention is focused on the successes by the DPRK delegation of 56 athletes and they are making a rush of wind in the London Olympics.

Their successes represent the inexhaustible strength of the DPRK, which can never be gauged by the Western view of value and criterion.


Lolz.

Love that they dont capitalize the s in South Korea. Also the rush of wind comment  :lol:

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #143 on: August 13, 2012, 03:04:06 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red


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War Plan Red first set out a description of Canada's geography, military resources, and transportation[citation needed], and went on to evaluate a series of possible pre-emptive American campaigns to invade Canada in several areas and occupy key ports and railways before British troops could provide reinforcement to the Canadians - the assumption being that Britain would use Canada as a staging point. The idea was that the American attacks on Canada would prevent Britain from using Canadian resources, ports, or airbases.[citation needed]

The initial provocation was to be a strike into Canada by a joint US army-navy force in order to capture the port city of Halifax by poison gas attack, cutting off the Canadians from their British allies.[citation needed] Their next objective was to "eize Canadian Power Plants near Niagara Falls" (Carlson, 2005). This was to be followed by a full-scale invasion on three fronts: From Vermont to take Montreal and Quebec, from North Dakota to take over the railhead at Winnipeg, and from the Midwest to capture the strategic nickel mines of Ontario.[citation needed] In parallel, the U.S. Navy was to seize the Great Lakes and blockade Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific ports.[citation needed]


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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #145 on: August 22, 2012, 03:27:51 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

A town in which a fire has been burning beneath for over 50 years and is expected to burn for another 250. The place is now a ghost town with toxic gases spewing up from the ground. I guess Silent Hill was based off of it. Would love to explore this place.

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« Reply #146 on: August 22, 2012, 08:12:42 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

A town in which a fire has been burning beneath for over 50 years and is expected to burn for another 250. The place is now a ghost town with toxic gases spewing up from the ground. I guess Silent Hill was based off of it. Would love to explore this place.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #147 on: August 23, 2012, 10:58:05 PM »
MULTIPLE super-unlikely scenarios that led to the most deadly plane crash in history. Basically obliterated 2 747s.

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