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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #50 on: July 16, 2012, 01:19:57 PM »
I got a guy on the other line about some white walls

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #52 on: July 16, 2012, 01:44:53 PM »
If you ever get curious about Kansas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Kansas-related_articles

Welp there goes my afternoon.

Started out with alcohol laws, read a little about wheat, now checking out the dustbowl.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #54 on: July 17, 2012, 01:09:01 PM »
State song of kansas, found an interesting verse....

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

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,
The breezes so balmy and light,
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright.

Chorus

The red man* was pressed from this part of the West
He's likely no more to return,
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering camp-fires burn.

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #57 on: July 17, 2012, 03:57:56 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_Coaster

Oh, fun.  Somebody should definitely build one of those.  They'd make a killing. 
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« Reply #61 on: July 17, 2012, 04:40:10 PM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(Metallica_song)

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

this was like a whole semester of sophmore english class. the song is really written based off the movie though. metallica read books?? LAWL

FYI, they have a few songs based on literature. The Bible, Hemmingway, Lovecraft, etc.

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« Reply #63 on: July 17, 2012, 05:56:42 PM »

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #66 on: July 18, 2012, 09:41:13 AM »
Ok, let's get off the penis/ball destruction articles.  :sdeek:

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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #67 on: July 18, 2012, 09:43:37 AM »
it's an unwritten rule of wiki threads that they eventually devolve into articles about ball crushing
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« Reply #68 on: July 18, 2012, 09:48:41 AM »
Ok, let's get off the penis/ball destruction articles.  :sdeek:

Yes. Most of these are serial killers and/or ball crushers. Please feel free to post interesting music-related ones as well, or really any ones that don't give me terrifying nightmares.

Did you know that the lead singer of Blind Melon sung backup for G N' R's "Don't Cry"???  Weird musical mix that wouldn't seem to fit, but still... :love:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Hoon
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« Reply #69 on: July 18, 2012, 10:01:59 AM »
Did you know that the lead singer of Blind Melon sung backup for G N' R's "Don't Cry"??? 

Of course.

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« Reply #71 on: July 18, 2012, 10:25:14 AM »
Mr. Bread is gonna be mad...
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Re: Fascinating Wikipedia Articles Master Thread
« Reply #74 on: July 18, 2012, 11:03:00 AM »
sonofabitch.

here

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