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Title: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Tyrian on July 07, 2008, 07:00:51 pm
This is probably a bad idea, but the title says it all.  Post a link to the most inane, obvious, or otherwise unnecessary Wikipedia article you can find.

Here's mine:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Blue Lion on July 07, 2008, 07:11:34 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Herra Tohtori on July 07, 2008, 07:17:22 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_lint (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel_lint)

We have a winner!  :p

...only to be beaten by something else. This is going to be interesting...
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Ghostavo on July 07, 2008, 07:56:32 pm
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/in_popular_culture.png)

 :nervous:
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: BloodEagle on July 07, 2008, 09:04:06 pm
Direct linking to someone else's hosted image is evil, you bastard.  :mad:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Ghostavo on July 07, 2008, 09:18:52 pm
Not if they put the link below the image with the subtitle "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding):", "you bastard". :p
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 07, 2008, 09:56:43 pm
Inane ? Whats inane? You mean insane?

Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Nuke on July 07, 2008, 10:05:08 pm
Direct linking to someone else's hosted image is evil, you bastard.  :mad:

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White
Not if they put the link below the image with the subtitle "Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding):", "you bastard". :p

these days it seems like its ok to do it, free image hosting gets handed out like candy nowadays. i can understand, back in the era of dialup, why it would have been a bad idea. now we live in the era of wasted bandwidth. this post proves it :D

of course i wouldnt hotlink an image if somone else hasnt done so before. i remember when somone, i forget who, got banned because the server swapped the image he was posting for goatse pr0n. so yea, **** around at your own risk.
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 07, 2008, 10:08:12 pm
Leekspin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leekspin)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Davros on July 07, 2008, 10:16:00 pm
Inane ? Whats inane? You mean insane?



http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inane
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Fenrir on July 07, 2008, 10:17:32 pm
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inane&x=47&y=14

Oops, I`m slow.
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: phreak on July 07, 2008, 11:01:58 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: castor on July 08, 2008, 06:03:23 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Polpolion on July 08, 2008, 11:44:32 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 08, 2008, 11:47:05 am
Recursive article!
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 08, 2008, 11:50:38 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Topgun on July 08, 2008, 11:58:59 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/talking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cheating
the funny thing is that I wrote the url then checked to see if that article existed.
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Janos on July 09, 2008, 11:56:03 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing

If you seriously know how people actually breath and how it is controlled and assume that other people know it... well..
Quick, name all the muscles that take part in lung respiration!

My favourite wiki article was Lightsaber combat, which is deleted :( Now, pretty much the best bet are computer gaming figures, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi

WE NEED PAGES OF DISCUSSION OF LUIGI'S SPEED
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Jeff Vader on July 09, 2008, 11:59:13 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathing

If you seriously know how people actually breath and how it is controlled and assume that other people know it... well..
K. I fail at life. Again. It was meant so that if you bother to start thinking about the philosophy and science behind breating, you have most likely already been breathing for a long time.
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Daeron on July 09, 2008, 12:26:23 pm
Leekspin. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leekspin)

I have to agree with this one....
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 09, 2008, 12:31:06 pm
Have some Big Rigs. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Winner)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Snail on July 09, 2008, 01:05:55 pm
Depends. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Blue Lion on July 09, 2008, 02:06:13 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanori_Hirasawa
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 10, 2008, 12:31:54 am
Rawhide. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawhide)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Topgun on July 10, 2008, 02:34:20 pm
that brought back memories. :lol:
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Blue Lion on July 10, 2008, 06:33:02 pm

Rawhide? (http://home.att.net/~clay.h/fs2/rawhide.htm)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Flipside on July 10, 2008, 06:43:59 pm
Heh, ZB's greatest moment ;)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 11, 2008, 06:05:18 am
I know. :D  I was trolling around in classics. Man, the Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy thread's rocked. :wakka:
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Daeron on July 11, 2008, 09:20:09 pm
Fart Lightning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: cloneof on July 12, 2008, 06:15:46 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSpace_2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeSpace_2)

Seriusly, I even didn`t know there was a Amiga version of the Freespace 1.
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: BengalTiger on July 13, 2008, 09:09:25 pm
Fo shizzle, I gizzle the Wizzle! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fo_shizzle)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Talon 1024 on July 13, 2008, 10:39:09 pm
This one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/and), maybe? ;)

Or this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_conjunction)?
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Stormkeeper on July 14, 2008, 04:43:10 am
No. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No)
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Nuke on July 14, 2008, 08:34:59 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing
Title: Re: Inane Wikipedia Articles
Post by: Snail on July 14, 2008, 08:44:37 am
Quote from: Wikipedia on Nothing
This article is about "nothing" in the abstract sense. For other uses, see Nothing (disambiguation).

lol