This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

"Buddy Holly is gay"

But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".

OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?

ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.

Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt

Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.

The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:

Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.

However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?

One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.

If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?

ROFFLE

Plus, all the slang...

Track listing

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02
2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15
3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39
4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04
5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17
6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56
7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23
8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44
9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37
10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33
11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17
12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51
13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)

it appears to have been edited again, not by me:

"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)

Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.

The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.

After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.

"Plus, all the slang..."
But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?

Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.

First go here:

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

Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.

Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.

Note the expression on his face.

LOL

Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia.
(...)
His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.

On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life

And in the next chapter:

"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."

Did someone misspell "promo"?

He left parliament after the landslide 1997 general election in which he lost his seat to Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders.[3] His margin of defeat was just twelve votes, one of the narrowest election margins since 1945. It was reported that Allason had failed to tip a pub waitress a week before polling day, and that as a consequence, fourteen waiters who were going to vote for him switched to the Liberal Democrats.[4]

Calamus erectus, also known as viagra palm and locally as tynriew, tara, and zhi li sheng teng, is a flowering shrub in the family Arecaceae.[1]

She grew weary of the struggle and demanded to be taken home, where at the age of 66 she died on the evening of April 3, 1990, while watching Laker Girls, a television movie featuring her daughter.[18][19]

February 3, 1969: Flight 7 was hijacked to Cuba. The presence of Candid Camera host Allen Funt on the flight led many of the passengers to conclude that the hijacking was actually a prank.[90] Funt and others were later released after 11 hours of captivity.[91]

genuine lol

Since it was first performed on February 5, 1971, at Kingston Mines nightclub in Chicago,[6] Grease has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués (the characters' Polish-American backgrounds in particular are ignored with last names often changed, although two Italian-American characters are left identifiably ethnic) and more generic.

Cronenberg was offered the role of director for Witness while it was under the name Come Home, but declined as he "could never be a fan of the Amish".

lol

When preparing artwork for the album, the group were told by the label that they could not use a "weed-green" cover, as the cannabis connotation would discourage large retail chains, such as Woolworths, from stocking the record.

Despite his pretty boy image, Piolo is oftentimes rumored and believed to be gay.[23]

in 2014 ABS-CBN quoted him as responding to the rumors with 'Kinibit balikat ko na lang', which seems to translate to "i just shrugged it off"
that bit isn't from wiki, i just clicked on the link cuz wow that seems like a dubious thing to put in a wiki article

A new Spectre series was planned for 1986, with Steve Gerber as writer and Gene Colan as penciler. However, Gerber missed the deadline for the first issue so that he could watch the last day of shooting on the film Howard the Duck and DC cancelled the series in response.

Line-up
Current members
Vidar "Daemon" Jensen - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drum programming, electronics - (1993–2003, 2006–present)
Country:Norway

From: Sandefjord.

Marital status: married .

Spouse: Veronika Jensen-Startseva .

A new Spectre series was planned for 1986, with Steve Gerber as writer and Gene Colan as penciler. However, Gerber missed the deadline for the first issue so that he could watch the last day of shooting on the film Howard the Duck and DC cancelled the series in response.

― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, February 11, 2026 1:24 PM (yesterday)

i love this because really it tells you all you need to know about steve gerber as a person :)

This article is about the production of artificial light. For the human behaviour, see Gaslighting. "Gaslight" redirects here. For other uses, see Gaslight (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Fart lighting.

otc, gaslighting in its current usage has blatantly outlived its moment; from now on i will use the term exclusively to refer to fart lighting

Listen to it trying to tell me what it means to gaslight somebody. I know what a gaslamp is!

In 1997, the sportswear company Reebok introduced a women's running shoe called "Incubus"; the company was forced to recall the product when it was called to their attention that an incubus is a mythical male demon that rapes women in their sleep.[7]

primed for a re . . . boot

Maybe they just really liked S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

More than three hours of music were composed for the film (Ben-Hur), and two-and-a-half hours of it were finally used, making it at the time the longest score ever composed for a motion picture. It was finally surpassed in 2021 by the near 4-hour long score of Zack Snyder's Justice League.

Hornsby is a regular basketball player and an avid fan of the sport.[31] He can frequently be seen at college basketball games throughout Virginia. Hornsby stated that he beat Allen Iverson in one-on-one basketball three games in a row after helping him get out of jail.[99]

"Re. Peter Goldman's letter in The Voice, Andy Warhol and I have searched the archives of the Warhol colossus and find no 'two hour film of Taylor Mead's ass.' We are rectifying this undersight with the unlimited resources at our command. Love and kisses." Two days later, Warhol shot the "sixty-minute opus that consisted entirely of Taylor Mead's Ass," during which Mead first exhibits a variety of movement, then appears to "shove a variety of objects up his ass."

The film was Mead's last for Warhol "for more than three years", at the end of 1964, "Mead felt betrayed by Warhol for not showing the film.

primed for a re . . . boot

― mookieproof, Friday, February 13, 2026 10:02 PM

i was just thrown off-kilter when the article actually said "rape", that's a taboo word now, saying that will get you demonetized on corporate sites

there is nothing problematic at all about this state of affairs

on a lighter note

Sir Sandford Fleming Park, a 38-hectare (94-acre) Canadian urban park in Halifax, also known as "The Dingle" (as shown above under "Later life").

i understand that this is me being both presentist and puerile. there is nothing at all inherently silly about "the dingle", any more than there is about "big bone lick state park" in kentucky or wisconsin's "bong recreation area", which is of course named after the renowned fighter pilot Dick Bong, the Ace Rimmer of World War II.

"the dingle". heh, heh, heh.

I assume it's nicknamed after the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, right?

Fun fact: Ringo Starr was born in Dingle, Liverpool!

Familiar with both places and never thought it sounded funny until now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dingle,_Anglesey

From above:

Dingle is a common placename in the English language, which means "steep wooded valley"

some expensive computer programs used to come with hardware copy protection, external devices known as "dongles". people made fun of that a lot. nobody blinked an eye at the devices known as "gender changers" at the time but you best believe i do now.

there's a long history of complicated gendered language in tech. atari in 1973 looked at the predominance of "joysticks" in gaming and thought there should be a game you controlled by fondling boobs, and as a result george faraco designed this cabinet:

https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogame-flyers/0/gotcha-00433-01.jpg

wikipedia:

The cabinet was designed by George Faraco, initially with the joysticks encased in pink domes meant to represent breasts. Although this design inspired the advertising flyer on which it appears behind a man chasing a woman in a nightdress, it was changed to use regular joysticks soon after release.

holy cow sorry that picture is so huge

From above:

Dingle is a common placename in the English language, which means "steep wooded valley"

― The Olde, Old, Very Olde Man. (Tom D.)

i hate to say it but it is very popular for us americans to laugh at historic british place names. it's absolutely immature to laugh at, say, the village of Weeley in Clacton-On-Sea, but phonetically, to my american ears, it comes across as very silly. in contrast, native american names don't sound silly at all to me.

thinking about it i don't mean to deride the peoples of great britain. mainly it's a matter of me as a white person making fun of other white people, which is one of the most wholesome pastimes i know. particularly making fun of american or british white people.

in contrast, native american names don't sound silly at all to me

Not even Coxsackie, NY?

I'm sure there are lots of silly sounding ones!

Kickapoo, Kansas!

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump!

These three guys annoy me, and I grew up thinking Mashpee was pretty normal sounding and this is still funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdfSfHiwoZw

Walla Walla, Washington is my fave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_(British_TV_series)

Italian producers KENT and INDIEF made compilation films which met mixed reviews. The films used music tracks from the James Bond films From Russia with Love and Thunderball, for UFO's composer, Barry Gray, had his name confused with Bond composer John Barry.

Tesco Personal Finance recorded a 20% increase in calls from people wanting to take out life insurance policies. A spokesman attributed the surge to people watching Rachel's death in a car accident.[20]

Early reports describe the album as a return to a high-energy rock sound, with up-tempo songs reminiscent of the band's earlier work while continuing the melodic alternative rock style established across their discography. [3]

unusual?

yeah it's a pointless section - 'new Foos album will sound like every other Foos album'

During Alice Cooper's 1973–1974 Billion Dollar Babies tour, Randi performed on stage both as a mad dentist and as Cooper's executioner.[29] He also built several of the stage props, including the guillotine.[30]

holy shit how did I not know this

In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone allegedly smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". According to the archaic Sunni belief,[30] by the accusation of one boy, the Persian of an unknown faith was suspected of sacrilege, where Sunnis of Mecca "have turned the circumstance to their own advantage" by assaulting, beating random Persians and forbidding them from Hajj until the ban was overturned by the order of Muhammad Ali.

Not *that* Muhammad Ali. *That* Muhammad Ali appears in a photo in the very next section, however.

Wanting a change in direction from their previous studio album Rio, Seven and the Ragged Tiger is a new wave and synth-pop record, with emphasis on synthesiser-based textures.

Background
Desmond Child, who produced the album, got the idea for the title after hearing the Bush song "Glycerine". Child misheard the title as "Kiss the Rain". When he was told the correct title, he decided to use "Kiss the Rain" for a future song. While he was working out at the gym with Jon Bon Jovi, Child excitedly telling the singer that "Kiss the Rain" was a great tune with a great title — only to be told that he had totally whiffed on the name of the song. Child thought the misheard lyric made for an "incredibly fresh" title and asked Bon Jovi if he wanted to write a song called "Kiss the Rain." But since Bon Jovi thought the idea was "stupid," Child decided to save it for Myers, whom he was already working with at the time.[3]

In 1985, DWRT-FM (then known as 99.5 RT, now 99.5 Play FM), a radio station in Metro Manila, Philippines, started playing a song billed as "Fade" by Medium (also billed as "Medium" by Fade). DWRT-FM deliberately misnamed the artist and song title to prevent anyone from finding the record and playing it themselves. Additionally, to stop other radio stations from recording it and playing it, DWRT-FM inserted a station ID midway through the track. A year later, another radio station, DWXB-102, revealed the true identity of the song as "More to Lose" by Seona Dancing.[1]

... i.e. Ricky Gervais' band.

From 12 September 2005 he was the presenter of the "More Music Breakfast Show" on Magic 105.4 FM in London, and on DAB, Freeview and Satellite across the UK. His last show was on 30 September 2014, after which he was arrested on the studio's premises.