Anonymous placeholder business sites for nothing domain names

For instance:

http://www.pistle.com/

pistle= freshfaced college student with backpack

http://www.veddo.com/

http://www.relba.com/

Though I suppose that last one leads somewhere.

http://i.nuseek.com/images/template/360x318/ist2_746781_female_student.jpg

the patron saint of broken hotlinks

photo looks like it was taken at UT

all those air rifle links are a bit weird too.

you'll be pleased to know that female_student.jpg (aka Young Woman, aka Happy Young Woman, aka Attractive Student) has a rich and rewarding career outside of mocking the hopes of a billion well-meaning googlers.

http://www.monsters.com

Part of a hilarious joke on The Office.

photo looks like it was taken at UT

It does! Orange Spanish tile roofs, a tower... she would be standing just stage right of the main entrance, on the sidewalk closest to Battle Hall.

<3 <3 <3 female_student.jpg

Her look says, "Are you putting me on? Oh, you guys!"

Where is UT?

University of Texas at Austin. In the grass behind her are usually dudes playing frisbee.

Possibly some groovy philosophy professor holding class near a tree, if it was one of those rare "nice" days.

Also, one of those non-undergrad classes that don't have 500 people in them.

as in UT where that dude mowed a bunch of people down from a campus tower?

The very same.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTU5lPzKvjI

did he use an air rifle?

You can go up to the top deck again nowadays. It was closed for something close to 30 years, not because of Whitman, but because it was apparently too tempting to jump to your death off of. The cool thing to do is hang around the tour guide after the official tour is over, and he or she will show you bullet holes where the cops shot back, and point out places you can see from up there where Whitman made these un-fucking-believable kills. He was shooting people a mile away.

Ok not a mile. But, like, 28th and Guadalupe.

apparently Survival research labs did a tribute show of sorts ...

I want this thread to be about Charles Whitman now. It was a nothing placeholder thread, and we bought it.

(No offense, Ned.)

at what age did Charles Whitman lose his virginity?

Ok, you guys, I think I have to edit this wikipedia paragraph.

Although the above issues were of no degree to cause his actions on August 1, 1966, his frustrations were complicated by a dysfunctional family, abuse of amphetamines, health issues, including a glioblastoma, a highly cancerous brain tumor, that was discovered during autopsy. He was also affected by negative incidents and a court martial as a United States Marine, a student at the University of Texas, ambitious personal expectations and psychotic features he expressed in his type written note left at 906 Jewell Street, Austin, Texas, dated both July 31, 1966 and later by hand "3 A.M., both dead August 1, 1966". After his death, a brain tumor was discovered that experts claim conceiveably may have played a role in causing his actions.

And did we mention he had a brain tumor?

kurt russell played him in the tv movie which i vaguely remember from my youth

xp Speculations, comma splices, misspellings... come on, now. Really.

it also misspells "conceivably"

what a disaster for Charles Whitman -- literally.

A pretty fucking bad day for 46 other people, too.

Fuck the paragraph, that whole lead section is pitiful. This regression cannot stand.

As long as you don't literally fuck it ... I'm with you.

Ok how's this instead.

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966), shot and killed 15 people and wounded 31 others in Austin, Texas on August 1, 1966. The majority of his victims were killed or wounded at random, from the 307-foot administrative building and bell tower of University of Texas, where Whitman was a student. Whitman killed his wife and mother inside their homes several hours before entering the campus's main building, killing three inside, and barricading himself on the 28th floor observation deck for 96 minutes. From this vantage, Whitman, a former Marine trained in marksmanship, shot and killed ten others. The incident ended when he was gunned down by city police officers Houston McCoy[1] and Ramiro Martinez.

Whitman was known as a friendly, attractive young man, though he was deeply troubled by his dysfunctional family life, a court martial from the United States Marines, trouble as a student at the University, his abuse of amphetamines, and constant headaches which were discovered at his autopsy to have been caused by a highly cancerous brain tumor. He clearly expressed his psychotic and suicidal intentions in two suicide notes left at the murder scenes of his mother and wife, the latter of which was signed, "Both dead, August 1, 1966."

(Not posted yet, thought I'd ask around first before I edited something this severely.)

Lose the comma after that first set of parentheses.

Also maybe he just expressed his psychotic intentions, instead of "clearly" expressing them.

He expressed his psychotic and suicidal intentions in two notes left at the murder scenes of his mother and wife, the latter of which was signed, "Both dead, August 1, 1966."

Charles Joseph Whitman (June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966), shot and killed 15 people and wounded 31 others in Austin, Texas on August 1, 1966. Whitman killed his wife and mother inside their homes several hours before entering the administration building of the University of Texas, where he was a student. After killing three inside, he barricaded himself on the 28th floor observation deck for 96 minutes. It was during this time that he shot the majority of his victims, whom were chosen at random.

oops ... that should be "who were chosen at random" ...

It's better. News-ier.

It's difficult with something like this, because it's such a good story. His family was nuts, he had brain cancer, he left juicy notes all over the place, he SAWED THE BARREL OFF A SHOTGUN THAT HE BOUGHT THAT MORNING WHILE MAKING CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH A POSTMAN... man. What do you leave out?

I guess the bigger question is, is this wiki entry a news story or a feature? I fear leaving it too dry before we jump right into "he was born in..."

You could start with something like, "infamous mass-murderer Charles Whitman"

Hm.

Too blunt, yet not blunt enough.

Was he the first school shooter?

Of all time? Doubtful.

Not literally the first person to shoot someone in/at a school, but the first to kill numerous people.

The author of what's up there now apparently was intrigued by the idea of his family being dysfunctional, so he went on about it. Me, I'm tempted to write about how much fucking ammunition he sashayed into two different stored and bought with hot checks. Or maybe how his doctors at the UT health center couldn't diagnose his issue, shrugged and gave him Dexedrine. I kind of want to touch on it all, but only real quick-like. "Do you want to know more?" etc

I guess if I was planning on being dead by afternoon, I'd write a hot check or two, too.

what was he court martialed for?

Fighting.

according to the wikipedia article on school shootings, Whitman is the earliest one listed in the US.

I'm not sure what you're driving at.

Link to webpage about the Whitman-inspired SRL show in Austin

A beginning phrase before the name and birth/death dates. ... but as I wrote it, it gets to the shooting pretty efficiently.

Oh, I see. When I referred to the "he was born in..." part, I meant the second subhead. The parenthetical (here to when) dates right up front are standard, I assume.

45 minutes later, I finally realize that we didn't understand each other at all. I blame society.

Ok I edited my edits and such, and threw them up there. If you can make corrections... it's wikipedia.

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

I mean, if you want to make corrections.

I'm going to do something visual now. My English is tired.

So which mass murderer does this thread edit a bio of next?

This page is actively soliciting contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_massacre

Oh jeez. After reading that, I'm not surprised people are unwilling to update the entry. Apparently the event is a cause célèbre for the "let's arm everyone on earth" crowd.

It does pop up on Conservapedia, under this url: http://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal_gullibility

Lesson learned: give specific reasons for editing a wiki page. I gave no reasons at all, and they just put it right back like it was. Whatever, I was only amusing myself.

http://i29.tinypic.com/2ccs2ky.jpg

fos just made this thread for me.

Awesome.

the guy's genuine concern for the girl who just was shot in the neck by a sniper is touching

http://farble.com/

http://farble.com/__media__/images/1322_netsol-buz.jpg

lol stalker in the background

http://i28.tinypic.com/2mm5ra9.jpg

Congratulations to him for figuring out that huge untapped market. People who visit McDonald's online, and also can't spell. That has got to get some mad, fat hits.

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/5513/papajohn.jpg

Ooh. The anti-apostrophe dollar. That's huge.

maybe they're reading about Charles Whitman's brain tumor. Did you know he had a brain tumor?

Back to the Whitman page very briefly, I promise: My revision was vetoed with the comment "v good faith edit, see no reasons for these changes and none given. This version gives more info to the reader for understanding." Followed immediately by nine edits by me, documenting my reasons for changes in excruciating detail that was also as polite as I could manage.

My first wiki editing war! Today I truly am a man.

don't these people understand that their writing isn't very good?

No. They really don't understand that at all. I suppose that if they understood that, their writing would be better.

To be fair, I came in with a hard on, and they were like, "Who the fuck are you?"

In my experience, no. A year or 2 ago, I substantially rewrote an existing article which read in places like it had been translated into English by babelfish. Over the months that followed, the orig author reverted it, in a piecemeal manner, to what it had been before I started. Thus ended my good-faith adventures in wikiland.

They were actually extraordinarily polite, considering. Any other place on the internet, including this one, you'd be banned in a heartbeat for walking in knowing that you are smarter than everyone without even properly introducing yourself. Or you'd at least be severely fucked with.

It's cool... I learned the proper format for citing references while I was busy being smarter than everyone.

Hahaha she's EVERYWHERE:

Serbia: Karadzic arrested after 13 years

so not gonna happen

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― baaderonixx, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 5:28 AM (1 year ago)

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http://i25.tinypic.com/zilpgw.jpg

Wha?

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3585/twiiter.jpg

Seems to cover all the angles.

<3 <3 <3 female_student.jpg

She finally is stepping out into the world:

https://www.facebook.com/Ist2746781femalestudentjpg?sk=wall

http://www.jews-did-911.com/

http://i.imgur.com/aoLif.jpg