According to Wikipedia, 'Depths of Wikipedia' is a social media project dedicated to highlighting the unusual and entertaining facts from the platform. Annie Rauwerda started it in 2020 and has even performed live comedy shows based on the things she found.
Considering there are over seven million articles on the English version of the encyclopedia alone, she's probably not going to run out of material any time soon as well. And since it's open source, everyone gets to contribute to the madness.
If you're a fan of rabbit holes, this place is like a never ending tunnel, full of nooks and crannies.
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This may be the best (and most accurate) new word in recent memory.
Often leading those people to quietly quit when they cotton on...
Boo-Boo was to Yogi what Barney Rubble was to Fred Flintstone. (Both Boo-Boo and Barney were voiced by the great Mel Blanc.)
Scott Kelly. You know. Now Senator Scott Kelly. The one our president is accusing of treason. Who may be recalled to active duty just so he can be court-martialed. Yeah, *that* Scott Kelly. This administration is a monkey flying, Monday to Friday, fuster cluck of an embarrassment.
And when the name is transcribed, he will be known as ( ) formerly known as Casper
4 packs of cigarettes a day???? Gosh, except for the extra radiation from space, he was certainly enjoying better health on Mir
The real problem with jurors that have watched CSI is that too many of them think that forensics is infallible. When jurors are too easily fooled by the prosecutions "evidence" innocent people can go to jail or even be executed. Ask Google about Cameron Todd Willingham.
Way back in the before times when cptrs were a new thing in offices, they were not given to those of us who understood and needed them. They were more often given to luddites. I was asked to look at one by its user because the cup holder wasn't working properly. "The What?" yeah..
Ships were immediately dispatched to the Caribbean to bring back bananas.
I'm a huge fan of this. Also Turned Out Tuesday, where you should be happy I evened turned out. Why Am I Here Wednesday, where I spend my work day questioning my life choices. Think Again Thursdays, where I glare at you if you ask me to do anything. And also Phoning it in Fridays, I'd tell you more about that, but it's Friday
At least here in California we make you jump through a bureaucratic hoop and possess a piece of paper before you can own one. It's not like we're stupid or anything.
Guess the song!
I believe this is "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC, due to the fact that a computer virus once attacked Iran's nuclear facility by causing its computers to play the song at full volume
Wait a minute. What happened if SHE were at home that day and her best friend were at home that day and then they tried to visit one another on, say, Mondays, but neither of them were at home. What would they do then? The mysteries of life before telephones existed
Imagine if you devoted your life to calculating pi, toiled hours a day for YEARS until you the end of your life. and it turns out 20 years ago you were off by one and everything after that was basically a waste
Why come up with a term like "jobless unemployed" for people who have little or no work while remaining employed when we already have a perfectly serviceable term like "management"?
Because why would you move your children to a place with no schools?
Or an example of how the lack of a smile reminds us of a human these days.
In Namibia is local politician named Adolf Hitler. He just won fifth elections for local council.
"A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field" - George Orwell
Excess sebum can lead to hair loss. Washing your hair does not. Some shampoos clean the sebum on your scalp and let your hair follicles grow hair. If nothing else, give your scalp a good scrub when you wash your hair, no matter what kind of hair on your head nor how much hair
how about JnG for an infinite number ("n") of guys? Then you don't have to constantly do a head-count
Do you know why donkeys aren't allowed in school? No body likes a smart a*s. I'll show myself out...
I ordered a copy of that book from Amazon decades ago. They sent me "Llama, Llama, Red Pyjama". I sent it back. They sent it to me again. I sent it back again. They refused to do any more to fulfill my order 🙁
