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I can’t hold this inside anymore: I was at church on Sunday and the pastor called Wikipedia “Wacko-pedia.” And he wasn’t making a joke. He just mispronounced it. Which made it even better. Wacko-pedia!
My uncle Kunkle has a severe distrust of Wikipedia because he knew a guy who put up an entry for a “squox” (half-squirrel, half-fox) and it stayed online for a really long time before someone finally realized a squox wasn’t an actual animal.
But me? I use Wikipedia daily. Hourly, almost.
I just checked my browsing history, and these are the things I have looked up on Wikipedia in the last two days:
1) Foxmarks
2) Stirling, Scotland
3) LadySmith Black Mambazo
4) The Sound of Music (film), where I linked to the song 5) Edelweiss, where I linked to a web site with the guitar tabs.
6) Eragon
7) What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
8) John Newton, where I linked to 9) Thomas Scott, where I linked to 10) Church Missionary Society.
11) Mary Katherine Gallagher
12) Hoverboard, where I linked to 13) Biff Tannen, where I linked to 14) Prohibition-era Chicago.
15) Louis May Alcott
And also, 16) Gossip Girl
I’m kind of in the Michael Scott school of thought: “Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.”
The second best source for reliable information? YouTube.
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since yesterday i've looked up:
1) Scrabble
2) Dr. Zoidberg
3) cheatgrass
4) cookie cutter shark
5) Swoosie Kurtz
6) Theodore Roethke
7) iron fertilization
and that's just what i can remember off the top of my head.
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Scrabble? Maybe you could help me: I need some rack-management tips.
Posted by: kat! | October 30, 2007 02:29 PM
Bigfoot doesn't exist, but there's a Wiki page for him. I say, "Bring back the squox!"
I'm going right now to print T-Shirts.
Hello, Heather Anne.
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I'll take one dozen of those shirts!
Posted by: scott | October 30, 2007 02:39 PM
How could Wiki not love this?
http://squox.co.uk/target36.html
Hello again.
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Aw. I want a Squox as a pet. (Even though it sort of looks like it might eat my cat in the night.)
Posted by: scott | October 30, 2007 02:40 PM
This one time, we convinced my roommate's (now ex) boyfriend that snipes were real and people really go on snipe hunts. I think we told him they looked like a cross between a snake and a weasel. Then he realized we might be making it up, so we were going to make up a "snipe" Wikipedia page but then we forgot. Wow, good story.
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A cross between a snake and a weasel?! But would it be a Gryffindor or a Slytherin? How confusing. (You think I can't make everything about Harry Potter, but oh, I can.)
Posted by: Jennie! | October 30, 2007 02:48 PM
Edelwiess is one of the (few) songs I can play on the piano.
Did you buy the hardcover book before or after you read the wiki?
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I also seem to remember a skit involving you and Heather and Carolyn dressed as nuns. Good times. (I bought the book before.)
Posted by: Abigail M. Schilling | October 30, 2007 02:50 PM
You know, Michael Scott is a genius he works for Dunder Mifflin "Limitless Paper in a Paperless World". So we know he is reliable.
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Yes, but he is a bad kisser, Jenn. So don't go falling in love with him.
Posted by: Jenn (the not-sister) | October 30, 2007 04:08 PM
'weeeeeee bow dowwwWWWwwn, we lay our crowwwWWwwnn at the feeEEEEeeet of HeatheeeEEeerr.'
You make me laugh so loud my wife says, 'stop cackling like a hyena.' This only makes me laugh louder.
I love your blog. I LOVE it. My very funny and cool friend Jeff Graves told me you were back (swoon). I finally had my favorite blog once more bookmarked RIGHT next to Apple.com. RIGHT NEXT TO IT.
You inspire me to enter the blogosphere all hopeful and atwitter. If I saw you in public I'd totally give you a very reserved and barely perceivable head nod. I would even take a photo of you (if that wasn't too...you know, Ted Bundy-ish) with me and brag about it.
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Thanks for driving this song into my brain, Todd. I sang it ALL DAY yesterday, except for I, like you, substituted the name of God with my own name. So not only did I spend the entire day breaking the First Commandment, I got stuck in traffic yesterday afternoon and was all, "Get out of my way; I created the universe!" The blame for this rests at your feet.
Posted by: Todd Clary | October 30, 2007 04:22 PM
Wackopedia is what you have when you have more than one child, like me. Of course, your sister Jenn simply has wackopedium, for now.
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What do I have?
Posted by: shari | October 30, 2007 04:28 PM
Og my gosh! My brother now has his friends reading your blog! Todd Clary had a blog at one time that was HYSTERICAL, but he never updated it, so I had to take it out of my favorites. Anyway, you are famous in the Graves/Coleman family and now friends!
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Good, that's exactly the place I want to be famous. :)
Posted by: Melissa Coleman | October 30, 2007 04:51 PM
Wikipedia really IS the best. A few of my recent visits:
Pierre Boulle
Cliff St Paul
Krystyna Skarbek
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Heathcliff (comic strip)
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I only know two of those things. Good thing I have Wackopedia to look the rest up on!
Posted by: srah | October 30, 2007 06:48 PM
I'm likewise pro-Wikipedia. I'd rather have the level of possible error there than take what THE MAN says happened as the truth.
Plus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Trippe
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Damn the man! I love me some Dean Trippe on Wackopedia, and also I love me some Dean Trippe just in general.
Posted by: Dean Trippe | October 30, 2007 07:42 PM
I love Wikipedia and the Urban dictionary...Okay, and uTube as well. Damn, I waste a lot of time on the internets.
Posted by: churlita | October 31, 2007 11:13 AM
Um... you have wackonephupedium. HA! Put THAT on wiki!
Posted by: shari | October 31, 2007 01:34 PM
Dang. Shoulda hyphenated. *sigh* [wacko-nephu-pedium]
Posted by: shari | October 31, 2007 01:35 PM
Oh, how the words "Hoverboard" and "Biff Tannen" make me happy.
Posted by: kerrianne | October 31, 2007 08:32 PM