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stand by your bed - i may well take you up on that.

i doubt you'd want to be him, though - he comes to a bit of a sticky end...

I use Wikipedia quite often, here are a few articles i am interested in

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilsdale_TV_Mast
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emley_Moor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_masts_and_towers_-_catastrophic_collapses (though I am mainly interested in the 2 UK entries on this page)

Yes, Wikipedia was one of several sites that led me to WrongPlanet.net.

GA

Um, I can't stand by my bed too long (it hurts my armpits with the crutches.

It doesn't bother me about sticky ends. What happens to him, does he drown in a vat of caramel? Mmm...



Excellent stuff, one of my many pointless trades is being a civil engineer and I specialise in when big things go bad (ie collapse, explode) so I love that stuff.

Speaking of explosions:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Fictional_multiverses

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

The following is a list band theme songs in which the band describes itself:

"All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)" by The Clash
"Ant Rap" by Adam & the Ants
"Any Old Irony?" by Skyclad
"Cash Car Star" by The Smashing Pumpkins (From the "MACHINA" album, and said to be about a "concept band" and not really the Pumpkins)
"Cleopatra's Theme" by Cleopatra
"Come On Get Happy" by The Partridge Family
"The Cover of the Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
"Crap Rap 2/Like To Blow" by The Fall
"Creeque Alley" by The Mamas & the Papas
"Dance to the Music" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Destiny Calling" by James
"Everything's Archie" by The Archies
"Give It To The Soft Boys" by the Soft Boys
"Go Junior, Go Senior" by Junior Senior
"Gwar Theme" by Gwar
"Hammerfall" by Hammerfall
"Hard Skin" by Hard Skin
"Here We Go" by *NSYNC
"History Lesson, Part 2" by The Minutemen
"Hollywood Swinging" by Kool & the Gang
"Inane" by KMFDM
"Introduce Yourself" be Faith No More
"Jocko Homo" by Devo
"Josie and the Pussycats" by Josie and the Pussycats
"The Legend of Paul Revere" by Paul Revere & the Raiders
"LT Tour Theme" by Le Tigre
"My Name Is" by Eminem
"R.A.M.O.N.E.S." by Ramones (originally by Motörhead)
"S.O.S. (Dit Dit Dit Dat Dat Dat Dit Dit Dit )" by The SOS Band
"Spacehog" by Spacehog
"Sucks" by KMFDM
"(Theme From) The Monkees" by The Monkees
"Theme Song" by The Aquabats
"We" by The Roches
"We Are the Moles" by The Moles
"The Curse" by The Mekons
"Nevermind" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Panzer Division Marduk" by Marduk
"Vampire Punk Rockers From Hell" by Inkubus Sukkubus
"The Weird Al Show Theme" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
"We Are Electrocution" by Le Shok
"We Are Motorhead" by Motörhead
"We Are Not Going To Make It" by The Presidents of the United States of America
"Whiplash" by Metallica
"Yeah Yeah We're Helen Love" by Helen Love

you forgot "The Goodies," by The Goodies.

You also forgot "I'm a talentless t**t cynically generated by faceless multi-mega-national corporates to suck money from braindead chav scumbags" by Eminem....

....and the "Banana Split" song.....

The theme song from '8 Mile' ????





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

Man there's a lot of characters on the show.

Many of the characters in the Simpsons take their names from important people and places in Groening's life:

Lisa – Lisa Groening (Matt Groening's sister)
Marge – Marge Groening (his mother)
Homer – Homer Groening (his father and one of his sons). Trivia: A character in the 1939 novel The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West, is coincidentally named Homer Simpson.
Maggie – Maggie Groening (one of his sisters)
Bart – an anagram for "brat", a reference to Groening himself and to Dennis the Menace
Abraham – picked at random by writers for The Simpsons, but coincidentally was the name of Matt Groening's grandfather

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

Polydactyly, or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly, is the anatomical abnormality of having more than the usual number of digits on the hands or feet. It is a congenital abnormality, usually genetically inherited as an autosomal dominant trait.



Anyone famous suffer from it?

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

Praise Wikipedia for all the interesting information it brings

(don't praise it for the crap on it, lol )

Hannibal Lecter (in the books) was polydactyl -- six fingers on each hand (or five if you're one of those thumb-haters). I would have liked to see some complex prosthetics on Anthony Hopkins in the movies, but maybe that's asking a bit much.

Edit: already on the list. OBSOLETE'D!

Yeah I knew that about Hannibal too, thanks for posting in the thread.

When I'm on wikipedia I'll look up something on one subject, then go to another and via a series of tangents will arrive at something truly interesting.

Today, fun with numbers kids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast_%28numerology%29

Did you know? (some worthless observations)

* The numbers on a roulette table (1 to 36) sum to 666
* The fear of the number 666 is known as "Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia".
* 6.66, One Hundredth of the Number of the Beast is the name of the only song by the fictional Australian rock band Salmon Hater.



And more fun with numerology:

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

Have fun kids!

My sister didn't know what Wikipedia was...'til I showed her it's greatness...

GA

This might help her out:

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

Wikipedia (pronounced as either [ˌwiˑkiˈpidi.ə] or [ˌwɪki-], also [-ɐ]) is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing articles to be added or changed by anyone with an internet connection. The project began on January 15, 2001 as a complement to the expert-written Nupedia, and is now operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. The English-language version of Wikipedia currently has more than 835,000 articles. Wikipedia has steadily risen in popularity,[1] and has spawned several sister projects, such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews. Wikipedia is widely considered as the alternative to commercial encyclopedias.