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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: gpw11 on Thursday, February 22, 2007, 11:44:18 PM
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After looking at a wikipedia page for The Clapper (after seeing the commercial again) I thought up a game we could play. First, check out the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clapper
Notice the last paragraph. Now look at the history. That edit was made today. So, here's the game I propose. We all pick one topic and edit it with some bullshit like that. Not necessarily false, but having as little to do with fact as possible and see who's edit goes the longest.
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I'm down.
Just for the record, though, you aren't the first person to think of this. Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) told his viewers on air to change the elephant entry to include the fact that the elephant population has tripled in the past year. It worked, but eventually Colbert was banned from wikipedia and the entry was taken down.
Anyways, we have to pick a topic to change. Ideas?
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Haha, thats an awesome idea.
Ghandi, I think the idea is for each person edit a different topic, and see whos edit stays the longest.
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Ah, ok. I took the "we all pick one topic" as we collectively pick one topic.
Let me sign up for wikipedia and I'll announce my topic.
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I'm down.
Just for the record, though, you aren't the first person to think of this. Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Report) told his viewers on air to change the elephant entry to include the fact that the elephant population has tripled in the past year. It worked, but eventually Colbert was banned from wikipedia and the entry was taken down.
Anyways, we have to pick a topic to change. Ideas?
Oh yeah, I actually saw that as well. Awesome.
But yeah, the idea is we each take a different topic. The key is also how you edit it. We can't just edit in some false information like "Honda sells 300,000 Civics each year", but rather some blatantly stupid information like "The head automobile designer for Honda got the idea for the Civic when he saw a Lion eating a young warthog during an African safari. He was an alcoholic, and most of the board of directors wanted to fire him, but they took a chance and it payed off. Years later he was fired when he suggested the Civic 2 being shaped like a lion eating a giraffe."
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hahaha I laughed like a little bitch at your story. I am in.
edit:
You know about everywhere girl right?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Petersen
The last two paragraphs were me. If you couldn't already figure out.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwalk
I think we can all figure out what part is mine.
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Lets try and edit once a day until someone catches on. The winner will receive prizes beyond his (or her) imagination.
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Heh, too much effort for me. Yours was awesome though, Ghandi. And gpw, I have no idea what part was yours. Am I just out of touch?
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I laughed at both of those. I was going to edit something myself, but then I started feeling really guilty.
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Heh, too much effort for me. Yours was awesome though, Ghandi. And gpw, I have no idea what part was yours. Am I just out of touch?
Out of touch with reality? Yes, very much so.
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I get the impression you're referring to more than just my inability to decipher an online encyclopedia entry about crappy shoes. Maybe it's time I moved on.
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What are you guys talking about?
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I get the impression you're referring to more than just my inability to decipher an online encyclopedia entry about crappy shoes. Maybe it's time I moved on.
No, I was simply referring to the fact that you think flubber exists combined with your inability to understand people can't actually walk on air.
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I just made an edit. Please find it before they remove.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Penn#Personal_life
http://cc.1asphost.com/Pugnate/SP.JPG
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I'm not Sean Penn!
And you totally lost.
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haha I know. I was out before I started.
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Hahahaha! In Que's defense, I wasn't sure about gpw's contribution until I saw the word "flubber". It's easy to get lost in the pile of words about a subject one cares very little about. Ghandi's on the other hand, was very easy to pick out from the beginning. ;D
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lets vandalise the Sean Penn page until they lock it
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College history department bans wikipedia as a source (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html?em&ex=1172379600&en=ad418204e5130dd2&ei=5087%0A)
Apparently, 17 students stated something on a test that was wrong that they got off wikipedia. The article doesn't surprise me, it's just the fact that they mention that wikipedia sometimes contains "deliberate falsehoods". Now who would go about deliberately putting false info on wikipedia...
:-[
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You people are horrible. It's no wonder Wikipedia gets a bad name.
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Fuck, if anyone honestly takes whatever any of us makes up on there and goes so far as to include it in a paper or exam they deserve the 'F' more than someone who just didn't bother to do the work. I'm just helping to thin the flock so that our degrees actually mean something.
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Fuck, if anyone honestly takes whatever any of us makes up on there and goes so far as to include it in a paper or exam they deserve the 'F' more than someone who just didn't bother to do the work. I'm just helping to thin the flock so that our degrees actually mean something.
Possibly the best justification for a nefarious act I've ever heard.
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Hahahaha! In Que's defense, I wasn't sure about gpw's contribution until I saw the word "flubber". It's easy to get lost in the pile of words about a subject one cares very little about. Ghandi's on the other hand, was very easy to pick out from the beginning. ;D
And that my friends is how you spread disinformation.
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just vandalize the chicken article!
http://www.everytopicintheuniverseexceptchickens.com/
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I just checked and they've both been reverted. Looking at the history I may have won by a couple of hours. I do accept paypal.
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I usually make my payments via swift kick to the ass. Do you accept that as well?
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Yeah we can do that, but you better watch out for the change motherfucker.
That didn't come out nearly as cool as I thought it would.