The Wikipedia thread

[Spiral Zer0]

lets be honest, it's a good thing when we learn something new. taking in information and knowledge that our peers and friends may or may not be aware of can help push us foward in life. through knowledge we grow as people, through knowledge we can learn more about ourselves the ones we love and care for as well as the very world around us.

so I declare this thread a thread of learning, no matter how funny strange or stupid the acctual content is. after all knowing is half the battle.

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

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

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

now I implore you all to go forth and share and learn

[Boring 7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modron_%28 ... Dragons%29
Modrons are awesome.

[Foolosophy]

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[Honor]

The Ghanian cedi has recently been redonominated and it's symbol is not the same as the cent sign.

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

Uh... Yeah, it is.

Sexiest Financial News headline: "The Vietnamese are experiencing rapid inflation of the Dong..."

[WangyJohn]

Uh... Yeah, it is.

Cedi has an uppercase C, the cent has a lowercase C, when written in official papers. It's right there in the article.

[Honor]

Uh... Yeah, it is.

Cedi has an uppercase C, the cent has a lowercase C, when written in official papers. It's right there in the article.

Nice attempt on their part... It's still "Big Cents".

[Honor]

first video-based arcade game I ever payed a quarter to play...

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

And I used to walk to the bowling alley to play it (and other games...) That was about seven hundred and thirty two kid-miles away from my house... So I'm guessing about three in grown-up miles.

[Spiral Zer0]

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

[RevChris77]

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

[Fnyunj]

Way too many of these. . ..

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

[RevChris77]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Ramos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhardt_richter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp

[RavenxDrake]

Arachnogenic Necrosis

I was watching Venom: 9 Ways to Die on Discovery(I think), and they brought up the term.

I also spent time searching for this on Wikipedia because I first heard the term as Necrotic Arachnidism(or Necrotizing Arachnidism) and was stumped on finding that in Wiki. I had to go through the Brown Recluse entry to the White-tailed spider, to the Main necrosis entry, which is subdivided into several categories including this one.

[Foolosophy]

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

yay!yay!yay!

[WangyJohn]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_G ... ography%29

The Good Girl, a porn movie under Creative Commons Licence.

[Foolosophy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuicideGirls#Censorship

"women-owned and women-operated" ... yeah...right

[RevChris77]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_bomb

I got an email today about grease fires (the same as what's shown here), and I was trying to find something to corroborate the "2 sticks of dynamite" claim at the bottom. SO far, I've found matching claims of between one and ten sticks, but no actual science.

I have, however, found a number of other fire departments that say the wet towel idea is bad because if you have any excess water, it can drip off the towel into the pot of grease, giving you a steam explosion.

[PopeMac]

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

I did this a while ago after seeing something similar on xkcd. It's great for wasting time.

[RavenxDrake]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OLNLYL24qUA&feature=related

Starting at 2:30-3:22. Anti-safety demonstration of a deep-fried turkey disaster on Good Eats. It's quite impressive.

As for a greasefire, that's why they make wet chemical extinguishers. I'd let a pan sit on the stove and burn itself out before it'd try to throw a wet towel over it(WTF?).

[RevChris77]

As for a greasefire, that's why they make wet chemical extinguishers. I'd let a pan sit on the stove and burn itself out before it'd try to throw a wet towel over it(WTF?).

Any fire extinguisher also has the possibility of blowing the grease out of the pan. The lid for the pan is usually a much better idea. Also, do you mean dry chemical?

[RavenxDrake]

Nope. Wet chemical, or Potassium acetate, extinguishers are designed to fight grease and oil fires by creating a soapy, non-reactive foam that simultaneously covers the oil and cools it below it's ignition temperature. They are specfically designed for grease and oil fires, and are only rated for A and K (Wood and comon combustables, and kitchen and oil, respectively) fires.

But yes, extinguishing the flames with a tight fitting lid is generally preferable to attacking it with an extinguisher, but the extinguisher is preferable to trying that idiotic wet towel wrap.