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Laughter

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:00:14 -0700

A normal laugh has the structure of “ha-ha-ha” or “ho-ho-ho.”

Yellow-billed Shrike

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:00:12 -0700

The Yellow-billed Shrike (Corvinella corvina) is a small passerine bird in the shrike family. It is sometimes known as Long-tailed Shrike but this is to be discouraged since it invites confusion with the Long-tailed Shrike, Lanius schach, of tropical southern Asia.

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Orca attacks on humans

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:12 -0700

In 1993, 14-year-old female Kasatka tried to bite an unidentified Sea World California trainer (not Kenneth Peters).

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Got Milk?

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:00:10 -0700

Former California Gov. Gray Davis expressed his dislike for one commercial and asked if there was a way to remove it from the air. It featured two children who refused to drink milk because their elderly next-door neighbor is energetic despite not drinking it. He is going to use his wheelbarrow when suddenly his arms snap off, because without his consumption of milk, his bones are weak and frail. The now-frightened children start imbibing the fluid.

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Franklin, New York

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:00:17 -0700

Franklin, New York may refer to:

Franklin, Franklin County, New York
Franklin (town), New York, in Delaware County
Franklin (village), New York, in Delaware County’s town of Franklin

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Uncle Jesse

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:00:15 -0700

Uncle Jesse may refer to any of several fictional characters, including:

Jesse Duke, a character from the TV series and movie The Dukes of Hazzard
Jesse Katsopolis, from the television series Full House

[Citation Needed]: Win a copy of The Needening!

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:18:07 -0700

[Citation Needed]: Win a copy of The Needening!:

batneko:

citationneeded:

We had a lot of fun compiling the entries and commentaries for our newest bad Wikipedia writing book The Needening, but we noticed that some of them were…a touch low brow. In fact when we finished the book we were amazed how often one particular word showed up. That word? Penis. (Of…

23?

The answer was 16. 16 penises. Which is nearly one every ten entries which struck us as particularly high. Sorry to everyone who guessed there would be one every other page.

The winner is Batneko who guess 16 a few guesses before someone else guessed 9. Fortunately for Batneko we are not playing Price is Right rules, thought Bob Barker DOES make an appearance in…[Citation Needed] 2: The Needening! Available in paperback and Kindle right here.

Batneko, if you send us a tumblr email with your address and your preferred format, kindle or paperback, we’ll send it out to you right away!

Vanity plate

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:00:13 -0700

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The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:00:12 -0700

The new series distanced itself from the “monster of the week” mandate that had characterized the original series from its inception; while there were plenty of aliens and monsters, they dramatize a specific scientific concept and its effect on humanity, and there is frequent nudity.

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Win a copy of The Needening!

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:14:00 -0700

We had a lot of fun compiling the entries and commentaries for our newest bad Wikipedia writing book The Needening, but we noticed that some of them were…a touch low brow. In fact when we finished the book we were amazed how often one particular word showed up. That word? Penis. (Of course it was penis. What were you expecting, Transcendental? Onomatopoeia?)

Do you want to win a copy of our new book? Then just reblog this post and add how many times you think the word “penis” appears in the book as a comment. First person to get it right wins a copy in paperback or Kindle.

If you don’t win, you can of course always buy a copy here.

HINT: The book is 222 pages long. It includes a shade under 210 entries. Even as low brow as we went, we couldn’t manage to include anywhere near one per entry. Adjust your guesses accordingly.

SECOND HINT: Look, it’s under 50, OK? It’s The Needening, not The Penising

Joseph Stalin

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:00:29 -0700

Armenia

According to a 2012 study, 72% of Armenians do not want to live in a country led by someone like Stalin.

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Hair (musical)

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:00:31 -0700

Hair underwent a thorough overhaul between its closing at the Cheetah in January 1968 and its Broadway opening three months later. The off-Broadway book, already light on plot, was loosened even further^[20] and made more realistic. For example, Claude had been written as a space alien who aspires to be a cinematic director; he became human for the Broadway version.^[21]

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Disco

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:28:00 -0700

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André Frédérique

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:00:23 -0700

His works, often full of black humour (which did not save him from suicide caused by his feeling of a metaphysical hopelessness) are similar to Henri Michaux.

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Michael Chiklis

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:00:23 -0700

Amir Blumenfeld made reference to Michael in an episode of College Humor’s Jake and Amir, mentioning that he would go “dickless for Michael Chiklis”. This boosted his reputation as a person who people would willingly lose their genitals for.

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No symbol

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:00:30 -0700

The no symbol (also prohibition sign, no sign, circle-backslash symbol,nay, or universal no) is a circle with a diagonal line through it (running from top left to bottom right), surrounding a pictogram used to indicate something is not permitted. The no symbol is generally colored red, but is sometimes another color, typically black. It is also referred to as a slarcle (Slash + circle), and sometimes the “Ghostbusters symbol.”^{[citation needed]}

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Carl Linnaeus

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:00:20 -0700

Carl Linnaeus (Swedish original name Carl Linnaeus^{[I got it! Why the repetition?]}, 23 May^{[note 1]} 1707 – 10 January 1778)

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The Needening - Now just $7.57!

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:10:43 -0700

For some inscrutable reason, Amazon has lowered the price of the paperback edition of our new book The Needening to just $7.57! We were enraged until we learned that we still get the same royalty, so now we’re 100% on board! Buy it now, it may be the cheapest you ever see it!

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Golden Mile, Toronto

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:00:10 -0700

The newer Golden Mile Mall is notably renovating and revamping several aspects of its premise, offering the promise of a fresh face and continuous offering of essential retailers and services for its community. However, earlier in 2008, Fabricland, which is considered a bottom-feeder of strip-malls, also left this location for greener pastures.

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ReiserFS

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:00:07 -0700

Jeff Mahoney of SUSE wrote a post on Sep 14 2006 proposing to move from ReiserFS to ext3 for the default installation file system.^[7] Some reasons he mentioned were scalability, “performance problems with extended attributes and ACLs”, “a small and shrinking development community”, and that “Reiser4 is not an incremental update and requires a reformat, which is unreasonable for most people.”^[7] On October 4 he wrote a response comment on a blog in order to clear up some issues.^[15]He wrote that his proposal for the switch was unrelated to Reiser’s “legal troubles” (i.e., Hans Reiser murdering his wife)

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