"The Pop-Tarts page is often aflutter. Pop-Tarts, it says as of today
(February 8, 2008), were discontinued in Australia in 2005. Maybe that's
true. Before that it said that Pop-Tarts were discontinued in Korea. Before
that Australia. Several days ago it said: "Pop-Tarts is german for Little
Iced Pastry O' Germany." Other things I learned from earlier versions: More
than two trillion Pop-Tarts are sold each year. George Washington invented
them. They were developed in the early 1960s in China. Popular flavors are
"frosted strawberry, frosted brown sugar cinnamon, and semen." Pop-Tarts are
a "flat Cookie." No: "Pop-Tarts are a flat Pastry, KEVIN MCCORMICK is a
FRIGGIN LOSER notto mention a queer inch." No: "A Pop-Tart is a flat
condom." Once last fall the whole page was replaced with "NIPPLES AND
BROCCOLI!!!!!""
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Keith Old <keithold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Folks,
The New York Review of Books has written a review of Wikipedia:The Missing
Manual which is well worth a read.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It's fact-encirclingly huge, and
it's idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking, and full of simmering
controversies—and it's free, and it's fast. In a few seconds you can look
up, for instance, "Diogenes of Sinope," or "turnip," or "Crazy
Eddie," or
"Bagoas," or "quadratic formula," or "Bristol Beaufighter,"
or "squeegee,"
or "Sanford B. Dole," and you'll have knowledge you didn't have
before.
It's
like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on
catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks."
More in article.
Regards
*Keith Old*
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