On 5/11/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name> wrote:
Hank: Aren't you adorable? We're all about to
be shot as escaped
prisoners, and you're reciting my entry in the Wikipedia. I hope
you're proud of her, Homer. She's great!
I think Wikipedia has achieved the pop-cultural status
of being
suitable for mention in humorous (and not entirely flattering)
contexts; it seems to have a connotation something like "I've
achieved a shallow, superficial, and quite likely inaccurate
understanding of a subject the lazy way... and I'm damn proud of it!"
I also notice that in popular usage, it's often "the Wikipedia",
whereas we tend to just say "on Wikipedia".
Steve