[WikiEN-l] listcruft

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:41:22 +0300, "Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" wrote:
>  
>
>>Not so much a case in point, but a touchstone. Do *you* think we are
>>better or worse than Britannica for having "List of songs about
>>masturbation". Stand up and be counted...
>>    
>>
>No, a case in point.  There is no encyclopaedic topic "songs about
>masturbation" because there is nothing about masturbation which has
>any logical connection with songs, and vice-versa (although I
>suppose one could stretch a point and say that, for example, Whitney
>Houston's "I will always love you" gives more pleasure to the
>performer than anybody watching).  
>
There's always the version of the Eric Bogle song "Nobody's Moggy Now" 
where the dearly departed is in pussy heaven dreaming of masturbating  
mice (instead of masticating them).  :-)

>I am all for setting up a sister project, triviapedia or whatever,
>for collecting such examples of word association gone mad, but
>there's no question in my mind that a neutral, verifiable
>encyclopaedia is not the place for them.
>
I think you are taking this issue too seriously.

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