[WikiEN-l] From the Dawn of Spoilers

[The Cunctator]

On 5/19/07, Philip Sandifer <sandifer at english.ufl.edu> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Crying_Game&oldid=288389
>
> Created by The Cunctator during the first debate on spoilers, back in
> 2001, when people kept citing [[The Crying Game]] as an article that
> should have a spoiler warning despite the article not existing at the
> time.
>
> (He did similar entries for The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, and Psycho,
> all equally funny. Fight Club is actually probably my favorite of
> them, though it takes some digging to find, as it's in the history of
> an abandoned redirect at present.)
>
> Don't you miss the good old days when our articles got straight to
> the point?


Gosh, I had forgotten about that.

Nice to see it's still around in BJAODN.

Psycho <http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho>: He's mother.
The Crying Game <http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Game>: She's
a he.
Fight Club <http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club>: He's beating
himself up.
The Sixth Sense <http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense>: He's
been dead the whole time.