After dealing with the Dan Savage / Rick Santorum thing, I would be
suspicious even of Francis of Assisi. I'm having trouble assessing
things without slipping on my own mental froth.
Uncle Ed
Once again, I am saved from an embarassing mistake by my hard-working
and sharp-eyed co-workers!
<<See
http://www.kamus.it/titto/
It might be him.>>
Sheepishly,
Ed "Little Lamb" Poor
>
>Sheldon Rampton
>
> > Yep, it's funny all right. The best part is the actual link to a
> > Guardian article. How did they get that into the Guardian?
>
>Charles wrote:
>Written by Guardian journalists, natch, as a spoof supplement. An old gag,
>for UK readers; though not as old as the TV documentary reports of the
>spaghetti harvest in Italy (from spaghetti trees).
The famous Panorama report with Richard Dimbleby, which showed women picking
newly 'grown' spaghetti off 'spaghetti trees'. I still buckle up in laughter
everytime I see that broadcast. It was one of the all time great April fool
spoofs.
As to the Sans Seriffe article - bloody brilliant. I haven't laughed as much
in ages. A classic.
JT
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I endorse Martin's policy wholeheartedly.
In this kind of on-line community, 'authority' means nothing more or less than "how many people will go along with what you recommend". Well, I'm ready and willing to go along with whatever Martin Harper recommends.
(I also listen to Anthère and Maveric - following their recommendations in nearly all cases - or at least not going AGAINST them without a lengthy period of reflection. I'm still thinking about Mav's advice about science controversies, and haven't edited those articles in nearly a week).
I have not read the rewritten [[wikipedia:edit conflicts]] meta-article yet, but I'm so confident about Martin's good sense that I'm approving it in advance. Whatever weight my words carry, they carry (Hi, Lir!).
Ed Poor, aka 'Uncle Ed'
Something seems to have broken "My Watchlist" on English Wikipedia since
I last used it about 8 hours ago (it's working OK on Welsh Wikipedia).
When I select "my watchlist" I get the headings as far as "My Watchlist
(for user "Arwel Parry") and nothing below, and no menu or logo on the
left. Could someone take a look at it a.s.a.p. please?
--
Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/
Ed Poor wrote:
>Drop whatever you're doing and read THIS! You'll bust a gut...
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=1859677
Yep, it's funny all right. The best part is the actual link to a
Guardian article. How did they get that into the Guardian?
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"Sheldon Rampton" <sheldon.rampton(a)verizon.net> schrieb:
> Ed Poor wrote:
>
> >Drop whatever you're doing and read THIS! You'll bust a gut...
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=1859677
>
> Yep, it's funny all right. The best part is the actual link to a
> Guardian article. How did they get that into the Guardian?
Check the date...
Andre Engels
Thanks for pointing it out, it was very funny
Theresa
-----Original Message-----
From: Poor, Edmund W [mailto:Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com]
Sent: 02 December 2003 19:02
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Sans Seriffe
Drop whatever you're doing and read THIS! You'll bust a gut...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=San_Serriffe&oldid=1859677
I had nothing to do with this article, but I sure wish I had!
Uncle Ed
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As a bit of fun, I have written a tool that asks Wikipedia what articles
are listed on Brilliant Prose, and then produces an automatic
compilation of those articles in PDF format through a wiki-markup ->
LaTeX -> PDF conversion.
An example where Brilliant Prose was supposed to consist of the articles
[[Tony Blair]] and [[Jacques Chirac]] is available at
http://www.geocities.com/pcb21/brilliant_prose_test_pdf.pdf
Though there are obvious initial problems with the PDF markup, I think
the articles actually look pretty reasonable. I would be interested in
any comments that anyone has on this capability and its uses (if any!)
Pete/User:Pcb21
Martin>> "...subject of course to overruling by other sysops..."
> "Is this implying that sysops have special powers in regards to the formulation of policy"
Of course not. Sysops should never wave around their sysop status in
discussions of policy. Anyone who talked of sysops as being able to "overrule"
policy would be simply incorrect.
A foolish self-consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. :-)
-Martin "MyRedDice" Harper