I don't agree with all the suggestions mentioned, but I'd be happy to
feature unusual and extremely odd facts from unusual articles for one
day under the heading "Things you wish you never knew".
(And yes, I know I'm not in charge of DYK)
-- GyverMagic
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:48:15 +0100, John Fader <jfader(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Web April Fools are very rarely funny, and now
everyone does them.
With all respect to those who worked on ours, I'm not sure it is
either (it seems more like an "in joke" for us).
If we post a fake story, we'll be just the same as Slashdot and the
rest. But we can do better. We have a limitless supply of *real
crap* to draw upon. We can be lighthearted and play with the reader's
credulity just as well by using stuff from [[Wikipedia:Unusual
articles]]. I think all the featured articles in there have all been
on the main page fairly recently, so instead I propose a special
variant of Did You Know to take the place of the featured article on
the main page. For example:
==Things you'll wish you never knew==
''From wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Unusual articles|stupidest
articles]]:''
* A 1919 '''[[Boston molasses disaster|molasses explosion]]'''
killed 21 people.
* [[Afrikaans language|Afrikaans]] pigs say
'''''[[Oink|snork]]'''''
and [[Korean language|Korean]] pigs say
'''''[[Oink|kkool]]'''''. And
we can prove it.
* [[John F. Kennedy]] was almost certainly not a '''[[Ich bin ein
Berliner|a jelly donut]]'''.
* '''[[Belly button fluff]]''' is usually blue. Check yours.
* '''[[History of perpetual motion machines|Perpetual motion]]'''
is
impossible. Probably.
* [[El Salvador]] and [[Honduras]] fought a '''[[Football
War|war]]'''
over the result of a [[Football (soccer)|Football]] match. Don't ask
who won the war.
* The happy [[Ewok]]s won't be happy '''[[Endorian Holocaust|for
long]]'''. Serves 'em right.
* '''[[Le Pétomane|French culture]]''' blows the competition
away.
And use [[Image:Shark big.jpg]] as the image.
--
John Fader
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