[Wikipedia-l] And now a bit of fun...

Fri Jul 16 18:14:38 UTC 2004

Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

>This was cute.
>
>In 1966, John Lennon caused a bit of a stir by saying that the Beatles
>were "more popular than Jesus".  I'm not an international rock star,
>so hopefully no one will notice if I post this link:
>
>http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Wikipedia&q2=Jesus&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us
>and this one:
>http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=Wikipedia&q2=Beatles&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us
>
>Beatles 5,560,000
>Jesus   5,190,000
>
>Beatles plus Jesus total: 10,750,000
>
>Wikipedia by itself: 11,200,000
>
>Roll over, John Lennon, Wikipedia is more popular than Jesus and the
>Beatles combined.
>
 From George Harrison: 

> My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was 
> to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not 
> offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," 
> they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already 
> singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false 
> security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they 
> will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they 
> will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"

See http://www.mantra-meditation.com/my-sweet-lord.html  for the full text.

When you consider it "Wikipedia" could be substituted prosodically for 
"Hallelujah" or "Hare Krishna". :-)

Ec