Glowsquid post statements from wikis that amuses him

[LeftyGreenMario]

Sounds like a parody, to say the least.

 

[Magikrazy]

It's an original parody, though.

 

[Glowsquid]

http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Robert_Bowling

On 7th November 2008, before the release of Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War, Robert Bowling made a post on his blog demanding Senior Producer at Activision Noah Heller to stop comparing Call of Duty: World at War to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare during interviews, explaining that the game "can stand on it's [sic] own merits". Bowling was also annoyed by Heller's remark that in previous Call of Duty games, bolt-action rifles never killed in one hit - something that Heller claimed Treyarch to have rectified in Call of Duty: World at War. Bowling explained that bolt-action rifles "are one hit kills in every Call of Duty we (Infinity Ward) made", referring to him as "Senior Super Douche Noah Heller", and urged interviewers to "talk to someone who actually works on the Dev Team at Treyarch and knows what the fuck they're talking about."[5][6][7]

 

[Time Turner]

The intro's also pretty good.

He resigned from his position on March 26th, 2012,[1] and later admitted in a response on Twitter that he was unhappy with the slow evolution of the series, saying "Too much 'pew pew' not enough new new".[2]

 

[badposter]

Wikipedia's list of unusual articles is great. Featuring:
A town that has been on fire for more than fifty years.
A Norwegian knight and Colonel-in-Chief, who is also a penguin
World Toilet Day (November 19th)

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Now I want to see Nils Olav's double. :[ The current one sadly isn't with us anymore.

 

[badposter]

Now I want to see Nils Olav's double. :[ The current one sadly isn't with us anymore.

RIP
.

Lal Bihari (or Lal Bihari Mritak, लाल बिहारी “मृतक”; born 1955) is an Indian farmer and activist from Amilo, in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh, who was officially dead between 1975 and 1994.

He was (and still is) biologically alive but legally dead. This is apparently a problem so big in Uttar Pradesh (the Indian state's he's from) that he founded an organization in opposition to false death declarations.

 

[Nysic]

http://www.mariowiki.com/Super_Mario_Strikers

Entrance: Wario shakes his obese butt.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

Here would be also a valid place.

 

[Nysic]

oh
i literally thought this was that thread
fuck sorry

 

[Magikrazy]

In 1996, unexpected "wind demons" caused the Woody Woodpecker balloon's left hand to get ripped off by a tree.

those pesky wind demons strike again

 

[badposter]

Shit happens" is a common vulgar slang phrase, used as a simple existential observation that life is full of unpredictable events, either "Así es la vida" or "C'est la vie". The phrase is an acknowledgment that bad things happen to people seemingly for no particular reason

The gene has been linked to a condition known as holoprosencephaly, which can result in severe brain, skull and facial defects, motivating some clinicians and scientists to criticize the name on grounds of it sounding too frivolous. They point to a less humorous situation where patients or parents of patients with a serious disorder are told that they or their child "have a mutation in [their] sonic hedgehog

 

[Random Blue]

Related to that last one

The original name, Pokemon, stands for "POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor" and is most likely a backronym of the Pokémon media franchise. Nintendo subsidiary The Pokémon Company, not wanting the bad press inherent with its trademark sharing a name with a cancer-causing gene, threatened the center with legal action in December 2005, at which point MSKCC decided to rename it as Zbtb7.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

The company responsible for Pokémon Dash, Pokémon Shuffle, and My Pokémon Ranch should've just embraced it.

 

[badposter]

Pikachurin is another protein named after Pokemon. Pikachurin is important

A non-correct binding between pikachurin and DG is associated with muscular dystrophies that often involve eye abnormalities

From other articles:

The scientific name of the beetle comes from a German collector, Oscar Scheibel, who was sold a specimen of a then undocumented species in 1933. Its species name was made a dedication to Adolf Hitler, who had recently become Chancellor of Germany. The genus name means eyeless, so the full name can be translated as "the eyeless one of Hitler". The dedication did not go unnoticed by the Führer, who sent Scheibel a letter showing his gratitude

Mothers against decapentaplegic homolog 3 also known as SMAD family member 3 or SMAD3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAD3 gene

 

[Magikrazy]

From "Urban legends about drugs":

Another common legend, again dating back to the 1960s, was that a man who took LSD went insane and permanently thought that he was a glass of orange juice. Because of this, he could never bend over, slept upright and did not make any sudden movements.

 

[Glowsquid]

South American societies like the Aztecs and Egyptians mummified rulers

It took me an embarassingly long time to get the joke

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For once I'll post a genuinely funny zinger http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Deviations

[quote author=Image caption]Did you want to read an embarrassing 1994-era alt.toys.transformers fanfic in official comic form? Good news! [/quote]

 

[Glowsquid]

https://twitter.com/tombomp/status/741580526587379712?lang=fr

 

[Glowsquid]

https://twitter.com/trans_waluigi/status/747591355791081473

 

[Magikrazy]

oh god, shadow the hedgehog flashbacks

 

[Glowsquid]

what happens whe u give batman to a predictive text generator

 

[badposter]

In Australian aboriginal mythology, Jar'Edo Wens is a god of earthly knowledge and physical might, created by Altjira to ensure that people did not get too arrogant or self-conceited. He is associated with victory and intelligence.

Except that Jar'Edo Wens was a hoax. He had a Wikipedia article from 2005 to 2015, and also had an article in French Wikipedia.
Other hoaxes:
The Bicholim conflict, a conflict between Portugal and the Maratha Empire from 1640 to 1641. The article existed from 2007 to 2012 and actually got the status of "good article".
The Upper Peninsula War, a conflict between Michigan and Canada over a boundary dispute in the Upper Peninsula. The article only existed for 13 days in May 2007, but the hoax was rather detailed.

 

[Glowsquid]

http://gta.wikia.com/wiki/Boxart

Boxart is a unique trait introduced by Rockstar, in which, it contains important and/or significant features of the game which are displayed in a traditional "box" style in later installments.

The latest installment to the GTA series, tured the 'box style' features the boxart tradition.

I do not understand these statements

 

[Magikrazy]

http://fairlyoddparents.wikia.com/wiki/Chip_Skylark_II

Fairly Odd Parents Wiki has an article on a character that never appeared or was ever even alluded to.

 

[Lord Bowser]

better than Pirate Goombaa