September 26, 2005
Wikipedia bad jokes
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, editable by any passing webizen. This is both its strength and its weakness, attracting both proponents and detractors in large numbers.
One of the side effects of this "encyclocracy" is the Wikipedia Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense pages (hitherto known as WBJODN pages).
For instance, under "snake", some would-be contributor wrote:
"All snakes are devil creatures and should be killed by having their heads stomped in. No living creature should be cold and clammy and slither around without the use of apendages."
Under "keyboard layout", for countries that ban all written knowledge:
From "spoon":
A spoon is also commonly used as a tool to inflict pain; one might simply repeatedly strike another person with it for extended periods of time to cause great physical and mental damage.
There are many, many more. The WBJODN pages number 32 and are curiously titled: "The original Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense", "Yet more Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense", "More Bad Jokes than you can shake a stick at", "More Bad Jokes than you can shake two sticks at", "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense" and so on).
Posted by daen at 11:33 PM