Your Wikipedia find of the week

[Cudzoziemiec]

Charlotte's grandmother?

[Pingu]

Splenogonadal fusion

[Mayham]

bwehh...

[Palinurus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Dolce

For the bit under the heading 'Recent' which includes setting Sylvia Plath to music.

Why you looka so sad?

[Littlesox]

In 1982, Rodney Bewes (he of the Likely Lads) worked as spokesman for the now defunct trade organisation the Brithish Onion Marketing Board.

I am not too sure which bit astounded me most. That an out of work TV actor could be deployed in such a way, or that there was actually an organisatiion whose sole task was the promotion of British Onions.

[Kim]

Presumably it doesn't qualify on account of having 5 levels...

[rogerzilla]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Priapus_Church

They love the cock.

[Ham]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Priapus_Church

They love the cock.

It should come as no surprise, if you follow the link to their website, that they have a member directory.

[Bledlow]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/10/search-shakespeares-dark-lady-florio
Unprovable, but a nice bit of searching.

[mattc]

On the WWII madness theme, this (which actuially came up on the Times letters page):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Picnic_on_Mount_Kenya

The follow-up letter was almost better:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3869792.ece

Sir, Further to the letter “Good Sport” (Sept 12) my father, the Marquess of Ailesbury, tells a wonderful story of the Italian PoW camp set up in Savernake Forest during the 1940s, in the park in front of Tottenham House when he was a teenager living there. Fresh meat was in short supply, so my father thought it only sensible to go into the house, and bring out a large number of guns, which he distributed among the PoWs. Then they all went out into the forest together and bagged a large number of rabbits for the pot, after which
[they returned all the guns].
 

[Cudzoziemiec]

Non-Wiki but sticking with PoWs, my mother used to tell me there was a scheme where you could invite a PoW home for tea. She tried to persuade her parents to do so but they wouldn't. She was Extremely Small at the time so might have misunderstood though.

[Palinurus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_destruction

This is disappointing "Matthew Bellamy of Muse has the world record at breaking guitars, destroying 140 during the Absolution Tour"

[Charlotte]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.

In May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.

[tiermat]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill

In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.

In May 1940 Churchill and his unit, the Manchester Regiment, ambushed a German patrol near L'Epinette, France. Churchill gave the signal to attack by cutting down the enemy Feldwebel (sergeant) with a barbed arrow, becoming the only British soldier known to have felled an enemy with a longbow in WWII.

'Ard as nails, or what?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Sword and longbow - nutter, feared by the enemy.
Bagpipes - nutter, feared by his own troops.

[rogerzilla]

The gun from an A-10 Thunderbolt - not the aircraft, just the gun - parked next to a VW Beetle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg

[Gus]

Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.

[Kim]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley#Goat_gland_transplantation

[Charlotte]

Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.

One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. In the original design, the pilot could switch between two rates of fire: 2,100 or 4,200 rounds per minute; this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is accurate enough to place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) diameter circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive.

Holy fuckeroo 

[Efrogwr]

Now it makes sence why the Iraqies ran, when it was spewing 300 gram depleted uranium projectiles in vast amounts.

One of the most powerful aircraft cannons ever flown, it fires large depleted uranium armor-piercing shells. In the original design, the pilot could switch between two rates of fire: 2,100 or 4,200 rounds per minute; this was changed to a fixed rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. The cannon takes about half a second to come up to speed, so 50 rounds are fired during the first second, 65 or 70 rounds per second thereafter. The gun is accurate enough to place 80% of its shots within a 40-foot (12.4 m) diameter circle from 4,000 feet (1,220 m) while in flight. The GAU-8 is optimized for a slant range of 4,000 feet (1,220 m) with the A-10 in a 30 degree dive.

Holy fuckeroo 

Indeed.

[Efrogwr]

Gyotaku (literally "fish rubbing" (allegedly)). The Japanese art of coating things found in nature with ink and then transferring an impression to paper.

[Pingu]

Black hairy tongue

[bumper]

Used to get that as a kid from eating too many black jacks

[Efrogwr]

That The Ladygrove Magazine is not what you might think.

[Palinurus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlankPage