Interesting Wikipedia articles?

[thismonkeyhere]

wst said:

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

"Minister for Child Protection Beverley Hughes described the show as "unspeakably sick" but later admitted she had not seen the episode; likewise, Home Secretary David Blunkett said that he was "dismayed" but had also not seen the episode, because he was on holiday in Majorca at the time and is blind."

Brass Eye was brilliant.

BBC have a correspondent also called Chris Morris, and every time R4 says 'over to our correspndent Chris Morris....' it makes me chuckle.

[BristolRich]

thismonkeyhere said:

Brass Eye was brilliant.

BBC have a correspondent also called Chris Morris, and every time R4 says 'over to our correspndent Chris Morris....' it makes me chuckle.

it was good as was The Day Today.

"Cake" - aka Jossacklandsspunkybackpack/ Hattiejacquespretenciouscheesewog/ Ponce on the Heath, is my all time fave. Everyone took it on the chin apart from Noel Edmonds who wanted to take Morris to court....

Wasnt a huge fan of Jam but the Blue Jam album is well worth a listen...

[9patch]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop?repost

[Asterix]

9patch said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop?repost

Uncle Albert?

[mrtwisty]

Wikipedia article said:

After the war, Violet continued to work for the White Star Line

I'm surprised they let her back onto any of their ships, with her record...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailors'_superstitio...

[mrtwisty]

Eccentric 18th century businessman fakes his own death, attends the wake, hilarity ensues...

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

[roboxm3]

mrtwisty said:

Eccentric 18th century businessman fakes his own death, attends the wake, hilarity ensues...

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

Aged 50, Dexter wrote a book about himself – A Pickle for the Knowing Ones or Plain Truth in a Homespun Dress – in which he also complained about politicians, the clergy and his wife. The book contained 8,847 words and 33,864 letters, but no punctuation and its capitalization seemed random. At first, he handed his book out for free, but it became popular and was reprinted for sale eight times.[2] In the second edition, Dexter added an extra page which consisted of 13 lines of punctuation marks with the instructions that readers could distribute them as they pleased.[7]

Love that!

[thismonkeyhere]

mrtwisty said:

Eccentric 18th century businessman fakes his own death, attends the wake, hilarity ensues...

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

"Dexter did not see his wife cry, and after he revealed the hoax, he caned her for not grieving enough."

[wst]

That guy is unbelievable. As in, if it was a fictional story, I'd go "this is ridiculous". Wow.

[Salgar]

mrtwisty said:

Eccentric 18th century businessman fakes his own death, attends the wake, hilarity ensues...

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

Brilliant

[London424]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_%28vi...

Now the Wiki isn't that interesting, but I found him from this article which I enjoyed.

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/622-th...

[Usget]

Brother D said:

Nancy Wake -
Socialite, SOE operative (killed with bare hands), George Medal winner, Politician and had a 5M Franc bounty on her head. And that's probably only the half of it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Nancy_Wake

Cracking read. What a woman!

[Jonnny]

Not sure if we've had this yet?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy

[grombot]

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

[PomBstard]

Largest rifled weapon used in combat...

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

Can fire a 7.1-tonne shell at a rate of 14 rounds per..........day

And only needed a rail track to be laid wherever it was to be used.

[eldar]

Gordon Bennett - made his name famous by pissing in a fireplace.

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

[anonymous-user]

Canada helping with the aviation fall-out on 9/11..

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

[DMN]

Well lets take a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_(satiri...

[The Don of Croy]

A local 'character';

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

- best described by a judge as "a sort of self-imagined devil who thinks he is an emissary of Beelzebub."

Most recently he has ingratiated himself with Mugabe, and seems to be expecting to control one of the World's largest diamond mines (which could yet make him one of the richest people on Earth, but also one of the deadest if Zimbabwe justice follows it's normal path).

[stevesingo]

Spent last weekend in Prague studying Operation Anthropoid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anthropo...

Very brave of Churchill and the SOE- They surly must have known the level of recriminations.

Very Brave of the Czech Parachutists-Op certain death.

It is amazing the lengths people went for their country in those times. Today, in the UK, people won’t even put litter in the bin.

Edited by stevesingo on Friday 10th July 09:14