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George W. Bush vandalism
George W. Bush vandalism

"This user Singlish quite tzai leh."

Wikipedia:Meetup/Sydney

[edit] My favourite things

Quotes attributed to Lord Denning: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alfred_Denning%2C_Baron_Denning

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[edit] From Talk:An infinitely differentiable function that is not analytic

Retrieved 24 April 2005:

Isn't the page title a little long? Enochlau 17:21, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, but not infinitely. Charles Matthews 17:36, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion talk for Mark Twain II

Retrieved 8 November 2004:

  • Vanity. His book hasn't been published yet. RickK 23:26, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Agree with RickK. Enochlau 23:33, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Vanity. And such vanity. "In his obscure days his hat was number six and a quarter; in these latter days he was not able to get his head into a barrel." —Mark Twain in Eruption. However, "There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it." —Mark Twain's Notebook. Denis Diderot II (talk) 00:08, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: When first a man's fancy gets astride his reason and common sense is kicked out of doors, the first convert he makes is himself. Jonathan Swift II 03:38, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete: "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." Oscar Wilde IV 04:22, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes. William Shakespeare II 04:24, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. "I write as a sow pisses." Mozart II 04:39, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. I'll believe Mark Twain II lives today when I see it. [[User:Mo0|Mo0[talk]]] 05:20, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete vanity. - Vague Rant 05:28, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
  • So vain that I charitably want to believe it's a joke by an acquaintance of his. He's on Category:1979 births too -- please could whoever ends up deleting this remove him from there as well? (I'd do it myself now, but it feels like pre-empting the VfD process to remove it before the article goes.) Oh, and delete, of course. Pnot 07:51, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "We Three Kings Of Orient Are"

(Copied from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities)

What are the words to this carol?

See here. Filiocht | The kettle's on 15:48, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

  • One in a taxi, one in a car / one on a scooter, 'ooting 'is 'ooter / following yonder star. At least that's the way I used to sing it in school. --Bob Mellish 15:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and Fountain, Moor and Mountain
Following Yonder Star
Chorus:
Oh, Star of Wonder, Star of Light
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light


Born a king on Bethlehem plain
Gold I bring to crown him again
King forever, ceasing never"
Over us all to reign
Chorus
Frankincense to offer have I
Incense owns a Deity high
Prayer and praising; all men raising
Worship him, God on high
Chorus
Myrrh is mine, its bitter purfume
Leads a life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in a stone cold tomb
Chorus
Glorious now, behold him, arise
King, and God, and sacrifice
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Earth to Heaven replies.

smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 16:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I was taught a slightly different version by my father:

We four Beatles of Liverpool are
John in a taxi, Paul in a car,
George on a scooter, beeping his hooter
Following Ringo Starr.

Thryduulf 17:39, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Another one to make the five year olds giggle:

We three kings of Leicester Square
Selling ladies underwear
It's fantastic, no elastic
Buy your granny a pair

AJR | Talk 19:34, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

And then there's:

We three Kings of Orient are,
trying to smoke an exploding cigar.
It was loaded, it exploded ...

... BOOM! ...

Silent night, holy night ...

Zoe (216.234.130.130 21:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC))

[edit] From Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

With reference to Daniel Brandt:

Brandt's chart was obviously a scare tactic to encourage the deletion. I'd like to see him sue for such petty things. "These meanies called me names on the internets and made me real sad :((" (User:EndAnonDiscrimination)

[edit] Cells in the Earth's history

User:Johntex/cell division

[edit] Science Reference Desk

" We could create Wikipedia:Reference desk/Medical_emergency and people could ask questions like, "omg my armz r bleding wut do i do lolz," or "Help my hair is on fire, will that turn its mass into energy?" Cernen Xanthine Katrena 07:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC) "

[edit] Removing garbage from front of JPEG file

Perl. More specifically perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/^.*?(.{6})(Exif|JFIF)/$1$2/s' Pict0002.jpg. I then found the number of bytes removed by comparing the size of the resulting file to the original. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 00:02, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HK pictures from Hamedog

[edit] Image:Sydney Opera House Sails.jpg

From Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sydney Opera House Sails:

  • Oppose So grainy, it belongs in a silo. --Bridgecross 23:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-01-29/Court citations

"Given that a number of people have poked fun at Wikipedia itself for cultivating a dry, bland style of writing, the reader may wonder just how bad legal prose really is if judges are resorting to Wikipedia references to add color."