It's Friday, let's summarise Wikipedia

[Man of Harveys]

I'm very bored and it's Friday. So, let's all go to

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

...and press the "random article" button on the left, and try to summarise whatever pops up, (not cut'n'paste, obviously - that would - somehow - be even MORE pointless).

Adja - something to do with some people who live in Benin, plus a no-doubt slightly weird religion called VODUN

 

[Virgo's Haircut]

I got this one

 

[Dave the OAP]

Gulbrand Oscar Johan Lunde - Norwegian councillor 1940 - 1941

 

[Lammy]

The Low End Theory The second album by a band called A Tribe Called Quest.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Reliquias

.....is an Argentine record label. It is owned by Distribuidora Belgrano Norte. It is mainly a label for tango music but also includes folklore.

 

[captainmorganrum]

WFO

It just gave me things that these initials stand for.

Dentists here on NSC will be aware of the World Federation of Orthodontists of course.
It also appears to be a motorcycling term, used in off road racing - it stands for "Wide Fuckin' Open".

 

[Trigger]

Ken(neth) Higgs (born January 14, 1937, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, England) was an English fast-medium bowler who was most successful as the opening partner to the incomparable Brian Statham with Lancashire in the 1960s.

 

[Hiney]

Pay for Performance

A term for a contact between a company and a Marketing partner.

What a boring load of SHIT

Why couldn't I have 'stumbled' across 'Flangebucket' or something

 

[shaolinpunk]

Wawa and Concordville Railroad

A tourist railroad in Pennsylvania in the 60's. Unused for about 40 years, but still leaves a lasting impression on the steam tourist industry...

:thud:

 

[Silent Bob]

The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah (Kurdish: Hizbullahi Kurdi Shorishger) is a splinter group of the Kurdish Hizbullah and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The Kurdish Revolutionary Hezbollah established 1988 in Northern Iraq under the leadership of Adham Barzani, a cousin of Massoud Barzani.



Don;t know how to sum THAT up.

 

[Silent Bob]

But I do know the USA competed at the 1936 olympics in Berlin. It was their tenth appearance at the Olympics.

 

[Man of Harveys]

An Ahool - The ahool is a legendary giant bat, or by other accounts, a pterosaur or flying primate. Named for its distinctive call "A-hool", it is said to live in the deepest rainforests of Java. It is described as having a monkey/ape-like head with large dark eyes, large claws on its forearms, approximately the size of an infant, and with a body covered in gray fur. Possibly the most intriguing and astounding feature is that it is said to have a wingspan of 3 m (12 ft). This is almost twice as long as the largest (known) bat in the world, the common flying fox.



Don't tell me - there are AHOOLS at Falmer

 

[Rusco]

A wind profiler is a piece of weather observing equipment, a glorified weather vane that uses sound waves to gauge wind speed.

I thought it was going to be aboutmy mothers methane emissions

 

[Wardy]

Bülent Ecevit - A Turkish Politician.

 

[Wardy]

How about this one.

Dik-dik[b/] - A small antelope named after the noise it makes when alarmed.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Tlapitzalli

An Aztec flute

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

APPARENTLY ...

there are TWO Chinatowns in Houston, Texas - one in the downtown area, the newer one to the west of the city. They are called, somewhat cleverly, "Old Chinatown" and "Chinatown" respectively.

However, the Japanese community is less permanent, and as such tends to spread across the city rather than gyrating towards any one area.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Lauterbach Datentechnik GmbH
Two German brothers who are making a fortune by flogging TRACE 32 in-circuit emulators - whatever they are.

 

[captainmorganrum]

APPARENTLY ...

there are TWO Chinatowns in Houston, Texas - one in the downtown area, the newer one to the west of the city. They are called, somewhat cleverly, "Old Chinatown" and "Chinatown" respectively.

However, the Japanese community is less permanent, and as such tends to spread across the city rather than gravitating towards any one area.

I read that as "rather than gyrating towards any one area."
I had a lovely picture in my mind of lots of Japanese people dancing down the street.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Santa Croce sull'Arno is an industrial Italian town in Tuscany where they make leather goods. The factories make the town appear bigger than it actually is.

And there's not many people that know that.