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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:25 PM
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Sometimes wikipedia makes me think WTF. Check this out.
Edited on Tue Nov-11-08 09:25 PM by JVS
"Officials at McDonald's, in a 1985 stockholder meeting, mentioned that The McRib was pulled because the McRib could not sustain international sales, as there were many countries in which pork is not regularly eaten. Germany was cited as an example, but the U.S. and certain Asia Pacific countries were not." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McRib

Germany is a place where pork is not regularly eaten? :rofl: You have a hard time buying ground meat that doesn't have pork in it there! What idiot claimed this?
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:28 PM
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1. Why I love Wikipedia. They have an article on the McRib.
That discusses it with all the dignity and seriousness that they describe, for instance, the 100 Years War.
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petronius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:52 PM
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3. I just looked at their page for "kite eating tree" - it's as serious as any other
horticultural page... :rofl:

It is a concern, though - I've found some believable but massively erroneous stuff buried into otherwise innocuous pages. I sometimes wonder if there's a category of wiki-vandals that thrives and putting false info into unexpected and hard to detect places...
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-11-08 09:42 PM
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2. Yeah I like there picture of "nothing" here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/None

Man, that is some in depth encyclopeding
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