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It was in turn taken by Hervé Bazin in his book Plumons l’Oiseau ("Let's pluck the bird", 1966), in which the author proposes several other innovative punctuation marks, such as the "doubt point" (), "certitude point" (), "acclamation point" (), "authority point" (), "indignation point" (), and "love point" ().

i remember a forum where people used green text to indicate sarcasm. i always liked that. i wish we had more ways to communicate doubt, irony, tone, etc in writing. cool article.

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07-21-2011 , 11:03 AM

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atennisplayah

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top thread. Here is my contribution and might I say quite an ominous and disturbing wiki article it is indeed, enjoy.

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

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07-21-2011 , 11:47 AM

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jws43yale

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Originally Posted by atennisplayah

top thread. Here is my contribution and might I say quite an ominous and disturbing wiki article it is indeed, enjoy.

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

You do realize there is a giant thread on 2p2 about this that is just a couple weeks old: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...p-web-1003893/

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07-24-2011 , 11:06 AM

#1530

atennisplayah

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another submission for this 5star thread. One for the hacker within us...

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

Edit: ^ didn't see that one just searched this thread to see if it was mentioned so I didnt repost, im not a OOT reg

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07-26-2011 , 11:37 AM

#1531

CasualFriday

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Kinda stumbled acros this:

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

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A feral child (also, colloquially, wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and has no (or little) experience of human care, loving or social behavior, and, crucially, of human language.

Details are vague and some are made up/hoaxes but its really interesting.

http://listverse.com/2008/03/07/10-m...eral-children/

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07-26-2011 , 01:36 PM

#1532

Etats360

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring_monkeys - Some ****ed up experiments on monkeys that led to the formation of PETA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijen - Lake with a pH of 0.5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_scientific_theory - Flat earth 4LYFE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU - an error in typing machines caused this phrase to be published way too manny times

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07-26-2011 , 01:45 PM

#1533

brad2002tj

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Originally Posted by CasualFriday

Kinda stumbled acros this:

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

Details are vague and some are made up/hoaxes but its really interesting.

http://listverse.com/2008/03/07/10-m...eral-children/

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Lyokha, Kaluga, Central Russia (December 2007). He had been living with a pack of wolves, had typical wolflike behavior and reactions. He was unable to speak any human language. Taken to a Moscow hospital, he received some medical treatment, a shower and nail trim and several meals before escaping from the building. He is believed to still be in the wild.[40]

Awesome.

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07-27-2011 , 10:22 AM

#1534

18000rpm

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Orgy with the Pope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquet_of_Chestnuts

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07-27-2011 , 11:09 AM

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mug3n

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsolete_scientific_theory - Flat earth 4LYFE

reminds me of reading this forum called the flat earth society that maintains the validity of flat earth theory, talking about conspiracy theories and stuff lol

Last edited by mug3n; 07-27-2011 at 11:20 AM.

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07-31-2011 , 06:31 AM

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kp1022

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http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_r...your_mind.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachan...ilization.html

not a wiki article but certainly expanded my mind

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08-01-2011 , 10:46 AM

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Etats360

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident - Japanese fighter pilot crash lands on a hawaian island after Pearl Harbor. Locals are unaware of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Tomfoolery ensues.

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08-01-2011 , 04:19 PM

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NHFunkii

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Originally Posted by Etats360

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_Incident - Japanese fighter pilot crash lands on a hawaian island after Pearl Harbor. Locals are unaware of the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Tomfoolery ensues.

lol yeah, you could say so. awesome story, article is written in a very entertaining although not very wiki-like way, heh. my favorite part:

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Ben Kanahele then picked Nishikaichi up in the same manner that he picked up the sheep that were commercially raised on the island, hurling Nishikaichi into a stone wall.

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08-01-2011 , 04:45 PM

#1539

youtalkfunny

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Originally Posted by Etats360

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

Nice one.

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08-01-2011 , 06:14 PM

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melodious thunk

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Originally Posted by NHFunkii

this probably doesn't belong here, but it's pretty funny and involves wikipedia

from the most recent xkcd's alt text:
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy"

it's worked for everything I've tried so far

I've hit a couple of loops, so this doesn't work every time.

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08-01-2011 , 09:58 PM

#1541

SnotBoogy

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i lold at this:

Allegations of racism
Since its release, some people have criticized Gremlins as being culturally insensitive. Some observers have commented that the film presents gremlins as African Americans,[14] and in an unflattering manner. At the time of its release, some members of the African-American community protested that the film was racist. In Ceramic Uncles & Celluloid Mammies, Patricia Turner writes that the gremlins "reflect negative African-American stereotypes" in their dress and behavior. They are shown "devouring fried chicken with their hands", listening to black music, breakdancing, and wearing sunglasses after dark and newsboy caps, a style common among African American males in the 1980s.[26]

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08-01-2011 , 10:15 PM

#1542

Dale4Saul2Red0

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Only American unsolved aviation hijacking, I give you D.B. Cooper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper

America's first serial killer, I give you H.H. Holmes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes

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08-01-2011 , 10:26 PM

#1543

SnotBoogy

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there was an article on drudge like 2 days ago, they got a new hot lead in the DB cooper case, allegedly

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08-02-2011 , 03:32 PM

#1544

Dale4Saul2Red0

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^ That's why I brought it up. I figured a good chunk on here have at least heard of DB Cooper but don't know the whole story behind it all.

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08-03-2011 , 07:33 PM

#1545

rustyshackelford

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar

Im a ufo nut, so here u go. U should check out his youtube interviews also. Even if u dont believe him, he tells a cool story.

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08-03-2011 , 07:45 PM

#1546

SnotBoogy

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Originally Posted by Dale4Saul2Red0

^ That's why I brought it up. I figured a good chunk on here have at least heard of DB Cooper but don't know the whole story behind it all.

I didn't know who DB cooper was until breaking bad. when walt walked into sauls office for the first time, and saul says, "oh my god, it's db cooper" or something like that

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08-04-2011 , 12:56 AM

#1547

dimebar

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

this is something I used to get. I'd be falling asleep and hear a loud bang/pop, I personally think the name for it is pretty awesome.

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

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Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John's Dance and historically St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely.

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08-04-2011 , 06:11 AM

#1548

Falc

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Originally Posted by dimebar

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

this is something I used to get.

From just the name of it, that doesn't sound like something you have more than once.

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08-04-2011 , 10:01 AM

#1549

JJdeblufheld

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Originally Posted by dimebar

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

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Brian Douglas Wells (November 15, 1956 – August 28, 2003) was an American pizza delivery man who was killed by a time bomb fastened to his neck, purportedly under coercion from the maker of the bomb. After he was apprehended by the police for robbing a bank, the bomb exploded. The bizarre affair was subject to much attention in the mass media.

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08-04-2011 , 04:09 PM

#1550

sokiraJ

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

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David Charles Hahn (born October 30, 1976), also called the "Radioactive Boy Scout", is an American who attempted to build a homemade breeder nuclear reactor in 1994, at age 17. A scout in the Boy Scouts of America, Hahn conducted his experiments in secret in a backyard shed at his mother's house in Commerce Township, Michigan.

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