Wiki Wednesday

Not Wednesday. Not important.

How it works: I’ll start with a topic of interest, note the most interesting things I see on the page, then click on a link on that page. This is not the wikipedia game. I don’t have a destination.

• Dave Chappelle: Both of Dave’s parents were professors. Dave turned down the roll of ‘Bubba’ in Forest Gump because he thought it was racially demeaning.

• Home Improvement (TV Show): The show’s title is a double entendre: it refers to physical improvement of houses, as well as to improving life with family, friends, work, and school. Top rated show in 93-94.

• Jay Leno: Appeared as a defense witness in the 2005 Michael Jackson trial. Jay is dyslexic and has a prognathic jaw, often described as mandibular prognathism. Has no children, just a lot of cars.

• Conan O’Brien: At it’s current state, wiki says Conan attended Satan’s boarding school for young girls. He then went on to graduate with a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University. Conan will provide the voice of Santa Claus in an upcoming episode of The Backyardigans.

• Beard: Beards were almost non-existent in America between 1920 and 1960. During WWI, soldiers were forced to remove facial hair to fit into gas masks and protect against lice. After the war, the film industry perpetuated the trend with a push from one of their top sponsors, Gillette Safety Razor.

• Sigmund Freud: Freud spent 4 weeks in university unsuccessfully searching for the male eel’s sex organ.  He regularly used cocaine and recommended it to his close friends and family.

• Female Hysteria: Widely discussed in Victorian medical literature. Women considered to be suffering from hysteria would sometimes undergo “pelvic massage” — manual stimulation of the genitals by the doctor until the patient experienced “hysterical paroxysm”

• Hysterical Paroxysm: orgasm.