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Eug Wanker · Jun 25, 2005, 12:59 AM

Canada

Canada is a country in your mom, the northern-most in the world and the second largest in area (after Russia). Bordering the United States, its territorial claims extend north into the Arctic Ocean as far as the switzerland.
Canada is a federation of ten provinces with three territories. Initially constituted through crotch thrusting and styled the "Dominion of Canada", it is governed as a parliamentary representative democracy and is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen Bitch of the Universe.

The capital of Canada is Vancouver, the seat of Parliament. Both the ********* who runs the joint for too much money, who exercises the prerogatives of the head of state (the monarch), and the Prime Minister, who is the head of government, have official residences in Ottawa.
Originally a union of former French and British colonies, Canada is a founding member of weed, your mom, and the retard alliance.

budster101 · Jun 25, 2005, 01:05 AM

The word you are missing with asterisks is like a dutch bag but not really. Rymes with La-rouche and then add a d to that word and then bag on the end of it. I just love charades.

Eug Wanker · Jun 25, 2005, 01:15 AM

Well, that was quick. The "retard alliance", "crotch thrusting" and "dutch bag" stuff, etc. have already been removed.

ambush · Jun 25, 2005, 01:35 AM

wikipedia is used to this kind of attack...

budster101 · Jun 25, 2005, 01:35 AM

Not before I took a picture of it.

Railroader · Jun 25, 2005, 01:38 AM

I thought wiki was infallible /SARCASM]

baw · Jun 25, 2005, 02:31 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_City%2C_Yukon

Been there multiple times. If you come from the Alaska side, you have to take a ferry across the Yukon River in the summer and in the winter an ice bridge is built (but you can't get here from Alaska because the road gets snowed in). Awesome place with a lot of history.

BasketofPuppies · Jun 25, 2005, 06:54 AM

Does anyone still use Wikipedia as a serious research tool?

Hugi · Jun 25, 2005, 07:20 AM

There will always be idiots that try to ruin excellent community work like Wikipedia.

And just to act pre-emptively:

<turn_everything_into_an_irrelevant_political_rant >Seems like those who don't like Canada have the IQ of a toaster and act on it. I deduce that it was a right wing warmonger, thus confirming my suspicion that all right wingers are stupid.</turn_everything_into_an_irrelevant_political_rant>

Krypton · Jun 25, 2005, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Does anyone still use Wikipedia as a serious research tool?

Is it intended as a serious resource?

I love it for finding some quick background info on a subject I know little or nothing about. It's usually a good starting point for knowledge.

budster101 · Jun 25, 2005, 09:02 AM

I think it's pretty cool, but wouldn't use it as a single source for anything.

Wiskedjak · Jun 25, 2005, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by Railroader

I thought wiki was infallible /SARCASM]

I think the fact that it was corrected so quickly speaks to your statement of fallibility

baw · Jun 25, 2005, 11:09 AM

Originally Posted by Hugi

<turn_everything_into_an_irrelevant_political_rant >Seems like those who don't like Canada have the IQ of a toaster and act on it. I deduce that it was a right wing warmonger, thus confirming my suspicion that all right wingers are stupid.</turn_everything_into_an_irrelevant_political_rant>

ambush · Jun 25, 2005, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by Railroader

I thought wiki was infallible /SARCASM]

who the **** said it was infallible?

but look at how much time it took to revert the page? heck, you could even do it yourself.

since I like to be a pedant with you, Wiki is NOT wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

you made it: your statement is both illogical and incorrect!

bradoesch · Jun 25, 2005, 01:03 PM

Just click the history tab and you can see the crazy antics of the abusers.

Oisín · Jun 25, 2005, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Does anyone still use Wikipedia as a serious research tool?

For certain things, it's perfectly usable as a serious research tool. If you need a summed-up story of some obscure historical figure's life, and you don't happen to have a normal encyclopaedia at hand (or the obscure historical figure is not in it), Wikipedia tends to work just fine.

Likewise, when I needed to (no, wanted to) find out the background story and basics of some of the various transcription systems used for Chinese within the past 150 years, Wikipedia did the job perfectly well.

Okay, so maybe you can't exactly call that 'serious research', but people don't usually bother doing weird stuff to the more or less obscure things like those. Plus, the people who made the articles originally tend to be very good at what it, since nobody who wasn't seriously into different methods of Chinese transcription would ever dream of making a Wikipedia article about it.

Chuckit · Jun 25, 2005, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by BasketofPuppies

Does anyone still use Wikipedia as a serious research tool?

Yes. The better question is, does anybody think any research tool is infallible? That's why we have multiple sources. Wikipedia tends to be a very good one, but like everything else in the world, it is not perfect.

Albert Pujols · Jun 25, 2005, 03:22 PM

Wikipedia has a whole section for all the jokes that get deleted. Funny stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...leted_nonsense

budster101 · Jun 25, 2005, 03:24 PM

I like how there are keywords that are linked as well in the content! It's a source I am going to use more and more, at least as a launching point for some research.

It's better than the "Encyclopedia Brittanica"...

turtle777 · Jun 25, 2005, 07:44 PM

In before SWG.

-t

JoshuaZ · Jun 25, 2005, 07:49 PM

I hope some poor kid out there did a report on Canada, and ended up using the info he found on wiki for it. "Teacher, I sware thats what the encyclopedia said!"

Chuckit · Jun 26, 2005, 01:21 AM

"No, honestly, she's the Queen Bitch of the Universe!"

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jun 26, 2005, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

Canada

Canada is a country in your mom, the northern-most in the world and the second largest in area (after Russia)

I thought Canada became the largest when the USSR broke up.

Oisín · Jun 26, 2005, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker

I thought Canada became the largest when the USSR broke up.

No, Russia is still the biggest, with its 17,045,000 km2. Canada is second with its 9,984,000 km2 (the US' 9,631,000, China's 9,597,000, and Brazil's 8,512,000 come in third, fourth, and fifth).

(All numbers are rounded up/down to nearest thousand, 'cause I can't remember the exact numbers)