Wikipedia: Condensed For Your Pleasure

April 15, 2014 1:17 PM

TL;DR Wikipedia (SLTumblr)
posted by Chrysostom (27 comments total)

Probably my favorite.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:17 PM on April 15, 2014 [5 favorites]

Option #2 for those who have a little bit of free time on their hands.....
posted by Fizz at 1:21 PM on April 15, 2014

An updated Devil's Dictionary. Love it.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:21 PM on April 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

A modern Devil's Dictionary.

Dammit
posted by stonepharisee at 1:22 PM on April 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

This site is far funnier than I would have imagined it to be.

Who says cynicism can't be hilarious?
posted by el io at 1:23 PM on April 15, 2014

omg the one for air conditioner.

This tumblr is how I feel on the inside.
posted by jquinby at 1:25 PM on April 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

This is the best Tumblr ever.

Ever.




Tumblr is a website designed to test your scroll finger's stamina.
posted by psoas at 1:53 PM on April 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

They're not wrong!
posted by tommasz at 2:04 PM on April 15, 2014

Assholes -- people who get to the Ambrose Bierce reference faster than you.
posted by timsteil at 2:05 PM on April 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

StarWars
posted by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 2:29 PM on April 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

Assholes - people who share your very rare first name, but have the poor grace to be amongst the funniest quotable people to have existed.

Ogdens, do you hear my pain?
posted by ambrosen at 2:33 PM on April 15, 2014 [3 favorites]

These are making me chuckle at my desk! Thanks for sharing!
posted by chatongriffes at 2:46 PM on April 15, 2014

Worth it for the cello entry alone.
posted by hwestiii at 2:46 PM on April 15, 2014

Somebody do a MetaFilter. I'm not smart and/or clever enough.
posted by univac at 3:17 PM on April 15, 2014

Metafilter: The place where you're not smart and/or clever enough.
posted by Night_owl at 3:30 PM on April 15, 2014 [15 favorites]

This guy is dazzlingly funny. Almost too much to take in too many of these at once.
posted by jcworth at 3:40 PM on April 15, 2014

The Wikipedia one is so meta and so great.
posted by Night_owl at 4:04 PM on April 15, 2014

I really like a lot of these but the OCD one, which went up a bit after this was posted, is really dickish, ableist and unnecessary.
posted by NoraReed at 4:24 PM on April 15, 2014 [4 favorites]

It's funny because it's true!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 5:01 PM on April 15, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Nantucket" is well put together.
posted by Songdog at 5:06 PM on April 15, 2014

I only clicked through to comment to make the Devil's Dictionary remark.

Note to self: if I thought of it, many other Mefites thought of it first.
posted by man down under at 8:11 PM on April 15, 2014

I was enjoying it, but the O.C.D., Nagasaki and Nirvana entries left a sour taste in the comedy part of my brain.
posted by Faintdreams at 12:59 AM on April 16, 2014

The Wikipedia one is so meta and so great.

It makes a lot more sense to me now: Wikipedia isn't the free crowdsourced version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's the free crowdsourced version of the Guinness Book of World Records.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 5:15 AM on April 16, 2014

Yesterday spent 10 minutes to fill out and mail a 1040EZ, ouch.
posted by koebelin at 6:47 AM on April 16, 2014

Metafilter - A popular internet site where a librarian asks you politely to STFU already.
posted by timsteil at 7:52 AM on April 16, 2014 [2 favorites]

Communion
posted by quonsar II: smock fishpants and the temple of foon at 11:49 AM on April 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

I especially liked the entry for Encyclopædia Britannica
posted by zippy at 1:49 PM on April 16, 2014