The Repository of All Human Knowledge

October 8, 2006 3:36 AM

spend so much time on Wikipedia, it's not even funny. I go there ofte to look up something I don't know anything about and, next thing you know, it's 4am.

Tonight, I decided to look up Indiana Jones because I saw a story on Yahoo about how George Lucas is planning an animated Star Wars cartoon. At the end of the article, he mentioned the much-discussed fouth Indiana Jones movie.

Having grown up in a household that didn't have a VCR with parents that weren't particularly keen to drive an hour to take me to the nearest movie theatre, I have to say that Indiana Jones wasn't something I grew up with. I seem to be unique in this way among members of my generation. As an adult, I must admit that I've seen only two of the movies all the way through - The Last Crusade and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I liked them a lot, but I've been told that the other one - Temple of Doom? - isn't that good, so I haven't watched it.

In any event, I started my Wikipedia adventure at the Indiana Jones page. Then I followed a link to the page on Sean Connery. Did you know that his first name is Thomas and that he wore a tupee whe he played James Bond? From the Sean Connery page, I went over to the page for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was an unbelievably bad movie that Mr. Connery was in. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen page linked to a shit load of pages I went to including the page for Captain Nemo. The Captain Nemo page featured a link to Mighty Max, which I, of course, followed. From there, I clicked over to the page for Lemuria, which was apparently some other lost continent. Lemuria is a prominent feature of the reptilian conspiracy, so that's where I went next. From Indiana Jones to David Icke in just a few easy steps!

God, Wikiepedia kicks ass.

5 Comments

Santi said:

Story of my life -- that happens to me at least 4 times a week. The best part of it all is at the end I find something interesting that I tell Adelina about, and then spend 10 minutes telling her about the multiple links I followed to arrive at said interesting thing.

October 8, 2006 10:31 AM

TheExpat said:

Funny, I consider Wikipedia to be more of a suppository of human knowledge. That is to say that more or less, the people who initiate content usually have their heads up their asses.

That is not to say that I would not trust Wikipedia to offer, say, a decent synopsis on the Indiana Jones franchise, but there's no way I'd ever use it as a source for anything of any historical importance. In this way it is far too "under construction" to be fully trusted.

October 8, 2006 7:53 PM

Dante said:

You should look up the law school some time...

By the way, Temple of Doom is well worth seeing. Two words-Monkey Heads!

October 9, 2006 6:58 AM

tRJ said:

Yeah, it's worth seeing, but it's definitely the weakest of the three.

October 9, 2006 3:07 PM

sadielady said:

I hated Temple of Doom. I left the theater for part of it, I hated it so much.

October 9, 2006 10:35 PM

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