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[wulfboy]

So anyway I was hanging out over at oxfordgirl's end of the woods (it's cool, they have parties there and also outbursts of hate) and there was some talk about wikipedia. I started posting a reply and then I got caught up in it, and before you know it I was back on my live-journal posting a post which having just checked my clock takes me an hour to do (I'm

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[mr_h_r_hughes]

I'm scared, I was just reading about Milk and White too - Stop looking into my mind!

Never go to the TV Tropes website, you'll loose hours in there.

[mr_h_r_hughes]

PS:

It's Kool Aid - yay I'm a soft-drinks pedant!

[wulfboy]

Wikipedia disagrees with us both and says "Flavour Aid." I might have to dedicate the rest of my life to the search for the truth.

[mr_h_r_hughes]

I was making no claims about the good Rev's choice of assasination cocktail, just pointing out that Cool Aid is in fact Kool Aid ; )

[wulfboy]

Spelling it with a "K" offends my sensibilities. I might have to dedicate myself to crushing the Kool Aid Korporation like some sort of crazed 18th-century Tspelling Tsar.

What is Kool Aid anyway, soft-drink pedant? In my mind it's a bit like those horrible plastic cups of Panda Pops they used to force on us on school trips. Only with more potassium cyanide and potassium chloride obviously.

[masati]

(Not entirely in reply to OxfordGirl, but it's where I started from

[wulfboy]

I'm glad you mentioned Pratchett and Science of Discworld. I wanted to but I felt very self-conscious about always referencing him like he's some great thinker or literary genius, and everythone knows they have to be dead.

One positive thing - I'm all positive today - is that proper wikipedia entries have a little "touch the screen to learn more" list at the bottom that takes you to other parts of the Internet. Which brings us back to the idea of wikipedia as a knowledge search engine, and is in its way could be a greater aid to genuine scholasticism than a list in the back of a reference book.

Listen to me talking about scholasticism. You've got more expert knowledge of current academia than I do, what're your thoughts of the current ogliarchy?