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User:MrPersonHumanGuy

Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Paraphrasis of an Obama campaign slogan



I came to Rome when it was a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
– Augustus Caesar



There is no going back. You have to go forwards to go back.
– Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory



They made you think you had to pick a side, but there are no sides because we are all on the same team.
– Garnet in Steven Universe



We are all born originals, but many of us die as photocopies.
– Carlo Acutis



See a need, fill a need.
– Catchphrase from the movie Robots



Sometimes, things have to get really dumb before they can even start to get smart.
– Kevin Lieber



I may have made a lot of silly mistakes in the past, some of them I really wish didn't exist. But looking back, all of those mistakes led up to who I am today. If I hadn't had made those mistakes in the past, making them in the future will be inevitable, and it is only through learning from our [unintelligible][a] mistakes do we become better at what we do.
– katyj98



The best way to get the correct answer isn't to ask a question, but to say the wrong answer.
– Cunningham's Law



Be careful of the truth.
– Chinese warning sign



Blessed are the doubtful, for they shall not be easily deceived.

– Pseudocanonical beatitude



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a > b ⇒ ac = bc × logb(a)


This user previously used another account: MrHumanPersonGuy.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.
inclThis user is an inclusionist.
exoThis editor is an exopedian.
This user can and will ask stupid questions if needed.
This user likes to watch
Battle for Dream Island


#WCThis user is a cunning linguist
who can help you distinguish
what is proper English.
Autism_spectrum_infinity_awareness_symbolThis user is autistic.


Reading is fun

Favorite pages and sections (besides the ones on other lists)

Wikipedia namespace

Obscure topics that seem interesting

Wacky facts I've found

  • Ganesha in world religions § In Thailand
    [Ganesha] is honoured with Motaka, sweets and fruit, when business is good, and he is made ridiculous by putting his picture or statue upside down, when business is down.
  • Islam and magic § Iran
    In Iran in 2011, 25 advisers and aides of the then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei were arrested on charges of practising sorcery and black magic.
    ...
    The "top" sorcerer (claims to) regularly contact jinn who "work for Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, and for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency", and has had 'a long battle to infiltrate the Israeli jinn and find out what they know.' The sorcerer also claimed that not only did jinn work for the US and Israel, but that some were being used by him "to infiltrate" Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Footnote: "Vote for Donald Trump you must not. A racist he is." Yoda said, foreseeing the rise to power of someone a long time later in a galaxy far far away, where his actions ought to be of no concern to them whatsoever.
  • Literal translation § Translator's humor
    Literal translation of idioms is a source of translators' jokes. One such joke, often told about machine translation, translates "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (an allusion to Mark 14:38) into Russian and then back into English, getting "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten". This is not an actual machine-translation error, but rather a joke which dates back to 1956 or 1958. Another joke in the genre transforms "out of sight, out of mind" to "blind idiot" or "invisible idiot".
  • Maji Maji Rebellion § Uprising
    German anthropologists recorded that [Kinjikitile Ngwale] gave his followers war medicine that would turn German bullets into water. This "war medicine" was in fact water (maji in Kiswahili) mixed with castor oil and millet seeds. Empowered with this new liquid, Bokero's followers began what would become known as the Maji Maji Rebellion.
    ...
    German troops, armed with machine guns, departed from Mahenge to the Ngoni camp, which they attacked on 21 October. The Ngoni soldiers retreated, throwing away their bottles of war medicine and crying, "The maji is a lie!"
  • March on the Pentagon § Protest
    Not to be dissuaded, Abbie Hoffman vowed to levitate the Pentagon claiming he would attempt to use psychic energy to levitate the Pentagon until it would turn orange and begin to vibrate, at which time the war in Vietnam would end.
  • Procrustes § Mythology
    There [Procrustes] had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; if the guest was too short Procrustes would stretch them until they died; nobody ever fit the bed exactly.
  • Ryūjin § How the jellyfish lost its bones:
    One legend involving Ryūjin is the story about how the jellyfish lost its bones. According to this story, Ryūjin wanted to eat monkey's liver (in some versions of the story, to heal an incurable rash), and sent the jellyfish to get him a monkey. The monkey managed to sneak away from the jellyfish by telling him that he had put his liver in a jar in the forest and offered to go and get it. As the jellyfish came back and told Ryūjin what had happened, Ryūjin became so angry that he beat the jellyfish until its bones were crushed.
  • The Nose (Gogol short story)
    "The Nose" is divided into three parts and tells the story of Collegiate Assessor ('Major') Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning without his nose. He later finds out that his nose has developed a life of its own, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of State Councillor.
  • Unitary executive theory § King of Great Britain
    Invoking the king as an argument for expanded executive power was first made by the Supreme Court in Myers v. United States (1926), a decision delivered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former president of the United States. Eric Nelson argued that some Founders wanted more checks on a president because unlike a hereditary monarch, their well-being was not as intrinsically tied to the nation.
  • Ventriloquism § Origins
    The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future.
Footnote: This takes "my gut is telling me something" to another level.

Articles with ridiculously long titles

Content that can be misinterpreted for laughs

Article titles

Article prose

See also: User:MrPersonHumanGuy/Wikipedia out of context
  • Air Force One photo op incident: Although the planes were engaged in a photo op and training exercise, the citizens of New York and New Jersey had not been informed in advance; some thought it could be the makings of a terrorist attack similar to the September 11 attacks. Some people ran out of buildings while others had extra buildings to spare. When all the buildings were used up, new ones had to be built to meet demand.
  • Alliance Defending Freedom: In Sweden, a midwife, Ellinor Grimmark, sued the province of Jönköping for discrimination because she was refused employment when, citing "freedom of conscience", she refused to give morning-after pills, perform abortions, or put in copper IUDs. She lost both her hearing before the Discrimination Ombudsman, and at the Jönköping district court, prompting her to get a hearing aid and a sign language interpreter.
  • Santa Claus: The Christmas issue of NOAA's Weather Bureau Topics with "Santa Claus" streaking across a weather radar screen, 1958
    I find it unbelievable that Santa would do such a thing, especially during the winter. Even if all the children are asleep, he should at least put some pants on before he gets on his sleigh, and definitely before going down any chimney. I know the baby Jesus is sometimes shown in his birthday suit, but that doesn't justify such naughty behavior. On the other hand, that would explain why Santa prefers to let kids see him at the mall rather than at their homes on the night before Christmas.
  • Spurious wakeup:
    In computing, a spurious wakeup occurs when a thread wakes up from waiting on a condition variable and finds that the condition is still unsatisfied. It is referred to as spurious because the thread has seemingly been awakened for no reason. Spurious wakeups usually happen because in between the time when the condition variable was signaled and when the awakened thread was finally able to run, another thread ran first and changed the condition again. In general, if multiple threads are awakened, the first one to run will find the condition satisfied, but the others may find the condition unsatisfied. In this way, there is a race condition between all the awakened threads. The first thread to run will win the race and find the condition satisfied, while the other threads will lose the race, and experience a spurious wakeup.

    The problem of spurious wakeup can be exacerbated on multiprocessor systems. When several threads are waiting on a single condition variable, the system may decide to wake all threads up when it's signaled. The system treats every signal( ) to wake one thread as a broadcast( ) to wake all of them, thus breaking any possibly expected 1:1 relationship between signals and wakeup. If ten threads are waiting, only one will win and the other nine will experience spurious wakeup.
    If a thread fails to get the gold in a track and field competition, then it turns out to be a literal nightmare.

What I've learned from the Reference desk

  • May 2021: Why is the Babylon allegory from the Book of Revelation called the 5-letter W word that rhymes with chore?
    That word is a translation of the Greek word πόρνη (pornē) which means prostitute. It was also a figure of speech for an idolatress, and in the context of Revelation, Babylon is used as an allegory for Rome, which was considered the chief seat of idolatry.
  • August 2021: How far back has something along the lines of "better forgiveness than permission" been said?
    The phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." was popularized by Grace Hopper, though it goes at least as far back as 1846 with an unclear reference to Francesco Barberini.
  • January 2023: What does I like your cut g mean?
    Cut means haircut and g is short for gangster, though this particular phrase could be a variation of the older saying "I like the cut of your jib".
  • April 2023: What's with the extremely long YouTube comments that start off with something like "I'm currently crying so hard right now"?
    Each comment of this sort may have have been the work of a bot or program.
  • June 2023: My mouse sometimes treats one click as a double-click. As it turns out, my mouse button occasionally fails to hold for split-seconds unless I press down on it hard. Why does it act this way?[c]
    This is often caused by dirt getting in the way of the actuator. If it bothers you, you may as well buy a new mouse or, if you use Windows, try something called AutoHotkey.
  • September 2023: What does chille tid mean?
    Chilletid is a Danish and Norwegian Bokmål word that roughly translates to "chilling time". It's also a play on the phrase "chill a tad".
  • November 2023: What is this "I know what you want girl" song that is being used in videos of a certain type?
    "all i want is you" by Rebzyyx

  1. ^ Most likely "heinous" or "hideous"
  2. ^ Formerly a single article titled List of world map changes
  3. ^ When my mouse has this problem, I sometimes end up in an edit conflict with myself where it tells me that I'm trying to revert the edit I just made. On the other hand, this problem with holding clicks can be useful for grinding games (e.g. Cookie Clicker) where I would have to click the same thing over and over again, in which cases I would attempt to gently hold the button so I could effectively play a game more quietly.
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