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Word of the day

Like Les, only I make them up. Today’s word is Perpetual-Wiki-Loop: The process whereby you look something up on Wikipedia and thirty minutes later find yourself reading something else on Wikipedia completely unrelated to the initial thing you looked up and wondering where that thirty minutes just went.

I found myself reading about The Census of Quirinius thirty minutes after I was reading about The Violent Femmes.

I don’t know how it happened.

8 Responses to “Word of the day”

  1. JustDoIt Says:

    Anyone stupid enough to use Wikipedia as a “reliable” source deserves exactly what they find.

  2. SayUncle Says:

    Yes, they have such a bias against The Violent Femmes 😉

  3. Rick DeMent Says:

    All references have issues, Wikipedia is as good as any as a starting point.

    My best Perpetual-Wiki-Loop have me starting out with the Crimean war and ending up at Aquaman.

  4. Standard Mischief Says:

    Only thirty minutes? I need to write a grease-monkey script to cut me off at 30 minutes.

  5. Todd Says:

    I refer to it as Wiki-creep and 30 minutes is on the low end! 😉

  6. Ninth Stage Says:

    Six degrees of Wikipedia.

  7. Boyd Says:

    Back in the olden days (well, actually it still happens on occasion), I’d go to a dictionary to look up a word, and find myself in an unrelated corner of the dictionary some (usually long) time later.

    The original Perpetual-Wiki-Loop, at least for me.

  8. The Unforgiving Minute » Classic TV Says:

    […] one of those late-night Perpetual-Wiki-Loops led me to the full text of Dahl’s original story and the whole Hitchcock episode on YouTube. […]

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