It would've been more fun for Jimmy to write something like "Dear suckers, you just shelled out six million bucks for a handful of us to write 24 recaps and long treatises on Emperor Palpatine's political beliefs."

Chinese Democracy was actually ready to release in 2003. But when Axl saw the Wikipedia article on "Sweet Child O Mine," he decided to wait until the world got a little less stupid.

The meaning of "Walking in Memphis" is pretty obvious: a man with super-powers has a reasonably good weekend visiting Memphis.

And here you thought The Muppet Show wanted Paul Simon to sing the works of Neil Diamond! Or maybe a few Simon originals and then a couple Diane Warren tunes.

The Prime Minister of Britain in the book is supposed to be like... the Prime Minister of Britain? And here I was sure that the Muggle Prime Minister of Britain was standing in for Gabe Kaplan.

So not only is the word "lolcat" derived in part from the word "cat," but cats appear in lolcat pictures! It's all coming together now!!!

Sometimes I think Jimmy Wales is going to come across this site and beat me without mercy until I break. What the hell, I'll risk it.

Call it "learning through being beaten about the face and neck with facts."

My copy of the Official Guide to Professional Basketball does show Yosemite Sam and several Nerdlucks playing pro ball for a while in the 70's, but I might have been reading it upside down. Or maybe they were in the ABA, where things were always a little "iffy"?

I will keep my personal feelings about the band Godsmack to myself. This is for the best. My feelings on the Wikipedia entry on Godsmack, however, fall under the "fair game" category: