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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Another Damned Dyslexic

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:11 pm

The Importance of Being Ernst —

In the above Wikipedia revision today, the anonymous user “Redactedentity”
found that the article Kummer surface omitted Kummer’s first name
and so changed “authorlink=Ernst Kummer|last=Kummer” to
“authorlink=Ernst Kummer|last=Ernst Kummer.” This fixed the
omission but makes no sense as a statement of parameters.

“Redactedentity” was apparently unable to read the following page,
which explains that “last=” is for the author’s last  name —

Of course, this revision may be merely an instance of trolling or of
the sort of humor sometimes found among  people with the following
interests:

See also Pazouzou.

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Annals of Marketing

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:42 pm

Somewhat more tastefully . . .

See Santa also in a Log24 search for Dyslexic.

Friday, August 19, 2016

Ex Machina

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 pm

For the Symmetry Dancers of CERN

Saturday, June 18, 2016

Joke

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

See also some recent related posts.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

A Timely Question

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:00 pm

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
— Joan Didion, The White Album,
quoted here on her birthday–
December 5th, 2006

Also on that date, a question
from answerbag.com:

Answerbag logo: 'Every question deserves a great answer'

“Do dyslexic devil worshippers
sell their souls to Santa?”

The Great Answer:

NY Times obituaries, Dec. 23, 2009

Click image to enlarge.

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