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A New Pastime: Wiki-wandering

  • 04-09-2007 4:28pm
    #1
    zuutroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭


    I'm bored, so I invented a new pastime. Search something in Wikipedia, then go to the 10th link in the body of the text and click it. Do this 5 times and see what you get to...A prize* for the wackiest.


    I'll start: From 'Snooker' to 'Pedagogy' (the art or science of being a teacher)


    *Actual prize may not be a prize. Professional driver on a closed course. A credit check may be required.


Comments

  • #2
    patrickc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,010 ✭✭✭patrickc


    i'm not that bored


  • #3
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    My wiki-wander went as follows;

    Atheism,
    Atheists,
    King Umberto I,
    Anarchism,
    Participatory economics.

    I think I'll take the scenic route next time.


  • #4
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Pighead went from Thrush to Diaper Rash.

    As coincidence would have it, Pighead was already looking at the article regarding Thrush on Wikipedia.

    Beruthial, Pigheads gonna send on that info you were after now in a minute. Talk to you later babes.x


  • #5
    zuutroy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    patrickc2006 wrote:
    i'm not that bored

    Spoil sport. And yes, it is a sport.


  • #6
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,236 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    I just open any links on the wiki page I find interesting in a new tab. Much more time-consuming however...

    I went from Habeas Corpus but ended up in a stub on the fourth go.


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  • #7
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    I got from bollox to atoll


  • #8
    Agamemnon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Mine went:

    Heather Graham
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Counter-intelligence
    Farewell Dossier
    Logic bomb

    Hmmm


  • #9
    adam_ccfc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 279 ✭✭adam_ccfc


    Zoology -> Paper


  • #10
    Exit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Ok then. I'll start with Kluivert because it was the last thing I searched in wikipedia.

    Patrick Kluivert
    AC Milan
    European Super Cup
    De Telegraaf
    1923

    so really uninteresting then.

    When I was really, really bored I would do something like this with IMDB. Take one person, go to their first film, go to the first star of that film and so on.


  • #11
    DanGerMus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭DanGerMus


    Blink
    Body Language
    social psychology
    interdisciplinary
    Science and technology studies


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  • #12
    Papillon87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭Papillon87


    Exit wrote:
    When I was really, really bored I would do something like this with IMDB. Take one person, go to their first film, go to the first star of that film and so on.

    I have killed hours on IMDB...going from obscure tv personality to broken child actor to failed movie star and reading the in-depth trivialities of their personal lives. It's quite trgaic.


  • #13
    DanGerMus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭DanGerMus


    Exit wrote:
    When I was really, really bored I would do something like this with IMDB. Take one person, go to their first film, go to the first star of that film and so on.

    oh i do that kinda thing all the time mostly when i should be studying find out loadsa useless crap about those nameless actors that you see in everything.

    Tobacco
    Stem Pipe
    Cherrywood
    Bird Cherry
    Northern Hemisphere


  • #14
    The Freeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭The Freeman


    got from your mother to yoor sister in 5 stabs(of the keyboard of course;) )


  • #15
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    Opel Vectra
    Rüsselsheim
    Katzenelnbogen
    Rhine
    River

    Tis' all a bit German!


  • #16
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,373 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    Hurricane Felix
    September 3
    Pompey
    Cognomen
    Mucius (a noble and probably mythical Roman youth, famous for his bravery.)


  • #17
    dabbler2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,621 ✭✭✭dabbler2004


    Tattoo to Slovenia (officially the Republic of Slovenia)

    very, very interesting stuff :o


  • #18
    Goat Mouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭Goat Mouth


    Em... ok I searched Aries (astrology)
    then ended up at Libra
    then back at Aries.
    then back at Libra...

    em? does this mean I lose?
    or just a loser for actually bothering doing this?

    EDIT: Ok did it again, dont ask me why!
    Searched "Fleshlight" (again, don't ask me why)
    ended up in France...


  • #19
    DanGerMus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,525 ✭✭✭DanGerMus


    andrew wrote:
    Mucius (a noble and probably mythical Roman youth, famous for having the first medically documented Blocked Sinus hence...)

    :)


  • #20
    Max_Damage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭Max_Damage


    I'll try another one:

    Smithwick's
    Ruby
    Sapphire
    Chromium
    Iron

    I hope that's not the secret ingredients! :D


  • #21
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    I went from VW Beetle to China :)

    interesting game.


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  • #22
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Skins
    Josie Long
    BBC New comedy awards
    Paul Foot
    United Nations

    Interesting finish there.


  • #23
    A Primal Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    Mother insult (redirected from your ma)
    Timon of Athens
    Plutarch
    Oeuvre
    Photography


    Well i guess I learned something about Plutarch so wasn't total waste of time. Wasn't expecting that after typin in your ma


  • #24
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,413 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Sligo -->
    Central Statistics Office (Ireland) -->
    Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Ireland) -->
    Minister of State (with special responsibility for Labour Affairs) -->
    1994

    Wooooo... how delightfully unfulfilling! ;)


  • #25
    eoin5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho

    ooh, I found a loop:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy


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