Things I Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reepicheep

Reepicheep is a fictional character from C.S. Lewis’, Chronicles of Narnia series. He appears in Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and also in The Last Battle. He is a large, talking mouse who carries a rapier, and wears a red plume tucked in his golden circlet. He is an experienced warrior, utterly fearless, and faultlessly courteous, particularly to noble ladies. He is also pugnacious and quick to defend any affront to his honor.

Eddie Izzard voiced Reepicheep in the 2008 movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Simon Pegg took over the role for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

I woke up with “Reepicheep” stuck in my head a few days ago. I had an inkling I knew where it was from, but needed to be *absolutely sure*…

Clearly, I wasn’t not under the influence of alcohol. But I love Eddie Izzard, so maybe it was subliminal.

Also, peep these open tabs:

The HSC

The Fourteenth Amendment

Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller [Ed. Note: I have a Dell Laptop}

Crayola: Products

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_species_%28K%E2%80%93O%29

Image: Droopy McCool, a Kitonak

Some mornings I wake my body up, wake my brain up (sometimes unsuccessfully), wake my laptop up, and am delighted by a bizarre combination of open browser tabs left over from a night of solo drunkenness and internet access. This post is from one of those mornings. I’m initiating a new tag called “Morning-After Medleys” for posts like this, culled from my late-night webs of weirdness.

Also open with the above:

• Absolut Vodka Facebook Page
• Dictionary.com definition of “pullulation”
• Google.com search for “military dog tags”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruella_de_Vil

In the original story, Cruella is a pampered London heiress who knows the owner of the Dalmatian puppies through school. She was a notorious student with black and white plaits. She was later expelled for drinking ink.

That hardly seems grounds for expulsion, in my book. If you’re going to get expelled for drinking something, at least make it worth the effort and go with bourbon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Wellington_Wimpy

Wimpy was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a more minor character; Dave Fleischer said that the character in the Segar strip was “too intellectual” to be used in film cartoons.

Wimpy loves to eat hamburgers, and is usually seen carrying or eating one or more at a time – e.g. in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor he is seen grinding meat or eating burgers almost the entire time – however, he is usually too cheap to pay for them himself.

Hamburger: The Thinking Man’s Dinner.

Side Note: When searching Google Images for “J. Wellington Wimpy,” I did not expect results to include pornographic fan art. But no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Gaines

Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic speculated that the alternate persona and elaborate marketing scheme backfired, writing, “When Brooks’ new persona and his album were revealed to the public, they were unforgiving - they didn’t think he was playing a role, they simply thought he’d lost his mind.”

L-O-L

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BDla

A public decree was issued in 1746 prohibiting the use of Grýla and the Yule Lads to terrify children.

This Wikipedia entry does not do justice to the Icelandic legend that is Gryla. At Christmastime in U.S., Santa Claus delivers presents from a sack to good children and coal to the naughty ones. At Christmastime in Iceland, Gryla stuffs the naughty children in a sack and takes them home for dinner. To cook them in a stew.

Iceland FTW.

(Image and info thanks to The Engelson Files)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysfunctional_Family_Circus

“The booklet series included 15 titles:

1. Grandma’s Not Dead Yet!
2. See, I Told You Cats Could Smell Dead People!
3. Ibex, My Ass! That’s a Goat!
4. Who Wants to See a Hamster Dance?
5. Eat Snow Hobo!
6. Grandma’s Starting to Sprout!
7. It All Comes Back, Except One Tablespoon!
8. This Guy’s Wankin’ Off!
9. Wait, I Think My Dick’s Stuck!
10. Boy, This Dog is Fucked Up!
11. Oh Yeah? Well, Kiss This!
12. Her, Us, Motel, Tonight!
13. Crotch Shot!
14. Mommy! PJ’s Tryin’ to Get Out!
15. Holy Shit! It’s a Priesty Boy!”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)#Origin_and_Nature

Shortly afterward it gained sentience and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of its abilities, attempted to shut it down. Skynet perceived the attempt to deactivate it as an attack and came to the conclusion that all of humanity would attempt to destroy it. To defend itself, it came to one conclusion: Humanity must be terminated.

Sure, worrying about the Zompocalypse might be trendy and all, but I feel it’s more prudent to focus on the Robocalpyse. Google is watching.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tables_of_vampire_traits

Jesus. I… I have no words.

The amount of effort that went into this is staggering. And I thought I waste my time on the internet…

My hat’s off to you, good Sir/Madame wiki author!

And yes, Count Chocula made the cut.

Attractiveness: “Comical” [citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Crunch

Wherefore this Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch? Brought to you from the fingers of Jay Ward, creator of the notorious characters of Rocky & Bullwinkle, among others.

Also given the worst nutritional score of any cereal marketed to children and families in a 2009 study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale.

Does a body good!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton