Entries in the Category "wikibombing"
Such is the nature of wikis
This entire story is a testament to both my undiagnosed ADD and how easily amused I am, but here it goes:
I was reading from Leaves of Grass for the Master's exam and came across "Thought" (one of maybe five to ten poems Whitman entitled "Thought") in which he mentions the President, which footnotes in the text told me was a transatlantic steamship that disappeared somewhere between New York and Liverpool in 1841. I love those types of mysteries and looked it up on Wikipedia. From there I jumped to reading about the Lost Colony of Roanoke and then looking at History's Mysteries, a show I know used to air on one of those nerd channels--History or Discovery or something. I was checking to see if it was on DVD, because if so I'd like to hunt up some of those episodes (Roanoke! the Bermuda Triangle!).
So I hit the History's Mysteries page and found that it has been wikibombed. At least, I think it's been wikibombed.
Either that, or I'm totally misremembering that show.
By the way, my apologies that this kind of thing is what passes for a hilarious anecdote these days... I've been reading SO MUCH. Happy weekend, everybody!