# From the front page of Wikipedia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2023, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613 "2023-05-26T04:29:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/21 "2024-01-09T01:26:52Z")
I was just going to send you the link! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/22 "2024-01-09T01:39:02Z")
No problem; glad I saw your post and followed the link. Like I said, I’ve walked past that statue many times. There are some establishments on Stephen Avenue, that I’ve never walked _past_, though. _Into_, yes. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/23 "2024-01-09T01:41:28Z")
The statue in question: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Stephen_Avenue_3.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Stephen_Avenue_3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/24 "2024-01-09T01:42:00Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > There are some establishments on Stephen Avenue, that I’ve never walked _past_, though. _Into_, yes. 😉 Grey Cup. Need I say more? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/25 "2024-01-09T01:46:14Z")
Nope, I understand perfectly. Next time you’re in town, you might like to check out the James Joyce, towards the eastern end of Stephen Avenue. Very nice selction of taps, and the food is good too. That’s one establishment that I’ve never walked past when I’ve been in town. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/26 "2024-01-09T01:48:10Z")
Duly noted. 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/27 "2024-01-09T02:04:16Z")
Those gentlemen seem well-insulated from the arctic cold. And I’m not talking their overcoats. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/28 "2024-01-09T02:10:16Z")
The statue is just outside Bankers Hall, a high-grade shopping centre in the financial district. I’ve always thought the two gentlemen projected a certain image. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/29 "2024-01-09T05:56:20Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > I’ve always thought the two gentlemen projected a certain image. Have you ever studied the bas-relief over the front door of the Toronto Stock Exchange? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/30 "2024-01-09T07:56:44Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Those gentlemen seem well-insulated from the arctic cold. And I’m not talking their overcoats. They’re not wearing overcoats! That’s just the natural appearance of the species _opulentos arcticum canuckis_, creatures endemic to northern oil-bearing regions, who often weigh in at a quarter-ton or more even when oil prices are at record lows. Their blubber has been much valued by the Inuit for thousands of years. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/31 "2024-01-11T03:00:53Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Have you ever studied the bas-relief over the front door of the Toronto Stock Exchange? Never seen it. Where is the TSE located? My guess would be Bay Street - or is that just lawyers? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/32 "2024-01-11T03:14:35Z")
It’s on Bay, just south of King, on the west side of the street. I think this should work: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/7385/12708716765_dea382b0a2_b.jpg "1937 Bas-Relief / Art Deco Frieze .... Toronto Stock Exchange .... Toronto,...") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/57156785@N02/12708716765/sizes/l/) Yes, that’s it. Now, look closely—do you see the capitalist in top hat reaching for the worker’s pocket? Nobody knows if that was intentional or not, but that’s one of the “inside jokes” you can find in a lot of old Toronto architecture. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/33 "2024-01-12T01:25:45Z")
I’m sure that capitalist is merely striding briskly, arms swinging, to get ahead of the lower class mob. It just happens that his hand is located in the vicinity of the working man’s pants pocket. Pure coincidence, really. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/34 "2024-01-12T01:32:43Z")
Oh, could be. But it’s one of those interesting little things that nobody notices until it’s pointed out. Then they wonder why they never saw it before. Along with the city councillors who are caricatured as gargoyles in the stone carvings of Toronto’s Old City Hall, and the tall, thin stone faces carved into the stone at the top of Commerce Court North. Lots of fun things “hiding in plain sight” in Toronto architecture. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/35 "2024-10-06T23:30:59Z")
Dogs … in … Spaaace! > **[Dezik and Tsygan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan)** > > Dezik (.mw-parser-output .tfd-dated{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .tfd-default{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);clear:both;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tfd-tiny{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tfd-inline{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1)}.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);text-align:center;position:relative}@media(min-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .tfd-sidebar{clear:right;float:right;width... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/36 "2024-10-07T05:17:41Z")
You’ve reminded me of the Swedish movie **My Life as a Dog** , about a boy who happens to be obsessed with [Laika](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika), another Soviet space dog who was the first animal to orbit Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/37 "2024-10-09T03:03:29Z")
From today’s Front Page: Did You Know? A dress made from women’s breasts, or severed bull testicles? Wikipedia reports, you decide. > [@](#): > > **DID YOU KNOW** > > … that while the objects on the _**[Farnese Artemis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnese_Artemis)**_ (_pictured_) had initially been identified as female breasts, the [museum housing the statue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Archaeological_Museum,_Naples) now claims that they depict bull scrotums? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/38 "2024-10-09T04:13:42Z")
This deserves to get more use as an insult to someone’s intelligence.   “Can’t tell a breast from a bull scrotum.” ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/39 "2024-10-17T04:00:11Z")
On this day: the Great London Beer Flood occurred. Following the rupture of two huge wooden beer vats, a 15 foot tall wave of porter smashed buildings and killed eight people. > **[London Beer Flood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood)** > > The London Beer Flood was an accident at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, London, on 17 October 1814. It took place when one of the 22-foot-tall (6.7 m) wooden vats of fermenting porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels: between 128,000 and 323,000 imperial gallons (580,000–1,470,000 L; 154,000–388,000 US gal) of beer were released in total. > The resulting wave of porter destroyed the back wall of the brewery and swept into an ... ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2024, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/from-the-front-page-of-wikipedia/984613/40 "2024-10-17T07:12:02Z")
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