# Most absurd Wikipedia articles **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949 "2016-01-23T05:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/21 "2016-01-24T22:05:47Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > It’s not useless, but the [Bristol Stool Scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_scale) may be absurd. Where does the [Lloyds Bank coprolite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyds_Bank_coprolite) fit on that scale? ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/22 "2016-01-25T04:11:29Z")
How about [the smoot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot)? ---
**Author:** ![HubZilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ccd318/32.png) [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/23 "2016-01-25T19:39:44Z")
Looks like it’s been changed, but Dora the Explorer’s article had paragraphs on Swiper the fox: was he a pest or out-and-out evil? It discussed examples where he swiped items that could lead to character’s deaths. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/24 "2016-01-25T20:23:18Z")
[Longest professional baseball game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_baseball_game) (33 innings, 8 hrs 25 min) ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/25 "2016-01-25T22:39:54Z")
I’ve long been a fan of the [List of Lists of Lists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists). ---
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/26 "2016-01-26T02:09:22Z")
The list of all numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/27 "2016-01-26T19:57:52Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Where does the [Lloyds Bank coprolite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyds_Bank_coprolite) fit on that scale? Thanks for the link. I nearly shed a tear when I read: “As of 2003, efforts were underway to reconstruct it.” Made my day. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/28 "2016-01-26T21:35:04Z")
I can’t decide, if my job was reconstructing a coprolite, if I would want it on my resume, or not. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/29 "2016-01-26T21:36:35Z")
I once wrote one for “Zombie Chickens.” It got rejected because the editor didn’t believe it was a real thing. I included citations and everything. Like this one: > **['Zombie Chickens' Causing Debate Over Fate of Older Chickens in California](https://www.foxnews.com/story/zombie-chickens-causing-debate-over-fate-of-older-chickens-in-california)** > > Chickens who have not been properly euthanized are crawling out of compost heaps, starting a debate over what should happen to older chickens who can no longer lay eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/30 "2016-01-27T01:06:41Z")
The article for Earth once contained the sentence, “Nearly all humans reside on Earth,” which, while literally true, struck me as an absurd way to state that. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/31 "2016-01-27T01:16:39Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I can’t decide, if my job was reconstructing a coprolite, if I would want it on my resume, or not. > > Regards, > Shodan Pretty much all the jobs on my resume have just been fixing shit. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/32 "2016-01-27T03:24:19Z")
[Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo) “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in English, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature, in various forms, since 1967 when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann’s Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought. The sentence uses three distinct meanings of the word buffalo: the city of Buffalo, New York; the uncommon verb to buffalo, meaning “to bully or intimidate” or “to baffle”; and the animal itself, buffalo. Paraphrased, the sentence can be parsed to mean, “Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo.” ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/33 "2016-01-27T03:44:52Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Where does the [Lloyds Bank coprolite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyds_Bank_coprolite) fit on that scale? Looks like a type 3. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2016, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/34 "2016-01-27T05:20:25Z")
Now I’m wondering whether that is the only individual piece of shit that has its own Wiki article. I’ve been trying to find others, but no luck so far. (Yes, yes, I see you’re lining up the jokes. Just don’t. I mean \*literal \*piece of shit.) ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949/35 "2016-01-28T05:59:25Z")
[F. D. C. Willard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.D.C._Willard) F.D.C. Willard (fl. 1975–1980) was the pen name of a Siamese cat named Chester, who internationally published under this name on low temperature physics in scientific journals, once as a co-author and another time as the sole author. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-absurd-wikipedia-articles/743949.md?page=1)