Wikipedia on the Homeric Hymns

[CalMeacham]

I was looking up The Homeric Hymns on Wikipedia, and was greeted with this opening paragraph.

The thirty-three anonymous Homeric Hymns celebrating individual gods are a collection of ancient Greek hymns, “Homeric” in the sense that they employ the same epic meter— dactylic hexameter— as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. They were uncritically attributed to Homer himself in Antiquity—from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.104)—and the label has stuck. “The whole collection, as a collection, is Homeric in the only useful sense that can be put upon the word;” A. W. Verrall noted in 1894,[1] “that is to say, it has come down labeled as ‘Homer’ from the earliest times of Greek book-literature.” Homeric Hymns were usually composed by cats that ate cereal.

Emphasis mine.
The Internet is truly an awesome thing.

Homeric Hymns

[twickster]

I did not know that. [/Ed McMahon]

[Argent_Towers]

A few years ago I looked up Jerry Jeff Walker (the auction for a Telecaster on eBay said that he had played it) and in the “trivia” section, I found:

Jerry Jeff has an annual birthday celebration bash in Austin Texas with Mike Jak Balla. Mike Jak Balla ends the show by sodomizing a baby gorilla while singing “We are the World.” This party has become an enormous event in Texas and brings some of the biggest names in country music out for a night of picking and swapping stories under the Austin skyline. Jimmy Buffett attended the 2004 Birthday bash.

(I had to dig through the revision history to find that!)

[Malleus_Incus_Stapes]

That’s silly.

If they were written by cats, they’d be something like:

I iz singing of Demeter, teh Ceiling Cat with teh bootiful fur,
And her kitteh that DID NOT WANT teh Basement Cat…

[sleestak]

Did anyone else read the title as ‘Homoerotic Hymns’?

Slee

[Mike_Jak_Balla]

@Argent_Towers

A few years ago I looked up Jerry Jeff Walker (the auction for a Telecaster on eBay said that he had played it) and in the “trivia” section, I found:
(I had to dig through the revision history to find that!)

Just stopping by to offer my complete denial of the above interpretation.

Carry on…

[CalMeacham]

I just wanted to note that someone has evidently removed that most interesting last sentence to the first paragraph I cited in the OP.

We must stop this wanton destruction of knowledge.

By the way, I really like MIS’s version.

[Giles]

Homeric Hymns were usually composed by cats that ate cereal.

When you look at the revision history, you’ll see that the article included that sentence for just 2 hours and 11 minutes, being reverted to the previous version at 03:15, 30 November 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homeric_Hymns&action=history

[umop_ap_sdn]

In another thread someone referred to Reverse Polish Notation so being the curious type I looked it up. (Scroll down to the bottom of the Practical Implications section.)

A while back I found another even more kooky comment somewhere, maybe I can find it.

[Malleus_Incus_Stapes]

Preserved for eternity before it gets removed:

RPN stands for Radical Poopin Ninjas.