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wikipedia is pretty incoherent

OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited March 2007 in Social Entropy++
According to the iconography of the vase-painters, the gods Hermes and Athena came to his rescue. Hermes gave him a pair of his winged sandals (talaria), while Athena gave him a sword[6] and a high-polished shield. For his further journey, the version of Aeschylus, in his lost tragedy, The Daughters of Phorcys must have "simplified the journey of Perseus through the realms of thrice-three goddesses and probably left out the first three, the spring-nymphs.... On an ancient vase-painting we see the nymphs receiving the hero, one bringing him the winged shoes, another the cap of invisibility,[7] the third the wallet, kibisis, for the Gorgon's head" (Kerenyi 1959:49-50).

They told him to go to the island of the golden apples to the west. He went there like a swift walker on the air (Nonnus, Dionysiaca xxv.32) and asked the Hesperidae where the Graeae were. They told him and made him promise to come back and dance with them. He went to the Graeae, sisters of the gorgons, three perpetually old women with one eye and tooth among them. Perseus snatched the eye at the moment they were blindly passing it from one to another so they could see him and he would not return it until they had given him directions. With all this, "Like a wild boar he entered the cave" (This is the one line of Aeschylus, The Phorkides, "The Daughters of Phorkys" that survives). In the cave he came upon the sleeping gorgons. By viewing Medusa's reflection in his shield he could safely approach and cut off her head; out sprang Pegasus and Chrysaor. The other two gorgons pursued him, but in his cap of invisibility he escaped.

every sentence has a different diction, it's migraine inducing

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited March 2007
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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    hell yeah learning about greek myth through nursery rhymes

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    wake up late, honey put on yo cloths. We'll take the wedding car to the liquor store

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I'm sure there are plenty of pages hosted by accredited universities that have summaries of greek myths.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    it's more of a point on how scatterbrained wikipedia is rather than me complaining about how few places there are to learn about greek myth

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  • WezoinWezoin Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    This one time I looked up oxymorons and it took me to the synonyms page.

    True story.

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  • Sub StandardSub Standard Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    <Witty sentence placeholder>

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    it's more of a point on how scatterbrained wikipedia is rather than me complaining about how few places there are to learn about greek myth

    Well, when something's an amalgamation of hundreds of different people's ideas, it can be a bit chaotic. You could always rewrite it yourself if it bothers you greatly.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Man, the forum needs to stop cutting off words in the quotes. Or stop shifting over. Or something.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Man, the forum needs to stop cutting off words in the quotes. Or stop shifting over. Or something.

    What.png

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Tossrock wrote: »
    it's more of a point on how scatterbrained wikipedia is rather than me complaining about how few places there are to learn about greek myth

    Well, when something's an amalgamation of hundreds of different people's ideas, it can be a bit chaotic. You could always rewrite it yourself if it bothers you greatly.

    my point was really how wikipedia sucks

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    Wikepedia doesn't suck. You suck

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    you suck, i suck, we all suck for hot fucks

    that's some doggerel for you :dude with sunglasses:

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    Man, the forum needs to stop cutting off words in the quotes. Or stop shifting over. Or something.

    What.png

    The quote in the first post? The words along the right edge are cut off. It is bad.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    wikipedia is so dumb I'm orikae I'm not dumb I'm so great nurkle nurkle nurkle

    WHO IS DUMB NOW JIM

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  • Sasquatch TimetodieSasquatch Timetodie Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    on Simple Wikipedia, i clicked the "Show Any page" link on the side bar and got this, first try.

    http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Lyoko

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    Man, the forum needs to stop cutting off words in the quotes. Or stop shifting over. Or something.

    What.png

    The quote in the first post? The words along the right edge are cut off. It is bad.

    I'm not seeing it.

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    wikipedia is so dumb I'm orikae I'm not dumb I'm so great nurkle nurkle nurkle

    WHO IS DUMB NOW JIM
    Aw, you should have spelled it phonetically when changing it back.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    DARE YOU QUESTION ME

    QUESTION ME IN THE MANNER

    OF A

    STUPID DUMB FACE

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    DARE YOU QUESTION ME

    QUESTION ME IN THE MANNER

    OF A

    STUPID DUMB FACE

    i learned from the best (you)

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    Framling wrote: »
    Man, the forum needs to stop cutting off words in the quotes. Or stop shifting over. Or something.

    What.png

    The quote in the first post? The words along the right edge are cut off. It is bad.

    I'm not seeing it.

    It's inconsistent.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Tube has some pretty harsh insults, you guys

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    WHATEVER

    IDIOT FACE

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  • Seattle ThreadSeattle Thread Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Oh shit Tube's gone mad with power (again)

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    ahahahahaha AWESOME

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    NUH UH

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    i have no face (tube stole it)

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Oh shit Tubes mad I guess I shouldn't ask for another name change

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I found a book in a store that offers those eductionial toys, collectable bears and so on, that was of Greek and Norse mythology{an intersting combo} .

    It gives a very good detail of the complex norse regilon; it explains the Yggdrasil, the great halls on it, and the beings that inhabit it.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited March 2007
    Meissnerd wrote: »
    Oh shit Tubes mad I guess I shouldn't ask for another name change

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME

    ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

    I WILL GIVE YOU A GODDAMN NAME CHANGE

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Now you've gone and done it, Meiss.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] new member
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    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited March 2007
    IDIOT FACE wrote: »
    Now you've gone and done it, Meiss.

    Treat the king with proper respect.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    Oh my goodness

    I want that

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    Brainleech wrote: »
    I found a book in a store that offers those eductionial toys, collectable bears and so on, that was of Greek and Norse mythology{an intersting combo} .

    It gives a very good detail of the complex norse regilon; it explains the Yggdrasil, the great halls on it, and the beings that inhabit it.

    that's pretty awesome

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  • <3<3 Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    hahaha KING FAG and IDIOT FACE.

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    The user and all related content has been deleted.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited March 2007
    AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA KING FAG AHAHAHAHHA

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    :(

    I've learned my lesson.

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  • World as MythWorld as Myth a breezy way to annoy serious people Registered User regular
    edited March 2007
    I haven't

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