The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 days agoEveryone needs a hobbylemmy.worldimagemessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1524arrow-down16
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minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up122·edit-25 days agoAt one point, a huge chunk of Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who did not know Scots
minus-squareMyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up25·5 days agoWhen I learned about this it was the funniest thing I had heard. Like rolled around and nearly wet myself funny. Nobody else has shared the humour with me and I have told lots of people. Sorry for linking to that site, but this is where I learned about it, and Reddit is pivotal to the discovery https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ign4gw/in_rscotland_one_user_discovers_that_almost_the/
minus-squarep3n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoReminds me of the Alan MacMasters hoax, famous inventor of the toaster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_MacMasters_hoax
At one point, a huge chunk of Scottish Wikipedia was written by an American teenager who did not know Scots
When I learned about this it was the funniest thing I had heard. Like rolled around and nearly wet myself funny.
Nobody else has shared the humour with me and I have told lots of people.
Sorry for linking to that site, but this is where I learned about it, and Reddit is pivotal to the discovery
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/ign4gw/in_rscotland_one_user_discovers_that_almost_the/
Reminds me of the Alan MacMasters hoax, famous inventor of the toaster: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_MacMasters_hoax