What’s worse is a “wikiloop” - that’s what you’re in when you click on a link and find another interesting item…with another link…and another…and before you know it, it’s three hours later and you’ve opened up 137 tabs in your browser.
It concerns me that elephants are noodling around on Wikipedia rather than forming People’s Committees of the Pachyderm Republic to discuss why they are endangered.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
I have no doubt that you coined “wikiloop” on your own, runar. But like most words and ideas, others come up with them independently, too. How can I break this to you gently, man? YOUR word has been on Urban Dictionary for months. I’m wikisorry.
THE LACUS CURTIUS is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small, more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone, but once said to have been a widening chasm. Its nature and significance in Rome’s early history is unknown…
itchybacon, I came up with the term a few years ago, and mentioned it to a few acquaintances, may have used it in the web once or twice. someone out there may have intercepted it and posted it to UD. The problem is that by the time something becomes used enough to merit a UD entry, it’s too late to claim credit for it. I certainly wouldn’t go around posting something I just made up to a dictionary, urban or otherwise. I get their word of the day by email, but I don’t dwell there.
‘Wikiloop’ is in the same class as the extraordinary discovery I made about 42.
margueritem about 16 years ago
How could you tell?
runar about 16 years ago
What’s worse is a “wikiloop” - that’s what you’re in when you click on a link and find another interesting item…with another link…and another…and before you know it, it’s three hours later and you’ve opened up 137 tabs in your browser.
margueritem about 16 years ago
LOL, Runar. I take you are personally acquainted with this?
prettyfeet about 16 years ago
THE AUCKLAND ISLAND GOAT was a feral breed of domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) found on Auckland Island, New Zealand. It is now extinct.
Jml58 about 16 years ago
Prettyfeet.
Did they taste good?
runar about 16 years ago
Intimately, margueritem, intimately. In fact, I probably invented the term - this is the first time I’ve mentioned it in post.
Thomas R. Williams about 16 years ago
Elephant’s Child, filled with ever so much ‘satiable curtiosity?
Ray_C about 16 years ago
The worst of it is…elephants never forget! Aukland island goats tasted like a cross between a California condor and a spotted owl. (Sorry, old joke.)
olivefoote about 16 years ago
I once got stuck in a wikiloop while eating Froot Loops. A wikifrootloop!
plight about 16 years ago
It concerns me that elephants are noodling around on Wikipedia rather than forming People’s Committees of the Pachyderm Republic to discuss why they are endangered. I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
itchybacon about 16 years ago
I have no doubt that you coined “wikiloop” on your own, runar. But like most words and ideas, others come up with them independently, too. How can I break this to you gently, man? YOUR word has been on Urban Dictionary for months. I’m wikisorry.
prettyfeet about 16 years ago
THE LACUS CURTIUS is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small, more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone, but once said to have been a widening chasm. Its nature and significance in Rome’s early history is unknown…
runar about 16 years ago
itchybacon, I came up with the term a few years ago, and mentioned it to a few acquaintances, may have used it in the web once or twice. someone out there may have intercepted it and posted it to UD. The problem is that by the time something becomes used enough to merit a UD entry, it’s too late to claim credit for it. I certainly wouldn’t go around posting something I just made up to a dictionary, urban or otherwise. I get their word of the day by email, but I don’t dwell there.
‘Wikiloop’ is in the same class as the extraordinary discovery I made about 42.
6turtle9 over 3 years ago
Random Kingdom, my hometown.