Super Evening Wear Detectives

While cleaning out my Google Bookmarks folder, I noticed a plethora of Wikipedia pages that I had decided to save for later. That later never really came, and now the little yellow stars in the toolbar are becoming sad white ones. But I thought I’d make a note of these pages on the blog, possibly because you all might be amused by them. I’ve separated them into two lists: ones for which the initial appeal is obvious and ones that I can’t remember ever taking note of, one way or the other.

Of interest, perhaps:

• The Boll Weevil Monument of Enterprise, Alabama (The only known monument to an agricultural pest.)
• Abracadabra (It actually means something!)
  
• The “Lost Chapter” section of the page on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (It tells of a golden ticket winner omitted from the final version of the book: Miranda Piker, a teacher’s pet who is apparently ground into powder.)
• The category page for LGBT Supervillains (Considering how long comics have been around and how central spandexed muscle is to the superhero genre, the list is surprisingly short.)

• The Fennec Fox (Which in addition to being adorable on a supernatural level is also the only species of fox that can be kept as a pet.)
  
• The page for “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” (This is the proper spelling for the Sly and the Family Stone song. Who knew?)
• Talespin (The old Jungle Book-associated Disney series seems to be loosely based on a bygone ABC series, Tales of the Gold Monkey, which had a remarkably similar premise. Who knew?)
• Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (A play that imagines what the Peanuts characters might be like as teenagers. Who knew? It features a neat little name trick in that the Peppermint Patty analogue is called Tricia York.)
• The “Foreign Versions” section of the page on Golden Girls (British version: Brighton Belles. Russian version: Bolshie Devochki, or “Big Girls.” Greek version: Chrysa Koritsia, or “Gold Girls.”)
• The section on the Wikipedia page for the music interval known as the tritone in which the alleged Satanic implications of this compositional element are discussed.
• The page on Japanese sound symbolism (I have no idea why the page is not titled Japanese onomatopoeia.)
• Eastern Airlines Flight 401 (A real-life doomed plane that inspired a bad movie I once saw involving a haunted plane.)
• The page on the 2003 film The Room (Infamously terrible and aired on Adult Swim this year as an April Fools joke.)
• Guy Burgess (Gay British double agent and all-around interesting guy.)
• Aokigahara (Also known as the Sea of Trees, this is a forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji famous for being a confusing maze in which many hikers get so lost they die. Others just commit suicide there.)
  

Of questionable value:

• Domovoi
• George Peppard
  
• The obscure Wizard of Oz character Betsy Bobbin
  
• Yourba religion
  
• The disaster film Rollercoaster
  
• Goetic demons in popular culture
• Off-brand superhero series Femforce
  
• the video game Arm Wrestling, a little-known spin-off of the Punch-Out!! games
• Ontotheology
• Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 film Jungfrukällan, or The Virgin Spring
• Devo spin-off group Devo 2.0
• The 1941 Chinese animated film Princess Iron Fan
• Suits (as in, like, cards)
• Rheum (that is, eye cripsies)
• Prawns
  

Perhaps some of you may have some idea why I had any reason to look at the “of questionable value” bookmarks. I sure don’t. Fun lot though.