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glatt · 05-11-2015, 10:13 AM

*Citation Needed.

Of course, now that it's on the Cellar, we can cite to it.

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

*Citation Needed.

Tell it to Wikipedia.

glatt · 05-11-2015, 10:25 AM

That's what I'm talking about. Anybody can edit wikipedia, and a statement like that one would normally be followed by a citation on wikipedia if it was true. Apparently Mort Walker isn't a topic that gets close scrutiny, and so an unsupported claim like this one can be up there for a while before it gets corrected.

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 10:30 AM

Did you know

that Mort Walker invented a device for prevention of misdirection of urinary flow? The patent mentions Hypospadias(<--prolly NSFW wikilink), so, something must have been going on down there...

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

That's what I'm talking about. Anybody can edit wikipedia, and a statement like that one would normally be followed by a citation on wikipedia if it was true. Apparently Mort Walker isn't a topic that gets close scrutiny, and so an unsupported claim like this one can be up there for a while before it gets corrected.

I understand that. I'm just telling you that's where I got my info.

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 10:34 AM

Ya gotta admit, though, "I couldn't be a Navy SEAL cuz my dick is too big." is an attention getter.

BigV · 05-11-2015, 10:41 AM

Your link was an attention getter. Dickbait, if you will.

glatt · 05-11-2015, 11:11 AM

So I was curious about that entry in wikipedia on his early life. The only citation for everything there is (p.35 Anderson, Captain John D. & Walker, Mort Mort Walker: Conversations Univ. Press of Mississippi, 28/01/2005)

But that page as found in Google Books, contains absolutely none of that information.

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I'm not somebody who has gotten into the whole maintaining Wikipedia articles thing, but that whole paragraph should be deleted since the citation bears no resemblance to what's on the cited page, although when you read the whole chapter that citation is from, it touches on a few of the things in that paragraph. But nothing about Mort's manhood.

Lamplighter · 05-11-2015, 11:44 AM

Grav always has at least one good amusement each day.
I don't know where he gets them, but if Wikipedia is his source, all the better.

glatt · 05-11-2015, 11:57 AM

Yeah. He does.

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 12:19 PM

Looks like I got this outta the way early.

After a quick perusal of the book at the link in Glatt's post, all this amusement can be killed with these two quotes:

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He didn't volunteer, for the Navy or the Army, he was drafted...There are no privates in the Navy (snicker).

So, there ya go.

Gravdigr · 05-11-2015, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter

...but if Wikipedia is his source, all the better.

Apparently not.

Ah, well.

Maybe the truth is not out there, after all. Trust no one.

Undertoad · 05-11-2015, 12:35 PM

I have fixed the Wikipedia page.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-11-2015, 12:37 PM

Party pooper.

Undertoad · 05-11-2015, 12:45 PM

Yeah the edit was made a few months ago by the user "BenStein69".

You figure it's the real Ben Stein?

05-11-2015, 10:30 AM	#19
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Did you know that Mort Walker invented a device for prevention of misdirection of urinary flow? The patent mentions Hypospadias(<--prolly NSFW wikilink), so, something must have been going on down there... __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

05-11-2015, 10:34 AM	#21
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Ya gotta admit, though, "I couldn't be a Navy SEAL cuz my dick is too big." is an attention getter. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

05-11-2015, 10:41 AM	#22
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Your link was an attention getter. Dickbait, if you will. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

05-11-2015, 11:11 AM	#23
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	So I was curious about that entry in wikipedia on his early life. The only citation for everything there is (p.35 Anderson, Captain John D. & Walker, Mort Mort Walker: Conversations Univ. Press of Mississippi, 28/01/2005) But that page as found in Google Books, contains absolutely none of that information. I'm not somebody who has gotten into the whole maintaining Wikipedia articles thing, but that whole paragraph should be deleted since the citation bears no resemblance to what's on the cited page, although when you read the whole chapter that citation is from, it touches on a few of the things in that paragraph. But nothing about Mort's manhood.

05-11-2015, 12:19 PM	#26
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Looks like I got this outta the way early. After a quick perusal of the book at the link in Glatt's post, all this amusement can be killed with these two quotes: He didn't volunteer, for the Navy or the Army, he was drafted...There are no privates in the Navy (snicker). So, there ya go. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

05-11-2015, 10:13 AM	#16
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	*Citation Needed. Of course, now that it's on the Cellar, we can cite to it.

05-11-2015, 10:25 AM	#18
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's what I'm talking about. Anybody can edit wikipedia, and a statement like that one would normally be followed by a citation on wikipedia if it was true. Apparently Mort Walker isn't a topic that gets close scrutiny, and so an unsupported claim like this one can be up there for a while before it gets corrected.

05-11-2015, 11:44 AM	#24
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Grav always has at least one good amusement each day. I don't know where he gets them, but if Wikipedia is his source, all the better.

05-11-2015, 11:57 AM	#25
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah. He does.

05-11-2015, 12:35 PM	#28
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have fixed the Wikipedia page.

05-11-2015, 12:37 PM	#29
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Party pooper. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-11-2015, 12:45 PM	#30
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yeah the edit was made a few months ago by the user "BenStein69". You figure it's the real Ben Stein?

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