12/5/09

Wikipedia is a great knowledge sharing website that serves almost the entire web community. It is also a great website just to stumble upon to provide some educational amusement. For example, I bought a ticket for a New Year’s Eve party in Chicago at a place called Lumen. When I was looking it up on line I noticed that the word was referenced in wikipedia. Upon following this link, it came to my attention that the name of the bar I will be attending on New Years is also the name for the inner lining of many tracts in the body, including the small intestine. Interesting name…

Wikipedia is also the perfect place to go when you are unsure about a topic and you would like a quick fix of insight as to what it is. Often, students use wikipedia to lean a brief background on topics they are researching, although it is an academia faux-pas to cite this as a source. Why? Well mainly because this is an open-source, user sharing, encyclopedia, which has the potential to allow fallacies to be written in certain pages. Generally I use Wikipedia to introduce me to topics before I fully research them because it does serve a lot of educational purposes. However, when I was roaming around last week I did happen to find a ridiculous passage on the Lyndbrook Senior High School wikipedia page. I thought it was hilarious… read and decide:

“Michael Schlossberg is an Owl football great, winning “The Unsung Hero” award in 2006. With one 2-point conversion in a JV season, Schlossberg was often compared to Notre Dame spark plug Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger. With many hopes of a promising career, he never played a down in varsity. Schlossberg claimed to record one touchdown in a regular season game, but a mysterious scoring error allowed for this touchdown to go unrecorded. ESPN ranked this moment at number 7 on its “Top 100 Biggest Sports Myths.” Schlossberg eventually retired from football and moved on to bigger and better things, becoming an elementary education major at The University of Arizona.

One thing that Schlossberg is so well known for is his inspiring quotes. He has incorporated many uplifting words of wisdom is speeches that he has delivered across the country. Some of these quotes include: “Are you going to be worthless your whole life or are you going to become the most legit toquito salesman of all time?” “I didn’t fly 3,000 miles to sit on my ass.” “My dad might have two hearing aids; one in each ear. But me, I just take Rogain.” “There is always somebody out there who is going to want to throw a tomato at you. When life throws you tomatoes, make soup.” “11 hats on the ball, all eyes on my cock.”

A film based on the life of Schlossberg is currently in pre-production. The working title for the movie is, “Love, Laugh, Cry: The Story of a Champ.””

– Wikipedia

If it is not apparent, this is a joke. It’s almost more like an urbandictionary.com definition of this kid’s name, but instead it is on the profile page for this highschool in New York. Furthermore, wikipedia is a great tool, but can also allow for some erroneous information to seep through the cracks. Don’t ask me why I was looking up Lyndbrook High School…

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