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Re: Weishampel exchange

Thanks for helping me keep an eye on this thing. I note with some alarm that you are attending my alma mater and hope that it's just coincidence and not indicative of anything... =) Powers 23:49, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi Powers, I appreciated the note. If this concomitance means anything I'm sure it is that we make fine Wikipedians, being keepers of the peace and all. Really though, I came across the article from CollegeHumor, and considering some of the college-aged people I know... well, suffice to say that I expected worse. I'm just waiting for the link to be archived on CollegeHumor so that we can nominate it for deletion without interference (unless of course someone could prove to me that it wasn't a joke?). Anyways, thanks! ~MDD4696 00:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Wrong IP

Sure did, went to history and the editor had entered an IP with one edit and no warnings, so its contagious. I left a message on their page (Phatmonkey, the editor who made the request.) KillerChihuahua 20:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Evils of Atheism

It's about damn time somebody taught atheists their own medicine, and before you ask, I do not generalize, I think there's a cultural distinction between atheism and nonbelievers. Atheists tend to be enraged over religion of any kind, and spend a lot of time elevating Darwin and bemoaning the Crusades. Nonbelievers in general - say, someone who's raised a Christian, believes the Bible is an allegory, and only attends church for a funeral or perhaps at Christmastime - tend to adopt a "Whatever gets you through the night" philosophy and be quiet on matters of faith. It's sort of like the difference between a devout vegetarian and someone who hates the taste of meat. Atheists are proud of their hate. It is something that they love devoutly and use it to hate christians.

Hilary Duff Merge

Why do you think the two Hilary Duff pages should be merged? Tcatron565

Notable People standard

How notable does a person have to be to qualify to be in Misplaced Pages? --Masssiveego 00:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

POV Check on MADtv Article

I Fixed the MADtv article on the second paragraph. all i did was toshow the history of MADtv i didn't mean to say about the favor over seasons. when i did it the rules popped out of my head so can you please takre out the POV check ~~Metlover21 5:56 3, Febuary 2006 (UTC)

Cameltoe

The old link didn't work. I guess snopes didn't like linking to their site. So, that's why I changed it. If you have an image with higher resolution, feel free to change it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.163.31 (talk • contribs)

Visit my Wikicity

If you know what wikicities is then i invite you to see my Wikicity The in living color guide it has facts and info on the show if you would like to visit go to the link on the bottom if you would like to leave a comment then go to discussion thank you Metlover21 23:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Spycraft Linkification

Thanks for adding the link to the Star Wars rpg. I was working on that article while at work last night, so some things were missed ;) Cybogoblin 02:37, 28 February 2006 (UTC) (PS. Is this the same Lt Powers as is on the AEG Forums?)

Categories for deletion

Why did you only list Category:People who worked with Ralph Bakshi for deletion, and not Category:People who worked with David Lynch? How is one superior to the other? If neither of which is notable, why not try to get both of them deleted? (Ibaranoff24 03:30, 7 March 2006 (UTC))

Daystar (hacker culture)

Your comment on removing the prod was "it's been around for ages." Can you provide a reference? A search of daystar slang on Google only turns up Wiktionary. A search of daystar hacker only turns up Misplaced Pages mirrors as relevant hits. Daystar is also a company so it could be overwhelmed by that, but I couldn't find a reference. I'll agree the term "day star" has been used for quite a long time, but I see no evidence that it's part of hacker culture. Day star, in common usage, is a reference to Venus (also called the morning star and evening star). Thanks. -- JLaTondre 13:32, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Reference from 2000: Another reference from 2000: From 1999:

I can't find any older references, but its usage in the above links seems to indicate it was at least recognizable if not in widespread use by the year 2000. "Evil DayStar" and "The rumors of the Daystar are true!" appear to be the most common constructions. Powers 14:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)