User:MrPersonHumanGuy

Be the change you want to see in the world.
– Paraphrasis of an Obama campaign slogan

I came to Rome when it was a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
– Augustus Caesar

There is no going back. You have to go forwards to go back.
– Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

They made you think you had to pick a side, but there are no sides because we are all on the same team.
– Garnet in Steven Universe

We are all born originals, but many of us die as photocopies.
– Carlo Acutis

See a need, fill a need.
– Catchphrase from the movie Robots

Sometimes, things have to get really dumb before they can even start to get smart.
– Kevin Lieber

I may have made a lot of silly mistakes in the past, some of them I really wish didn't exist. But looking back, all of those mistakes led up to who I am today. If I hadn't had made those mistakes in the past, making them in the future will be inevitable, and it is only through learning from our previous mistakes do we become better at what we do.
– katyj98

The best way to get the correct answer isn't to ask a question, but to say the wrong answer.
– Cunningham's Law

Be careful of the truth.
– Chinese warning sign

Blessed are those who cast doubt upon that which is before them, for they shall not be easily deceived.

– Pseudocanonical beatitude

This user previously used another account: MrHumanPersonGuy.

What I've learned from the Reference desk

• March 2021: In one episode of the Animaniacs reboot, Yakko says "Croik misseur! Croik misseur! Croiks of all kinds!". What does he mean by "croik misseur"?

  He may have been referring to a dish called croque monsieur.

• May 2021: Why is the Babylon allegory from the Book of Revelation called the 5-letter W word that rhymes with chore?

  That word is a translation of the Greek word πόρνη (pornē) which means prostitute. It was also a figure of speech for an idolatress, and in the context of Revelation, Babylon is used as an allegory for Rome, which was considered the chief seat of idolatry.

• August 2021: How far back has something along the lines of "better forgiveness than permission" been said?

  The phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." was popularized by Grace Hopper, though it goes at least as far back as 1846 with an unclear reference to Francesco Barberini.

• January 2023: What does I like your cut g mean?

  Cut means haircut and g is short for gangster, though this particular phrase could be a variation of the older saying "I like the cut of your jib".

• April 2023: What's with the extremely long YouTube comments that start off with something like "I'm currently crying so hard right now"?

  Each comment of this sort may have have been the work of a bot or program.

• June 2023: My mouse sometimes treats one click as a double-click. As it turns out, my mouse button occasionally fails to hold for split-seconds unless I press down on it hard. Why does it act this way?

  This is often caused by dirt getting in the way of the actuator. If it bothers you, you may as well buy a new mouse or, if you use Windows, try something called AutoHotkey.

• September 2023: What does chille tid mean?

  Chilletid is a Danish and Norwegian Bokmål word that roughly translates to "chilling time". It's also a play on the phrase "chill a tad".

• November 2023: What is this "I know what you want girl" song that is being used in videos of a certain type?

  "all i want is you" by Rebzyyx

Reading is fun

Obscure topics that seem interesting

• Angalo – Really huge giant in the folklore of the Philippines' Ilocos region.
• Asphodel Meadows – A place that a deceased soul goes to if they aren't evil enough for Tartarus yet not quite heroic enough for Elysium.
• Biringan – City reportedly situated on the Philippine island of Samar according to a local urban legend.
• Combined approval voting – Upvotes minus downvotes.
• Daemones Ceramici – Evil spirits that bothered potters.
• Edison's Conquest of Mars – Early knockoff of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
• Engkanto – Shapeshifting beings in the folklore of the Philippines that can turn into humans without philtrums.
• Florence meridian – Proposed Italian alternative to the prime meridian.
• Gigantomania – When civilizations feel like building large structures.
• L'esprit de l'escalier – Have you ever come up with a good idea that you wish you had thought of earlier because it's too late to act on it now?
• Les Xipéhuz – A 19th-century book about sentient shapeshifting crystals which has nothing to do with an animated TV show about sentient shapeshifting crystals.
• Micromégas – Earth is visited by space giants.
• MS Fnd in a Lbry – Civilization ends up producing more information than it can make room for.
• Parable of the broken window – When someone tries to break things in order to make money for repairs, that leaves customers with less money to spend on other things.
• Patufet – Catalan folk character said to be the size of a grain of rice.
• Republic of Letters – Correspondence between Enlightenment-era intellectuals.
• Sandmännchen – With over 22,000 episodes, this is the most prolific TV show by a long shot.
• The Consonants at Law - Sigma vs. Tau, in the Court of the Seven Vowels – The letter S sues the letter T.
• Titivillus – Demon that gathers gaffes and causes writers to make typos.
• Tokoloshe – Mythical creature blamed for killing people who slept on the ground before carbon monoxide from fire was identified as the true culprit.
• Ṭūbā – A tree so huge that it would take a camel 100 years to travel across its shadow.
• Walden Two – Book about a strange society that operates on the premise that behavior is shaped by the environment.

Wacky facts I've found

• Ganesha in world religions § In Thailand:

  He is honoured with Motaka, sweets and fruit, when business is good, and he is made ridiculous by putting his picture or statue upside down, when business is down.

• Islam and magic § Iran:

  In Iran in 2011, 25 advisers and aides of the then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his chief of staff Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei were arrested on charges of practising sorcery and black magic. According to "the top sorcerer among Iran's ruling elite" (top "according to associates clients and government officials"), Ahmadinejad met with him "at least twice" (Ahmadinejad denies the charges), and was just one among "dozens" of high Iranian government officials" who consult him on "matters of national security". The "top" sorcerer (claims to) regularly contact Jinn who "work for Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, and for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency", and has had 'a long battle to infiltrate the Israeli jinn and find out what they know.'" The sorcerer also claimed that not only did jinn work for the US and Israel, but that some were being used by him "to infiltrate" Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies.

• Maji Maji Rebellion § Uprising:

  A spirit medium named Kinjikitile Ngwale, who practiced folk Islam that incorporated animist beliefs, claimed to be possessed by a snake spirit called Hongo. Ngwale began calling himself Bokero and developed a belief that the people of East Africa had been called upon to eliminate the Germans. German anthropologists recorded that he gave his followers war medicine that would turn German bullets into water. This "war medicine" was in fact water (maji in Kiswahili) mixed with castor oil and millet seeds. Empowered with this new liquid, Bokero's followers began what would become known as the Maji Maji Rebellion.

  ...

  German troops, armed with machine guns, departed from Mahenge to the Ngoni camp, which they attacked on 21 October. The Ngoni soldiers retreated, throwing away their bottles of war medicine and crying, "The maji is a lie!"

• March on the Pentagon § Protest:

  Not to be dissuaded, Abbie Hoffman vowed to levitate the Pentagon claiming he would attempt to use psychic energy to levitate the Pentagon until it would turn orange and begin to vibrate, at which time the war in Vietnam would end.

• Procrustes § Mythology:

  There he had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; if the guest was too short Procrustes would stretch them until they died; nobody ever fit the bed exactly.

• Ryūjin § How the jellyfish lost its bones:

  One legend involving Ryūjin is the story about how the jellyfish lost its bones. According to this story, Ryūjin wanted to eat monkey's liver (in some versions of the story, to heal an incurable rash), and sent the jellyfish to get him a monkey. The monkey managed to sneak away from the jellyfish by telling him that he had put his liver in a jar in the forest and offered to go and get it. As the jellyfish came back and told Ryūjin what had happened, Ryūjin became so angry that he beat the jellyfish until its bones were crushed.

• The Nose (Gogol short story):

  "The Nose" is divided into three parts and tells the story of Collegiate Assessor ('Major') Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning without his nose. He later finds out that his nose has developed a life of its own, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of State Councillor.

• Unitary executive theory § King of Great Britain:

  Invoking the king as an argument for expanded executive power was first made by the Supreme Court in Myers v. United States (1926), a decision delivered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a former president of the United States. Eric Nelson argued that some Founders wanted more checks on a president because unlike a hereditary monarch, their well-being was not as intrinsically tied to the nation.

• Ventriloquism § Origins:

  The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future.

Footnote: This takes "my gut is telling me something" to another level.

Articles with ridiculously long titles

• Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)
• Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon
• The Modification and Instrumentation of a Famous Hornpipe as a Merry and Altogether Sincere Homage to Uncle Alfred

Even worse jokes and even more nonsense

Article titles with multiple meanings

• Batman's Hill: The place where Wayne Manor is situated. Apparently claimed by Captain John Lancey of the USS Enterprise.
• Cat-sìth: Jedi felines that are aligned with the dark side of the force.
• CP violation: Whoever is guilty of unleashing an unspeakable evil of this sort is no boy scout. They do things we can't even talk about.
• End SARS: A movement to eradicate another virus besides polio.
• Free streaming: The use of a video on demand service without having to pay for it.
• Inaccessible Island rail: A network of isolated train tracks on a remote island.
• Mafia Island: A small landmass that the mafia operates from.
• Marcius Turbo: A turbo-tastically fast garden snail who was ranger _prefect of Newtopia _{the Praetorian Guard} as well as a close friend to Anne and Sasha and military advisor to King Andreas. _{emperors Trajan and Hadrian}
• McDonald Chapel, Alabama: When Chick fil-A is closed, this is where Rev. Ronald McDonald gives his McSermons.
• Mesoamerican cosmovision: The counterpart to WandaVision.
• Lushootseed: Something pertaining to seed-shooting.
• Quintus Caecilius Redditus: Not to be confused with 4chanus or Discordus.
• Reverend Gadget: A bumbling cyborg pastor who is hired by Father Quimby to go on missions to prevent Dr. Claw from interfering with his church services. Crime never sleeps, not even on Sundays.
• Stop squark: Objects in motion are closer than they appear. _{will stay in motion unless acted upon by a supersymmetric quark}
• The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782: A historical event portrayed in Captain Underpants and the Downward Demise of the Dastardly Duracells.

Article prose with multiple meanings I thought would be funny

See also: User:MrPersonHumanGuy/Wikipedia out of context

• Air Force One photo op incident:

  Although the planes were engaged in a photo op and training exercise, the citizens of New York and New Jersey had not been informed in advance; some thought it could be the makings of a terrorist attack similar to the September 11 attacks. Some people ran out of buildings while others had extra buildings to spare. When all the buildings were used up, new ones had to be built to meet demand.

• Alliance Defending Freedom:

  In Sweden, a midwife, Ellinor Grimmark, sued the province of Jönköping for discrimination because she was refused employment when, citing "freedom of conscience", she refused to give morning-after pills, perform abortions, or put in copper IUDs. She lost both her hearing before the Discrimination Ombudsman, and at the Jönköping district court, prompting her to get a hearing aid and a sign language interpreter.

• Santa Claus: The Christmas issue of NOAA's Weather Bureau Topics with "Santa Claus" streaking across a weather radar screen, 1958

  I find it unbelievable that Santa would do such a thing, especially during the winter. Even if all the children are asleep, he should at least put some pants on before he gets on his sleigh, and definitely before going down any chimney. I know the baby Jesus is sometimes shown in his birthday suit, but that doesn't justify such naughty behavior. On the other hand, that would explain why Santa prefers to let kids see him at the mall rather than at their homes on the night before Christmas.

Unique jerryfoolery for April Fools

717
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septunseptium

2023

At the Science reference desk, I asked for the abbreviation to the provisional name of a hypothetical element of atomic number 717 and got the answer I expected.

2024

In an effort to attempt to outdo myself, I started a joke RfC at the talk page for the lightbulb essay. However, a bunch of AfD ideas would come to me throughout the day, leading me to pretend to nominate these pages:

• Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)

We should get over here and finish him.

• United States customary units

If Americans were to ask what they could do for other countries, they might be told to put off some pounds and get over their obsession with feet.

Anyone who imagines the sun setting on the Empire is presumed to be a member of the rebel alliance and a traitor. In the event that the emperor starts training the constables to read minds and starts levying taxes on tinfoil and Faraday cage-like headgear, His Highnesty's subjects may have to learn to censor their mind's eye in order to avoid being caught.

• Constantinople

How this city got the works is classified information that the average reader is unlikely to have the required Turkish clearance for. Besides, the name is outdated.

• Sovereign citizen movement

I, in my full official capacity as an editor and contributor to the World Wide Web site known as en.Wikipedia.org, The Free Encyclopedia (henceforth "Wikipedia" or "the Site"), do hereby declare the particular Wikipedia page entitled "Sovereign citizen movement" (henceforth "the page of concern") to be exempt from inclusion on the Site. Furthermore, as the page of concern has been declared exempt from inclusion on the Site, any and all consensus amongst "the Wikipedia community" that the page of concern complies with the Site's "general notability guideline" is hereby null and void.

Objection I mean Keep: Articles aren't deleted because an editor declares them "exempt from inclusion" nor can anyone override consensus. This nomination is a blatant attempt at wikilawyering.

• Linguistic purism in English

Not only are there outlandish words in its name, it also has many outlandish words within itself and should be thrown out.

• Rescue helicopter

The fact that this vehicle was quickly built by hand to save a man who fell into a river in Lego City that one time isn't enough to make it notable.

• Lovecraftian horror

This article contains incomprehensible abominations that may put readers (especially humans) at a substantial risk of losing their sanity. Besides, Wikipedia already has plenty of articles on large entities that don't give a hoot about how their actions affect the lives of the mortals beneath them.

• Robbie Rotten

Just because he says his schemes will "go down in history" doesn't mean that they will. Besides, if anyone is #1, it's Smitty Werben Jaegerman Jensen.

• Kappa (folklore)

These creatures should at least be partially blocked from freshwater bodies and topic banned from physical contact in order to mitigate further incidents of harassment from them. If they continue to misbehave, further remedies may be pursued.

• Phineas and Ferb

These brothers from Danville can't get any of their backyard projects to last long enough for their mother to see when she comes home, so how are they supposed to maintain sustained coverage in any source outside of the Tri-State Area?

• Borg and Cybermen

These bot farms have made or attempted to make disruptive edits to civilizations across the galaxy, recruiting many innocent contributors in the process.

• Attack on Titan

Delete per WP:CRYSTAL and the Outer Space Treaty. Humanity has yet to maintain a crewed presence anywhere further than our own moon, so a military offensive against targets on Saturn's largest natural satellite would be out of the question for now.

• Dream Island

This missing island currently belongs to Leafy and is strictly for the birds, not to mention that it sounds like a disease. Delete per WP:BFDI.

Voters, if your comments look like this, we did not count your vote! You have to be more careful!

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phineas and Ferb: The Soundtrack

Please don't argue with the disembodied reggae space voice.

• Mr. Greg

April Fools' Day is over, isn't it? Why can't I move on?