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Old 24-February-2007, 01:18 PM
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February 24: I don't care what day it is.Yeah, I know this was probably posted before, but there's nothing wrong with an occasional reminder. After all, who cares?
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Welcome to the Uncyclopedia! If you're here, you've probably found us through some blog, or other variety site, and have stumbled on to the Main Page with the intent of contributing to our giant mass of misinformation to add to the even larger mass of porn and other misinformation called the Internet. If not, then you've been sent here by an admin for an error in judgment or lack of sanity. Either way, we're glad you're here and reading this.
I agree this will be "The Alternative" for Wikipedia!
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There's also The Conservapedia which is not, unfortunately, a satire. For example the article on Kangaroos:

"Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East[1] and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood."
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Wow. While I'm not fond of "C.E." myself, I wouldn't call it "anti-Christian"!
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There's also The Conservapedia which is not, unfortunately, a satire. For example the article on Kangaroos:

"Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East[1] and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood."
When I first saw that site I thought it was a satire site, but it appears legitimate. I've been entertaining myself reading some of their articles and the discussions about them. They may not consider themselves a humor site but I get much humor from them

Their server is very slow though, pages often time out for me.

Edit: I can't seem to view the page discussions anymore, seems you now need an account to even view the discussion pages. There also doesn't seem to be a way to create an account at this time. The "create an account" button has gone missing.

Additional edit: Seems you are only required to log in if there is no current discussion for the page, you are then directed to edit mode which does require a log in. If there is currently some discussion you are allowed to view it, but not edit it.

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NPR recently interviewed the creator of Conservapedia. He's dead serious.
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Well, he does have a point about predominant liberal bias at Wikipedia, and teh zanier articles at Conservapedia probably were written by others. (And they could very well have been liberals making fun of conservatism.)
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D'oh! Isn't this all we really need??
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Well, he does have a point about predominant liberal bias at Wikipedia,
at least relative to his own bias.
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I don't get a liberal bias in Wikipedia. There are as many rabid conservatives as rabid liberals editing it. Believe me, I've seen the discussion pages.

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Wow. While I'm not fond of "C.E." myself, I wouldn't call it "anti-Christian"!
I find CE incredibly pompous. Who says any kind of "common era" began when Christ was born? Yes, nowadays most nations of the the world, for reasons of expediency, are using the Christian calendar, but they didn't automatically start using it the moment Christ was born.
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I find CE incredibly pompous. Who says any kind of "common era" began when Christ was born? Yes, nowadays most nations of the the world, for reasons of expediency, are using the Christian calendar, but they didn't automatically start using it the moment Christ was born.
Heck, no one did. (Or, as one of the books I read once put it, "Truly, he was the Son of God. Time to redo the calendar.")
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Well yes, I did know that of course. I have a soft spot for inventors, especially inventors named Little Dennis.

I've always been a bit puzzled as to why Denny wanted to fix the date of Jesus's birth as the beginning of the Christian era. Surely the Christian era began with Jesus's crucifiction, no?
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Good point. And since he got the date wrong anyway . . . .
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Good point. And since he got the date wrong anyway . . . .
...by at least 4 years...
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