While looking for a Penny Arcade strip after a friend announced that he was planning to marry a mermaid, I discovered the Wikipedia page on the “mermaid problem,” said problem being the difficulties that human men have having sex with them. It mentions two solutions to the problem without noting the main difficulty men have in this, which is that mermaids do not exist. It also goes on to mention H.P. Lovecraft and Starbucks in the same sentence, which is always a winner.
I note this because the internet decided there needed to be an encyclopedia page on the subject, with more than 100 people contributing to it over the past 5 years. And you can’t get your own Wikipedia page because you are not notable enough.
: Zubon
I have a similar sense of wonderment with Wikipedia (let alone the rest of the internet).
Some examples – just in sci-fi – include Law in Star Trek (http://is.gd/6sgaN); a page devoted to descriptions of all the planets and moons featured in Firefly (http://is.gd/6sgOF); and a biography of the spaceship GCU Grey Area (http://is.gd/6sj8X) from the Iain M Banks novel Excession.
In other words, a fictional spaceship is more noteworthy than you are. :-)
Well congratulations for Starbucks for designing a shaggable mermaid.
Such attention to details is the foundation for a highly successful business, let all would-be entrepreneurs take note.
While mermaids not existing is certainly a problem for the man, it is probably more of a problem for the mermaid.
Thanks for the link to the wiki page. I have learned something new today!
Any post with a PA comic linked is a win, but to then get this:
“While mermaids not existing is certainly a problem for the man, it is probably more of a problem for the mermaid.”
Yea, pure win right here.