Wierd funny pages3/24/2023 And the other instance might have been even stranger: Three years after Samuel Israel III’s hedge fund, Bayou-which the Madoffs had invested with-was indicted for fraud in 2005, Israel failed to show up for his prison sentence, faked his death with the help of a line from the TV show M*A*S*H, and was ultimately tracked down by the Feds at a campground. When the former team owners were revealed to have (knowingly?) gotten got by Bernie Madoff’s infamous fraud back in 2008, it wasn’t even the first time they’d been associated with a pyramid scheme. Route: New York Mets → Fred Wilpon → Samuel Israel III → Faked Death and Ponzi Scheme (separate tabs) → Lawrence Joseph Baderįans (and enemies!) of the New York Mets will be unsurprised to learn that the rich tapestry of Wikipedia directory pages for both “People Who Faked Their Own Death” and “Pyramid and Ponzi Schemes” can be found only a few clicks away from the franchise’s main page. Wikipedia’s Best Worst NBA Photos Are Modern Art The Fight to Win the Pettiest Edit Wars on Wikipedia Classic Mets So My Editor Made Me Review Their Wiki Pages. Anyways, thanks for the pick-me-up, Wikipedia. What the-why wasn’t this the show?! Or better yet, why doesn’t MTV stop playing Ridiculousness all day and start production on a fictionalized version of this story?! It’s like Friday Night Lights if Coach Taylor were an antihero. Propst revealed he was married to two women and had children with both.” Let me just drop this in: “On October 30, 2007, Propst resigned from the head coaching position of Hoover High School effective at the end of the season, while admitting to extramarital affairs and living a double life. (You remember Two-A-Days, right? That show where every guy had that swoopy haircut?) Nothing about the actual show is illuminated by the entry, but then you get to the section about the guy who coached the team Two-A-Days focused on, Rush Propst. That’s what happened when I found myself scrolling through the page for MTV’s high school football reality show, Two-A-Days. But then once in awhile, you land on something that snaps you back to life. It’s not hard to get lost on Wikipedia-dazed, bored, link-hopping with hardly a thought. Route: The Challenge (TV Series) → The Real World → MTV → List of Programs Broadcast by MTV → List of Programs Broadcast by MTV, Former Programming → Two-A-Days → Two-A-Days, Rush Propst Controversy The Real Drama Behind MTV’s Short-lived Two-A-Days To celebrate the birthday of Wikipedia, The Ringer recounts those glorious wormholes. Sometimes you return from those journeys with nothing, but other times, you come back with something you’ll never forget. In the past 20 years, Wikipedia has been a shorthand source for facts both useful and useless-but it’s also been an incredible outlet for time-wasting, for clicking from page to page until you’re in so deep you can hardly remember where you started. The ease with which you can look up Hannibal’s Retreat is matched only by the ease with which you can look up what happened in the season premiere of Hannibal -and you have Wikipedia to thank for that. Wikipedia went live, gifting the world with a cavern of endless information, both helpful and potentially questionable. Twenty years ago this Friday, January 15, the internet changed forever.
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