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wow, the best wikipedia article ever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.14.184.206 (talk) 01:37, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
Al Capone's vault
edit"The live prime time special of Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault, which turned out to be empty." Anyone want to explain more about this? Such as what year, for example. Was it really that notable? I don't remember it at all, but then again it could have been before I was born. -Hyad 2 July 2005 23:33 (UTC)
- It was around 1987
- This was a heavily hyped special called The Secrets of Al Capone's Vault that aired on 1986-04-21. They the media pushed it for weeks, and the thing allegedly got a 57 rating, the highest rating in U.S. history for a TV special. They jackhammered at a wall the basement of the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, for over an hour and a half, finally got the thing open, and found dirt. Once they got the hole completely open, they found a green beer bottle in the dirt. Near the upper left-hand side of the dirt, if I remember. I think they later found a couple more bottles. --Closeapple 07:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone explain why the 1986 coming of Halley's Comet was supposed to be a non-event!? On the danger of sounding a little something towards the contributor, but I feel he is either a big Lifeforce fan, expecting the discovery of some alien ship inside of the comet's coma, or he is American, as the Challenger catastrophe prevented the NASA from doing the planned research on Halley. I remember its report here in Europe, and it came around as expected - full with images and stuff. JM.Beaubourg 22:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
- He may be referring to the fact that it was unusually distant from the Earth during the 1986 pass, but I don't recall anybody claiming that it would be any different: it was well known that the 1986 Halley pass would be relatively unimpressive. – ClockworkSoul 23:51, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
- The reference made no sense to me when I read it. The comet "arrived" on time, had a tail as described, and we (in South Wales) could see it every night. Memorable, yes, non event, no. --Ear1grey 14:30, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
HM QE2's Golden Jubilee
editI doubt the Golden Jubilee was a non-event. People from around the world (not just the UK) celebrated it! Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, however. Andrew 23:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Agree, this is merely the author's personal opinion Emoscopes 23:44, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- Sounds very POV to me. And I'm in the US, but I don't remember the Golden Jubilee being particularly like a let-down. --Closeapple 07:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
The Stangnet joke
editYesterday I deleted the following entry for not being enciclopedic:
StangNet member TheRican's first date with an older, Pennsylvanian Dutch female who is religious. He did not get a kiss the first time, but has vowed to get one after pottery painting on Wednesday, July 18.
That very same day someone else added another entry related to the same joke:
The GOIR thread located at http://getonitracing.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2311 is also a description of a non-event...
I deleted the new entry for the same reason. For more information, read Wikipedia:Vandalism.