Bizarre fact about the year of my birth
Feb. 5th, 2004 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I was at Wikipedia, checking the name of a poetic foot*, and got to wandering, as it's impossible not to do on Wikipedia. And the fascinating fact of my title is that one eighth of the famous people born in the same year as me are rappers**.
*Cue jokes about right or left, and which poet, and so on***
Edited to add: ** That's "rappers" as in guys with too much gold jewellery and their underpants sitting higher up than their trousers****, not anything to do with the strange habits of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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***Two unstressed syllables, followed by one stressed one, since you asked. It's called an anapest.
*** Or, um, whatever the current fashion is.
Oh god. I think the footnotes are trying to eat me.
I was at Wikipedia, checking the name of a poetic foot*, and got to wandering, as it's impossible not to do on Wikipedia. And the fascinating fact of my title is that one eighth of the famous people born in the same year as me are rappers**.
*Cue jokes about right or left, and which poet, and so on***
Edited to add: ** That's "rappers" as in guys with too much gold jewellery and their underpants sitting higher up than their trousers****, not anything to do with the strange habits of
venta***Two unstressed syllables, followed by one stressed one, since you asked. It's called an anapest.
*** Or, um, whatever the current fashion is.
Oh god. I think the footnotes are trying to eat me.
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Date: 2004-02-06 10:23 am (UTC)one eighth of the famous people born in the same year as me are rappers
Wikipedia's lists are rubbish - some attempt to be exhaustive but either haven't been finished or aren't maintained. Some attempt to only include those entries for which there is a separate article, but again there's nothing to keep them up to date as new articles are created. What it really needs is a proper category system so that this stuff can be auto-generated.