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Old 05-11-2015, 09:13 AM   #16
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*Citation Needed.

Of course, now that it's on the Cellar, we can cite to it.
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:18 AM   #17
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*Citation Needed.
Tell it to Wikipedia.
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:25 AM   #18
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That's what I'm talking about. Anybody can edit wikipedia, and a statement like that one would normally be followed by a citation on wikipedia if it was true. Apparently Mort Walker isn't a topic that gets close scrutiny, and so an unsupported claim like this one can be up there for a while before it gets corrected.
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:30 AM   #19
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Did you know

that Mort Walker invented a device for prevention of misdirection of urinary flow? The patent mentions Hypospadias(<--prolly NSFW wikilink), so, something must have been going on down there...
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:31 AM   #20
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That's what I'm talking about. Anybody can edit wikipedia, and a statement like that one would normally be followed by a citation on wikipedia if it was true. Apparently Mort Walker isn't a topic that gets close scrutiny, and so an unsupported claim like this one can be up there for a while before it gets corrected.
I understand that. I'm just telling you that's where I got my info.
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:34 AM   #21
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Ya gotta admit, though, "I couldn't be a Navy SEAL cuz my dick is too big." is an attention getter.
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Old 05-11-2015, 09:41 AM   #22
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Your link was an attention getter. Dickbait, if you will.
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Old 05-11-2015, 10:11 AM   #23
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So I was curious about that entry in wikipedia on his early life. The only citation for everything there is (p.35 Anderson, Captain John D. & Walker, Mort Mort Walker: Conversations Univ. Press of Mississippi, 28/01/2005)

But that page as found in Google Books, contains absolutely none of that information.

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I'm not somebody who has gotten into the whole maintaining Wikipedia articles thing, but that whole paragraph should be deleted since the citation bears no resemblance to what's on the cited page, although when you read the whole chapter that citation is from, it touches on a few of the things in that paragraph. But nothing about Mort's manhood.
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Old 05-11-2015, 10:44 AM   #24
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Grav always has at least one good amusement each day.
I don't know where he gets them, but if Wikipedia is his source, all the better.

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Old 05-11-2015, 10:57 AM   #25
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Yeah. He does.
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:19 AM   #26
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Looks like I got this outta the way early.


After a quick perusal of the book at the link in Glatt's post, all this amusement can be killed with these two quotes:

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He didn't volunteer, for the Navy or the Army, he was drafted...There are no privates in the Navy (snicker).

So, there ya go.
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:21 AM   #27
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...but if Wikipedia is his source, all the better.
Apparently not.

Ah, well.

Maybe the truth is not out there, after all. Trust no one.
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:35 AM   #28
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I have fixed the Wikipedia page.
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:37 AM   #29
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Old 05-11-2015, 11:45 AM   #30
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Yeah the edit was made a few months ago by the user "BenStein69".

You figure it's the real Ben Stein?
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