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McKFC t1_jazthzu wrote
Reply to Uncyclopedia parody of Wikipedia! by Dry-Lie-7476
Oh God my terrible article I made when I was 13 is still there, and it's been expanded
McKFC OP t1_j7anuqf wrote
Reply to comment by beachedwhale1945 in TIL in early 1942 the Battle of Los Angeles was fought, with an hour-long barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fired from the city against a perceived Japanese invasion. The cause: a stray weather balloon. by McKFC
There was a funny (and a bit racist) mythology built up around Ellwood. Not remotely true, but it gained popularity as explanation for the lack of damage, when there was opportunity to seriously disable critical war infrastructure.
The story goes that, before the war, a man named Kozo Nishino had served on an oil tanker that docked near the refinery. He was invited for a courtesy tour. While strolling around the facilities with the other dignitaries, he noticed a patch of cactuses behind a fence - a type of fauna that was novel to him - so he decided he'd climb the fence to clip a piece to take back home. Well, unfortunately, he slipped on the fence, right onto a large cactus. His yelp drew bellowing laughs from his American hosts, and the embarrassment was a source of great shame to him for many years.
Cut to the war, and Nishino is now commander of a submarine, the I-17. As fate would have it, he was once again docked near that oil field. The instructions came in to pick a target for what would be the first attack on the continental United States. Commander Nishino knew what he had to do. He ordered his submarine to Ellwood, weapons armed, and instructed his men, "Aim at that cactus!"
McKFC OP t1_j78jsks wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL in early 1942 the Battle of Los Angeles was fought, with an hour-long barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fired from the city against a perceived Japanese invasion. The cause: a stray weather balloon. by McKFC
Per the 1949 report, "once the firing started, imagination created all kinds of targets in the sky and everyone joined in"
The event was the inspiration for Spielberg's third big film, 1941, an uneven but unjustly maligned war satire written by a pre-Back to the Future Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
Edit: the scene in question
McKFC t1_j2dheby wrote
Reply to comment by NootNootington in Brian May gets a knighthood in New Year Honours list by StephenHunterUK
To get a sense of how his reputation precedes him
McKFC t1_j2c7l89 wrote
Reply to comment by j_accuse in Brian May gets a knighthood in New Year Honours list by StephenHunterUK
He's a notorious prick but good for you!
McKFC t1_ir51xov wrote
Reply to comment by ethan52695 in WSJ: Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times by neighborhood-chad
There was an excellent comment about the various possible methods of cheating irl (to add to your list, distant sounds like car horns, light reflected through any window) that make it impossible to prevent.
McKFC t1_ir51kgv wrote
Reply to comment by ethan52695 in WSJ: Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times by neighborhood-chad
>Much of which he admitted to.
He admitted to cheating when he was 12 and 16. This is far beyond the scope, which is the newsworthy part, because it shows that he continues to lie about cheating in the past.
McKFC t1_jazzga9 wrote
Reply to comment by TheSkullKroncher in Uncyclopedia parody of Wikipedia! by Dry-Lie-7476
Nope nope nope! I will not expose myself to this level of shame