1051: Visited

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Visited

Title text: I hate when I read something like '... tension among the BASE jumpers nearly led to wingsuit combat ...', and I get excited because 'wingsuit combat' is underlined, only to find that it's just separate links to the 'wingsuit' and 'combat' articles.

Explanation

This comic is a reference to how an internet browser will make the links of the pages that you have visited a different color than the links that you have not visited. In the case of Wikipedia (and other wikis powered by MediaWiki), they are blue for non visited and purple for visited. In this comic, Randall is ashamed of the pages he has visited, because with the color changes there is evidence of what he has visited in the past, i.e. autoerotic asphyxiation.

It is not possible to determine who this fake article is supposed to be about, but the Macarena band is certainly from Dos Hermanas, Spain. So, it is quite possibly a made up article from Randall.

Transcript

((the following is in the standard format of a wikipedia article, modified to reflect the content of the comic))

...and was a pioneer of literary social realism.

He was born in Dos Hermanas in the Andalusia region of Spain (not to be confused with Andalasia((link clicked)), the kingdom in Disney's Enchanted ((link clicked)) ), which is also the hometown of Macarena ((link clicked)) band Los Del Río ((link clicked)),

His third novel, set during the Burmese-Siamese war, marked the start of a lifelong interest in the history of Southeast Asia. He spent his later years in Thailand, writing his final novels just a few blocks from the hotel where actor David Carradine((link clicked)) died of Autoerotic Asphyxiation ((link clicked)).

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Discussion

How is Andalasia even relevant to the article? It shouldn't be mentioned in the first place. And what's wrong with autoerotic asphyxiation? Davidy²²[talk] 13:56, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

The blue / purple links are a common standard in IE and Firefox, at least. Not specific to Wikipedia. --68.200.188.141 01:55, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm with Randall on this one, Wikipedia should TOTALLY have an article on Wingsuit Combat. It could be a new sport! 69.10.219.243 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)