User:Hillbillyholiday/stuff

dyk[edit]

Did Ye Ken...?

Greetings, you curious little dickens..

Exploration of the fourth dimension in art led to "an explosive, nuclear and hypercubic" crucifixion? (30 March 2013)

The removal of doggers has caused much of Warren Hill to slip away? (6 April 2013)

Picasso's poetry has lines like "my grandmother's big balls are shining midst the thistles" and that one of his works depicts Franco as a jackbooted phallus? (12 April 2013)

Fifehead Wood you might just catch a White Admiral with a captivating Purple Hairstreak cruising between a host of Five-faced Bishops? (20 April 2013)

Mento artist Lord Flea helped start the calypso craze, was covered by Harry Belafonte, and wrote a song about a monkey who followed him around? (24 April 2013)

In his book In Secret Tibet, author Theodore Illion relates how he twice saw what he called "flying lamas" who could supposedly sit on an ear of barley without bending its stalk? (13 April 2013)

Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ken Khouri, which you co-created. (7 May 2013)

Mento artist Count Lasher was covered by Bob Marley and once recorded a song about an old lady offering strains of cannabis with names like "Deadman Get-up" and "Granny Crack Cracks"? (21 May 2013)

The controversial album art on NOFX's album Heavy Petting Zoo features a man and sheep sixty-nining, which led to the LP version being confiscated in Germany? (22 May 2013)

Freshly minted "cybernat" Stuart Campbell is a well-known figure in the Scottish Independence debate and has been described as "videogames journalism's answer to Al Qaeda"? (28 May 2013)

Lord Pretender was hailed as a "master" of extempo, a lyrically improvised form of calypso music considered a forerunner of rap? (4 July 2013)

Kate Garvey managed Tony Blair's diary with a "grip of iron"? (10 July 2013)

baubles[edit]

Decorations

	The Original Barnstar
	For writing Stuart Campbell (games journalist) :). Ironholds (talk) 15:49, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	For your work in removing poor sources and dubious information from articles on living people. John (talk) 10:49, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

fourth dimension
Thank you for adding to kafkaesque Wikipedia the fourth dimension of humour, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:58, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

		The Animal Transportation Barnstar
		Thank you for all your work ensuring that Transportation of animals became so greatly lauded in the hearts and minds of all Wikipedians. Let us open the box of seals and let them roam freely across the South Downs. Seal Boxer (talk) 13:30, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

u-boxen[edit]

userboxes

Userboxes

This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time.

This user is
a college dropout...

This user is a WikiWolfcub.

This editor is a Grognard and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book.

This user has written or expanded numerous articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user is a bibliophile.

This user reads Wikipediocracy !

This user is proudly made from 100% recycled matter

This user enjoys thinking in Four Dimensions.

This user is a member of WikiProject Containers

me[edit]

Hillbillywho?

Unsurprisingly, Hillbillyholiday is not my real name. some know me as "Sketch" for reasons we won't get into, others call me "the Cat" or "the Ninja" for my reckless diving when playing in goal on concrete surfaces, my brother calls me "Mikeypedia", but on Wikipedia, i have been called a "posh southern girl", an "American alien sex fiend", "someone with manners" and many other things.. i am not the Reverend Stuart Campbell.*

My first published work was an article on victorian football for the local paper when i was nine, i then waited twenty years before ghostwriting a dissertation entitled (something like) Comparisons between Aphex Twin and the early Futurists. i've had nearly a hundred jobs including librarian, bin-man, bar-man, painter, builder, carpenter, and security-guard for the summer solstice at stonehenge. i've done a bit of busking, squatting, stand-up, released a (ropey) single, plus i'm a beatboxer, poet, you name it i'll have crack at it. i was a janitor at the art college i dropped out of. oh yeah, i've also been a gravedigger and a business-to-business development agent... i preferred being a gravedigger.

Amongst other things, i'm crazy about books and only recently bought a computer in order to write one. i recently spent a year reorganizing and colour-coding the English language for a (r)evolutionary new rhyming dictionary.. it's on the back burner at the moment.

* Hoots!

roolz[edit]

roolz

So for Jeebus sake, obey roolz even if teh mods awr bad
cuz this Ceiling Cat does want, dat yu pwn trolls, cuz youer teh paws of Ceiling Cat.

Has hugs teim wit every1 and listen to Ceiling Cat.

^{1 Peter 2 LOLcat Bible}

lol[edit]

Pretty sure this sort of thing didn't happen at Encyclopedia Brittanica

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WhatamIdoing

kildacat[edit]

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fffhp[edit]

nuked

'fffhp' is the word used to describe the sound made by a snowflake landing upon a bubble. This onomatopoeic neologism was coined by Alex Horne during an episode of Wordaholics, first broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 10 April 2013. Wordaholics is a comedy panel show hosted by ex-politician and lexicographer Gyles Brandreth, which takes a light-hearted look at the English language. Comedian Horne mentioned the word during a round where Brandreth enjoined his guests to deliver their own "freshly squeezed onomatopoeia" Describing 'fffhp' as a "tear-jerkingly beautiful" word, Horne also provided its somewhat distinctive spelling. Upon hearing 'fffhp', Brandreth declared: "I love it, I absolutely love it!" Writer, comedian and classicist Natalie Haynes, one of Horne's fellow guests on the show agreed, saying that she thought 'fffhp' was beautiful, and that it would be her abiding memory of the show. Brandreth concluded the show by stating: "A new word — you heard it here first." If 'fffhp' fails to gain recognition, it will become what is known as a nonce word, a neologism that is only used for literary effect or in the moment.