Re: If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

Anthony <[email protected]>
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Place of death:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae,_New_York

Make sure you stay away from [[Troy, New York]] too.  And don't bother
predicting its destruction.  No one will believe you.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, like that would work! Some strange plot device involving
> disambiguation pages and arriving somewhere on the fatal day and
> discovering that a town has just changed its name, would lead to the
> inevitable denouement... (you know, like all those failed 'avoiding
> death' scenarios in the Final Destination film series - if you've not
> seen them, best avoided really).
>
> Carcharoth
>
> On 2/12/13, Newyorkbrad <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page
>> and see what was listed as my place of death.  Then, I would make sure
>> never to go there.
>>
>> Newyorkbrad
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18dcov/if_someone_gave_you_the_entirety_of_wikipedia/
>>>
>>>
>>> - d.
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