Uncyclopedia: Totally False, Totally Fun
If you’re tired of getting all the facts from Wikipedia, it’s time to visit a different Wiki with no content. Uncyclopedia looks and feels like Wikipedia with one glaring difference. All the information presented is false.
The welcome message on the main page describes the site as “the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, unless the server goes down, in which case no-one can edit.”
Keeping yourself from laughing is almost impossible as you read all the nonsense articles presented in a matter of fact manner. You’ll easily spend hours laughing as you browse through the articles. Take a look at this article:
Here’s an excerpt from the next section:
Discovery of the Disease
Stupendous Tropical Meningitis was discovered in 1897 by scientist and existentialist philosopher Grenwauld H. Jeeves II. Although he lacked the medical equipment to observe the virus, he observed its spreading and effects as it killed 34 members of the Caribbean village of Malton, in which he lived.
Ever the scientist-philosopher, he maintained that, since everyone was going to die anyway, nothing he did mattered in the long run. As per this, he did nothing to help the natives, making sure they knew that it was “for their own good”.
Now that’s something new heh. Just don’t make the mistake of pointing your kids to Uncyclopedia for their research 
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October 5th, 2007 07:29
I wonder how many people aren’t going to realize it’s a spoof and take everything at face value.
October 5th, 2007 07:48
I checked what Uncyclopedia describes as the characteristics of ‘bloggers’:
* Due to their fragile mental state, bloggers can readily be identified online by their sub-normal writing ability, constant and pervasive paranoia, fondness for wildly implausible conspiracy theories (favourites include the Kennedy Assassination, Area 51 and the notorious Al-Qaeda Superbowl “Wardrobe Malfunction” Plot) and severely under-developed sense of irony and/or humour.
* In person, bloggers can easily be singled out due to their over-evolved buttocks (see J-Lo Syndrome), surplus body hair and incontinence. In addition, a blogger will tend to stand out at social occasions - he’ll be the one frantically taking notes on a potato chip to write up later for that day’s post.
* In a survey conducted by the BBC, Blogging is the #2 activity of really sad people, next only to admittedly voting for Bush
That’s not too far off, is it ?
October 5th, 2007 09:02
Okay, so was that pure coincidence that that banner showed up when you got there?
October 5th, 2007 10:41
Nuts. Someone already thought of the Uncyclopedia. I was gonna do that. LOL.
October 5th, 2007 12:36
Well its Friday that’s coming up and this made me
enough.
Ideas are galore and there is just a need to use and do something that has not been done yet, but how many people will start telling up lies yet?
October 5th, 2007 12:51
@AntiBarbie:
Haha can you imagine the kind of reports kids would submit from this site?
@Jos:
Lol I should stop writing on potato chips
@Mark:
I think that the banner was a sign from up top hehehe
@teeni:
I wish I thought of it first too
@Keith:
If we start seeing blog posts based on information from this site, that would be hilarious
October 5th, 2007 15:39
That is absolutely hilarious. I wish there was some kind of way to discover how many people stumble into articles direct from Google and then thinking the information is accurate.
October 5th, 2007 16:04
@Garry:
Haha I’d love to be able to find that out
October 5th, 2007 20:12
What’s wrong with writing on potato chips? That sounds like some sort of conspiracy to me, I’ll have to look into this….
October 5th, 2007 21:33
I am SO having a BLAST with Uncyclopedia. I gotta love one of the definitions for “Mother”: a person who creates moths for a living, much like how a lawyer invents laws for a living.
October 5th, 2007 23:34
@Christy:
Haha maybe it is. Although writing on potato chips is way better than writing on fries
@Lorna:
LOL now that’s a good one
October 6th, 2007 01:24
I want to be an author for this!!!!! Very funny
October 6th, 2007 01:36
@Bobby:
If you get an entry there let me know. I’d love to read it
October 6th, 2007 01:41
This is absolutely what I needed on a Friday!
October 6th, 2007 01:53
@K:
This site is too addicting. I keep going back
October 6th, 2007 23:41
This is quite amazing and hillarious.
Cheers
Abhishek
October 7th, 2007 00:33
@abhishek:
One of my new favorites
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