Wikipedia: The New I-Ching
In ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Tom Hanks’ character Joe Fox says “The Godfather is the I Ching, the sum of all wisdom”.
Well, move over grandpa.
Before beginning I felt I should look up I Ching to make sure I was using it properly in the most logical and ironic reference available: Wikipedia.
It says “In Western cultures, the I Ching is regarded by some as simply a system of divination; many believe it expresses the wisdom and philosophy of ancient China.” Okay, so it’s NOT the Autobot Matrix of Leadership but for the purposes of this metaphor, it’ll do.
Here are some examples of the knowledge Wikipedia dropped on me:
-The cause of the sound distortion at the beginning of my copy of the first episode of the new Doctor Who
-David Tennant, the latest Doctor Who, chose his stage name as an homage to Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys
-A proper translation of ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ (THAT’S what a zig is?!)
-The chick from Windfall was Sara in season 4 of 24 (IMBD dropped the ball on that one)
-Wikipedia’s entry for Penny Arcarde includes a copy of the comic in which they mock Wikipedia (now THAT’S class)
-The real names and life story behind the Penny Arcade authors
-The voice of Jazz from the original transformers passed away
-Megatron couldn’t be a gun in later Transformers incarnations because of new laws governing toys for children
-Breast fetishism can become unhealthy
-Kemocite was not only used in the Xindi weapon but made time travel possible in ‘Little Green Men’ (DS9)
-Burnaby began as a transportation corridor between Vancouver and Port Moody
-Where all the things from Expo86 were sold off to
-Despite my affinity for the group, the fact the Pet Shop Boys’ entry is just too long to read (as is I Ching’s)
-’New York City Boy’: considered a “gay” song along with ‘It’s A Sin’, ‘Being Boring’, and ‘Metamorphosis’ (okay, I’ll give you that last one)
-Craig Kilborn never wrote any of his material when hosting The Daily Show
-The Daily Show was specifically created to fill the void left by Politically Incorrect as is said to have been inspired by ‘Weekend Update’, ‘TV Nation’, and ‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ (all of which I like or absolutely love)
-Proof that if there is a God, he took a nap: After the departure of Stephen Colbert from The Daily Show Rob Corddry has the most correspondent screentime, effectively becoming the lead correspondent
-Ed Helms of The Daily Show is often confused with Stephen Colbert
-Lewis Black is getting his own show! The second spin-off of The Daily Show, The Red State Diaries is set to premiere sometime this year!
-When Stephen Colbert was 10 years old his father, who was a doctor, and two of his older brothers, died in the crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 212 on September 11, 1974. (Creeped out yet?)
-The REAL Stephen Colbert, not the character from his show, is a self-described Democrat (anyone surprised?)
-Ratings for The Colbert Report soared 37% in the week following his 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech
The list goes on…try it out, it’s endlessly amusing AND, on occasion, educational.
Ready for Trivial Pursuit? 
