Bashi-bazouks!
06 Feb 2015

What is your favourite list/category on Wikipedia? Mine’s been deleted - or rather, merged into a parent article, which is kinda disappointing.
List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock
It still exists on the marvel that is the world wide web, though - and in reading about it, I have learned a little bit about what a Bashi Bazouk actually is.
Here are a couple of other good lists/categories:
- Counterintuitive pronunciations - whose research led me to pen this tiny post
- Fictional donkeys - with thanks to my friend Alasdair
- Lists of lists - Mmmm, all metay and self-referential, too.
Favourite posts
- On wiggly lines and being normal
- On infinite villages
- Running a race backwards
- Brainmaking
- Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight
- The structure of a smell
Recent posts
- Start your holidays with a meta-alarm
- PGN files from handwritten chess notation
- Souvenirs des villes européennes
- Pic'n'mix reinvented
- Super slow-mo Tetris
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