I had no idea about the numbers stations until they were used on Fringe. That's a great one.

It's precisely because NBC is the network that gave us Cheers and Seinfeld that we take it to task for being such abysmal failures of late. They've tarnished a hell of a brand. CBS was the "Tiffany Network" ages ago (and is now the "Stuff Your Dad Watches" network). ABC has always and forever been the "dumbed down"…

I really wanted to work in the Ham Fighters somewhere in this article, and couldn't manage it. Now I'm going to spend all next weekend mulling over how I can fill an entire Wormhole column with just the Nippon Ham Fighters wikipedia page…

I haven't been in Rochester in ages, but I'm happy to hear WBER is still going strong.

Dammit, I dropped the ball there. I really should have thought of Ira first thing.

So… I'm going to have some strange-ass nightmares tonight, how about you?

That's a great one. And I'm totally using a picture of Picard-as-Borg when I write it up!

That's a great story. Not sure there's enough on that page to do a full article from, but I'll give it a shot.

D.B. Cooper's a pretty big omission. My wife also pointed out another one — Shergar, an Irish racehorse who was kidnapped from a stud farm in 1981. It was a very big story at the time, and no trace of the horse was ever found. Maybe the oddest story of the lot.

Yes I have. That list is an invaluable resource in finding more grist for Wiki Wormhole.

But this wasn't water sloshing all around. This was a 100-foot wave travelling south to north up Manhattan, with no wave whatsoever coming in from the east. I'm not a scientist or anything, (despite the avatar) but that seems a bit iffy.

If the city were being hit from all sides, sure, I can buy that. But Manhattan gets hit by a wave that's at a 90 degree angle from the wave hitting every other part of the country.

[Adjusts slide rule, because for some reason that stereotype has outlived the actual slide rule by about 60 years]

Can't take full credit there. My wife grew up on Blyton and that was her first reaction to Harry when we both started reading the series.

I really think that's part of the enduring appeal of the Harry Potter series. It's a combination of Enid Blyton boarding school adventures, and Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys/various other "teens solving mysteries" books, with a little Roald Dahl wish fulfillment/escaping horrible parental figures thrown in for good measure.

Thanks for the tip! I would have credited your AVC username had I made the connection.

I haven't actually read the book, but I've read enough about it to know it's not all that close to Borges. I hear it's better than the shtick-y premise, but there are loads of less gimmicky books ahead of it on my reading list.

I found a Tumblr, which I now can't find the link for, that included an image of the DeLorean's control panel with the current date every single day. That's just genius.

Oh, I know. I figured the film was better-known, and it gave me an excuse to use a still as my image for the article.

Well, I suspect that like most fairy tales, it was intended to be cautionary. "Don't go into the woods or you'll get raped," that sort of thing. Sometimes it's "don't go into the woods or you'll get eaten by a wolf [which is a metaphor for you getting raped.]" It is odd that the rapist gets redeemed by love in the…