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File:A_Shirt58,_yesterday.JPG "The superfluous, that very necessary thing..." - Voltaire

Hi, I'm Peter aka Shirt58. My username comes from the field hockey shirt I was allocated some while ago. Yes, men do play field hockey. And Tasmania is not a fictional place.

File:Olympiasieger-2004-Deutschland.jpgThe Australia men's national field hockey team has a long tradition of being the the best in the world and then somehow managing not to win the Olympic gold medal, with one exception.

I have [https://catandgirl.com/girls-in-a-cafeteria-fight/ very strong opinions about almost everything]. My views are unconventional, iconoclastic and coruscatingly pragmatic. You will find nothing of the sort in my contributions to the Wikipedia project.

{{User:Tasco 0/Userboxes/Vandalized|, apparently, but I am far too scatter-brained to have even noticed, let alone count how many}}

Brief Q&A

Q: Shirt58, are you as easy-going, helpful, ridiculously erudite, and concise in real life as you appear to be from your contributions?

A: Yes, that is correct.

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style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" style="text-align: left;" \| that Ego Leonard is a giant minifigure who is no real than you are? that Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal band for kids? that an Alibi-ya can provide a fake boss to give a speech at your wedding? that Undie Runs are very popular with College administrators? that Bidenichthys beeblebroxi is a hoopy fish that really knows where its towel is? that Parkes, New South Wales is the home of the Parkes Elvis Festival and the Parkes Spacemen? that there is a Wikipedia article called Ȓ? that "Hamlet on Ice" was a jest at the expense of Shakespeare and Australian manhood? that Milnesium tardigradum can into space? that Australia is a philistine nation but Melbourne is a civilised city? that the paper frill wot looks like a chef's hat, innit, is called a Manchette? that the article shipyourenemiesglitter.com, despite being completely ludicrous, somehow managed to survive its AfD?

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that Ego Leonard is a giant minifigure who is no real than you are?
that Hevisaurus is a Finnish heavy metal band for kids?
that an Alibi-ya can provide a fake boss to give a speech at your wedding?
that Undie Runs are very popular with College administrators?
that Bidenichthys beeblebroxi is a hoopy fish that really knows where its towel is?
that Parkes, New South Wales is the home of the Parkes Elvis Festival and the Parkes Spacemen?
that there is a Wikipedia article called Ȓ?
that "Hamlet on Ice" was a jest at the expense of Shakespeare and Australian manhood?
that Milnesium tardigradum can into space?
that Australia is a philistine nation but Melbourne is a civilised city?
that the paper frill wot looks like a chef's hat, innit, is called a Manchette?
that the article shipyourenemiesglitter.com, despite being completely ludicrous, somehow managed to survive its AfD?

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I have an allowable alternate account - User:Shirt58's testing account.

My editing philosophy

Be concise and use good references.

I've recently tried to bump up my contributions to at least 50% article-space edits. {{As of|2014|February|27}} my "edit count pie" looked like [https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:50.82,15.07,1.02,26.39,5.30,0.63&chs=600x300&chl=50.82|15.07|1.02|26.39|5.30|0.63&chdl=Article|Talk|User|User%20talk|Wikipedia|File&chco=FF5555|55FF55|FFFF55|FF55FF|5555FF|C00000&chtt=Namespace+Totals&chf=bg,s,00000000 this]. {{As of|2014|November|1}} my "edit count pie" looked like... erm, a SVG image with XML markup I couldn't even begin to understand, but it's 53.3%.

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style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" style="text-align: left;" \| File:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895 FAIL.jpg, but just didn't have the maths for most of the other stuff.]] Ok, I studied Italian in Secondary School for four years, did a semester of Middle English and majored in Japanese. I also took a semester at a private language school in Chinese that would have totaled 20 hours tuition, tops. That's the whole box and dice in my formal language study. My [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3AShirt58&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= Block log] will answer a lot of those kind of questions. For example, the connection between Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs and Ernst's Murdering Airplane. Possibly, but I still love [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Ul3fteLps this] song. Now you're raking up ancient history from my early University days. I was considered to be too much interested in Eng. Lit. to be a proper Languages nerd. And to be too much of a Languages nerd to be considered a proper Eng. Lit. nerd. Ah, my College days, the best eleven years of my life... File:UniversityofMelbourneLawSchoolBuilding.jpg "When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day." Zadie Smith, On Beauty, 2005 Public service job. Task: explain completely in fewest words. OK, I admit it: I am a Flying Spaghetti Marxist, completely committed to the Saucialist cause. Pasta la Revolución siempre! In the first (and only) year of Bachelor of Science studies, I gave myself extra time to study for Zoology 101 by not bothering to turn up for the other subjects' exams. New bicycle shoes and pedals! "Jackson Pollock was final proof to the philistines that the lunatics had taken over the asylum of modern art; however, the function of the philistines is to be slain." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980 "[http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2412&start=104 Bloody hell. Wikipediocracy is becoming a nut magnet, just like Wikipedia and WR.]" Eric Barbour, Wikipediocracy, 2013

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File:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895 FAIL.jpg, but just didn't have the maths for most of the other stuff.]]

Ok, I studied Italian in Secondary School for four years, did a semester of Middle English and majored in Japanese. I also took a semester at a private language school in Chinese that would have totaled 20 hours tuition, tops. That's the whole box and dice in my formal language study.
My [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=&page=User%3AShirt58&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= Block log] will answer a lot of those kind of questions.
For example, the connection between Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs and Ernst's Murdering Airplane.
Possibly, but I still love [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Ul3fteLps this] song.
Now you're raking up ancient history from my early University days. I was considered to be too much interested in Eng. Lit. to be a proper Languages nerd. And to be too much of a Languages nerd to be considered a proper Eng. Lit. nerd. Ah, my College days, the best eleven years of my life...

File:UniversityofMelbourneLawSchoolBuilding.jpg

"When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid called Buckley, Kiki had thought yes, that's right, our memories are getting more beautiful and less real every day." Zadie Smith, On Beauty, 2005
Public service job. Task: explain completely in fewest words.
OK, I admit it: I am a Flying Spaghetti Marxist, completely committed to the Saucialist cause. Pasta la Revolución siempre!
In the first (and only) year of Bachelor of Science studies, I gave myself extra time to study for Zoology 101 by not bothering to turn up for the other subjects' exams.
New bicycle shoes and pedals!
"Jackson Pollock was final proof to the philistines that the lunatics had taken over the asylum of modern art; however, the function of the philistines is to be slain." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, 1980
"[http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2412&start=104 Bloody hell. Wikipediocracy is becoming a nut magnet, just like Wikipedia and WR.]" Eric Barbour, Wikipediocracy, 2013

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style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white;" style="text-align: left;" \| "— from a good family?" prompted Amit. "From a good family." "Well educated?" "Well educated. Saraswati gives better blessings in the long run than Lakshmi." - Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, page 493 The idea that there were shops devoted entirely to books would have astonished the Pee Wee cow crowd, except for Erwin Hungate, who was a reader, his big tallow-colored face buried in a book even at the bar. ... Vic Vase took up the book often and read passages aloud, mangling his way through medieval French, church Latin, and antique English. "Jesus," said Erwin Hungate, the reader, "lay off, will you? Sound like Umberto Eco." "Who?" said Vic. "I know him," said Old Man DeBock. "Bert Eckle, used a work for Bob Utley. He’s out in Nevada now in a home. Home for old cowboys." - Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt "The Contest", pages 131, 134

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"— from a good family?" prompted Amit.

"From a good family."

"Well educated?"

"Well educated. Saraswati gives better blessings in the long run than Lakshmi."

- Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, page 493

The idea that there were shops devoted entirely to books would have astonished the Pee Wee cow crowd, except for Erwin Hungate, who was a reader, his big tallow-colored face buried in a book even at the bar.

...

Vic Vase took up the book often and read passages aloud, mangling his way through medieval French, church Latin, and antique English.

"Jesus," said Erwin Hungate, the reader, "lay off, will you? Sound like Umberto Eco."

"Who?" said Vic.

"I know him," said Old Man DeBock. "Bert Eckle, used a work for Bob Utley. He’s out in Nevada now in a home. Home for old cowboys."

- Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt "The Contest", pages 131, 134

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" \| Thanks for your help with introducing me to Wikipedia. With your help about how to conduct myself about certain issues, and giving me information about my deleted articles and other Wikipedia policies. Ianlopez12 (talk) 6:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks, for being such a lovely and ORIGINAL AND HELPFUL user. Ian Raphael Mabulac Lopez (talk) 02:41, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray; color: black" | You've worked tirelessly at improving Wikipedia for nearly five years, with little recognition. I don't normally give these things out—I can never find the right words—but I thought I'd make an exception. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 10:37, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | 13007 contribs. Now take a break. --43?9enter ^★_☭ 07:06, 6 May 2011 (UTC)