User:ArniesArmy007

Alrighty Now!

I've frequently visited various Wikipedia sites & topics & have found it a most useful tool or reference when beginning to look into an idea, reviewing history, learn information about people, topics and things in general.

So many intelligent and informative people contribute to the landscape of knowledge on virtually any topic, person, event, historical occurrence and other untold number of things. Suddenly the wide, wide, world of sports (of ABC lore) comes to mind complete with the visual imprinted on my mind as a young lad, the thrill of victory and, the infamous video of the lone snow ski jumper barreling down the steep snowy above-ground runway picking up speed and momentum for the take-off from the runway's launch point, when said ski jumper's straight path downward shockingly careening wildly to his right (apparently redirected by a nasty rut & his loss of equilibrium), whereupon he derails off the right edge helicptoring wildly amongst the nearby tree branches.... as ABC plays a soundtrack equal to the task of enhancing the horrifying event, ending with the ski jumper run amok encountering a brutal thud of a landing in sync with the ominous words enunced by Jim McKay or Curt Gowdy or whoever, summing up the fate of that particular sportsman's experience (moments after the upbeat thrill of victory) by matching the eery sight in a solemn tone, offering "and the agony of defeat."

That segment opened ABC's WW of Sports every weekend afternoon for years it seems. Hell, I still miss seeing it (I learned much later that the man recovered from the incident quite well, allegedly).

I have digressed. Wikipedia popped up & tempted me to start a Wiki-Wiki page for myself. Having no idea what a proper one entails, I felt it best to share Wikipedia's usefulness in all manner of human endeavors. Whereupon I had the sudden thought of it being the intellectual and inquisitive person's morphed version of the Wide, Wide, World of Sports in which one might find, see or contribute anything that strikes one's imagination but with the courtesy of making a good faith effort to substantiate facts, theories, views, historical matters - well, just anything one can think of. This world never lacks for events and usually "the truth is stranger than fiction" per the idiom.

I'm sure this will all require major revisions, if not absolute annihilation /deletion once I learn what a Wiki Page should be.

All the best, ArniesArmy007