Bad, BAD Lee!

Stacy Schiff's article in The New Yorker about Wikipedia examines the site’s erratic reliability and the wonderful and flawed nature of group logic. The story's peppered throughout with an abundance of the kind of idiosyncratic details found within the mammoth information warehouse.  Ever heard of Capgras delusion? It’s the ‘unnerving sensation that an imposter is sitting in for a close relative’.

However, nothing really comes close to the exquisitely obscure detail and unabashed, anonymous obscenity of this passage from Wikipedia that my friend Justin sent me.

"Near the end of the [Six Million Dollar Man] series, Lee Majors experimented with changing Austin's look by growing a mustache. This proved unpopular and the idea was dropped, but not before a number of commercial tie-ins, including a comic book and a lunch box, had been produced with the new look. It was rumored that Majors would often roam the set and ask if anyone wanted to 'take a sniff of Farrah'."