EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s Nerd World post, entitled “Wikipedia Brown And The Case Of The Unreliable Swear-filled Encyclopedia,” will not be seen today. Before the author had a chance to write it, he mentioned the idea to someone at work, who told him B.J. Novak from The Office already did a much better version of the idea than the author ever could have done. So he wrote nothing. Please enjoy the work of B.J. Novak.
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