Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by arglebarnacle on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:22PM (#12781379)

Some more:

W2202XA Walked into lamppost, initial encounter

W34111A Accidental malfunction of paintball gun, initial encounter

W5629XA Other contact with orca, initial encounter

Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter

V657XXA Person on outside of heavy transport vehicle injured in collision with railway train or railway vehicle in traffic accident, initial encounter

Y92331 Roller skating rink as the place of occurrence of the external cause

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by ReAzem on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:15PM (#12782975)

Erm, there is a website for W2202XA: http://w2202xa.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by callmeal on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:14PM (#12784075)

Would have been funnier if it linked to people walking into lampposts videos.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by quirkot on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:10AM (#12787605)

Hello! Sorry, I'm just here to watch the flowers grow

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by cloudjacker on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:34PM (#12783119)

$10/yr well spent

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by yitchelle on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @06:38AM (#12795370)

Maybe he is targeting a über niche that is so obscure that it becomes abstract.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by nawtacawp on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:19PM (#12783008)

but... why did you know that?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by brianzelip on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:23PM (#12783452)

i'm sure the parent just searched for the string.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by brianzelip on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:22PM (#12783443)

What a weird web page and url.

Looks like it was just thrown up as text in html, but there's a container, so maybe someone actually applied CSS to that little tidbit?

Nope, a blockquote inside a blockquote. Interesting html-only container!

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by tomcam on Monday October 24, 2016 @08:49PM (#12784289)

News you can use

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by DashRattlesnake on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:33PM (#12783861)

> Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear weapon, civilian, subsequent encounter

If there's a nuclear war, I'm glad we'll still have the healthcare industry around to keep our priorities straight.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by marcus_holmes on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:32AM (#12785548)

I'm curious about whether the "civilian" refers to the nuclear weapon or the person getting the diagnosis

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by lucio on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:45PM (#12785130)

"Other" contact with orca? does it means that there are three or four specific types for orca contacts previously defined?

W5564WTF contact with orca, left fin, just a scratch, subsequent encounter

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by indiv0 on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:24PM (#12783825)

It's pretty funny to think that somewhere in my insurance record is the code W2202XA.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by quirkot on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @09:09AM (#12787592)

Don't forget: C5432XXA Took an arrow to the knee, former adventurer

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by avip on Monday October 24, 2016 @06:06PM (#12783330)

>Other contact with orca

This one calls for serious investigation. Dirk gently style.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole? by prefect42 on Monday October 24, 2016 @11:22PM (#12785033)

"Other contact with orca", whatever that means, sounds slightly naughty.

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