Statistically Improbable Phrases

The concept of "Statistically Improbable Phrases" (SIPs) is used by Amazon.com to help characterize the content of books. It is a list of phrases that occur more frequently (to a degree of statistical significance) in a given book than in all other books. For a better description, ask amazon. The concept of SIPs is also a useful way to provide examples of how the wiki is unique compared to other webpages on the Internet.

This page is a repository for SIPs. If you know of a phrase that occurs on the wiki, but is unlikely to appear anywhere else on the Internet, add it here. It doesn't have to be completely unique, but just really unique. These shouldn't be confused with Memorable Quotes.

Clearly "Statistically Improbable Phrases:"

• Ku Klux Klown
  

• Pootleberry Dinglehopper
  

• OMGLOLWIKIBBQ
  

• Epic Quad Battle
  

• Stapler Liberation Front
  

• The Effulgence of Biorhythmic Iceburgs in Lake Spafford
  

• $5000 Pita

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2005-06-13 10:37:49   muppet fluffer —CarlMcCabe

• Where's muppet fluffer? -VivianPham
  

• I invented that and meatwhistle for the (now deleted) Do My Final For Me! page. Turns out neither is unique; meatwhistle is even a band. Ah, well. — JabberWokky
  

2005-06-13 14:38:12   Wikivangelist —VivianPham

2005-06-13 19:44:58   JabberWokky ??? —MichelleAccurso

• I get 11,500 hits on google for "JabberWokky" -KarlMogel
  

• damn —MichelleAccurso
  

• A good chunk of those are me. Note that a search for the phrase 'JabberWokky Evan' turns up almost 8,000 hits. Since I don't always use "Evan", a chunk of the remaining 3,500 hits are for me as well. It was originally designed to be a kibo-esque unique search string and my use of it predates the World Wide Web. — JabberWokky
  

2005-06-13 19:48:33   davis wiki —EricKlein

2005-06-13 21:19:29   "CindySperry" or any such variation on our names. —CindySperry

2005-06-14 21:45:44   Apparently "Genetic Engineering and Organic Gardening" only exists on the Wiki. Hooray for Mogel Engineering! —KarlMogel

2008-10-20 00:33:23   Sadly I don't think wikicrush applies, but the wiki words page is 3rd on googles results for it —StevenDaubert

2008-10-20 01:13:47   Really? I don't see it at all on Google's results unless I google for WikiWords davis —IDoNotExist

Weird. -wl

2008-10-20 02:44:10   Ohhh...I was looking for WikiWords :) —IDoNotExist