Son of the FUUQ
From The Encyclopedia of Pointless
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What does FUUQ mean?
Frequently Unasked/Unanswered Questions. Anything else?
What is the history of this site?
In true FUUQ fashion, this question never gets asked ever, but I like to answer it anyway. The Encyclopedia of Pointless truly got its start on a humble 486 computer in The Professor's house, some ten years ago. It was the Book of Pointless and it contained among other things blatant ripoffs of Nickelodeon's All That, various non-sequiturs that nobody would get without having actually been there with us as we wrote it, and some original humorous stuff too. Time passed, and the Book of Pointless lived on as a small pile of computer paper. Then, in the autumn of 1997 I, Mr. E, got a computer of my own. The Book was reborn and grew a little. In late '98 my first website appeared, called New Cross City Productions. It had among its features a copy of the Book.
Since its creation the idea of a grander sequel to the Book of Pointless, an entire Encyclopedia of Pointless, was ballied around. On March 3, 1999, the first iteration of The Encyclopedia pointless (encyclopedia OR encyclopédia) group:alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog#0a8b121c5497086f went public (Mirror), as a part of New Cross City Productions, with Cheese, Pandas, and Pizza being the original articles therein. Soon afterwards I realized the Encyclopedia was by far the best feature of the site and spun off a standalone version of The Encyclopedia. This first version of The Encyclopedia was hosted by homepage.com which now appears to be defunct, and more's the pity.
More time passed and the Encyclopedia prospered slightly, and in March of 2003 PHP and MySQL was incorporated into the design of the site, allowing for ever greater potential.
Then in a shocking move I destroyed the old site and everything on it in early 2005, keeping only a backup for my own personal use. The site sat like this for some time, then on April 7, 2005 I installed the WikiMedia engine and all became as you see it now.
Shouldn't it be "Encyclopedia of Pointlessness"?
The Book of Pointless has always been called such, and is more or less a reference to the Book of Mormon, one of the books of scripture used by the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-Day Saints.
Since The Encyclopedia of Pointless is a sort of sequel it shares the "of Pointless" suffix, although it's worth noting that pointless (encyclopedia OR encyclopédia) group:alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog#0a8b121c5497086f some of the earliest known texts refer to it erroneously as "The Encyclopedia of Pointlessness". This was a mistake on my part, and may simply be an attempt to make the early Encyclopedia more appealing.
So in the end, the real reason why what you're reading isn't called the "Encyclopedia of Pointlessness" is because a particular religious sect does not refer to the "Book of Mormonness"
I like your site! Can I give you money to support it?
No.
There's already a bunch of humor wikis. What makes you any different?
FUUQ you, buddy!
No, FUUQ you!
