Wikipedia:Village stocks - Wikipedia
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to make an edit and to remove all doubt." –Abraham Lincoln... sort of...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia's village stocks, found a short distance away from the village pump. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to make an edit and to remove all doubt." –Abraham Lincoln... sort of... It is a truth universally acknowledged that intelligent and otherwise sensible editors and administrators occasionally engage in acts of extreme, mind-boggling stupidity. Based on the fundamental principle that such blatant disregard of good sense, however unintended, is best punished by humiliation, the village stocks have been built to identify the…
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