Mar 16 2008
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales is Screwed by Ex
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia decided to break up with his girlfriend online. Bad idea buddy. His ex, Rachel decided to get him back buy selling a couple of his t-shirts on eBay.
“Hi, my name is Rachel and my (now ex) boyfriend, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, just broke up with me via an announcement on Wikipedia. It was such a classy move that I was inspired to do something equally classy myself, so I’m selling a couple of items of clothing he left behind, here in my NYC apartment, on eBay. Jimbo was supposed to come visit me in a couple of weeks and pick up some of his stuff, but obviously that won’t be happening now.Both of these items have been washed, twice, with Tide extra-strength liquid detergent. Otherwise, they would not be in salable condition. I took them out of GitMo style isolation from a plastic bag in my closet (where they were placed to prevent the ongoing terrorism of my olfactory senses) and washed them out for the purposes of this auction. Even so, this particular item — a medium sized, black “Starter” brand shirt – has two white stains (one on the sleeve, as shown in the photo,…
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