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I deleted this line because it was hopelessly POV as presented: "His depiction as an overweight person while comedic is very stereotypical and has been found to be offensive to several overweight viewers of Austin Powers' films." Several? While I'm not going to argue the point that Fat Bastard might
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and the page view analysis by Hyperbolick and Station1. The wine is a top-seller in the U.S. in the French Chardonnay category, but the main thing that's especially notable about it is its name (which was deliberately chosen to be memorable by being provocative), and the film character seems much
1101:"Fat Bastard is noted for his foul temper, his emotional monologues that culminate in flatulence, his vulgar, crude manners, and his unusual diet. These go as far as to include a cannibalistic taste for human infants and midgets, whom he gluttonously calls, "The other, other white meat". " 649:? There's no backup for this claim, there's no article for Carmen Nunzio and no mention in the Patriarca family article. Even if it is really true, what's it doing in the first paragraph of an article about a fictional character? Can we delete this sentence? 164: 646:
He shares the same moniker as the alleged New England underboss for the Patriarca crime family, Carmen Nunzio, who is referred to by criminal associates as "Fat Bastard" for weighing over three hundred
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The resemblance is striking. Maybe there's a cultural reference I'm missing that made them both think a fat cannibal is best played by a Scot, but even the dress and such are the same.
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This isn't really a discussion topic, but I'd like to praise whoever wrote the lines below. Especially the creative use of hyperlinks in "cannabilistic" and "other white meat." Bravo.
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it might perhaps be useful to create a Fat Bastard disambiguation page? Linking to both this article on Fat Bastard and the wine FAT bastard. Just a thought.
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I'm pretty sure that Mike Meyers didn't really do any acting for the DirecTV ads. Rather, they used the footage from the movie and then cut to
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Fat Bastard looks almost identical to a classic Doctor Who character "Shockeye", an androgum from the episode "The Two Doctors".
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The androgums were cannibals, and this character was especially eccentric and salivated over eating young, meaty humans.
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I have renamed Fat Bastard to Fat Bastard (character) to distinguish it from the wine FAT bastard. This is in line with
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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have been offensive (on many levels) to some people, I think a statement like that needs a citation or source.
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I don't know if I'd call this a stub, since it's likely all the info we're likely to get on Fat Bastard.
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before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template
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since the character is the primary topic. We can link to the drink's article in a hatnote.
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Is there any reason why user 99.243.60.43 added the section to the first paragraph:
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per nom and Netoholic. I didn't need to remember this character existed.
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after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add
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in regards to character articles. At a minimum this needs to be at
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with universal support and suggestions to be bold and just do it. —
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to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
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I recall no evidence of superhuman strength, just sumo skills.
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When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the
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I have just added archive links to one external link on
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His extreme size (1 metric ton) endows Fat Bastard with
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more well known and of greater interest to readers. —
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a
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