Greek Mathematicians and Sentence Structure

We all know of Wikipedia's greatness and grandeur. I have even thought it would be great to print out every Wikipedia article, make a gigantic set of volumes, and go door-to-door selling them. Hey, it worked for Encyclopedia Britannica, why not for Wikipedia?

We also all know of Wikipedia's flaws. Like, not having true things a lot of the time. And also not having the best sentence structure. Most sentences are flawless. But however there is an occasional bad one that could really need some better diction and, punctuation and grammar and if you look at it from a different, angle it could might mean something entirely not the same and its very disappointing to find those run-on sentences that; don't seem "to" do anything write.

Oh man, that hurts my eyes to look at that.

So today in history puts Wikipedia to the test. The first entry is as follows:
1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.

I truly hope that Eratosthenes' calculations were about the exact day of Troy being sacked and burned. Because if he was just calculating whether or not it had indeed been sacked and burned, I lose a lot of respect for those Greek mathematicians. I can just picture this guy in a toga, walking around the only standing column in the whole city for an entire day. He's looking at it, muttering things under his breath, and looking around occasionally at the dying flames and ruins in ashes.

Finally, he turns to a group of other toga-clad people who have been anxiously waiting and he says, "I have come to the conclusion that the city was sacked and burned." The other people blink their eyes a few times, trying to determine if they missed something incredibly profound in that statement. Then they start to look at each other, making sure they're not crazy themselves for thinking, "Man, this Eratosthenes is a complete ninny." Finally one of them spits out sarcastically, "Uh, no duh Sherlock."

So in light of the fact that Wikipedia's sentences cannot be entirely trusted to only have one meaning, and the fact that Wikipedia's articles cannot even be entirely trusted to publish the truth, I have decided to conduct an experiment.

I shall hereby be known as the Ambassador of Awesome.

Don't believe me? Look it up yourself.

Really! Do it! Look up June 10, 1982 in Wikipedia. That was the day I was born. Under the "Births" section, you'll see me listed there as the Ambassador of Awesome.

This test is to see how long this will stay on Wikipedia, not only for all the world to see, but for all the world to believe, because who's going to challenge a Wikipedia article?

This is David M Blackmer, Ambassador of Awesome, signing off.

P.S. I can't believe I actually found a picture of the Ambassador of Awesome's official seal!

Pictures:
Troy
Ambassador of Awesome Seal