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  • Funny. But useless, and not likely to be particularly expandable. Ambivalenthysteria 04:17, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. -- Friedo 04:49, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - BJAODN -- Cyrius | Talk 05:02, Mar 27, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete Jacob1207 14:58, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. I would have said delete when I read the name, but if someone was able to come up with five actual examples, it's some kind of trend. MK 16:42, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I started this article, because it is a seemingly esoteric phenomenon that, nonetheless, has featured in a few unrelated computer games, and also in the novel Before and After by Matthew Thomas (the blurb makes prominent reference to the exploding sheep gimmick, and the front cover even features a picture of a sheep, albeit in an unexploded state). However it may not be as much of a 'cult' thing as I had assumed, so delete it if you want. :) 62.64.227.10 17:50, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • No Vote. Didn't Dave Berry do an article (or series) about reports of exploding sheep? -Rholton 23:53, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Amusing, and there's five of them. Seems a notable enough in-joke in the game development world to keep. PMC 03:02, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Six now. I added the hidden feature from Sim Golf. MK 04:15, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete, unless someone can explain how exploding sheep are somehow important in game creation (a reference, why it's done, etc), to give it some encyclopedic credence.
  • Keep - maybe move to a title that doesn't involve "List", and document it as a common phenomenon? "What" is a good place to start even if there isn't a "Why" yet.(I've just added another four, incidentally.) RichL 04:35, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
  • I'm a bit ambivalent now. On the one hand, it's a really stupid thing to have a page for. On the other, it seems that it must mean something that it keeps showing up in games by different developers. Does anybody know of any similar strangeness? -- Cyrius | Talk 04:52, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Looks like the phenomenon began with the 1989 Peter Jackson movie Bad Taste. I can see that being a sufficiently culty classic to launch a meme. I'd like to refactor, starting with the movie and touching on the (1999) novel, and move to, say Sheep (exploding) or Exploding sheep with a real (if short) article instead of just a list, but I don't know about moving a VfD page. Exploding sheep is definitely bigger than just computer games, in any case. RichL 04:56, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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