Wikipedia remembers Ima Hogg

Anybody who is worth their salt about Houston history knows Ima Hogg. You don't even need to be a Bayou City scholar in order to know of Ms. Hogg. Case in point, Wikipedia is shining a spotlight on the notoriously named philanthropist as its featured article of the day.

We learned many things about Ms. Hogg that we were never aware about, including:

• she was an "enterprising circus emcee,"
  
• her father "booby-trapped the banisters she loved to slide down, shut down her money-making schemes, and forced her to pry chewing gum from furniture,"
  
• she "had apocryphal sisters named 'Ura' and 'Hoosa' and real-life brothers sporting conventional names and vast art collections," and
  
• she "remained feisty and even exchanged geriatric insults with an octogenarian pianist."

Eat your heart out, History Channel. You may have fancy production values and three-dimensional graphics of Roman aqueducts and WWII bombers, but you'll never have the sort of ethical objectivity and factual foundation that Wikipedia does.

Or not. We don't know who at Wikipedia central decided an April Fool's joke like this would equal the unmatched power of a "rickroll," especially since the only people who would actually get it would be Houstonians. In fact, the real Ima Hogg page is getting blitzkrieged with deletions and high school jokes now.

This is your renaissance, Ima Hogg, as puerile as it maybe. Enjoy it, wherever you may be.