From Wikipedia article for Adrian Carton de Wiart, bolding mine:
Carton de Wiart was a high-profile prisoner. After four months at the Villa Orsini at Sulmona, he was transferred to a special prison for senior officers at Castello di Vincigliata. There were a number of senior officer prisoners here due to the successes achieved by Rommel in North Africa early in 1941. Carton de Wiart made friends, especially with General Sir Richard O'Connor, The 6th Earl of Ranfurly and Lieutenant-General Philip Neame, VC. In letters to his wife, Lord Ranfurly described Carton de Wiart in captivity as "a delightful character" and said he "must hold the record for bad language." Ranfurly was "endlessly amused by him. He really is a nice person – superbly outspoken."[15] The four were committed to escaping. He made five attempts, including seven months tunnelling. Carton de Wiart once evaded capture for eight days disguised as an Italian peasant (he was in northern Italy, could not speak Italian, and was 62 years old, with an eye patch, one empty sleeve and multiple injuries and scars).
This man was a CHARACTER.
@YarisSedan deadpan: deliberately impassive and/or expressionless. Deadpan can be sarcastic, for example.
There’s no way that excerpt wasn’t written at least remotely to point out the humour of the situation. Adding detail in parentheses after the relevant sentence isn’t very typical for Wikipedia, but is arguably still “scholarly” in tone enough to be on it.
Lethal as in, like, really funny. The kind of thing that makes you laugh until you can’t breathe (a bit of an exaggeration, but this is the internet so whatever).
Wikipedia can’t have normal jokes in articles, so whatever humour is occasionally written in generally needs to be deadpan, working especially well since you don’t expect to find a joke on that site.
@ComradeSandman tf is deadpan and why is it lethal
@LeShunny Wikipedia deadpan is LETHAL
Wikipedia at its finest.
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