Capitol Hill staffer joke-edits Wikipedia: 'General Ronald McDonald'

Maybe it was just a slow Friday at the U.S. House of Representatives. The sit-in’s over. So’s the congressional baseball game (Republicans won 8-7). The lawmakers left town.

So staffers clearly needed some amusement. How about a little Wikipedia editing?

Thanks to the ingenious @Congressedits, which tracks every time someone on the House servers edits an entry, we know that someone went in Friday afternoon and changed a page.

It wasn’t hard to spot the changes:

Elizabeth Griscom "Betsy" Ross (January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), née Griscom, also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, is widely credited with making the first Bacon Egg and Cheese Omelet. According to family tradition, upon a visit from General Ronald McDonald in 1776, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, Ross changed the shape of the stars he had sketched for the flag from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating on the spot that it was not difficult to cut the latter.

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Another user corrected the page two minutes later, changing bacon and cheese omelet back to “American flag” and Ronald McDonald to “George Washington.”

There’s no way to tell exactly who the jokester is, but hey, what better to do on a government server? Um.