God bless the Internet and/or Wikipedia. They have a very detailed article on the shocker.
Thanks to Linky for writing this post which inspired me to do a web search for my followup comment.
One final thought:
14:14 <SmooveB> I want to know in what universe this is an encyclopedia article
[ Update:
14:24 <spruance> haha roe‘s talking about the shocker too
14:24 <Ark> holy crap, Richard Roeper wrote an article yesterday about
14:24 <spruance> the shocker has jumped the shark
14:24 <Ark> spruance: haha, yes!
Also, Richard Roeper had an article about this yesterday]