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T3H_CH3K7_888 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:59 pm **Posts:** 147

I JUST GOT the H*R thing. I just read it as "HR" before, not getting that the asterisk was supposed to be read as "star". Yeeeaah... :rolleyes:

flicky1991 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:56 pm

T3H_CH3K7_888 wrote:

I JUST GOT the H*R thing. I just read it as "HR" before, not getting that the asterisk was supposed to be read as "star". Yeeeaah... :rolleyes:

It took me a while too, but I realised a few weeks ago.

T3H_CH3K7_888 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:59 pm **Posts:** 147

I didn't even get it when I saw the ACTUAL STAR on the website.

Heimstern Läufer · **Posted:** Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:36 pm

For whatever it's worth, even when it's written as H*R, I tend to hear it as "aitch-are", not "aitch-star-are".

daanton · **Joined:** Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:21 pm **Posts:** 40

Hmmmmmmmm....

Quote:

{angry} "Oh, hello, Marzipan! You've got the H-star, you got the H-star-R, and boy, have I got a bee in my bonnet! [...]"

tehcheakt · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:05 pm

I regonized that about 2 secs ago Thanks wiki! :cheatgrin:

Heimstern Läufer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:46 pm

daanton wrote:

Hmmmmmmmm....

Quote:

{angry} "Oh, hello, Marzipan! You've got the H-star, you got the H-star-R, and boy, have I got a bee in my bonnet! [...]"

I know. I just tend to hear it in my mind the shorter way.

Shwoo · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:16 am

Heimstern Läufer wrote:

For whatever it's worth, even when it's written as H*R, I tend to hear it as "aitch-are", not "aitch-star-are".

Yeah, me too. The sounds in aitch-star-arr kind of run together.

TheMac04 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:43 am

I always say it in my head as aitch-star-are. I always have.

DorianGray · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:19 am

I, too, say it as aitch-star-arr.

T3H_CH3K7_888 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:59 pm **Posts:** 147

Heimstern Läufer wrote:

For whatever it's worth, even when it's written as H*R, I tend to hear it as "aitch-are", not "aitch-star-are".

Me too.

Dry Ragamuffin · **Joined:** Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:48 pm **Posts:** 39

Aitch. What a complicated phoneme. Aych. Aeich. "Eh"ch. What comes after A-itch and before C-it... nevermind.
But yeah. H-Star-R. Always has been. Always will be. It maintains the rythym of saying "Homestar Runner" without using so many vowels.

Homestar-winner · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:41 pm

Aitch-Star-Arr for me.

T3H_CH3K7_888 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:59 pm **Posts:** 147

Dry Ragamuffin wrote:

Aitch. What a complicated phoneme. Aych. Aeich. "Eh"ch. What comes after A-itch and before C-it...

Someone I was talking to on MSN last night.

Heimstern Läufer · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:25 am

Dry Ragamuffin wrote:

Aitch. What a complicated phoneme. Aych. Aeich. "Eh"ch. What comes after A-itch and before C-it... nevermind.
But yeah. H-Star-R. Always has been. Always will be. It maintains the rythym of saying "Homestar Runner" without using so many vowels.

Interestingly enough, you'll find some folks from England call it "haitch" instead. I've heard some of my British colleagues referring to haitch-ess-bee-see countless times, though as yet I've not heard anyone say "haitch-star-are".

Key-sword-tar · **Posted:** Sun Apr 19, 2009 3:08 pm

T3H_CH3K7_888 wrote:

Interestingly enough, you'll find some folks from England call it "haitch" instead. I've heard some of my British colleagues referring to haitch-ess-bee-see countless times, though as yet I've not heard anyone say "haitch-star-are".

That's all to do with regional accents, so the chances are you just haven't met a H*R fan from the right part of england.
I, as an english person, don't really pronounce Rs that follow vowels, so I normally just think of it as aitch-stah-h, and not distinguishing between the two syllables.

pink pineapple · **Posted:** Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:27 am

And I can't pronounce it in one piece. I would either have to say "aitch-stah-arr" or "aitch-sta-rar", because if I try to say it normally, I swallow the second a and r. (It's probably because of my dialect, I find it hard to pronounce certain combinations of letters in German as well.)

Bad Bad Guy · **Joined:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:31 am **Posts:** 836

I know dumber things. I went two years thinking Big Toons, not Strong Bad Emails, were the central feature of homestarrunner.com.

T3H_CH3K7_888 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:59 pm **Posts:** 147

Bad Bad Guy wrote:

I know dumber things. I went two years thinking Big Toons, not Strong Bad Emails, were the central feature of homestarrunner.com.

At least that makes sense. "Big Toons = big feature". And they were the main feature for a while.

Chapien · **Posted:** Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:04 pm

Bad Bad Guy wrote:

I know dumber things. I went two years thinking Big Toons, not Strong Bad Emails, were the central feature of homestarrunner.com.

Big Toons originally were the main feature, and now they are again, due to the fact that there won't be any sbemails anymore.

Homestar-winner · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:51 am

Chapien wrote:

Bad Bad Guy wrote:

I know dumber things. I went two years thinking Big Toons, not Strong Bad Emails, were the central feature of homestarrunner.com.

Big Toons originally were the main feature, and now they are again, due to the fact that there won't be any sbemails anymore.

That's not true. Big Toons will never be the main feature. A "Big Toon" only means that the toons in that category are considerably longer than others. There are more toons released each year in other categories, such as "Shorts" and "Holiday Toons".

Bad Bad Guy · **Joined:** Fri Nov 16, 2007 2:31 am **Posts:** 836

Chapien wrote:

Big Toons originally were the main feature, and now they are again

So far we've had only two Big Toons, but twice as many Shorts and three New Stuff toons. This reminds me of the time Meaty85203 said Strong Sad was a Dangeresque Star in every movie, despite the fact he only has one scene in Dangeresque, Too?, no lines in This Time, It's Not Dangeresque 1, and the end credits of Dangeresque, Too? and The Criminal Projective don't call him by his real name.

Chapien · **Posted:** Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:16 pm

Okay, re-phrasing time.

Shorts are the main feature in a sense that there are WAY more of them than big toons. However, Big Toons are the main event in the sense that they are spaced out between releases. Personally, I normally look out for the next Big Toon or Holiday Toon, and not so much the shorts. I suppose it can depend on how you look at it.

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