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[edit] The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards

Homestar Runner won in the Best Use of Flash category at "The 2004 Cartoonist's Choice Awards"

[edit] The $39 Experiment

On a site called The $39 Experiment a man named Tom Locke sent 100 letters to 100 companies asking for free stuff. In one letter to "Del Monte Pet Products" Tom claims that he has a dog named Li'l Brudder.

[edit] 8-Bit Theater

[edit] 8BitJoystick.com

In this article about how to literally burn CDs, the author notes to "burn it properly like Trogdor burninates the peasants."

[edit] Addicting Games

  • The site features Stinkoman 20X6 and TROGDOR!
  • Awexome Cross and Population: Tire were on the site before it was redesigned.
  • In the game Track Master, if you get a good score it says good jorb.
  • In the game Slacker 2, after you beat the game there is an epilogue, and if you zoom in on Slacker's nametag, it has a picture of Homestar Runner.
  • In the game Scribble 2, Level 17 you draw an arrow, and the description reads "Arrow'd."
  • In The game Dress Up Barack, of the things you can put on Barack Obama, a Strong Bad Mask and Boxing Gloves are avalible. If you enter this code then you will see Barack as Strong Bad: {d:5013,c:hat,y:0.849999999999994,x:29.7,mc:hat009},{d:4011,c:glasses,y:209.75,x:-8.19999999999999,mc:glasses009},{d:4012,c:glasses,y:208,x:91.85,mc:glasses008},{f:2,mc:_level0.background_mc},{d:2007,c:pants,y:196.65,x:27.55,mc:pants005}
  • For the game Terrascape, when it was displayed in the new features, it said "Do you fight for good, or awesome?".
  • In the description for Portal Flash Version it asks "Do you has?"

[edit] All Your Base parody list

The TmsT Zero Wing Parodies Emporium features "All Your HomeStarRunner are belong to Trogdor".


[edit] Animalxing.com

  • On the Textures page, They have many Homestar related designs such as Homestar, Strong Bad, The Cheat, etc. that can be found by typing in the search box.
  • An image of Strong Bad to be used on the Animal Crossing cat, Blanca, appears here.

[edit] Atari Age

At this site, someone hacked the Atari "Donkey Kong" game. Player, Enemy, and Object sprites have been changed to resemble characters from Homestar Runner. You can find it here.

[edit] BB-Spot-Which website are you?

In the website personality test at www.bbspot.com, one of the possible answers you can get is homestarrunner.com.

[edit] Best Page In The Universe

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In one article, Maddox rants about the amount of emails he gets, and remarks "I know there are other big websites out there that generate a lot of email (my sympathies to the Chapman brothers)". This must mean he is aware of homestarrunner.com, and according to his book signing tour in 2006, he likes Strong Bad.

[edit] Brooks TV

  • Homestar can be seen in the bottom left panel in this comic. Also in that panel, it says "fall'd off!", a reference to Teen Girl Squad.
  • The main character, Brooks, kills Strong Bad by order of Homestar in a comic which can be seen here.
  • In this comic, Brooks mentions Butt IQ when answering fan mail.

[edit] Bryan Waterman Interview

Bryan Waterman, who does the series "Waterman" had an interview and he mentioned the best internet cartoon was Homestar Runner:

Who is your favorite flash movie artist or flash artists if you have more than one? What are some of your favorite flash movie series?
BRYAN WATERMAN: Above all else Homestar Runner not only do I love the cartoon, Mike and Matt are two good friends of mine. Bonus Stage is another one I really like and I do look forward to Joseph's animations.

See It Here

[edit] Burning Sand

A Trogdor icon was made in the Burning Sand thread in the Falling Sand Game Forum. You can find the page that displays the icon here and you can download the most recent version of Burning Sand here.

[edit] BZPower

-There is a whole section under the forum 'Completely Off Topic' dedicated completely to Home Star Runner.

-There is a Home Star Runner Chimrou Kit being made out of Dark709's Chimrou Kit by member Boba Fett.

-There are also several other instances in which a line or two from HSR is mentioned. Mostly, it is in comedies and comics, such as Dark709's.

[edit] Charm City Cakes

At Charm City Cakes one of the cakes in the Kids Stuffs page is titled "Trogdor". The cake, however, does not resemble Trogdor at all.

[edit] Charlie Clay And The Clay Crew

At this site created by Teh Cartoonist Productions, all of Season 1's episodes contain Homestar cameos.

Episode 1 A Trogdor arcade game can be seen behind the Sonic arcade game that the crew is playing.

Episode 2 The crew finds a gray monster, but when they put the flashlight on it, they find out it is actually Homestar and he helps them get their power back.

Episode 3 Jacob wears Homestar's shoes and gets beat up by Homestar, the text "ROCK'D" pops up when Charlie is hit by a rock in the head, the text "ROCK'D AGAIN!" pops up as a guy who commented the grammar error gets a rock thrown at his head, and Trogdor gets defeated by Charlie doing homing attack on him.

Episode 4 "Thief'd" is the episode name and Homestar gets stolen by the thief.

Episode 5 Homestar escapes from the thief with Charlie.

[edit] Choose your own change

If you submit a story to Choose Your Own Change, the following message appears: "Your article has been received... If Instructions on the previous page have been followed your story will be posted soon, if not it will be baleeted!"

[edit] Chris Creamer's Sports Logo Page

A few years ago, on the board for Chris Creamer's Sports Logo page, someome did a custom logo based on Trogdor. website is chriscreamer.com.

[edit] CNET Webware 100

On 18 June, 2007, CNET published a listing of the top 100 Web applications. Homestar Runner was one of the ten selected for the Entertainment category.

[edit] Comcast.net

It's Dot Net!
It's Dot Net!

On June 10th, 2004, homestarrunner.com was featured on Comcast.net's main page as the icon for its "FUN FOR ALL AGES" news article, where Homestar Runner's image was displayed, along with a link to the website and The Brothers Chaps' meeting with G4TechTV.

[edit] Crash Mania

The ALT text for the bottom left image of this page reads "I just lost my jenga jam", a reference to Homsar's line in Where's The Cheat?

[edit] Cube Craft.com

Website that specializes on papercraft models of characters, cubecraft.com. One of the models you can create is Strong Bad [1].

[edit] Dan Brown's Universe

[edit] Dance Dance Immolation

On a site for Dance Dance Immolation, a flaming DDR, a gallery contains a picture of a man on fire with the caption "BURNINATED!!". [2]

[edit] Dangerskew

[edit] Devon M

Although the site isn't a parody/fan site anymore, there is still some references to the H*R universe.

  • One of the things that the "under construction" index page states, is to go check out "Homestar Runner" while it's being renovated.

[edit] Double-Tongued Word Wrester

Neolinguist Grant Barrett has done an entry on "asplode" on his site. It looks like "asplode" was not coined by the Brothers Chaps, but he agrees that "This term was popularized in 2004 by the character Strong Bad on the HomestarRunner web site."

[edit] Duct Tape Guys

At DuctTapeGuys.com on this webpage there is a picture of a duct tape backpack featuring Strong Bad, Marzipan, and Homestar.

[edit] Ebolaworld.com

In a parody of the video game Night Trap, Homestar can sometimes be seen in empty rooms. Usually the bedroom. The game can be found here

[edit] Engrish.com

The image featured on this page is Strong Bad's "Eating Five Batteries" illustration from english paper.

[edit] Episode Comparisons

The anime episode comparison site Mew Mew Power Uncensored sometimes uses the term Baleeted and frequently uses the Teen Girl Squad-esque term DELET'D in their comparisons to say when a scene was cut out.

[edit] Eric Conveys an Emotion

[edit] Europa Universalis Forums

This site has a large number of fanfiction entries for Paradox Entertainment games, such as Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron. The author Prufrock451 put a "Private Benedetto" in this Hearts of Iron 2 After Action Report. He's told to "keep that mess down".

[edit] Factorize

One of their randomized slogans reads "_______ can count to purple." A reference to Teen Girl Squad Issue 7.

[edit] Fail!

On the FAQ page of this website, the ever-popular boxing glove question is asked.

[edit] Fake Domain Registration Info

The registration information provided for "olene.net" references Mundelow, Schenectady Crispies, Abdi LaRue, Cheap as Free, Cory, ND, The Cheat, Strong Badia, Free Country, USA, Coach Z, and his locker room.

[edit] FeedBurner

Let's date.
Let's date.

On the FeedBurner website, in the section in which you can manage your feeds, random messages show up. One of them is this: "To the nearly 140,000 customers using FeedBurner... we are totally crushing (in a good way)." The link takes you to Teen Girl Squad Issue 2.

[edit] Finding Sushi

In Part 4 of Finding Sushi, the opening is a complete rip-off of the email senior prom, with JarJar(Bubbles) getting his very own cartoon show, very akin to The King Of Town's Very Own Quite Popular Cartoon show, complete with matching music. The first segment involves Marlin checking an email that is very similar to the sbemail different town. A music video is then done with The Different Town Song. Also, When Yoda throws the rocks at Nemo, the "Throw baby" sound clip from Peasant's Quest Movie Trailer plays. Also, in Part 5, Homsars quote "Alms for the pudgy" from Homestar Presents: Presents and Coach Zs quote "JEAOOOOOOOOORB" from A Jorb Well Done is used in the fake intermissions.

[edit] Flame Warriors

The entry for Garble includes a reference to a certain infamous question often asked of Strong Bad.

[edit] Flying Omelette's Kitchen

  • According to this site, Strong Bad may have been switched at birth with Viewtiful Joe or the Red Power Ranger as found in this article .
  • Also, The Cheat is compared to Pikachu in this article.

[edit] For The Win Lite

One "figurine" that a player can obtain in this web-based game is "AL-20X6". The site

[edit] The Force.net Humor

At a Star Wars Fansite's humor section one of their "Top 46 lists" titled 'Top 47 lesser known goals of the evil empire' says "Secret co-production of Dangeresque 1, 2, & 3" at number 8. The List The Site

[edit] Forum Stage

On the main page, the description for episode 1 is "Idiot gets sucked into the internet creating a cartoon so bad, Homestar Runner died." It can be seen here.

[edit] The Four Word Film Review

One of the reviews for Mars Attacks! contains the review "Their hed a splode"

[edit] Fred The Monkey

Fred the Monkey.com is a Flash animation site that is greatly influenced by Homestar Runner. It's been around for four years now. Like Homestar Runner, the site features a "First Time Here"-video and a mailbag, very much like Strong Bad's e-mail, and in the sixteenth mailbag, he comments on how he gets a lot of emails from people pretending to be Strong Bad. Another similarity is that certain characters are able to pick up and manipulate objects without having visible arms. However, in one of the earlier mailbags, it is explicitly explained that these characters do in fact possess psychic powers. Another more obvious reference is displayed in this toon, where Fred The Monkey wears a Strong Bad mask at the end. Also, during the end credits, it says that " Strong Bad is (obviously) property of h*r"

[edit] Fruitcake MIDI

Dr. Fruitcake, a famous video game music sequencer and remixer, has created a song called "The Occasional Beat (Strong Bad Remix)" in tribute to new hands. Check the song out here. Fruitcake MIDI

[edit] Funny Junk

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[edit] Funny Part

Funny part, a website with numerous funny pictures, cartoons, and jokes, had Teen Girl Squad issues 2 and 3 on their website, though they have since been removed.

[edit] FunOrb

In the game Miner Disturbance, death by volcano explosion can yield the message "Burninated."

[edit] Futurama Madhouse

At the Futurama Madhouse, they have a regular feature on "Uses for a hacker".

  • Use #498 is entitled "Homsar's Translator" and features everyone's favorite blue midget Homestar, Homsar! An obvious reference to for kids.
  • The copyright reads "© Tandy 400, Chapman Bros".
  • Use #667 is entitled "Homestar Runner's Evil Twin", and features, just that.
  • Use #669, entitled "Strong Bad's Torture Victims Who Misspell Repeetedli", is the latest Homestar-related use for a hacker.

[edit] G4TV

When under construction, the official site for G4TV displayed an error message which read "ERROR'ed!" also a recent cheat! ad reads "so many cheats it might make your head asplode!"

[edit] Gamecheetz

  • Homestar Runner is mentioned on the GameCheetz link page under "Excellent Humorous Sites".
  • In the comic "Buzz Buzz", there's a caption in the 7th frame that reads "If you don't recognize this, then you need to go to homestarrunner.com".
  • One of the Forum avatars is a picture of Ilko's head.

[edit] GameFAQs

  • On the GameFAQs video game database, there are pages for Peasant's Quest here and Stinkoman 20X6 here, where each game has user-submitted walkthroughs, reviews and more, as well as its own message board!
  • Homestar Runner is listed as a company here.
  • Also, The Unofficial Homestarrunner board can be found here.
  • On April Fools 2006, a poll on GameFAQs listed a series of internet phrases, one of which being "YOUR HEAD ASPLODE".

[edit] The Game Rag

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In My 24 Hours With G4TV, the author writes at 3am: "[I]t's late and I'm getting tired. I begin to go slightly insane, and draw Trogdor on the bottom of my foot." A photo of his drawing is included in the article, sans wings.

[edit] GamesRadar

GamesRadar featured a video for Ultimate Ninja 2 with the headline "Burninate!"

[edit] The Geek Show

On The Geek Show, Strong Bad Emails are frequently shown as an example of "What's funny on the internet." They have played "japanese cartoon", "dullard", "theme party" and "Strong Bad Sings" on their show.

[edit] Golo Theme song

In this song, D.J Silver and his little brother Diego both mention the email privileges.

[edit] Google

[edit] HALOLZ

[edit] Hardcore Gaming 101

In the Bionic Commando article, the writer mentions a "strong Badd" (the name of the enemy army), and then proceeds to laugh over his gag and pointing it out.

[edit] Holy Bibble

  • On the comic page of comic #93, Cannan mentions "Every time somebody gets burninated in Holy Bibble, I get the most awesome dreams..."

[edit] Homokaasu.org

A Homestar Runner wall-size printout demonstrating homokaasu.org's Rasterbator software (Web service)


[edit] IGN

  • The image behind the Nintendo Wi-Fi Registration Tool is from a Teen Girl Squad comic in this article.
  • In the Animal Crossing: Wild World video review at the 2:52 mark, there is a selection screen where you pick the design for your clothes. There are three Homestar inspired designs, including the red star shirt, a Homestar head, and Strong Bad. The video selection page is found here, and the actual video is on the top left, or here.
  • Concerning a Video Game Law in Oklahoma, IGN titled the article "Oklahoma Burninates Game Law" found here.
  • IGN mentions Homestarrunner.com in their review of the Nintendo DS Web Browser.

[edit] I-Mockery

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  • Pickleman and the Green Thumb of Triumph
    • When you are bitten by the vampire bat, you become a block of cheese, accompanied with the message "CHEESED!". See the page here.
  • I-Mockery's Great American Road Trip
    • At a medieval fair, RoG sees a simplistic dragon toy, and compares it to Trogdor. See the page here.
  • EVOLUTION OF JACK!
    • After Pjalne pretends to have stabbed himself in the arm, there is a picture of Andy with a caption of "Halloween'd", which is a direct reference to Teen Girl Squad. See the page here.
  • Bishop of Battle
    • On the second page of his review, the image of the Bishop swallowing J.J. is captioned with a reference to StrongBadZone, "YOUR HEAD A SPLODE!" A direct link to the page is available here.

[edit] Insert Disc Two

In the sketch My Dream Date with James Joyce, Lori Williams' character has a The Cheat doll on her bed.

[edit] Inspirational Posters

A website cataloging inspirational posters based on role-playing games includes one titled "Artistry", which features the "S is for Sucks" from dragon.

[edit] Instuctables

User GorillazMiko made a page about how to draw Trogdor. On the intro page of the instructable, there is video of dragon from YouTube.

[edit] Jay is games

Jay is games is a site that reviews a large number of online games. They have had reviews of Peasant's Quest [3] and Thy Dungeonman 3 [4].

[edit] JengaJam.com

This website always puts up links to the latest Homestar updates. The name of the site came from Homsar's quote in Where's The Cheat?, and the sub heading "The Pride of the Peaches" is derived from a quote by Strong Bad, who at the time of the Interview sbemail, was imitating Homsar.

[edit] Joe Wuz Here!

In Comic 2 of the main series, The police car that Joe was put in has a lisence plate labeled "BURNIN8R." The site can be found Here.

[edit] The Joshua Childers Show!

The Joshua Childers Show! is a webshow on YouTube where a teenager parodies different TV show genres. In the first episode, Joshua is seen wearing a Stinkoman shirt.

[edit] Joystiq

[edit] Kevin & Kell

  • Lindesfarne, one of the fictional characters in the comic, has her own blog. One of the entries in the blog is called TRADEMARK'D.

[edit] Kings of Chaos

After attacking an enemy in the MMORPG Kings of Chaos, the victory page will sometimes say "You burninated the enemy!" an obvious reference to Trogdor.

[edit] Kotaku

[edit] La La La

The video "La La La" on UGOplayer contains a few Homestar Runner characters, including Strong Bad and Homestar Runner. It also includes the Homestarmy wallpaper image, edited to suit the cartoon.

[edit] Laser Dragon University

In Students, there is a character who wears a T-shirt with the logo for Taranchula.

[edit] Legendaryfrog.com

[edit] Lemmy's Land

[edit] LoadingReadyRun

[edit] Loldogs

  • In the background of this picture, a young boy is clearly watching some type of interaction between Strong Bad and Bubs.

[edit] "The Lost Experience" ABC's Official Blog

In Speaker's "Reader Mail 2", after one question was repeated one too many times, Speaker angrily responds, "Grah! What? Who? GAH! Is this my 'How do you type with boxing gloves on?' question?" Later, Speaker posted a "Video Reader Mail" on YouTube, which prominently featured the Kick The Cheat doll in the background and referred to "e-mail personalities" having raspy voices (like Strong Bad).

[edit] ManCrush

Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, The Cheat, and Coach Z are all listed, currently rated at #1102, #674, #1271, and #933, respectively.

[edit] The Man of 101 Voices

"Brock" released a video on Myspace called "The Man of 101 Voices" where he did impressions of Teen Girl Squad, Bubs, Coach Z, The Cheat, and Larry from Limozeen as numbers 91-95. The video can be seen here

[edit] Mind Body Guide

  • Strong Bad is the featured image of a slightly tongue-in-cheek tally of the body's many muscles on this site.
  • Strong Bad Email suntan is quoted when the article states, "let's not forget the cloits and dloits!"
  • The footnote says "There are no such thing as cloits or dloits. This is a reference to anatomy according to Strong Bad, which is hilarious, and included here entirely for the sake of comic relief. Kind of like the whole article, come to think of it."

[edit] More Awesome Than You!

[edit] NationalReview.com

In an article posted August 27th, 2003, entitled "Everybody to the Limit", Peter Wood reviews homestarrunner.com.

[edit] Natrium42.com

In a blog post, Natrium42 uses dragon as the test Flash file for porting GPLFlash to the Nintendo DS.

[edit] Neglected Characters

  • This is a site where the Neglected Characters of Mario games are honored. One of them, Dr. Donez, answers questions regularly (much like Strong Bad Email) at Ask Dr. Donez.
  • In one of Bowser's speeches, Koopa asks Bowser, "How do you know Trogdor?" and he replies "We went to Burniniation classes together."

[edit] Neopets

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  • In this avatar, the caption reads "Garlic'd!" at the end, an obvious Teen Girl Squad reference.

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  • Another avatar features a Scorchio (a dragon-like Neopet) with the caption "Burninate!", an obvious reference to Trogdor.

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  • Neopets also has an avatar reserved for theneopetsteam, a staff username, which references the "a splode."

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  • There is also a Petpet Laboratory, that can change your Petpet's image, and one thing that can happen is your Petpet's name can change to So and So.
  • This Neopian Times article [8] has the phrase "How do you type with boxing gloves on?"

[edit] NES Buckle

  • On this site, one person is wearing a Teen Girl Squad Shirt.

[edit] NES Horsemen

[edit] Newgrounds

Newgrounds user Shadow-Panda made a music video of Ebay by Weird Al, has a picture of Homestar as one of the items bought off of Ebay, out of its box as the camera pans through the items.

There is a game called "Homestar Hunt" on Newgrounds, where you chase Homestar and shoot him.

[edit] Nintendojo

As an April Fools prank, Nintendojo put up a fake list of characters for the upcoming Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Trogdor is among the characters listed.

[edit] NoSlang.com

The NoSlang.com "commonly misspelled words" page has a statement saying, "Since not everybody owns a copy of 'Strong Bad's Rythm N' Grammar,' we've tried to do our part to help by compiling a list of common internet misspellings." It also posted a "Happy Birthday Trogdor" link from January 13th through January 16th, 2006. And, in the Internet Slang Dictionary, one of the user-submitted words is h*r, meaning "homestar runner"

[edit] Olde English

In their General Procrastination sketch, Raizin was holding off going to battle by going on the internet and watching the new Strong Bad Email. (which really wasn't even an email, he opened up the Strong Bad bio 'toon and the email menu.)

[edit] OrbiTouch

On the website for OrbiTouch, a new, safe way to type, they mention that you can "Type with Boxing Gloves On" in the lower right-hand side of one of their pages.

[edit] Panda Smash

At 01:20 of A Tribute to Every Video Site, the scene shows the man and woman as Strong Bad and Marzipan.

[edit] Peanut Foot

This flash website has many references to Homestar in the "Old Malarkey" section, including a series called Carrot Quest which is mainly pictures from Peasant's Quest with characters from Peanut Foot to the tune of the Peasant's Quest theme. It also has has Homestar show up in multiple toons, and in one episode of the series "Red State Banjo", the main character shouts "What the pfargtl?!?!".

[edit] Platypuscomix.net

[edit] Plush Puffs

Plush Puffs list Mr. Shmallow (toon), Fluffy Puff Commercial, and Meet Marshie as Company Training Videos on their about us page.

[edit] Polas' Goodtime Retro Cafe

In the Commodore 64 "Classics" review, Trogdor lyrics are used as the opening paragraph for the review of the game Thantos.

[edit] Progressive Boink

  • In The 100 Greatest Christmas Shows list, the Homestar Runner Decemberween toons are grouped together and ranked at #79.
  • In The 50 Worst Halloween Costumes list, Strong Bad is among those as "Any costume that may lead to poor voice impressions".
  • In Kyle's Top 20 Video Games list (part of the site's 100 Favorite Video Games), Kyle criticizes the voices of the enemies in Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (his 9th favorite game) as sound "identical to Strong Bad".
  • In Jon's Top 20 Most Beautiful Women list (part of the site's (100 Most Beautiful Women: 2003), Jon describes his #1 pick, Shakira, as being famous for "the ability to sing like both a Latina schoolgirl and Homsar in the same verse."
  • The entry for Cheese (from the cartoon series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends") in the Internet Hanna-Barbera Fashion Database describes the show as being "located just down the block from Trogdor the Burninator and across the street from Juggernaut calling people b****es."
  • In a review of Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah, the character Charlie Horse's use of a computer is compared to Strong Bad in the form of an e-mail asking how he types with hooves on his hands. The e-mail is signed, "crapfully yours, crapface mccrappington, asbury park, nj."
  • Volvagia's HySpace profile lists two reasons why he was revived by Ganondorf, one of them is to "burninate the countryside."
  • On the final page of Rob Liefeld's 40 worst drawings the author notes, "We'll ignore the elephantine Strong Sad leg that he's given Franklin Richards in the first panel."

[edit] Pure Pwnage

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Jeremy from Pure Pwnage
Jeremy from Pure Pwnage
At the beginning of episode 10, Jeremy answers e-mails in the exact same style as Strong Bad does. The computer used says "Compy 386" in the corner.

http://www.purepwnage.com/ (WARNING: Contains language and derogatory terms!)