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==Rejected Fun Facts==
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===Scalawag===
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"Scalawag" may possibly be a reference to a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Calvin and Hobbes sing the "Very Sorry Song" :
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:(Calvin) "I'm sorry, so sorry I took your precious flaaaaag"
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:(Hobbes) "Just don't do it again you scurvy scalawaaaaaag"
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*'''Revise''' Maybe "The fact that SB ends the song with the word scalawag..." [[User:DeadGuyPerez|DeadGuyPerez]]
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*'''Decline.''' Maybe it is a C & H reference. Maybe it's a reference to Southerners who supported Reconstruction. Maybe TBC just liked the sound of the word and thought it would be funny. -- [[User:tomstiff|tomstiff]] 05 Apr 2005
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*'''Decline.''' Geez, I already deleted this one! Scalawag is just a word. C&H didn't invent it. This is a huge stretch. <small><tt>[[User:Homestar Coder|<font color=#8B0000>Aurora the Homestar Coder</font>]]</tt></small> 13:10, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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*'''Decline''' I don't need to explain this, do I? [[User:Dasrik|Dasrik]] 14:31, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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*'''Decline''' Calvin and Hobbes is a good comic strip, but as with the STUFF below, it is too obtuse to be called a reference to it. (Was this written by the same person as the one below?) --[[User:acekirby13|acekirby13]] 18:36, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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**'''Second''' --[[User:Jay|The guy whose name is the letter after I and before K]]
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*'''Declination Jackson''' So they just happen to have used the same word, and it's a reference? Not bloody likely. Besides, any fun fact with the words "may possibly be" should be burned instantly. With fire. [[User:Rudeboy87|Rudeboy87]] 20:01, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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*'''Decline''' The word ''scalawag'' has been around much longer than ''Calvin and Hobbes''. --[[User:Uh! Bob|<sub><tt>'''''Úħ¡ βøв'''''</tt></sub>]] 14:51, 6 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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**'''Second''' --[[User:Trogga|Trogga]] 16:59, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
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*'''Buleeted''' It's a '''word!''' [[User:OWIE!|OWIE!]]
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**'''Second.'''[[User:TakuaKaita600|TakuaKaita600]] 15:44, 12 Apr 2005 (MDT)

Revision as of 15:08, 18 April 2005

Rejected Fun Facts

Scalawag

"Scalawag" may possibly be a reference to a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Calvin and Hobbes sing the "Very Sorry Song" :

(Calvin) "I'm sorry, so sorry I took your precious flaaaaag"
(Hobbes) "Just don't do it again you scurvy scalawaaaaaag"
  • Revise Maybe "The fact that SB ends the song with the word scalawag..." DeadGuyPerez
  • Decline. Maybe it is a C & H reference. Maybe it's a reference to Southerners who supported Reconstruction. Maybe TBC just liked the sound of the word and thought it would be funny. -- tomstiff 05 Apr 2005
  • Decline. Geez, I already deleted this one! Scalawag is just a word. C&H didn't invent it. This is a huge stretch. Aurora the Homestar Coder 13:10, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
  • Decline I don't need to explain this, do I? Dasrik 14:31, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
  • Decline Calvin and Hobbes is a good comic strip, but as with the STUFF below, it is too obtuse to be called a reference to it. (Was this written by the same person as the one below?) --acekirby13 18:36, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
  • Declination Jackson So they just happen to have used the same word, and it's a reference? Not bloody likely. Besides, any fun fact with the words "may possibly be" should be burned instantly. With fire. Rudeboy87 20:01, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
  • Decline The word scalawag has been around much longer than Calvin and Hobbes. --Úħ¡ βøв 14:51, 6 Apr 2005 (MDT)
    • Second --Trogga 16:59, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
  • Buleeted It's a word! OWIE!
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