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'''Antisexy''' has at least fifteen bucks in his wallet right now.  Bet that's more than you, poor person.
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Hello. I'm '''Johnny Jupiter'''.  I've been a big fan of both Homestar Runner and this wiki for a long time now.  I'm not as involved with the wiki as I used to be, though, mainly because there hasn't been any new content on the Homestar Runner site for so long, and frankly I think there isn't much to say about existing toons that hasn't already been said. I would like to add an interesting note, however.  I just recently saw [[Play Date]] for the first time.  I thought that I'd seen everything on the site, but somehow this one slipped by me when it was released and I knew nothing about it until yesterday when the "rando" link landed on it.  Needless to say, I was very pleased to see new (to me) content.
== A Few Things About Me ==
== A Few Things About Me ==
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My real name is Paul McCoy, but I want to change to Johnny Jupiter someday when I have an extra $200 just lying around.  Antisexy is one of my old preferred screen names, and I really don't like it anymore.  One of these days, one of the [[HRWiki:Bureaucrats|Bureaucrats]] will see my [[HRWiki:Changing_username#Antisexy|username change request]], and grant thereof.  But until then, Antisexy it is.
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My real name is Paul McCoy.  I'm {{yearssince|04 April 1982 00:00:00 +0000}} years old, and I live in Potosi, Missouri, about an hour or so from St. Louis. The main thing I do with most of my time is play with and promote my band [[Wikipedia:Gizburg Duck|Gizburg Duck]].  I also really enjoy [[Wikipedia:Magic: The Gathering|Magic: The Gathering]] and [[Wikipedia:FLCL|Fooly Cooly]].
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[[Image:Strong bad email D.PNG|Not my band.|thumb|200px|left]]I'm in a [http://www.gizburgduck.com band], I design (''bad'') [http://www.genesisdigitalstudios.com web sites], and I avidly play [http://www.magicthegathering.com Magic: the Gathering].  I also just recently got into pencil-and-paper role playing.  (Not a big fan of D&D, though.)
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I also have an unhealthy obsession with [[Wikipedia:FLCL|Fooly Cooly]]
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== Homestar Runner ==
== Homestar Runner ==
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The first thing on homestarrunner.com I ever saw was the [[Everybody to the Limit]] video at a friends house, and I hated it.  It wasn't until like a year or so later that I wandered back on to the site and saw [[english paper]] (which was the new sbemail at the time).  I loved it, but I didn't realize right away it was the same site I saw Everybody to the Limit on.  It wasn't until I'd already watched a bunch more sbemails and got hooked that I made my way to the rest of the toons and made the connection.  I think that I was initially turned off by [[Powered by The Cheat|PBTC]]-style being my first experience with the site, but now that I understand PBTC is supposed to look poorly slapped together, I can totally dig the #1 summer jam.  The live version of the song on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]] is freakin' awesome.  (I wish I could have been at that concert.)
The first thing on homestarrunner.com I ever saw was the [[Everybody to the Limit]] video at a friends house, and I hated it.  It wasn't until like a year or so later that I wandered back on to the site and saw [[english paper]] (which was the new sbemail at the time).  I loved it, but I didn't realize right away it was the same site I saw Everybody to the Limit on.  It wasn't until I'd already watched a bunch more sbemails and got hooked that I made my way to the rest of the toons and made the connection.  I think that I was initially turned off by [[Powered by The Cheat|PBTC]]-style being my first experience with the site, but now that I understand PBTC is supposed to look poorly slapped together, I can totally dig the #1 summer jam.  The live version of the song on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]] is freakin' awesome.  (I wish I could have been at that concert.)
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=== What I love about homestarrunner.com ===
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===My favorite pieces of the [[Homestar Runner (body of work)|Homestar Runner Body of Work]]===
*'''Compy-era'''- As far as I'm concerned, the peak of Strong Bad emails was the middle of the Compy-era.  Maybe this is just because it's the era I jumped in on, but it just seems like they had a more spontaneous, "makin' crap up" style of humor back then.  I still think the newer ones are funny, but they just seem more structured and planned out.  That takes away from the Homestar charm.  My favorite sbemail of all time is [[virus]], but I also love [[the process]], [[dragon]] (Taster's Choice), [[different town]] (TMBG!!!), there's so many...
*'''Compy-era'''- As far as I'm concerned, the peak of Strong Bad emails was the middle of the Compy-era.  Maybe this is just because it's the era I jumped in on, but it just seems like they had a more spontaneous, "makin' crap up" style of humor back then.  I still think the newer ones are funny, but they just seem more structured and planned out.  That takes away from the Homestar charm.  My favorite sbemail of all time is [[virus]], but I also love [[the process]], [[dragon]] (Taster's Choice), [[different town]] (TMBG!!!), there's so many...
[[Image:Akirarunner.png|thumb|200px|That tickles!]]
[[Image:Akirarunner.png|thumb|200px|That tickles!]]
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*'''[[Stinkoman 20X6]]'''- Any day now, I'ma get to play level 10.
*'''[[Stinkoman 20X6]]'''- Any day now, I'ma get to play level 10.
*'''[[TMBG]] & [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (series)|Zelda]]'''- These are a few of my favorite things, occasionally making appearances in Free Country, USA.  I also just about hurt myself laughing when I first saw the [[Wikipedia:Akira (film)|Akira]] refrence in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
*'''[[TMBG]] & [[Wikipedia:The Legend of Zelda (series)|Zelda]]'''- These are a few of my favorite things, occasionally making appearances in Free Country, USA.  I also just about hurt myself laughing when I first saw the [[Wikipedia:Akira (film)|Akira]] refrence in [[3 Times Halloween Funjob]].
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=== What I hate about homestarrunner.com ===
 
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*'''Bad sbemails'''- The following sbemails just flat out aren't funny: [[your funeral]], [[the chair]], [[retirement]], [[disconnected]], [[lady fan]], [[highschool]], [[portrait]], [[bedtime story]], [[geddup noise]], [[secret recipes]], [[your friends]], the ending of [[record book]], and most of the tandy-era sbemails.
 
== H*R Wiki ==
== H*R Wiki ==
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I have been a registered user on the Homestar Runner Wiki for {{yearssince|9 February 2006 02:19}} years and {{monthssince|9 February {{#expr:{{CURRENTYEAR}}{{#ifexpr:{{CURRENTMONTH}} <=  1|- 1}}{{#ifexpr:{{CURRENTMONTH}} >= 2|+ 0}}}} 02:19}} months.  I originally went by the username Antisexy (a name which I have since grown to hate), and in my early days, I sometimes had a tendency to be very snarky and contrary, as seen in some of my {{p|l=http://hrwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&dir=prev&limit=20&target=Johnny+Jupiter earliest talk page edits}}.  For a time, I abandoned my username and only made anonymous, equally snarky contributions as [[Special:Contributions/72.161.170.161|72.161.170.161]] and [[Special:Contributions/208.54.15.129|208.54.15.129]]. Since I've gained more experience on the Wiki, I've tried to be more productive and constructive in my contributions, although I do still tend to get a little too argumentative every now and then.  (In real life, I'm actually much easier to get along with.  People who know me would definitely say I'm more like Homestar than Strong Bad.)
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I first came across H*R Wiki completely on accident through a really weird stroke of dumb luck.  I wanted to find a fansite or archive site where I could find more info on homestarrunner.com.  I think I was specifically wondering about how the sbemail menu screen used to have a link on it for "older emails" that didn't really do anything, but other than that, I just wanted a place where I could look up random fun facts on the site.  This was all back before I'd ever heard of Wikipedia at all.  But when I was at my computer on Google ready to look it up, it was really late, and I was really tired and worn out, and I wasn't completely paying attention to what I was doing.  So instead of typing "Homestar Runner" or "Strong Bad Email" or something like that, without even realizing it, I typed "jibblie jibblie" and hit enter.  I didn't really even connect in my mind that jibblie was something Strong Bad said; those just happened to be the first random words that came to my fingers.  But sure enough, the first link that came up was the H*R Wiki page on [[your friends]].  I was shocked.  Exactly what I was looking for.  So anyway, I discovered H*R Wiki, and shortly afterwards discovered Wikipedia, and I've been unable to live without either ever since.
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I first came across Homestar Runner Wiki completely on accident through a really weird stroke of dumb luck.  I wanted to find a fansite or archive site where I could find more info on homestarrunner.com.  I think I was specifically wondering about how the sbemail menu screen used to have a link on it for "older emails" that didn't really do anything, but other than that, I just wanted a place where I could look up random fun facts on the site.  This was all back before I'd ever heard of Wikipedia at all.  But when I was at my computer on Google ready to look it up, it was really late, and I was really tired and worn out, and I wasn't completely paying attention to what I was doing.  So instead of typing "Homestar Runner" or "Strong Bad Email" or something like that, without even realizing it, I typed "jibblie jibblie" and hit enter.  I didn't really even connect in my mind that jibblie was something Strong Bad said; those just happened to be the first random words that came to my fingers.  But sure enough, the first link that came up was the H*R Wiki page on [[your friends]].  I was shocked.  Exactly what I was looking for.  So anyway, I discovered H*R Wiki, and shortly afterwards discovered Wikipedia, and I've been unable to live without either ever since.
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=== What I love about H*R Wiki ===
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*'''Fun Facts'''- There so many references and connections and little quirks about the site that I learned from Fun Facts sections that I never would have caught otherwise.  It's awesome that so many types of people watch the toons and contribute to the articles. (Although [[Don Knotts|sometimes]] I think it [[Toilets|goes]] [[Mustaches|too far]].)
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*'''"Admin Clique"'''- Like many people, I was an anonymous user for quite a while before I decided to register.  During my time  an anony, I frequently got the opinion ruled by a hierarchy of sorts, and if you weren't a sysop or a seasoned user that the sysops liked, then your opinions didn't really matter.  Now that I've been around the block a few times as a full fledged user, I can see that it's not quite as vicious as I thought it was.  But I still hold to my "admin clique" theory, at least somewhat.  I don't think it's being done on purpose, though.  I've been monitoring [[Special:Recent Changes|Recent Changes]] lately, and it seems like anytime an anonymous or inexperienced user makes an edit, 9 times out of 10 it's reverted within 10 minutes, regardless of what it was.  Now I'm fully aware that there's a lot of dumb edits made by anonies, and I've actually reverted a few myself.  But I think the users that have been doing this a long time are so used to reverting anonymous edits, that sometimes their objectivity is a little compromised.  I've seen a lot of legitimate points that were certainly worthy of at least a discussion on the talk page deleted before anyone even knew they were there.
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*'''Strictly Encyclopedic'''- Of course, I also seem to have a broader view of legitimate points.  The admin clique sometimes seems to forget that most people who come here are just average run-of-the-mill Homestar dorks, and not super mega uber nerds like themselves.  Most people come here for fun tidbits to enhance the humor of the toons, not to research the set-in-stone facts and scientific explanations.  The admin clique puts the utmost emphasis on keeping this site encyclopedic, neat and clean, based on proven facts, scientific, clear cut, and speculation-free. All this is fine and expected for standard Wikipedia pages, but the H*R Wiki is based solely on a single "talking animal" type cartoon series. One that thrives on non-sequitur humor.  It can't be based on proven facts because it's all fiction.  It can't be clear cut and scientific, because so many of the jokes intentionally don't make sense (Homestar's "arms", Strong Bad typing with boxing gloves, The Cheat's and Pom Pom's "languages"), and it can't be speculation-free, because The Brothers Chaps are the '''only''' ones who ever know for sure what they mean (and sometimes even they probably don't).  It's rare that they explain themselves, so anytime an article explains any meaning in a cartoon, by default, it's speculation.  And I think that all these rules hurt the Homestar Runner spirit.  It's supposed to be whimsical and light hearted and funny.  Since we can't ever truly know what TBC have in mind, we shouldn't try to limit ourselves to ''only'' what TBC have in mind.  Our only limit should be to the whimsical, light-hearted, and funny.  If there's no way of knowing if a similarity was an intentional refrence, but it's still something W,LH,&F, it should be included.  If it '''wasn't''' an intentional refrence, then including it will indeed ''enhance'' the humor of the toon for people who come here.  Don't forget that TBC themselves come here.  Wouldn't it be awesome to impress THEM with a connection they hadn't thought about?
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== See Also ==
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*[[User:Antisexy/Userbox|Antisexy's Userbox]]
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Current revision as of 06:50, 14 November 2012

Me in my studio.

Hello. I'm Johnny Jupiter. I've been a big fan of both Homestar Runner and this wiki for a long time now. I'm not as involved with the wiki as I used to be, though, mainly because there hasn't been any new content on the Homestar Runner site for so long, and frankly I think there isn't much to say about existing toons that hasn't already been said. I would like to add an interesting note, however. I just recently saw Play Date for the first time. I thought that I'd seen everything on the site, but somehow this one slipped by me when it was released and I knew nothing about it until yesterday when the "rando" link landed on it. Needless to say, I was very pleased to see new (to me) content.

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[edit] A Few Things About Me

Not my band.

My real name is Paul McCoy. I'm 44 years old, and I live in Potosi, Missouri, about an hour or so from St. Louis. The main thing I do with most of my time is play with and promote my band Gizburg Duck. I also really enjoy Magic: The Gathering and Fooly Cooly.

[edit] Homestar Runner

The first thing on homestarrunner.com I ever saw was the Everybody to the Limit video at a friends house, and I hated it. It wasn't until like a year or so later that I wandered back on to the site and saw english paper (which was the new sbemail at the time). I loved it, but I didn't realize right away it was the same site I saw Everybody to the Limit on. It wasn't until I'd already watched a bunch more sbemails and got hooked that I made my way to the rest of the toons and made the connection. I think that I was initially turned off by PBTC-style being my first experience with the site, but now that I understand PBTC is supposed to look poorly slapped together, I can totally dig the #1 summer jam. The live version of the song on Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits is freakin' awesome. (I wish I could have been at that concert.)

[edit] My favorite pieces of the Homestar Runner Body of Work

  • Compy-era- As far as I'm concerned, the peak of Strong Bad emails was the middle of the Compy-era. Maybe this is just because it's the era I jumped in on, but it just seems like they had a more spontaneous, "makin' crap up" style of humor back then. I still think the newer ones are funny, but they just seem more structured and planned out. That takes away from the Homestar charm. My favorite sbemail of all time is virus, but I also love the process, dragon (Taster's Choice), different town (TMBG!!!), there's so many...
That tickles!
  • Homsar- Do I really need to elaborate?
  • Strong Sad's Lament- I'm not really big on blogs and livejournals and myspaces and all that, but I really wish this and Marzipan's Answering Machine were updated more often and had a degree user interactivity like Strong Bad Emails, just because it can't always be about Strong Bad. The way that Strong Sad's Lament is hidden so obscurely and very rarely referenced ever so vaguely, yet is still updated somewhat regularly, gives Strong Sad, and really the whole site, more depth. It makes it almost seem like Strong Sad is a real person.
  • Stinkoman 20X6- Any day now, I'ma get to play level 10.
  • TMBG & Zelda- These are a few of my favorite things, occasionally making appearances in Free Country, USA. I also just about hurt myself laughing when I first saw the Akira refrence in 3 Times Halloween Funjob.

[edit] H*R Wiki

Snarky Wagglehead

I have been a registered user on the Homestar Runner Wiki for 20 years and 7 months. I originally went by the username Antisexy (a name which I have since grown to hate), and in my early days, I sometimes had a tendency to be very snarky and contrary, as seen in some of my earliest talk page edits. For a time, I abandoned my username and only made anonymous, equally snarky contributions as 72.161.170.161 and 208.54.15.129. Since I've gained more experience on the Wiki, I've tried to be more productive and constructive in my contributions, although I do still tend to get a little too argumentative every now and then. (In real life, I'm actually much easier to get along with. People who know me would definitely say I'm more like Homestar than Strong Bad.)

I first came across Homestar Runner Wiki completely on accident through a really weird stroke of dumb luck. I wanted to find a fansite or archive site where I could find more info on homestarrunner.com. I think I was specifically wondering about how the sbemail menu screen used to have a link on it for "older emails" that didn't really do anything, but other than that, I just wanted a place where I could look up random fun facts on the site. This was all back before I'd ever heard of Wikipedia at all. But when I was at my computer on Google ready to look it up, it was really late, and I was really tired and worn out, and I wasn't completely paying attention to what I was doing. So instead of typing "Homestar Runner" or "Strong Bad Email" or something like that, without even realizing it, I typed "jibblie jibblie" and hit enter. I didn't really even connect in my mind that jibblie was something Strong Bad said; those just happened to be the first random words that came to my fingers. But sure enough, the first link that came up was the H*R Wiki page on your friends. I was shocked. Exactly what I was looking for. So anyway, I discovered H*R Wiki, and shortly afterwards discovered Wikipedia, and I've been unable to live without either ever since.

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