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| - | === Highball pear ===
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| - | {{stufffact|The pseudo-backward pronunciation of the word "eyeball" in the Coach Z Easter egg sounds like "highball", which could be a reference to [[radio]] and/or [[space program]].}}
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| - | {{stuffdata|[[alternate universe]]|16:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)}}
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| - | *I'm assuming that the only question here is whether or not we think it's a reference, because the audio ''does'' sound a lot like "highball".
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| - | *Adding it at a reference doesn't make sense, because even though it does sound like "highball," it doesn't necessarily mean it refers to anything.
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| - | **The word "highball" has been used before, but that's about it. Homestar's use of the word in [[radio]] seems pretty nonsensical. Still, I think this might be worth noting...
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| - | {{stuffrevise|Homestar's pseudo-backwards pronunciation of "eyeball" sounds suspiciously like "highball", a word that was also used twice before in the emails [[radio]] and [[space program]].}}
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| - | *Mentions that the word has been used twice before in previous emails, but doesn't make this a reference.
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| - | *The word "highball" seems to be becoming a recurring word, giving rise to the likelihood that this is an inside joke for TBC.
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| - | **Also used in [[montage]]'s DVD commentary.
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| - | *There is no page for [[Highball]] yet... but maybe there should be. Would you all be more willing to accept it if there was something to link to?
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| - | *This is just getting silly.
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| - | **Just depends on your POV; whether you think there was a reference on Matt's mind when he spoke it. It was said in the real-fruit-smoothies fact ("And they won the game...") that this whole email is purposely chock full of references. Now I don't know about you, but a highball being mentioned in 2 emails and 1 DVD commentary makes me think that a pronunciation of "eyeball" as "highball" is quite suspect, and ''could'' be a nod to the other appearances, and this proposed revision is sensitive to possibility of that.
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| - | === You look burnt or DEAD ===
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| - | {{stufffact|The word "VOIP" is a reference to the [[Visor Robot]]'s sound effect from [[Teen Girl Squad Issue 1]].}}
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| - | *It's a made-up word, so it's highly unlikely that it's a coincidence.
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| - | *It struck me as a reference immediately.
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| - | *Context isn't important (see comment below).
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| - | *Except that it's a generic cartoony sound effect.
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| - | *Context is totally different.
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| - | *Re: First arg against: I don't think anything is random here, especially considering how much emphasis this email puts on previous things they've done. If they created a word and use it again, it's gotta be intentional.
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| - | **Though I can't cite any examples offhand, I'm fairly certain I've heard that word used elsewhere in cartoons, and that TBC didn't make it up. I wouldn't swear on [[Death#Strong Sad.27s Imagined Death|Strong Sad's grave]] about that, though... I could be wrong.
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| - | ***Just because it may have been used in other extra-H*R contexts doesn't mean that TBC didn't make it up for Teen Girl Squad (we've [[HRWiki:Select_The_Usable_Fun_Facts_Archive#VOIP.28declined.29|already decided]] we don't think they were referring to [[Wikipedia:Voice over IP|Voice over Internet Protocol]]). What matters is whether we think they were referring to themselves.
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| - | *Like VOIP, [[Wikipedia:SNUH|SNUH]] illustrates an example where context isn't important. From Wikipedia: "In the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', SNUH stands for Springfieldians for Nonviolence, Understanding, and Helping, although the word itself appears in a number of other contexts in the show, [including, among other things,] in a clip from a campy '70s Radioactive Man movie."
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| - | === And they won the game... ===
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| - | {{stufffact|Strong Bad previously mentioned real fruit smoothies in [[mascot]] when the team won the game.}}
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| - | *This whole email is a look back at previous emails; those three words used together is not a coincidence.
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| - | *This really is a coincidence.
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| - | *Every time we would play softball last summer, we would always talk about going to get real fruit smoothies if we won the game. One time when we won, we actually did get them.
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| - | *Should this get accepted, it should probably be reworded. As it stands, about all it says is "someone used these words in a previous e-mail". The context isn't even remotely similar.
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| - | **I don't think there's more to it than that. The point is that they intentionally reused the phrase "real fruit smoothie(s)".
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| - | ***You know what? You have a point. One of my potential counter-arguments to this was going to be that I couldn't see TBC revisiting such a minor phrase in such an old e-mail, but then it hit me: The Gameboy in a blender. That was *so* minor that most people probably never even noticed it, at least until they read here what happened during the fastforward sequence in [[2 emails]]. Yet they referenced *that* here, so why *couldn't* this be a reference to [[mascot]]? As a result, I'm flipping my vote, despite having removed this fact twice to begin with.
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| - | ****That's exactly what I did - read the fastforward sequence in [[2 emails]] and discovered the gameboy in the blender there. Neat!
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| - | *This really isn't a coincidence. How often have you heard the term "real fruit smoothies" used in day to day conversation, compared with simply "smoothies"?
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| - | === No problem STUFFing this one ===
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| - | {{stuffverdict|04:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)|17:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)|overwhelmingly declined (patently false)|13|1|alternate universe}}
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| - | === A tuff STUFF ===
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| - | {{stufffact|The use of the word "tuff" may be a reference to the novel ''The Outsiders''. In it, most characters use the word "tuff", meaning "cool" or "sharp".}}
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| - | {{stuffverdict|20:39, 4 April 2006 (UTC)|17:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)|overwhelmingly declined|25|2|alternate universe}}
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