User:The Paper
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Hello, I have taken up the glorious task of representing The Paper. You know, that personified sheet of paper that comes down at the end of nearly every Strong Bad Email. Lately I have been inactive, but I check back here every week for updates and occasionally make an edit. I actively contributed on Ye Olde Wiki a few months after I discovered the world of Homestar Runner when the process was the newest Strong Bad Email, circa July 2003.
I enjoy contributing to the wiki in the following ways
- Audio-to-text transcription
- Article descriptions with content
- Uploading screenshots, replacing images of poor quality
- Optimizing Portable Network Graphics for the web (Example)
- Articles such as:
Favorite The Paper-Related Quotes
- "The Paper! You're just in time! Find out what they want!" — retirement A
Strong Bad acquaints The Paper with Lappy 486 in animal:
- "Psssh! The Paper, come on down and meet your new brother!"
- "Lappy's not going to bite you or tear at your perforated edges!"
- "Lappy, this is The Paper. He lets me know when I've stopped being funny!"
Strong Bad and his demands:
- "This Strong Bad Email has been rated P for The Poopsmith and a graphic scene of The Paper." SB email #144 "narrator"
- "Can I blow my nose on you?" — Sick Day
- "THE PAPER, PLEASE TAKE US HOME." — SB email #110 "for kids"
- "Talk to my man with the green and white stripes!" — SB email #101 "car"
- "The Paper, would you bring this fine email to a close?" — SB email #81 "date"
- "Okay. Take it away, The Paper! Preeeeeeeeowwwww..." — SB email #67 "autobiography"
- "What? The Paper? This isn't over yet! Go back up, go back up!" — SB email #50 "50 emails"
- "The Paper, come down, have breakfast with the family!" — Disc 4 of strongbad_email.exe DVD
(The Paper has quite the attitude on the DVD: strongbad_email.exe)
What The Paper means to others
MATT: ...Over the years, The Paper definitely has become more and more of a—
MIKE: A character.
MATT: It should have been on that big characters poster we made, I think.
MIKE: Yeah. It definitely has a personality.
- Interruptor Jones — "The Paper is deus ex machina, simple as that. Just a really boring version of deus ex machina."
- Ju Ju Master — "The Paper is a character in itself, who is stuck to the top of the screen at all times, waiting for its time to shine. That's the only explanation."
- Da Chort — "I think The Paper is some sort of printer stuck to the ceiling. What if The Paper is Strong Bad's magic minion? That's why he has control over it."
Where is the printer in the Computer Room?
- Phlip — "Obviously, the printer is just stuck on top of the camera with duct tape or something..."
- Ramrod — "The printer is just the printer. There's nothing you can really describe it by. It's its own little thing."
- Speckeldorf — "It probably hangs upside down somehow in the compy room."
Future after Strong Bad Email #173?
Is obsolescence in the distant future?
In montage, we learn that Strong Bad will be replacing The Paper with an inkjet version come Strong Bad Email #173. Hopefully The Brothers Chaps will have forgotten about this by then. However, if they do remember, we can estimate how much longer The Paper has to live. Email #117 debuted on November 8th, 2004. Around a year later, we were at email #138. 138 - 117 = around 21 emails this past year. Therefore, the difference between 173 - 117 = 56 emails from the release of montage until the release of 173. 56 / 21 = 2.67 years after November 8th, 2004. That brings us to roughly around June of 2007 for the infamous email #173. However, some people will tell you that TBC were obviously joking when they wrote about The Paper in montage, as the caption uses words in the past tense, including "stuck" and "upgraded".
ThunderbirdL17 contributed to the prediction above.
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Table of Contents and Editing
- __NOEDITSECTION__ (Edit links do not appear at each Level 2 headline)
- __FORCETOC__ (Allows a Table of Contents to appear, regardless of headline count)
- __NOTOC__ (Table of Contents will be completely hidden)
The Paper's Open Source Mozilla Project Center


- ^ You can also "rediscover" and "ignite" the web, too.