Not X

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The description Not X (where "X" can be anything) is sometimes used in odd ways or contexts.

Contents 1 Appearances 1.1 "Not" as improper grammar 2 Non X 3 See Also

Appearances

• Pumpkin Carve-nival — Bubs gets awarded a "NOT LAST" ribbon for his pumpkin.
• Email personal favorites — The Grape-Nuts Robot has a "Not New!" sticker.
  • The label reappears in specially marked on a box of Cheat Commandos...O's.
• Thy Dungeonman — One of the exits is "Not Dennis".
• Email other days — Strong Bad's calendar shows he has "NOT swim practice!" scheduled for Saturday.
• Email the facts — One of Strong Mad's boxes is marked "NOT CAR PARTS".
• Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 12.2 — Marzipan leaves herself a prank call, claiming to be "Not Marzipan".
• Email bottom 10 — Strong Bad says that the number 5 item on his bottom 10 is "not pigeons".
• Email highschool — Strong Bad concludes with the score report "Strong Bad Emails: 1, Not Strong Bad Emails: 0."
• Fan costumes '06 — Strong Bad comments on a Homestar costume saying "Yes, a little chicken wire and papier mâché goes not a very long, long way."
• Email looking old — Strong Bad asks "What am I not paying you people for?"
• Jibblies 2 — Homestar Runner tells Marzipan he's "busy not answering the phone", and eventually becomes done "not answering the phone".
• Toikey TV — Strong Bad wants to watch "not football". The King of Town decries the dangers of "not fried turkeys".
• Ballad of The Sneak — The Sneak does the Hully Gully on a barrel that was specified "Not the Panama Canal".
• Email diorama — Strong Bad reads the email sender's location, "Charlotte, N.C.", as "Charlotte, Not Charlotte".
• Email environment — Strong Bad explains his most significant contribution to the environment by saying, "Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is NOT drop a piano on Marzipan's head." He also admits that he's rescued greenhouse gases by "not mortally wounding ol' Marzipole."
• SBCG4AP Dev Blog post on April 24, 2008 — Strong Bad's "Currently Playing" field of the post was "Not MS Paint."
• Email love poems — Homestar's acrostic poem has the A in Marzipan stand for "not-organic apples"
• Email magic trick — Strong Bad described "flowy-sleeved" magicians as having "really not a lot of magic."
• Homestar Ruiner — When Strong Bad finds a Teen Girl Squad card near the Race Track with the Taranchula Black Metal Detector, he remarks, "Another Teen Girl Squad idea card, another totally not metal object."
• Email email thunder — Strong Bad says he's "almost not totally disgusted" by The Poopsmith singing. During a review, Strong Sad tells the viewers to "be sure and not check out [his] blog."

"Not" as improper grammar

• Email bottom 10 — Strong Bad describes dry T-shirt contests as a "waste of not water".
• Kid Speedy — Completing the game awards the player with a message saying, "YOU GOT NOT DEAD LAST!"
• Email theme song — It bugs Strong Bad that the emailer's face "doesn't have a not tons of acne".
• Email trading cards — Strong Bad thinks trading cards are "the biggest waste of not a video game on the planet".
• Email nightlife — Strong Sad talks about busting out some fresh not dancing, to which Marzipan responds that she plans to bust out some fresh not hanging out with Strong Sad.
• Email buried — Strong Bad's business card refers to him as "Your Friendly Neighborhood Not-The-Police".
• Homestar Ruiner — Strong Bad boasts that the winner of the Free Country, USA Tri-Annual Race to the End of the Race was actually himself in a "not-from-Marzipan's-float" Homestar disguise.
• Strong Badia the Free — The newsreel reporter notes Strong Sad's display of "not courage" when Strong Bad conquers the Bleak House.
• Email email thunder — Strong Bad asks Homestar to show off "not-in-front-of-your-computer".

Non X

• Email flashback — Strong Bad says that if Homestar lived in the house of the Brothers Strong he'd have less non-broken bones.
• Email pop-up — Strong Bad claims that pop-up books supply The Cheats and four-year-olds with seconds of non-ripped-apart fun.
• Email web comics — Strong Bad advises the creators of video game comics, "when your pixel comic's not funny, MS Paint your way to a non-punchline!"

See Also

• Nondescript Nouns
• Integral Article