How do you type with boxing gloves on?

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I don't see any fingers, do YOU see any fingers?
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"How do you type with boxing gloves on?" is a question that Strong Bad is asked on a regular basis in his Strong Bad Emails. The Brothers Chaps obviously must have been asked it so often that they made it a running gag that pops up fairly often.

Strong Bad hates this question, as it is often seen to be DELETED. His Old-Timey counterpart, Old-Timey Strong Bad, apparently is frequently asked the question 'How do you manage the telegramophone whilst wearing gentleman's sports gloves?' Strong Bad finally got a chance to exact his revenge in the Fan Costume Commentary, where he made fun of a fan's Strong Bad costume by saying, "Dear Strong Bad, how do you type with pieces of crappy red foam taped around your hands? Sincerely, Dress-up Donny." In the DVD commentary for the e-mail video games, the Brothers Chaps say that they might come up with a way to answer this question someday.

On a related note, in the email impression on Strong Bad's tape recording, Strong Sad tells Strong Bad to stop flicking his ear, but Strong Sad doesn't have any visible ears, nor does Strong Bad have visible fingers with which to flick someone's ear. Additionally, Strong Bad seems capable of typing not only with his boxing gloves, but with any part of his body he wishes. In sisters he types "head—hit—keyboard" by striking the keyboard with his head, and in funny he types "WOAH!! I CAN TYPE WITH ONE FOOT!" by hitting the keyboard with his foot.

At one point he tried prosthetic fingers made of various items such as prawn, action figures, etc. Their effect on his typing skills, though, was disastrous.

In the email highschool, Teenage Strong Bad plays the keyboard in The Homestar Runner Mysfit-steries, even though he doesn't have fingers.

In the email pop-up, the Tandy 400 was featured in the book asking "HOW TYPE BOX GLOVES?" Strong Bad described this as "his crappy old computer, asking the same crappy old question."

A similar question that gets asked often is how Homestar, Marzipan, The King of Town, and Homsar, among other characters, are able to pick things up without having any arms.

In February 2006, The Brothers Chaps included this as one of five topics which will likely never be addressed in a Strong Bad Email.

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