How do you type with boxing gloves on?
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"How do you type with boxing gloves on?" and its variants are questions that Strong Bad is asked on a regular basis in his emails. The Brothers Chaps obviously must be asked it so often that they made it a running gag.
Strong Bad hates this question, and it often gets DELETED and/or ridiculed. In the DVD commentary for the email video games, The Brothers Chaps say that they might come up with a way to answer this question someday. However, in February 2006, they also included this question as one of five topics which will likely never be addressed in a Strong Bad Email.
On a related note, 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. In bottom 10, he even typed when his keyboard was covered in vomit, and in tape-leg, he typed with one hand while removing tape from his shoe.
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.
Appearances
- Email spring cleaning — Mike from Bend, Oregon asks the first recorded instance of this question.
- Email 50 emails — Old-Timey Strong Bad is asked the similar question, "How do you manage the telegramophone whilst wearing gentleman's sport gloves?", and complains "This is all anyone ever asks me."
- Email fingers — A "Previously On Strong Bad Emails" sequence shows Strong Bad getting several emails asking this question.
- Email huttah! — One of the emails for "The Cheat" asks "How do you type with boxing gloves on your hands?"
- Fan Costume Commentary — Strong Bad makes fun of the first costume by pretending to read an email from "Dress Up Donny" asking "How do you type with crappy red pieces of foam stuck to your hands?"
- Email virus — As Strong Bad mourns the loss of the Compy, he mumbles "Dear Strong Bad, how do you text with boxing gloves on?"
- 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 questions."
- Sbemail 150?!? — Strong Sad describes the first panel of his storyboard as "a claustrophobic close-up of typing with boxing gloves on."
- Email your funeral — Strong Bad mentions this question in his email song.
