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Cleanup

Does anyone know how to make an email address be clickable in the article? I think this page is very organized because someone greatly improved my work. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif

Check the external links down at the bottom there. --DorianGray 20:45, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Okay, thanks! MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif

Transcripts

Does anyone object to me moving the transcripts from email thunder to this page? BBG 21:56, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Article title

I think we should move this article to Homestar Runner Email, to make the article title match up with Strong Bad Email. "Hremail" is just short for "Homestar Runner Email" anyway, like how "sbemail" is short for "Strong Bad Email". Homestar-Winner (talk) 20:56, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

It's never actually referred to as "Homestar Runner Email", though. "HREmail" is consistently used throughout. However, I do see your point, and would not be opposed to it, should it happen. --DorianGray 21:02, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Done and done. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:10, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
There was no consensus to move. OptimisticFool 21:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
I vote for move, and since there seems to be no evident resistance against moving... --Sysrq868 21:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Take it easy, fellas. This discussion has only been open for about an hour; give folks some time to weigh in. I myself am with DorianGray. OptimisticFool 22:00, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Aaaaand a consensus has not been made. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:06, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
"HREmail" was what was said. "Homestar Runner Email" is what we infer that it means. No move. — Defender1031*Talk 21:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
But we have Strong Bad Email and we don't have the article named Sbemail now do we? What if we moved Strong Bad Email to Sbemail and let everyone infer that it's Strong Bad Emails, like you said we should do for this article?! We need to have the proper name for articles, not the abbreviation. Imagine what would happen if we did HR, SB, CZ, PP, ect. It's total madness! I vote move. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
The difference is, they're CALLED "strong bad emaiuls" and just shortened to "sbemails". here, they're already called "hremails". — Defender1031*Talk 21:28, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
We still shouldn't have the abbreviation. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
It was only called "HREmails" meaning that it's not an abbreviation. It's its name, until and unless we're shown otherwise. — Defender1031*Talk 21:34, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
We know that the proper word is Homestar Runner Emails. It makes no sense for us to have only an abbreviation when we KNOW what it is, regardless of what the characters call it or not. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:39, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

We report things as they are, not as we "know" them to be. — Defender1031*Talk 21:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Fine. Let's keep it the bad way. It should at least be moved to Hremail without the s. Like Strong Bad Email. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:44, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Wait, not yet. Remember, Homestar calls it "Hremails" referring to his email show and calls Strong Bad's email show "Sbemails" right afterwards. Sounds to me like Homestar just felt like abbreviating. If he had called his email show "Hremails" and then called Strong Bad's email show "Strong Bad Email" right after then that would prove that "Hremails" is the actual name. But Homestar calling it "Sbemails" proves that he was just shortening each of the names, right? Homestar-Winner (talk) 00:49, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
I couldn't agree more. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 01:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
A consensus still hasn't been reached. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 16:45, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

c'mon, guys! I even think it should be moved to Homestar Runner Email considering what homestarwinner said. i think it's a g-e-w-d GEWD idea. 74.193.237.18 18:51, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

The name "Homestar Runner Email" is, as of now, unofficial. Our article Strong Bad Email is named as such because of the site listed toon category. "Hremails" is the only way they've ever been reffered to as, therefore, the official name, until noted otherwise by TBC themselves, is "Hremails". That Game Dude 386 02:26, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Why not just call the article "Hremail (Homestar Runner Email)" until the "official" name is announced? fuchsiania 04:54, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
The point is, before Homestar said "Hremails," he said that Strong Bad had "Sbemails." Both of them are short, meaning that Homestar abbreviated both of them for time sake.

move to homestar runner email? michaelXX2 told me this on irc, and i agreed, and since he's blocked, i'll post it. i just think we should. need i say more?? HSB150Homsarstrongbad150Homestar Runner!! 02:35, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Actually, it would help if you said more, because hearing an opinion is easier to base a page move on than just "Michael said something, I agreed...there ya' go". From what I hear, the "show" hasn't been referred to as "Homestar Runner Email"...only as "Hremails". So I think it makes sense to keep the article under this name. DevonM(talk·cont-ribs) 03:06, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Like I said, Homestar abbreviated "Sbemails." If he abbreviated "Sbemails," what makes you think he didn't abbreviate "Hremails?"
Yes, but the correct title for "sbemail(s)" is/are "Strong Bad Email(s)", whereas for "hremails", there is no official title as far as we know (and we might never know). DevonM(talk·cont-ribs) 03:48, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
What in the world makes you think that Homestar didn't mean the same freakin' CONCEPT ABOUT HIS ABBREVIATION?! WHAT MAKES HIS DIFFERENT?!
I'd like to chime in with a "who cares?". Seriously, this is among the more useless discussions I have ever encountered on a wiki. I hope you are proud of yourselves. That said, there are two main ideologies at stake here: should we go with the standard we are already using (Strong Bad Email --> Homestar Runner Email), or should we go by the name the characters use in the cartoon? I'm personally more enamored of the former, but quite frankly, it just doesn't matter. One will always redirect to the other. --Blu Aardvark (talk) (edits) 04:01, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Move then.
I deliberately outdented my response, as I wasn't replying to any particular poster, but to my opinion on the dispute in its entirety. I don't oppose a move, nor do I oppose keeping it where it's at. What I do oppose is mindless bickering over an issue that, quite frankly, is entirely 100% meaningless. --Blu Aardvark (talk) (edits) 05:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
It's far from meaningless. The article has to be called something, and this page is where we decide what that should be. Regardless of whether you think some people are bickering, the issue raised is a legitimate one, and it deserves a hearing. Posting without giving an opinion just takes up space. I think we should stick with hremails as long as it's a one-off joke, since that's what it was called in the email. If they ever make real Homestar Runner Emails, then that might be another matter. — It's dot com 06:01, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
Well, I guess the new Hremail takes care of this discussion. I no longer feel angry that people went with the other name! Homestar-Winner (talk) 21:34, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

But now we have the issue as to whether or not the article title is pluralized or not. I believe that if Strong Bad Email is not pluralized, this shouldn't be either. But that reason is similar to my reason why I thought it should be moved to "Homestar Runner Email", and that idea of mind wasn't accepted. Homestar-Winner (talk) 01:55, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Sbemail 49 and Hremail 49

In Sbemail 49 Strong Bad talked about a theme party, and in Hremail 49 Homestar was having a pillow fight... am I the only one who notices that the latter might be referencing the former (sort of)?

Uh...no. You have to go through a few steps to be able to correctly associate the two, and we don't play "Kevin Bacon" here (except in some situations, I'm sure). DevonM(talk·cont-ribs) 07:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
If you want to go those stretches, then Hremail 24, which was "banned for content" could be a reference to Sbemail 24, which contained quite a few people giving a pretty racy hand gesture... as for Hremail 62, I'm not sure how having an interview with Homsar could tie-in to it. —Guard Duck talk 07:12, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Really Continued?

Does anyone think this whole "hremails" thing is really going to start? And if so, do you think this could be a way TBC are trying to increace Homestar Runner's popularity after it has waned for the past few years? - Opus the Penguin 16:55, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Um...no?
Let's take this discussion to the forum. Heimstern Läufer 01:01, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Um....

Am I the only one who thinks it's kinda weird that TBC started with hremails 24, 49 and 62? Stark Traurig

I fail to see a pattern. — Defender1031*Talk 22:55, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
The average of all the numbers are three. Other than that no. Though I am starting to think... --69.150.85.66 22:59, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
The Hexidecimal value of the sum of all three are 87! Too bad it's a stretch.--69.150.85.66 23:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
But if you subtract 49 from 62, and then subtract 24 from that, you get -11, an obvious reference to their $11.01 running gag!!! Homestar-Winner (talk) 00:29, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I think i has the solution! Width times height. — Defender1031*Talk 01:54, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure Stark Traurig meant that there was a pattern; I read her question as simply noting that it was odd to start 24, 49, 62 instead of 1, 2, 3 like one normally would. Heimstern Läufer 02:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Oh, well I find that just as a cover-up for the "intermix" between some emails. Getting it to start off at one? That just makes it a little awkward, in my opinion. --69.150.85.66 03:11, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
yes, according to sbemail 200, he's had hremails since forever. they have to start high for that to continue from since forever...whenever that is... HSB150Homsarstrongbad150Homestar Runner!! 22:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Name change: Hremails-Hremail

I think we need to have this match up with Strong Bad Email as much as possible. We need to have it singular. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 22:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Makes sense to me. BBG 22:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
Why not "Homestar runner email?"--Mariofan1000 18:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
See this post. Personally, I like the rename to "Hremail." —Guard Duck talk 18:11, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
Well, we agreed that the show itself is called "Hremail" and that we don't need to change it to Homestar Runner Email, even though I think it should be. If the consensus was that we keep it as Hremails, why not have it singular like Strong Bad Email at the very least?!^$@(*&@!*%&@%starstar MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 02:20, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
I also agree too. Omnisweater 02:36, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
I'm not so sure. Specifically, I'm not sure these things should be thought of as a unit ("Hremail is...") as opposed to individual members of a group ("Hremails are..."). The two quotes from the source that best support this are from the email Easter egg ("Just sit tight and hremails will be back to normal before you know it") and the Strong Sad Easter egg ("Is the reign of Hremails at hand?"). — It's dot com 05:53, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
I agree with dot com. — Defender1031*Talk 19:37, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Yeah well, It think it should just Be Homestar Runner Email and typing in hremail could be a redirect just like sbemail.-Record307 Talk/Contribs 19:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
So, Dot com, you want to change Strong Bad Email to Strong Bad Emails because of thinking of them as a unit? Okay, let's rename Strong Bad Email to Strong Bad Emails! Because that seems to be the point you're making. MichaelXX2 mail_icon.gif link_icon.gif 21:31, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
I personally think Strong Bad Emails would sound better. But since it isn't, wouldn't keeping this article as Hremail be better for consistency? Homestar-Winner (talk) 22:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
I agree with Dot com and Deffy. Hremails is the most fitting title. Hremails are not (yet) an institution like sbemails. There is no need for consistency between two articles that describe something rather different. Loafing 05:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Counting

Apparently, Homestar has no way of counting correctly, because in one week, he went from hremail 62 to hremail 2000. That's a difference of 1938! Should we mention anything about that on the article?--Crudely Drawn Cupcake 02:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

The implication is that we're not seeing all of the Hremails; after all, it started on 62, did it not? (well, okay, there are those two semi-Hremails.) --Jay v.2024 (Auld lang syne) 02:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Indeed. These are just snippets of the apparently extremely long-time running Hremail show. They're in no chronological order. —Guard Duck talk 02:52, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
Or that's just how Homestar counts. Elcool (talk)(contribs) 05:48, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
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