Talk:Pasta Salad

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So minor an item that it's not even funny. --—Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 16:23, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I knew it! As befits my easy-going nature, I don't really care if this is deleted. But I made the page because I think it's hilarious. Come on, watching Strong Mad angrily eat pasta salad? It's priceless! Plus, it's a food and/or drink. It gets its own easter egg. It's even referred to by Strong Bad and gets its own special caper!

Compare this to Piemonade. Why don't we delete piemonade, as well? It only appears in one cartoon. No one eats it. No one drinks it. But it's funnier, right? It's not pasta salad's fault it's not inherently funny.

I gots that special feeling that this will be deleted, but give the salad a break! THE SMOKING MONKEY 16:42, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Good point, The Smoking Monkey. I'ma go mark Piemonade for deletion. Actually, a better idea would be to have a "Minor Food and Drinks" article, and merge one-off items like this into one page. How's abotu that? —Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 16:45, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Dude, you realize at least half of the "Food and Drink" items are pretty minor, right? Were you even aware of the category before I added the pasta salad article? THE SMOKING MONKEY 16:51, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I was aware of the category, yes. Your statement, though, has no impact on my idea. We'll just merge what is estimated to be half of the articles into the one big article. —Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 16:53, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Which statement? I asked two questions. Regardless, you're proposing to take all the "one-off" food and drink items and put them on a page similar to the KoT's foodstuff page? THE SMOKING MONKEY 17:01, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I'm against the all-in-one food page. All the King of Town food are connected: He eats them. But to make a page about totaly random food stuffs is just pushing it. I don't see whats wrong in a few short pages ones in a while. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 17:24, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I'm not going top say keep or not, but it does actually have more than one sentence, which makes it better from many other pages similar to this one. Username-talk 17:28, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I don't think we need a minor food page. I looked over a lot of the pages, and there's enough info on most of them to make a whole article. True, they're short articles, but they wouldn't fit well into a table. I think the remainder should keep their own pages, because we already have a collection of food items right here. — It's dot com 17:35, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Making a point

It would seem that this article was created solely to make a point. Please be careful. On Wikipedia, they devote an entire guideline page to the topic. I'm not saying this was right or wrong. (That, of course, would be up to the community to decide over time and through discussion.) I just wanted to bring an alternative viewpoint to everyone's attention. Thanks. -- Tom 17:53, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I disagree. I think [EDIT] I'm sure the article was created for all the right reasons. Namely, to add content to the wiki. — It's dot com 18:00, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Well, the Smoking Monkey has made comments like "I KNEW IT!", "A-HA!", and "This page is probably gonna be deleted, but a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do." No, wait... you're right. I don't think it was made to prove a point.

You struck your comments above, but I want to go ahead and remark that Smoking Monkey only said those things because he sensed that the article was borderline but felt it was good enough to try anyway. — It's dot com 20:05, 24 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Hey - I feel kinda bad now about the whole thing. Real bad. Since I've joined this wiki, I haven't dared make a new page. But then I started thinking about the moments from the whole H*R universe that made me laugh riotously, and this was one of them. I debated whether or not I should do it - I've seen my work here rejected, changed, and criticized before, and that I could deal with. But I was unsure about making a new page. But that's the way of the Wiki - you shouldn't play if you can't take the heat. So, I summed up all my courage and said, "pasta salad, though it's incredibly minor, deserves mention." I wrote a draft. I photoshopped a picture of Graw Mad. I stepped into unknown territory for me.

I never would have added the article if I didn't feel it was important in its own obscure way. I went against my own better judgement that it wouldn't fly, and I posted it suspecting someone would sweep in and mark it for deletion. I didn't expect, however, it would get the deletion tag five minutes after it was created. And the comment - "it's not funny in any way" (paraphrase) "it's so minor an item it isn't even funny" from Gafaddict did hurt. I try to do good things here at the Wiki, not try to make points, or try to be a jerk. I try to take the heat as best I can. But I have feelings, too.

Delete the article. My intention was not to upset the community, but to add content. Keep it or at least merge it with something else, (minor non-humorous food-stuff items?!?) I'm standing 100% behind my goofy little food article. I'll defend to the deletion this moment where an angry man wearing a singlet angrily eats macaroni salad - that's funny stuff! For truly, it tastes so good. THE SMOKING MONKEY 10:34, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

I wasn't saying that what Strong Mad was saying wasn't funny, "So {insert phrase here} it's not even funny," is just a common saying. —Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 14:26, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Gafaddict — I understood that the first time you wrote it and corrected my paraphrase above to reflect that. As a contributing member of the Wiki, I expect a little civility from other users; I construed your comment as being a pejorative idiomatic phrase, at once dismissive and churlish. Maybe you didn't intend it to be dismissive and churlish - I don't know, we haven't crossed paths before, and perhaps it wasn't the best first meeting. As for me, I'm not here to start fights or ruffle feathers. Regardless, as I stated above, if the article needs to be deleted, it should will be deleted. THE SMOKING MONKEY 16:23, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

What are you talking about? This is a great article! It have all the data about the food, and a pretty funny image. I'll say: Keep it. Just don't give up if some users don't think it should be here. Make a stand! Do you has? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 15:58, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, E.L., glad you liked it. It was made with the enjoyment of others in mind. :) THE SMOKING MONKEY 16:18, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

How this article differs from other food articles

Earlier in this discussion, The Smoking Monkey requested that a comparison be made of this article to Piemonade. I think the biggest difference is that Piemonade is something totally unique (i.e., only exists in the HSR universe), while Pasta Salad is pretty much a common thing (it gets nearly seven million hits on Google.) Granted this article has a great caption and screenshot (one that I also find very funny,) I just don't think we need to explain it with an article. Can you forsee *anyone* typing in "Pasta Salad" in an attempt to search for it on the wiki? That's what I first think of when I'm thinking of potential articles. I created Bottomless Pits because I had previously searched for it on the wiki only to find (to my surprise) that it wasn't on Running Gags yet or had its own article.

My last point: What separates this article from common foods (i.e., mainstream) like Tofu, Ice Cream, or Mountain Dew is the number of appearances. If pasta salad ever comes up again in the future, this article will have more merit. As It's dot com hinted above, this case is borderline and that makes arbitration much more difficult. Right now, I think there are more arguments against this article than for it. —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 05:34, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

This argument makes semse, but if this is true attention also needs to be directed to Suge Brown, another regular item with one apperance and its own page. Username-talk 16:36, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)

But how many times in the regular world you see people eating pasta salad from underdrawer drawer? — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 17:40, 25 Sep 2005 (UTC)