Talk:Strong Bad Email By Place

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He hasn't gotten one from Maryland yet. Maybe I will be the one to change that. After all, the state abbrevation is MD, which leads to an obvious joke.--Hysterical Woman 13:36, 9 Nov 2004 (MST)

If you do, it'll mean he's replied (Or at least shown it on the toon), to e-mails from 1/2 of the 50 states. As it stands right now, he's only at 24. -- Thunderbird 19:52, 10 Nov 2004 (MST)

Contents 1 Dumb Question About Alberta 2 Knowledge of No Name Author 3 Alphabetical Order 4 Tables

Dumb Question About Alberta

dumb question: why is Alabama listed for "email birds"? the only place abbreviation in any of those emails (unless I'm on crack today and misremembering) was AB, which is.. um... some place that's not Alabama, since that's AL. -- worm

Fixed. It's Alberta, Canada. -- Tom 09:03, 19 Dec 2004 (MST)

Knowledge of No Name Author

I know where one of the "no location" e-mails came from. Should I move it there despite the fact that it's not identified in the e-mail? I'm new at this. ~Mila edit: sorry, wasn't logged in. I'm really new at this.

Hey, no problem. It's okay. Which email, and how do you know where it came from? -- Tom 20:56, 26 Dec 2004 (MST)

Stunt Double, because my friend in Illinois sent it. His joy over being answered is how I was introduced to HR. ~Mila

Hmm, now this is a bit touchy. I totally believe you that your friend sent the email. But I don't think we'd be able to change the page with out some sort of confirmation. Of course, there's really no way to prove it. I think the best thing would be for us to leave it how it is now, as it is with our knowledge from the actual email. I'm really sorry about this, but there isn't much we can do. -- Tom 21:12, 26 Dec 2004 (MST)

That's why I asked, because I have no idea. Thanks for your help. Mila 21:18, 26 Dec 2004 (MST)

Hey, no problem. -- Tom 21:23, 26 Dec 2004 (MST)

Hey, just thought I'd throw my 2 cents worth into it. I think that falls in the same catergory as the 'seb' e-mail, since apparently TBC admit that they made it up, it shouldn't quite be allowed. But it's still how the e-mail's signed. So I think the best thing is just to go by the exact letter of the e-mail, plus it also protects from misled do-gooders, who would likely constantly 'fix' it. However, since it sounds credible, I have taken the liberty of adding an 'easter egg' of sorts, inside the raw edit code. I think that makes everyone happy. And that's my two cents. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 01:10, 27 Dec 2004 (MST)

Alphabetical Order

Shouldn't the places be in alphabetical order? ~Rainer~

You know, I just spent like 20 minutes typing out a long reason as to why they SHOULDN'T be alphabetical, when I realized that my reasons didn't really make alot of sense, for both pages. So you know what? You're right. I'll get on it sometime later tonight. Thanks for the input. I don't know why I didn't do this earlier! Chronologically... What was I thinking? [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 09:40, 30 Jan 2005 (MST)

(If anyone has any objections to alphabeticalness, speak now, or forever hold your peace. I'm thinking I'll start work on it sometime around 6 or 7 tonight, hopefully get both pages done). [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 09:40, 30 Jan 2005 (MST) (Edit: I never did sort it out. I blame it squarely on the Thinnkaman)

I don't think you understood what I meant. I mean the list of locations should be in alphabetical order. I've noticed that there are US states (in alphabetical order) and then countries (in alphabetical order). Now that I see that, I'm not sure whether it is alright how it is now or how having them in total alphabetical order. ~Rainer~

Why don't we have the places like this?:

== United States of America ==
<Emails that only say from USA.>

=== California ===
<Emails from California.>

=== Texas ===
<Emails from Texas.>

<and so on with other countries, an alphabetical order. I understand that the majority of emails are
 from USA, so USA is listed first.>

~Rainer~

Well it's all already like that, except with one minor difference. I don't belive anybody has ever e-mailed saying just 'USA'. They either give their state, some other country, or nothing. If they have no location, they could be from America, Canada, the UK, or anywhere, easily. If you can point me in the direction of an e-mail that just has 'USA', I'll make the needed changes. But as it stands now, I think it's pretty good. If you want to make some kind of header before the states though, go for it, it would probably look okay, though I think most people would assume we mean states inside the US of A. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 16:43, 31 Jan 2005 (MST)

Tables

I did a wrough table for 'Arizona'. Any comments? Suggestions? I don't think the heading 'Interpretation' is quite right, but I don't know what to put instead. [[User:Thunderbird L17|⇔Thunderbird⇔]] 10:50, 26 Feb 2005 (MST)

"Interpretation" may not be the best but I can't come up with anything else better than "What Strong Bad called it"... oh, and Evin reverted your change. >_> --Jay 20:38, 2 Mar 2005 (MST)