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I submit that this is Strong Bad poking fun at Coach Z's accent again. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 18:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC) | I submit that this is Strong Bad poking fun at Coach Z's accent again. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 18:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC) | ||
:Another possibility, but one I think is less likely: The term "sportscarster" looks like "sports car-ster" - as in, a person who does something with sports cars. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 18:05, 18 October 2005 (UTC) | :Another possibility, but one I think is less likely: The term "sportscarster" looks like "sports car-ster" - as in, a person who does something with sports cars. - [[User:KieferSkunk|KieferSkunk]] 18:05, 18 October 2005 (UTC) | ||
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| + | == Meteorologist Tire == | ||
| + | This may be nitpicky too much, but personally I think it would be worth noting that by calling the Tire a meteorologist, then that implies it holds a degree in meteorology. The general convention is that if a weatherman/woman/thing has a B.S. in meteorology, they're a meteorologist, and if they do not, they're a weather presenter ([http://www.tloffman.com/100tapes.txt this] has an example of the differences in the two). Just a word of thought as to the ... um, biography(?) of the Tire. (I only bring this up since, even though this is Free Country, USA and not the real world, things like Learner's Permit Girl, for example, have been accepted in the past. And also because I'm a budding meteorologist.) [[User:Spell4yr|Spell4yr]] 18:54, 6 November 2005 (UTC) | ||
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Requested Fun Facts
Grammar Songs
Can someone gather the musical knowledge of the HRWiki users and list all the real-world songs parodied by SB's grammar songs? I'm sure that all of them are parodies of real songs; it would be exactly the kind of thing TBC would do.
Rejected Fun Facts
Scalawag
"Scalawag" may possibly be a reference to a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Calvin and Hobbes sing the "Very Sorry Song" :
- (Calvin) "I'm sorry, so sorry I took your precious flaaaaag"
- (Hobbes) "Just don't do it again you scurvy scalawaaaaaag"
- Revise Maybe "The fact that SB ends the song with the word scalawag..." DeadGuyPerez
- Decline. Maybe it is a C & H reference. Maybe it's a reference to Southerners who supported Reconstruction. Maybe TBC just liked the sound of the word and thought it would be funny. -- tomstiff 05 Apr 2005
- Decline. Geez, I already deleted this one! Scalawag is just a word. C&H didn't invent it. This is a huge stretch. Aurora the Homestar Coder 13:10, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Decline I don't need to explain this, do I? Dasrik 14:31, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Decline Calvin and Hobbes is a good comic strip, but as with the STUFF below, it is too obtuse to be called a reference to it. (Was this written by the same person as the one below?) --acekirby13 18:36, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Declination Jackson So they just happen to have used the same word, and it's a reference? Not bloody likely. Besides, any fun fact with the words "may possibly be" should be burned instantly. With fire. Rudeboy87 20:01, 5 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Decline The word scalawag has been around much longer than Calvin and Hobbes. --Úħ¡ βøв 14:51, 6 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Second --Trogga 16:59, 7 Apr 2005 (MDT)
- Buleeted It's a word! OWIE!
- Second.TakuaKaita600 15:44, 12 Apr 2005 (MDT)
SB making fun of Coach Z... again.
| The sportscaster card says "sportscarster," and spelling mistakes are atypical for Strong Bad. |
I submit that this is Strong Bad poking fun at Coach Z's accent again. - KieferSkunk 18:01, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
- Another possibility, but one I think is less likely: The term "sportscarster" looks like "sports car-ster" - as in, a person who does something with sports cars. - KieferSkunk 18:05, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
Meteorologist Tire
This may be nitpicky too much, but personally I think it would be worth noting that by calling the Tire a meteorologist, then that implies it holds a degree in meteorology. The general convention is that if a weatherman/woman/thing has a B.S. in meteorology, they're a meteorologist, and if they do not, they're a weather presenter (this has an example of the differences in the two). Just a word of thought as to the ... um, biography(?) of the Tire. (I only bring this up since, even though this is Free Country, USA and not the real world, things like Learner's Permit Girl, for example, have been accepted in the past. And also because I'm a budding meteorologist.) Spell4yr 18:54, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
