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==<span style="color:#461B7E">Intro</span>==
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<span style="color:#461B7E">Hi there, I'm Guard Duck. For those of you who don't know, Guard Duck is one of the main characters in the comic Pearls Before Swine, which is probably the comic ever.  If you've never read it, you definitely should.</span>
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<td style="border-right:1px solid #ccc;">[[Some Kinda Robot|<span style="font-size:small">&larr;</span>Origami Penguins]]</td>
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==<span style="color:#461B7E">My interests in Homestarrunner and the Wiki</span>==
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:''This article is about the HRWiki user. For the [[Wikipedia:Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)|Pearls Before Swine]] character, see [[Wikipedia:Pearls Before Swine (comic strip)#Guard Duck|Guard Duck]].''
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I first ran into Homestarrunner.com in what I believe was the fall of '04, which was when Homestar-mania was sweeping the 5th grade class at Broadview-Thompson elementary school. Most of the other kids abandoned it after a few weeks, but something about it stuck with me.  The first toon I ever saw was [[Shopping for Danger]], the newest toon at that time. I was, as you can imagine, rather confused by it all, having no idea why all these miniature cheeses were hopping all over a grocery store.</span>
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<span style="color:#461B7E">My interests in the Wiki came when a friend of mine, (I believe you all know him as [[User:Bubsty|Bubsty]]), showed me the page on [[date nite]], one of my favorite cartoons on the site.  What immediately attracted me to the wiki was its gigantic database.  A few clicks of the "random page" button proved to me that it had truly documented everything you possibly could about Homestarrunner. Next to Wikipedia, I had never seen anything like it.</span>
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[[Image:sbemail58picture2a.PNG|thumb|"Check out all his majesty."]]
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==<span style="color:#461B7E">Intrests</span>==
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<span style="color:#461B7E">Well, where to begin... while TV isn't my thing, there are a few shows I absolutely love... <i>[[Wikipedia:Monk (TV series)|Monk]], [[Wikipedia:Doc Martin|Doc Martin]], [[Wikipedia:Family Guy|Family Guy]], [[Wikipedia:American Dad!|American Dad]],</i> and <i>[[Wikipedia:South Park|South Park]]</i> are my favorites.</span>
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I'll just get this out of the way:  I hate playing almost all sports.  I suspect this could be because my right eye is (almost) blind, meaning I have zero depth perception, but I think it's mostly just that the idea of teams and scores and such just doesn't interest me.  As such, I'm not a huge baseball, basketball, or football fan.  Sorry.</span>
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Guard Duck tells the people a little bit about himself.
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I <i>do</i> enjoy recreational sports, that is, such as jogging, biking, hiking, swimming, skiing... you get the idea.  Some of the more obscure ones are my favorites, which is probably why I own a unicycle, stilts, and a pogo-stick.  I'm on the cross-country team at my high school, and I'm proud to say that we made districts last year, which is more than you can say for any of our other teams.  (Our big win was really due to the other 49 runners than me, but I tend to ignore that).</span>
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I think it's fairly obvious I spend a lot of time on the computer.  You can often find me cruising [http://www.youtube.com/ Youtube], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikipedia], [http://www.kongregate.com/ Kongregate], [http://digg.com/ Digg], and of course [http://www.facebook.com/ Facebook], which has sort of become a deity for me.  I read many blogs, (My favorites are [http://joshreads.com/ The Comics Curmudgeon] and [http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ Stuff White People Like]), and even keep one of my [http://www.monodreams.blogspot.com/ own], although to say it's updated frequently would be a total exaggeration.</span>
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'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' Guard Duck, Various Tourists, Street Urchin
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I see I've already overwhelmed you with three paragraphs and 13 links, so I'll just end it here.</span>
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'''Places:''' [[Computer Room|Guard Duck's bedroom]], [[Wikipedia:Space Needle|The Space Needle]], [[Wikipedia:International Fountain|The International Fountain]]
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==<span style="color:#461B7E">About Myself</span>==
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'''Computer:''' [[Monosodium Dreams|Guard Duck's iMac]]
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[[Image:Wikistress3D 1 v3.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Doing just fine.]]
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<span style="color:#461B7E">If I didn't bore you to death with that last avalanche of information, I'll let you know a little bit about myself, although I try not to give too much personal info out on the web, so I'll keep it short.</span>
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I live in Seattle, Washington, which is pretty much my favorite city on Earth.  It's one of the most diverse cities in the country, and that's definitely influenced me.  I like to consider myself a pretty hipster, urban kind of guy, although reality is I'm pretty much a nerd.  High School has duffed me up a little bit, though, and has definitely changed my perspective on life.</span>
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'''Date:''' Sunday, February 22, 2009
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<span style="color:#461B7E">Moving away from all that philosophical stuff, I should probably let you know I'm just about the most nit-picky grammar and spelling geek there is.  My biggest pet peeve is probably using "u" instead of "you" (It's just <i>two</i> extra letters!  TWO!), although mis-use of "there" and "your" definitely ticks me off as well.  (Which is one thing I have in common with Strong Bad).</span>
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<span style="color:#461B7E">I'm a huge politics buff, and am a proud socialist-bordering-communist.  I heartily supported [[Wikipedia:Barack Obama|Barack Obama]] in the U.S's last presidential election, and I will do so in the next as well.  (And by then, I'll actually be able to vote!).  That doesn't mean I'll look down on you if you're a conservative, although I might attempt to pull you a little to the left.  I'm a devout [[Wikipedia:Pastafarianism|Pastafarian]], although I haven't been doing very well as a missionary.  (Probably converted 3 people since 2005, not that great of a record).</span>
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'''Page Title:''' Information you've ALWAYS needed to know!
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==<span style="color:#461B7E">My Bottom 10</span>==
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== Transcript ==
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' ''{singing}'' Hum dee dum, time to check the email... ''{opens email, stops singing}'' Wow, Hotmail is taking forever... ah, there we go.
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==<span style="color:#461B7E">Awesome People</span>==
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''{reading email}''
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*[[User:It's Dot Com|It's Dot Com]] &mdash; <span style="color:#461B7E">Probably done more for this wiki than the rest of us put together.</span>
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*[[User:DeFender1031|DeFender1031]] &mdash; <span style="color:#461B7E">Works hard on the wiki, and he's also a Babylon 5 fan!</span>
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<blockquote class="email" style="background-image:none;border:4px solid #0000FF;background:#F7F7F7;color:#000">Dear Guard Duck,<br />
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*[[User:Stux|Stux]] &mdash; <span style="color:#461B7E">Nice guy, has a cool userpage, very friendly, and helped with all the haiku findings for the [[Haiku]] page.</span>
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You've done everything on your email show, from blowing up<br />
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*[[User:OptimisticFool|OptimisticFool]] &mdash; <span style="color:#461B7E">Funny and helpful. (And has another cool userpage).</span>
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the Empire State Building to instructing us how<br />
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to prune a hydrangea, but you've never told us anything<br />about yourself.<br />
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Sincerely, Reginald.<br />
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P.S. Have you ever heard of this "Homestar Runner" thing<br />
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that people are always talking about?  What about the Homestar<br />
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Runner Wiki?</blockquote>
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' ''{typing}'' You know what Reginald? You're absolutely correct. I think you all deserve to know a little bit about me.  Well, for starters, I'm a 14-year-old dude in his first year of High School.  I'm a geek, and I pretty much spend my time just hanging out here in my bedroom.  But enough about me.
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''{Guard Duck gets up and walks off screen.  Cut to Guard Duck wearing a light jacket, standing in front of the entrance to the Seattle Space Needle.  People walk by him, some looking at him curiously.  It is raining, as is wont in Seattle.}''
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' So, I live here, in Seattle.  It's a pretty cool city, even if we only get 50 clear days a year.  I've lived here for a very long time, and I've never gotten tired of it.
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''{Guard Duck begins taking a stroll down to the International Fountain; <strike>Due to his dashingly good looks, many of the tourists around gaze at him in awe as he walks.</strike> The tourists around him look at him in disgust, noting his shoddy clothes and odd behavior.  He is oblivious to their disapproval.}''
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' I enjoy reading, several of my favorite authors are Scott Westerfeld and Anthony Horowitz, and I maintain a blog that I update... occasionally.  I've been playing the piano for 9 years, which, of course, you all saw in Email #36 when I saved the world from nuclear annihilation by playing a wonderful rendition of Brahms' "Intermezzo in A Minor."
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''{Pauses to buy some caramel corn from a street vendor.}''
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' I consider myself to be a very kind, compassionate, and caring towards others, and have done everything I can to help my fellow human beings.
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''{A street urchin, clearly freezing, starved, and miserable, crawls up to Guard Duck}''
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'''STREET URCHIN:''' Please Sir, won't you spare some change for a kind soul?
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' Shut up kid!  Get a stupid job!  ''{Resumes walking}'' Anyway, onto your next question.  Yes, I've been a big fan of Homestar Runner, ever since 5th grade, when Homestar mania briefly swept my elementary school class.  Most of the other kids abandoned it after a couple weeks, but something about it stuck with me.  As for the wiki, I was introduced to it a couple years ago by a friend with the peculiar name of "Bubsty," who showed me the article on the toon called "Date Nite."  To use a common wiki cliché, I was hooked.
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''{Cut back to Guard Duck at the computer}''
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'''GUARD DUCK:''' ''{Typing}'' Most of my edits around the wiki include gnome work, adding Fun Facts, and answering questions when I can.  I also enjoy writing extremely long user pages that no one reads.  Don't ask me why.  Well, that's the end of our show. Join us next week, when I wrestle a 400 pound Siberian Snow Leopard... and win!
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''{The Paper comes down.}''
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==Easter Eggs==
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*Click on the caramel corn while Guard Duck buys it to see the sheet music for Brahms' "Intermezzo in A Minor".
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*At the end, click on "Siberian" to see a map of Siberia with Guard Duck's big fat head taped in the middle.  A scrawled message at the bottom says "Just 7 days!"
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==Fun Facts==
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===Explanations===
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*[[User:Bubsty|Bubsty]] is a user who frequented the Homestar Runner Wiki around 2005.
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*Guard Duck's statement that Seattle only receiving 50 clear days a year is a well-known urban legend; Seattle averages 5''1'' clear days a year.
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===Trivia===
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*Guard Duck's bedroom has a "Visit [[Wikipedia:Nicaragua|Nicaragua]]!" poster on the wall.
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===Goofs===
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*When he's buying the caramel corn, Guard Duck temporarily loses three of his fingers and his left ear.
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===Inside References===
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*Guard Duck's treatment of the street urchin is another example of [[Category:Running Gags|blatant cruelty]].
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*Reginald's question references the emails [[dragon|saving New York City]] and [[animal|gardening tips]].
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*Guard Duck previously played "Intermezzo in A Minor" in the email [[isp|saving the world (again)]].
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===Fast Foward===
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*Guard Duck would again visit the Space Needle in the email [[guitar|destroying buildings]], this time to blow it up and save mankind.
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==External Links==
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*[[Youtube:RickRoll'd|Watch "User:Guard Duck"]]
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*[[Youtube:RickRoll'd|View the flash file for "User:Guard Duck"]]
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*[http://www.monodreams.blogspot.com View Guard Duck's blog]
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*Visit some of Guard Duck's favorite blogs. ('''WARNING:''' May be inappropriate.)
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**[http://www.joshreads.com/ The Comics Curmudgeon]
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**[http://www.thebloggess.com/ The Bloggess]
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**[http://www.http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ Stuff White People Like]
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Revision as of 03:00, 23 February 2009

Guard Duck Email #76
watch   Origami Penguins Leopard Wrestling
This article is about the HRWiki user. For the Pearls Before Swine character, see Guard Duck.
"Check out all his majesty."

Guard Duck tells the people a little bit about himself.

Cast (in order of appearance): Guard Duck, Various Tourists, Street Urchin

Places: Guard Duck's bedroom, The Space Needle, The International Fountain

Computer: Guard Duck's iMac

Date: Sunday, February 22, 2009

Running Time: 2:07

Page Title: Information you've ALWAYS needed to know!

Contents

Transcript

GUARD DUCK: {singing} Hum dee dum, time to check the email... {opens email, stops singing} Wow, Hotmail is taking forever... ah, there we go.

{reading email}

GUARD DUCK: {typing} You know what Reginald? You're absolutely correct. I think you all deserve to know a little bit about me. Well, for starters, I'm a 14-year-old dude in his first year of High School. I'm a geek, and I pretty much spend my time just hanging out here in my bedroom. But enough about me.

{Guard Duck gets up and walks off screen. Cut to Guard Duck wearing a light jacket, standing in front of the entrance to the Seattle Space Needle. People walk by him, some looking at him curiously. It is raining, as is wont in Seattle.}

GUARD DUCK: So, I live here, in Seattle. It's a pretty cool city, even if we only get 50 clear days a year. I've lived here for a very long time, and I've never gotten tired of it.

{Guard Duck begins taking a stroll down to the International Fountain; Due to his dashingly good looks, many of the tourists around gaze at him in awe as he walks. The tourists around him look at him in disgust, noting his shoddy clothes and odd behavior. He is oblivious to their disapproval.}

GUARD DUCK: I enjoy reading, several of my favorite authors are Scott Westerfeld and Anthony Horowitz, and I maintain a blog that I update... occasionally. I've been playing the piano for 9 years, which, of course, you all saw in Email #36 when I saved the world from nuclear annihilation by playing a wonderful rendition of Brahms' "Intermezzo in A Minor."

{Pauses to buy some caramel corn from a street vendor.}

GUARD DUCK: I consider myself to be a very kind, compassionate, and caring towards others, and have done everything I can to help my fellow human beings.

{A street urchin, clearly freezing, starved, and miserable, crawls up to Guard Duck}

STREET URCHIN: Please Sir, won't you spare some change for a kind soul?

GUARD DUCK: Shut up kid! Get a stupid job! {Resumes walking} Anyway, onto your next question. Yes, I've been a big fan of Homestar Runner, ever since 5th grade, when Homestar mania briefly swept my elementary school class. Most of the other kids abandoned it after a couple weeks, but something about it stuck with me. As for the wiki, I was introduced to it a couple years ago by a friend with the peculiar name of "Bubsty," who showed me the article on the toon called "Date Nite." To use a common wiki cliché, I was hooked.

{Cut back to Guard Duck at the computer}

GUARD DUCK: {Typing} Most of my edits around the wiki include gnome work, adding Fun Facts, and answering questions when I can. I also enjoy writing extremely long user pages that no one reads. Don't ask me why. Well, that's the end of our show. Join us next week, when I wrestle a 400 pound Siberian Snow Leopard... and win!

{The Paper comes down.}

Easter Eggs

  • Click on the caramel corn while Guard Duck buys it to see the sheet music for Brahms' "Intermezzo in A Minor".
  • At the end, click on "Siberian" to see a map of Siberia with Guard Duck's big fat head taped in the middle. A scrawled message at the bottom says "Just 7 days!"

Fun Facts

Explanations

  • Bubsty is a user who frequented the Homestar Runner Wiki around 2005.
  • Guard Duck's statement that Seattle only receiving 50 clear days a year is a well-known urban legend; Seattle averages 51 clear days a year.

Trivia

  • Guard Duck's bedroom has a "Visit Nicaragua!" poster on the wall.

Goofs

  • When he's buying the caramel corn, Guard Duck temporarily loses three of his fingers and his left ear.

Inside References

Fast Foward

  • Guard Duck would again visit the Space Needle in the email destroying buildings, this time to blow it up and save mankind.

External Links