Talk:Paunch

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Diddly dee?

I question the noteworthiness of this page. I removed bike thief, which we have transcribed as Ponch so I don't it really think belongs here. Of the three usages that remain, two of them aren't really unusual. Hitting someone in the paunch uses the word in it's exact literal meaning, and Paunchberry ice cream essentially does too, though admittedly in a odd way (it could be read like "Potbelly-berry" ice cream, the joke would be the same). That leaves East and West Paunch as the only usages that don't really correlate to the dictionary definition of the word, which doesn't seem remarkable to me. 98.222.134.36 15:28, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Paunch is indeed a real word and is used correctly in Strong Badia the Free. Paunchberry, on the other hand is still a little strange, but that still only two uses; not quite enough to constitute a running gag. wbwolf (t | ed) 15:56, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh come on juys, if the Chapmans didn't want to make this a gag they would have said "gut" all those times. And how does it make any more sense that he said "Ponch" and not "Paunch" in bike thief? I think that is a reference. --Jellote 18:16, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

This article reminds me of Pining, another uncommon word used by Strong Bad very infrequently. Two years ago, we discussed the relative merits of that article and decided that we might as well keep it. So why not Paunch as well? There are three appearances of this wierd word (as of this post), two of which are used in unusual contextes. In fact, I feel that Paunch is even more worthy of its own article than Pining ever was. Keep. – The Chort 18:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

That's an interesting precedent The Chort, thanks for mentioning it. I suppose that if a word is uncommon and has been used a few times in the toons, it makes some sense to have a little page on the wiki, never hurts to broaden one's vocabulary, at least. (I'd have thought "pining for" would be considered a commonly known phrase, but meh). I still think "Paunchberry" was intended to refer to the actual definition of the word (in fact, I think that's the joke). 98.222.134.36 02:17, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Just to answer Jellote's question about bike thief, Strong Bad also says "Jon" in a similar way a few lines later. As the RWR section states, "Ponch and Jon were the main characters of the television show CHiPs." Given that it's a CHiPs reference, it's pretty clear that it's "Ponch" and not "Paunch". As for this article, i'm leaning towards a keep but would probably not have commented if not for jellote's question. I just noticed that the Paunchberry ice cream has a picture of a big belly on it. That's enough in my mind to call it intentionally the joke as anonny said. Definite keep. — Defender1031*Talk 02:22, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

This page also reminds me of Apothecary. That's enough precedent to keep this unique word article. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 19:55, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I also agree keep, because of reasons stated here and in Talk:Pining. free 00:55, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Double redirect?

Ok, so I went to fix the "Paunch Berry -> Paunchberry -> Paunch" double redirect, only to be told it was "done that way on purpose", but I could find nothing in the history suggesting *why* it was. Since both pages redirect to Paunch (and going by this, we don't have any other similar double redirects), what possible purpose could redirecting a page to another redirect serve? (Actually, I wouldn't even have noticed this, were it not for the fact that someone created a dozen or so double redirects for SBEMail pages earlier tonight.) -YK 06:56, 22 September 2009 (UTC)