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Slow Danube

From: the chair
Posted on: 10:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• The Danube is a fairly well known river that sounds European enough to be a designer label.

Arguments against:

• As written, this is speculative and vague. A rewrite is needed.
  • How about The Danoob Largo chair most likely refers to the Danube River, which runs through Europe. In this case Danoob Largo would mean something like "Long Danube."?
    • Hmm, without the apt Europeans, "da n00b" would be a much more likely explanation than "Danube".
• Highly speculative and based on wrong facts and prejudice. Having grown up in a country the Danube runs through, I have to tell you that nobody there would buy such a chair.

Additional comments:

• The reason for this fact being removed was "europe is a big place..." That doesn't seem relevant.
  • It's relevant because of the broad stroke generalization, "where there are many people apt to buy...". It is bold to group all of Europe together that way, due to a reference to a river that runs through parts of Europe.
    • The person who put the fact up may have been referring to people on the Danube river.
      • I don't think that a well-known habit of people living on a river running through several countries (from very rich to very poor)[1] is buying unusable designer chairs.
• While the latin "Largo" is etymologically related to "Long", there is no common usage of the term other than the musical usage (slow tempo).
  • It's also Spanish for "large".

Proposed revision:

Arguments for:

• What else would it be a reference to, if anything? :)

Arguments against:

• Who sez it *has* to be a reference to anything at all? To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a silly word is just a silly word.
  • There are a LOT of toons and emails documented on this wiki with "silly words" in them. That didn't stop us then from finding plausible references to real-world people and places.
• It just means "the big n00b"...
  • I disagree. "Da-noob" is a common mispronunciation of Danube (properly pronounced "dan-yoob"). And "n00b" (as in Newbie) makes practically ZERO sense in this context.

Additional comments:

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Unethical Chick Beaks

From: the chair
Posted on: 05:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

• From the discussion page, it looks like I'm not the only one for whome this was the first thing to come to mind on this. I never thought about being a vegitarian till i saw a YouTube video on this recently, and now I at least avoid KFC. Maybe the bros saw the same YouTube vid?
  • It's a well known practice that has been debated before YouTube even existed. TBC don't need to reference a specific video here.
• Taking the beaks off of birds seems cruel in itself, and "Ethical Chick Beaks" may be an original joke that there is no true ethical practice of debeaking.

Arguments against:

• it seems strange that TBC would be referencing a YouTube video, unless extremely popular, like the numa numa video.

Additional comments:

• Re first arg against: read the fun fact, please. Nowhere does it mention YouTube.
  • I think that arg's referring to the first arg for.

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Strong Bad Mask Removal

From: the chair
Posted on: 02:50, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

Arguments against:

• It's a very common device in fiction to never show a character's face.
• The mask is Strong Bad's face.
• A very big stretch.
• Seeing SB's face behind-the-mask has been a recurring theme in several emails to him. As is his parents' pictures

Additional comments:

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Teh n00b Largo?

From: the chair
Posted on: 09:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Arguments for:

Arguments against:

• There are a lot of stretches here to make a connection, and the usage in this toon have other plausible explanations.
• Biggest stretch ever. Does this deserve to be STUFF'd at all?

Additional comments:

• The signature in the Easter egg does appear to read "Danoob" — though it is barely legible.