Talk:Quote of the Week

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Uniformity

The fact that these dates won't line up is driving me nuts. Is there some snippet of code we can use to add a date in a sort of uniform manner? -- AgentSeethroo 13:38, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

Ask and ye shall receive. Actually, I came here to ask you if you liked the table, but found your note. You like? -- Tom 13:50, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

Yeah, it looks wicked! I looked at the code, and even though it's probably rudimentary HTML, I'm lost on it. That's probably gonna be your thing. -- AgentSeethroo 13:55, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

Okay, I did the whole thing. It looks kind of weird now, since some of the quotes are so long. I don't like how the date and download links get moved down. How about another form of writing the date? I tried another one in the first three, check it out. -- Tom 14:05, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

It looks pretty good, but not uniform, ya know? How can we make the long quotey ones look...not jacked up? -- AgentSeethroo 14:09, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

Yeah. This might be of some help. I think this might be the most confusing Wiki format there is. Maybe someone else has some ideas... Joey? -- Tom 14:17, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

This may be a stupid question, but can you use html throughout MediaWiki? Or just when creating tables? -- AgentSeethroo 14:38, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

I think it works everywhere. Strong? Em? Strike? Tt? Yup. Well, at least those tags work. But it's important to use wikitext where possible. I know that's one thing that Wikignomes do on Wikipedia, they fix someone's crazy HTML and make it simple to understand wikitext. -- Tom 15:20, 11 Aug 2004 (MST)

404'd

Um hath anys peoples realized that half thy links have been 404'd? --Clever Dan 17:42, 9 Oct 2004 (MST)

Yeah, if someone happens to have those quotes mirrored, it would be great to be able to link to them. --oddtodd 14:45, 22 Nov 2004 (MST)

Okay, I have a mirror for a few of them. Most of them I don't have, though. --FatPamPam

Also, if you keep pressing the QotW button, you don't just get Homestar's broken speech bubble, but you also get a frame where he's saying 'undefined' -- Matt 16:59, 25 Nov 2004 (MST)

blabittablough

Am I the only one that hears a very clear z at the beginning of the last "word" of the 12/16 quote? I suggested "zabbitablough" as a more accurate transcription, but it was reverted. (BTW, I agree with "blabittablough" in the actual email, but this sounds different.)

I hear a "Z," as well. -- FortyTwo

Yup. That's definitely a Z. Try changing it again.

Well, it says "zabittablough" on the QOD thing.--oopsyoubwokeit 14:26, 25 Mar 2005 (MST)

I think it's a "Z"-Catman87

QoD files

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone was interested in these files I found on my HD. If so, I could upload them somewhere for a while. They seem to all be QoDs, though I can't be sure. (One of them (sb_possums.zip) might not be the original download, but a rezip.)

The Archon

File list begins:

blc_hateusomuch.zip

bubs_cantdrive.zip

bubs_chickenshine.zip

bubs_sugarspice.zip

cc_theme.zip

cz_bdhman.zip

email_rokk.zip

gunhaver_rro.zip

hsgirl_likefunny.zip

hs_brutus.zip

hs_grabbinbutt.zip

hs_letmein.zip

HS_PEE.ZIP

HS_REPS.ZIP

hs_thatsbupkis.zip

hs_thnikkaman.zip

k_assaulted.zip

labordaysong_hs.zip

larry_fromzeen.zip

marshie_whatmore.zip

oldaboy2_missvg.zip

sbhs_havetojump.zip

sbz_backoff.zip

sb_brudder.zip

sb_giftshop.zip

SB_JIG.ZIP

sb_kingmessup.zip

SB_MATT.ZIP

sb_possums.zip

sb_sneakup.zip

ss_animal.zip

ss_foodanymore.zip

ss_marzipan.zip

stinko_whatRUdoing.zip

Mirror

Who does the mirrors for the QOWs? The human wedgie one still isn't on there... →evin290 12:52, 27 Feb 2005 (MST)

HRWiki Mirror Uploads

Is there any way for users to upload files to hrwiki.org/mirror? --Gafaddict 27 Feb 2005, 22:23 (GMT)

Nope. -- Tom 22:21, 27 Feb 2005 (MST)

Error

Hi my name is Jess. I have never done wiki before.

I was looking at this quote:

Strong Bad: Oh. Why do you...guys...like me anymore. I-I've lost it! origins outtake.

I don't think the origins strong bad email is the right source for this quote of the week. I just watched the cartoon and I didn't hear the quote in the main toon or in the easter eggs.

Jess

Hi there Jess. Yeah, it doesn't seem right. Any ideas? -- Tom 17:45, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm putting in "unknown" for the time being. --Gafaddict 22:19, 12 Mar 2005 (MST)

I am quite sure that it IS an outtake from origins. Compare the following two lines:

Strong Bad (QOD): Oh. Why do you...guys...like me anymore. I-I've lost it!

STRONG BAD (Origins): Ugh! Why do you Van Peebles always wanna know the origins and histories of every freakin' little thing? Like, do you wanna know how Strong Sad got his belly button, too?

The tone is very identical in the parts that match (made italic here). This leads me to believe that it IS indeed an outtake from origins (don't forget, outtakes are recordings that go wrong and are scrapped - they are not part of the final version).

While I am the one who originally added outtake to the attribution (originally, it just said origins), I'll let you guys compare for yourselves. --83.88.139.125 15:26, 14 Mar 2005 (MST)

I'm still not convinced, though. The context for the two quotes are entirely different, though the tone is the same. --Gafaddict 19:26, 15 Mar 2005 (MST)

How on earth do you determine context on a single line? If you mean that the text is different, then that's obvious - it's an outtake, so it would HAVE to be wrong (one way or the other). Besides, I don't recall hearing another possible match in any other toon. --83.88.139.125 07:20, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

In the outtake, Strong Bad is talking about how everyone likes him. In "origins", he is talking about why he hates that everybody wants to "know the origins of every single little thing". --Gafaddict 13:18, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

Improvisation is not uncommon in outtakes. It could very easily be explained by Matt forgetting what he was supposed to say, then trying to make up something to go along. And again, I don't see any other potential sources (but feel free to point them out if you have any). --83.88.139.125 15:55, 16 Mar 2005 (MST)

Okay, I just noticed something interesting. Taking a look at the first line of the code for this file, I see "ID3 TT2 sbemail123_messup TEN iTunes v4.7.0.42 COM h engiTunNORM" Problem solved, and it look like we were right with "origins outake." -- Tom 13:01, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)

FWIW, that would be the ID3v2 tag. We should probably make a note to check for those things in the future. Most audio players (Winamp, for one) should show that info, so there's no need to get out Notepad or a hex editor or whatever you used :). (I can't believe it was really that simple.) --83.88.139.125 18:14, 19 Mar 2005 (MST)

Zip file

I'd like to see these all put into zip file(s) to easily download them all at once. As soon as I get an iPod, these are going on there. -- nintendorulez 18:07, 15 Mar 2005 (MST)

Ask and ye shall receive! ZIP #1 and ZIP #2 (The server I use has an upload limit of 2MB, so that's why I had to split them up.) Hope this is helpful anways! --The Paper 06:24, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)

Sweet! Thanks, I hope some others find this helpful too. nintendorulez 18:38, 18 Mar 2005 (MST)

3/17/2005

Does anyone have the March 17th Quote of the Week? Sadly, it's gone from H*R now.—StrongstarRunbad 11:02, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)

Added. -- Tom 23:34, 27 Mar 2005 (MST)

Lost QoDs

I have a theory that might work. I know it's possible to record the sound from your comp (no clue how, but I know it can be done), so theoretically, couldn't someone record the QoDs without a mirror straight from the toons? It'd come out the same as the QoD, and that could be added to the mirror. -- nintendorulez 14:38, 28 Mar 2005 (MST)

Sorry, but it's not the same. -- Tom 23:18, 29 Mar 2005 (MST)

Darn. Well, it is better than nothing, right?

Well, there IS a way to get sound recorded from your computer, and it's called getting a Mac. (GarageBand can do that.) --Homsar999^{Talk 19:56, 2 Aug 2005 (CDT)}

So can Windows and *Sound Recorder*, as long as your soundcard supports full duplex - just configure the Sound Mixer to use the proper input source. But that's not the reason we don't.

The sound on the site is of lower quality than the QoDs. Though we *could* sample those that are from the DVD, they often have background noise. --Pidgeot (t) (c) (e) 21:04, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Good point Pidfeot. I just want to point out that the lost Quote of the Week files that we were discussing here have been located and are now available for download. -- Tom 22:36, 13 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Funniest word style ever

Apparently, someone made a useless page that listed the empty "Quote of the Week" phrase as different than the picture here. He went about it the wrong way, but he was actually right - at least when halfway on the on the virus Main Page, it really has changed, and to what he said it was. Is this worth note anywhere? --Jay (Talk) 15:56, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

As I was TRYING to say before the database went down, it says:

"Oh Haldo! This is my
funniest word style
ever times that I've
said! Hope all is on
to it even more
lately! And I wish the
chicken & msg place
was open on
Somedays"

Lot of H*R refs in this one, huh? --Jay (Talk) 16:03, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Umm... Un-mirrored quotes not working

Is it me or are loads of the un-mirrord quotes not working for download? it brings me to the HSR 404'D page.

Yes, noname, you are right. It seems all the ZIP files from 3 May 2004 to 11 Nov 2004 have been removed from the site. Give Tom a week or two and we should have all these set up for download through the wiki server (mirror). I don't know if the macintosh 'sit' files will ever be mirrored. —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 08:32, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Repeated QoD?

They repeated the "human wedgie" quote today...why?

Yes, that doesn't really make sense...the only difference is it's AaAaahHmm instead of I'm. --ISlayedTheKerrek 18:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're A Girl

That link doesn't work. Neither do any of the "external links." I can't find it anywhere. Where is it? --VolatileChemical 01:09, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You will find "youreagirl.mp3" in my updated quote pack. If you want to take the song directly from Flash, save and open this file. I'm glad I saved all those Flash files from last year—when TBC still embedded the quote file into Flash. :) —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 08:23, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, man! --24.66.94.141 06:27, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

The quote pack and the file didn't work. In the file, I could hear the quote, but I couldn't download it. Can someone fix this? -- RJMT

RJMT, you are probably opening the ZIP file (Windows XP allows you to do this) instead of saving the file to a folder on your hard drive. If you try right clicking on the link and then click "Save Target As..." you should be able to download the quote pack. If you would like more advice, you can tell me more about the situation on my talk page. —THE PAPER ^PREEEOW 14:49, 22 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Buttdance

The "Buttdance" quote is off the site, and it has not been added to this one. Does anyone have it?- Bad Graphics Ghost

New Picture

Should the transcried QotW in the picture be replaced? I know it's funny and special, but is a glitched QotW the best one to display on top like that? - Joshua

Not working on the web site?

Ok, I just found out that the quote of the week changed and i wanted to download it from the web site, but is it just me, or is the quote not working on the web site right now? --~Rebecca~ RJMT 03:45, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC

It didn't work for me either. Weird.....-- Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 03:48, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Works for me. -- Tom 03:48, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

O wait nvm u just have to wait for a little while after u click on it.... or @ least thats how it is with me... --~Rebecca~ RJMT 03:50, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Yeah. Just have to wait.-- Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 03:53, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Cool Tapes quote problem?

when i download the new cool tapes quote, it downloads fine and then i double-click it to open, and it copies it into itunes. but then there's nothing playing there. the time says 00:00. what the heck? can someone help? -dayve_57 4:11 PM august 19

It works fine for me. I'm not using iTunes, however. Perhaps try to download it again? -- Tom 20:15, 19 Aug 2005 (UTC)

No, Tom, you're wrong. The answer, if you're trying to get it in Safari, is to get it in Firefox. Usually, Safari works with it, but this time I tried Firefox and it worked. --Homsar999^{Talk 19:45, 26 Aug 2005 (CDT)}

How am I wrong? -- Tom 18:50, 30 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Another Cool Tapes (maybe earlier) quote problem?

I saved the current Quote of the Week to my computer, knowing full well that this would make the sound clips unavailiable. However, instead of the "Oh Haldo! This is my funniest word style" message, i get a picture of Homestar and the message is "undefined". Did TBC change this, or is it just me? Smileyface11945 21:30, 21 Aug 2005 (UTC)

That's not a problem. It do read "Oh! Haldo" for about a second or so. Then it read's "undefined". --81.230.154.89 14:22, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Re-recorded?

When I play the "Cool Tapes" on Quote of the Day, when Marzipan is supposed to say "Ready boys?" it doesn't sound a lot like her. Did they re-record these quotes? -Catsmeat (I forgot my password...)

No, they don't. QOTW mp3's sound much clearer than the sound in the Flash cartoon. —BazookaJoe 16:12, 3 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Archive attempt

There is no need to split this page up. The page is not too long nor does it have too many images. -- Tom 01:58, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Personally, I feel we should only split pages once they've reached the 32kb size line. —Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 01:59, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)

I agree. — _talk Bubsty _edits 02:06, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)

What about the other two weeklies? They aren't over 32kb, but they take a load time to long and scroll. - Joshua

SB

A question about Strong Bad as Reynold. Was that shown as Strong Bad, or Reynold? --11945 (^Talk/_Ctrbs) 14:31, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)

It was shown as Reynold. —Gafaddict (Talk | Contribs.) 14:33, 2 Oct 2005 (UTC)