Talk:Quote of the Week

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Revision as of 13:50, 24 May 2005

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)

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)

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?

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

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