Talk:environment

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Wrong Abbreviation

Interestingly, MO is the abbreviation for the state of Missouri, not Montana. Montana's is MT. 12.217.63.110 06:16, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes. It's already been mentioned in the article :-) Loafing 06:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Email song

What was there before was clearly wrong, but I'm not sure my version is any more right. Thoughts? --Jay (Talk) 07:26, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

With my headphones, what I hear is "Strictly checkin' emails in 2008, strictly ?? Strong Bad fit to regulate." I'm not sure on the "strictlies" but I'm pretty much confident on "fit to regulate". --Jay (Talk) 07:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it's "fit to regulate", too. Danny Lilithborne 07:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I thought he was saying "chicky chicky emails". Homestar-Winner (talk) 12:45, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay for Moms

This is an inside reference to the garage sale email where Strong Bad says prounouncing "garage" like "garbage" is for mom's only.

No, I think it's more Strong Bad trying to come up with ways to refer to people's posteriors to his own mother. Note that his list is "Okay for Mom" not "Okay for Moms". --Jay (Talk) 10:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

"The bill itself uses eight trees' worth of paper"

Do you think this line and the stack of bills is a reference to 300-page iPhone bill which was popular in last August? I think it fits well with Strong Sad's new iTem. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 16:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

That line I think is a more general play on how the use of paper is equated to the number of trees used to make it, which would fit the entire "environment" theme. The same goes for the number of acres that are burned down for every time the Lappy is fired up. wbwolf (t | ed) 17:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Green computing?

Anyone here thinks the logo of the computer with the leaf is a reference to logos such as this? I also suggest reading Wikipedia:Green computing just for the heck of it. Really interesting stuff. — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 16:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, but a very vague one. It's an amalgam, designed to evoke the recurrent motifs of various official and unofficial environmental "certification" logos. And at the same time it pokes at the lip service that industry tends to pay to such issues, seeming to think that cliché rebranding (e.g., adding a leaf) is the most important piece of their strategy. The arc at the top does resemble Energy Star, but it probably resembles a lot of other things as well. While the leaf to me first recalled the logo for Ford's hybrid cars, but I'm sure there are plenty of other logos using a leaf for environmental purpose. Also, the blue arrow makes me think of an ecological diagram from a science text. You know, like the Water Cycle, or the Flow of Nutrients, or something like that. All very vague, but still evocative. --TheNicestGuy 17:20, 7 January 2008 (UTC)