Talk:Fhqwhgads

The real origin

On the hrwiki website, it states that Fhqwhgads origin is actually from the infamous "i love u" virus, spread to many computers through e-mail. The Fhqwhgads part of the message was the virus's code, and it is possible that the sender of this e-mail typed the code wrong, thus doing nothing to Strong Bad's already crappy computer.Ron3090 16:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC) No the person that typed this email probably typed i love u and then followed it by pounding randomly on the keyboard. Notice how all the letters in fhqwhgads' name are very close to each other on the keyboard?

Delete it?

listed on votes for deletion. we're not a dictionary -- Tarquin 08:36 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

I redirected to Homestar Runner. cf xyzzy. Martin 14:47 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Sounds OK to me...let's just hope that people don't grouse that the H*R page is getting unwieldy now. Ed Cormany 16:56 21 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Not to be a scrooge, but this article's topic is pretty inane and trivial. Mr. Billion 07:36, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Yes. Yes it is. But if it wasn't here, people would be trying to create it for the third time (counting the un-redirecting as a creation). -- Cyrius|✎ 16:48, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

It's not about the "I love you" virus. I'm fhqwhgads (for real) and I just typed in randomly. So now you know... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.107.247.61 (talk) 01:48, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Lowercase template

I don't think this article needs a {{lowercase}} template. I've copied the following from Freakofnurture's talk page to explain my position. —Bkell 17:17, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

float

I'm not sure if i agree with this edit. It seems that since the phrase "fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf" is a used in place of a proper name in the e-mail, and written in all lowercase letters, the correct title would reflect that fact. Just like, for example, timecop. Whatever though, I really don't care enough about it to be risk being listed on WP:LAME. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 05:39, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Sure, in the e-mail it's written in all lower-case. One could easily argue that that doesn't mean much, since "I" isn't capitalized either. If I were to write an e-mail that said "i fixed the wikipedia article. --brian kell", the obvious assumption is that I was too lazy to capitalize anything; my name is still properly written as "Brian Kell", even though I typed it as "brian kell".

But let's assume that fhqwhgads is written in lower-case, that for whatever reason it defies the rule of English that proper nouns are capitalized. That doesn't mean that it should always be lower-case. If it's at the beginning of a sentence, then it should be capitalized, even if it's not normally capitalized in running text. This is the way English capitalization works. The word carrots isn't capitalized, but if I write the sentence "Carrots are orange", or start a Wikipedia article called "Carrots", then it's capitalized. The same goes for fhqwhgads. —Bkell 17:57, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

If you still disagree with me, try reading some of these "Sharp Points": I love K.D. Lang and her music, but…, What's in a nAME(cq)?, and Let's hope we've all learned our Lesson. —Bkell 18:08, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

ok i give up. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 05:14, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I don't. fhqwhgads is a name, and the website, as far as I can see, always writes it in lower case, as fhqwhgads. Our carrots article doesn't need the template because carrots is not a proper noun. The template is for, among other things, proper nouns (eg aladin), such as the name fhqwhgads, which are written without a capital letter. 24ip | lolol 21:45, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay, let's consider another proper noun that is not capitalized: the last name of Leonardo da Vinci. The Wikipedia article refers to him as "Leonardo" throughout, avoiding the issue, but if one were to refer to him as "da Vinci" the D would be lower-case in the middle of a sentence. However, at the beginning of the sentence, words are always capitalized, so it is correct to say

Da Vinci was born in 1452.

and incorrect to say

da Vinci was born in 1452.

The same thing happens at the beginning of the title of an article, so the correct title of an article about fhqwhgads is "Fhqwhgads", whether or not fhqwhgads is normally capitalized. In fact, if you look at the article itself, you will notice that fhqwhgads is capitalized whenever it appears at the beginning of a sentence, and also in the table of links along the right side of the page. To insist that the correct title of the article should be "fhqwhgads" simply because it isn't capitalized on the Homestar Runner site ignores the correct capitalization rules followed in the article itself.

To steal an example from the "Sharp Points" linked above, the correct title of the article about Macy's has a capital M, and an apostrophe; this is undisputed. You will notice that their logo has a lower-case M, and a five-pointed star instead of an apostrophe. But that's exactly the point—this is a logo, and whatever arbitrary capitalizations are chosen for logos and the like do not affect the rules of English. The first word of a sentence is always capitalized; so is the first word of a title. —Bkell 01:14, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

You forget that this is an article about something humourous, and there fore should be left in such a way that is FUNNY --PokeOnic 18:52, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

You guys are funny. How about "pH?" —72.220.68.93 (talk) 04:38, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Sounds to me more like "fuh-hoog-mo-gads"; I definatly hear an "m" sound in there after a "g" when he pronounces it (usually listening to the Everybody To The Limit song). Does the pronunciation at the bottom match the one at the top? Kuronue 02:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

When the Visor Robot pronounces it I hear "fuh-hoog-mo-dads" but other than that I have no clue how you could think that.--Bottles98 11:51, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be what they suggest but Q's sounds like K's. Could be fuh-hoo-kwuh-gads or something. --Addict 2006 16:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

When the robotic voice pronounces it, it does sound like "fuh-hoog-mo-gads", but Strong Bad pronounces it "fuh-hoo-kwuh-gads", especially at the end of a stanza where he says it "FUH-hoo-kwuh-_gads". Excuse the HTML, but it seemed the easiest way for me to show the emphasis. — SheeEttin {T/C} 22:54, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Old prod

A Prod template was placed with the reason "Non-notable, no reliable sources, etc." I don't believe this is uncontentious and have suggested a merge instead. --Alksub 21:44, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Realness of previously mentioned word “ fhqwhgads”

This is definitely a real word which I don’t know it’s meaning but it does exist and should be put in a dictionary 2A02:A45E:2991:1:5052:C4BE:5E59:D090 (talk) 21:42, 9 December 2021 (UTC)