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Strong Bad dreams of flight

Strong Bad Email #122

Strong Bad describes for us what his perfect email would be like.

Cast (in order of appearance): Strong Bad, Female Lappy 486, The Cheat, Homestar Runner

Date: January 10th, 2005

Strong Bad Email - 122 Dreamail

how this works

Easter Eggs

Click on "e-marlin" to cause an ASCII marlin to jump from the bottom of the screen
Click on the graffiti on Strong Bad's dream table to see a zoomed-in view of it.
Click on the Lappy's screen at the end of the email to hear additional dialogue from the female Lappy.

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Easter Egg Transcript

{The Female Lappy appears back on-screen}

FEMALE LAPPY 486: Don't fly, Strong Bad. Please come down. I worry about you. I can see the strings.

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Fun Facts

The backwards joke first appeared in 2 emails.
The Female Lappy 486 is the second character Missy Palmer has voiced.
Strong Bad's dreamail dinner table is made from the front door from the show "227" and is signed by actress Jackeé Harry who played Sandra Clark on the late 80's sitcom.
Strong Bad has two Cadbury's Creme Eggs on his plate. These are chocolate easter eggs with "cream" (which is pretty much frosting) inside. They're sold around Easter in the US, but are available year-round in the United Kingdom.
The phrase "all up ons" is from the email suntan.
At the end of this email, The Paper seems to have been replaced by either the original or a copy of the United States Constitution.
As opposed to most other emails, the end screen does not have any sort of 'back' button.
The Floppy Disk Container this week contains Miner 2049er for the Atari 2600.
The pink border is a reference to Saved by the Bell, which also used the exact same border for its dream sequences, along with many other TV shows.
When Strong Bad is lifted by the strings, it may be a double reference to both A Decemberween Pageant and dangeresque 3 when a similar thing happens to Homestar Runner.
"Forever young" is a reference to a Bob Dylan song and also appears in an easter egg in personal favorites.
"Stew", sung in Strong Bad's intro, may be a reference to different town, where Strong Bad says the best thing is beef stew.
The "ping" noises in the submarine scene are from the beginning of the Pink Floyd song "Echoes."
"Get your head in the game is a reference to english paper.
The abbreviation for "Monsieur" is "M.", but it is misspelled as "Mssr." in the "French Countryside" e-mail.

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January 10 - adjective

The Word of the day for January 10, 2005 is - adjective

Choose this word because I saw and bought Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. Now there pretty much isn't anyway to get another adjective in there.

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Site has confirmed visuals of new iPod

This site is UBER slow so I am going to put one of the pics on my own server, but check this out.... it is a picture of an Apple sign being put up for tomorrow's MacWorld conference. Below is all the text info from the site incase it is taken down.

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Scoop: here it is, the new iPod

We found a new iPod, probably based on a 1 GB flash memory. Here in San Francisco we have seen people mounting the billboards inside Moscone Center. There were images of the new iPod and a slogan: "Life is random!". Plus the number of the song: 240. Will it be the next "iPod micro"?
by Fabio M. Zambelli
( 9-01-2005)

It's good to wait in front of Moscone Center, here in San Francisco, two days before Steve Jobs' keynote. Sometime it can happen to obtain a true scoop...

Today, MacityNet staff has noticed something of really unusual, considering the level of security that Apple is used to deploy around its new products

Some of the crew that are in charge to put the billboards inside the windows of Moscone Center (where Steve Jobs' opening keynote will take place on Tuesday) didn't take the same attention and let our staff to have a short peek of some mega-posters...

So here we are: what's new. A new adverstising photo that show the brand new iPod. A special one, because it will be narrower and probably without a large display.

Those are the photos we have taken from outside the Moscone Center. The others we have taken, from inside, are not available because of an explicit request from the staff working on the site.

In the past weeks many sources talked about a flash based iPod. We have something more real to offer: a slogan that came with the billboard: "240 songs", that means around 1 GB of memory. Flash or disk based? Probably flash, solid state, of course.

We cannot show the images of the new iPod because we were forced to delete them from our cameras, but we can describe it. It is without any screen (that's maybe because the slogan is "Life is random!"), small, with a shape more vertical than the other iPod. The color is white, and it seems like a small remote control that fits confortably in a single hand.

In few hours Steve Jobs will show all the new things Apple has prepared in the last months. But with this little scoop we hope to help many people to be satisfied for some hours, or to help others to became crazy until they will see what's really new here at Macworld Expo in San Francisco!

What will be its name? That was not possible to see in the billboard. But we have an hypotesis: "iPod micro". Why not?