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ThisIsATestTai The Egg-Man Since: Dec, 2010
The Egg-Man
#1: Aug 23rd 2011 at 4:16:18 AM

Virtually all of the entries in this article are just a single quote with a pot-hole. It doesn't show how they're a Stock Shout Out, and a lot of them are actually quite obscure. (Just off the top of my head, there's a Fist Of The North Star one that I've never seen used). Furthermore, they're not organized into genres and look like they're alphabetically organized, but there are a lot of entries that seem to have missed that memo. It's not a very useful article at all in this state.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
I see the Awesomeness.
#2: Aug 23rd 2011 at 4:24:46 AM

Tag fixed.

Agreement with problem. Not sure on solution. I suppose I could go through and turn it into a list by work, but I don't know if that's the proper solution.

edited 23rd Aug '11 4:26:41 AM by Deboss

Fight smart, not fair.
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#3: Aug 23rd 2011 at 9:25:36 AM

I'm feeling particularly unforgiving today. I'd delete all the "examples" that are just the phrase or whatever, potholed to the work it's originally from. That's just f'in' lazy editing.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#4: Aug 23rd 2011 at 9:53:40 AM

I just did exactly that. Take a look now. I haven't sorted them.

edited 23rd Aug '11 10:06:46 AM by Madrugada

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
Zzzzzzzzzz
#6: Aug 23rd 2011 at 12:42:25 PM

It also looks like they were sorted alphabetically at some time (somehow, anyway; it wasn't by the spelling of the shoutout itself, and it wasn't by the spelling of the source...) when the page was much smaller, but nobody kept it up, and new examples were simply added at the bottom.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
ThisIsATestTai The Egg-Man Since: Dec, 2010
The Egg-Man
#7: Aug 23rd 2011 at 8:38:00 PM

Yes, this is much better.

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