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I need help improving the Kwyjibo article. Ldude893 01:10, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Understand that no one here will write the article for you. We're too busy writing our own awesome stuffs. You must harness the power within yourself, grasshopper. But we can help you if you have specific questions or need ideas. What kind of help did you want? Right now the article is looking pretty sparse. Try fleshing out the sections you have, and give us a reason to care about it, because right now it's just another made-up word.

Someone will probably come around and tell you that you should have asked this in Forum:Help or Pee Review or somewhere other than here, and they're totally right, but thankfully nobody cares. --Pleb SYNDROME _{CUN medicate (butt poop!!!!)} 02:38, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

We can write our own awesome stuffs? Why did no one tell me of this fact earlier? Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 06:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

What they said. And also, while the animated gifs are funny, anyone with three functioning eyes can see that the first is Homer Simpson. It is not a "fat balding ape", it is HOMER SIMPSON -- the man who would have been president except for vote fraud in Florida. The man who not only split the atom but played the Hokey-Pokey with it. In other words, while fun is fun you have to realize that readers are going to question your assertions vis-a-vis such a well-known figure. ----OEJ 10:36, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Kwyjibo is a reference to an early episode of the Simpsons, which makes a page on it an uphill battle, as it's the friggin' Simpsons. Sir Modusoperandi ^Boinc! 10:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Well strike me down as a TV-ignorant barbarian, Modus. From your link:

  Bart:  Here we go.  Kwyjibo.   [places his tiles] K-W-Y-J-I-B-O.
         Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points
         for using all my letters.  Game's over.  I'm outta here. [gets up]
  Homer: [grabs Bart with his left hand, holding a banana in his right]
         Wait a minute, you little cheater!
         You're not going anywhere until you tell me what a kwyjibo is.
  Bart:  Kwyjibo.  Uh... a big, dumb, balding North American ape.  With no chin.
  Marge: And a short temper.
  Homer: I'll show you a big, dumb, balding ape! [leaps for Bart]
  Bart:  [making his escape]  Uh oh.  Kwyjibo on the loose!
  -- Playing Scrabble (tm), ``Bart the Genius

So there ya go! The allusion was just too much for me. I'll never make it as a literati...NEVER. ----OEJ 21:58, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, just expand expand expand! Oh yeah, make it funny, too. Or it'll end up being VFD'd (maybe it should be moved to userspace, just in case). Chocolate Rain 15:42, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

I suppose I'll be the person who tells you to put this in the help forum or on Pee Review. Oh, and I voted for Homer Simpson. -