I would like to dictate that the 'Proud Anselmo' could be noted as several items, one of them being ME! My name is Anthony Anselmo and I have written, endorsed and praised HomestarRunner.com on several occasions. In fact, its even linked from my site
http://www.anthonyanselmo.com.
This Philip Anselmo noted in the Wiki is a sham. The real Anselmos came over from Italy around the early 1900's, and have since been noted to disperse all around the globe. While I might not be a full fledged musician, I do kick much more 'faint-of-butt' then this Philip guy!
Actually in all seriousiness, I doubt the Brother Chaps are aware of my existance. My first thought was reference to Rene Anselmo who was a guy who owned the first privately owned satellite in orbit during the 1980's.
http://www.space.com/news/space_news_100-1.html.
The guy who also does Donald Duck's voice current shares my name as Tony Anselmo. He started off drawing him, and once the previous voice actor died, he stepped and now does Donald Duck Voices.
So the Anselmo name is out there, so just for giggles this is what I wrote to the Chaps...
Dear Strongbad,
This concerns your recent strongbad email #138 to be exact...
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail138.html
As a 'Proud Italian' and 'Proud Anselmo'; I must inform you that the term 'Proud Anselmo' is copyrighted 1975 by myself and Anselmo Inc. I must also inform you that I am not constructed by cardboard, but with authentical, live tribbles purchased from the far mountains of Ohio. We here at Anselmo Inc. take our copyrights very very seriously and request that proper compenstation be delivered for use of trademark. As such we request a huge donation of one strongbad email's 101-130 be delivered to our offices. We also will accept a personal call by you... um yourself...himself to our Answering Machine to use for entertainment with our co-workers.
We have yet to contact our lawyers but we feel that any donation on your part, may avoid this forseeable disagreeable action-um... eable.
Thank you for your time...
P.S. Please note that we have also given proper credit to any puns, or hot buns, we borrowed and or used without thinking about it on our webpage at
http://www.anthonyanselmo.com.