Hank's Anagramming Guide to the presidential elections (2007)
project history · status: last documented in 2011 (looked back on in 2013) · last event: launched (2007-08-09) · last mentioned: 2013-01-11
In August 2007 Hank began his 'presidential candidate research' by anagramming the candidates' names as his Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections. Stephen Colbert and later The Daily Show ran similar anagrams, which Hank came back to in later videos as a lesson about owning ideas.
Parts: Hank's presidential anagrams of the 2012 Republican field (2011)
About: Presidential anagrams, An Abundance of Katherines, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Brotherhood 2.0 forum
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-08-09 | launched | Hank starts his 'presidential candidate research' by anagramming the candidates' names, presented as Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections. (joke) | August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections 00:00:58 |
| 2007-08-13 (happened 2007-08-09) | looked back | Hank addresses forum talk that Stephen Colbert did similar presidential anagrams on The Colbert Report the same day as Hank's anagram video (9 August 2007); probably not stolen. → refers to August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections | August 13: The Fair!!!! 00:02:28 |
| 2011-12-21 | looked back | Hank recalls that in 2008, the channel's first year, he decided it would be funny to anagram the presidential candidates' names. (playful) → refers to August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections | 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! 00:00:00 |
| 2013-01-11 | looked back | Hank recalls his Anagramming Guide video and that The Daily Show ran a similar anagram segment about a week later, which turned out to have been written before his. → refers to August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections | On the Ownership of Ideas 00:00:00 |
What is said about it
8 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank announces he will choose whom to vote for by anagramming the candidates' names, with John's An Abundance of Katherines in mind. (joke, hedged) — 00:00:58
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank: Democrats: Albert Gore (not running) yields 'retro bagel'; John Edwards 'jihad drowns'; Hillary Clinton 'lynch a trillion'; Barack Obama 'maraca kebab' and, with Hussein, 'Bushmania Cobra Sake'. (joke) — 00:01:28
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank: After the Republicans (Ron Paul 'Lunar Op', Mitt Romney 'Metro Minty' and 'Are Not My Time', Rudy Giuliani 'Godly I Ruin'), Hank ends with his favourite: Joe Biden, 'I need job'. (joke) — 00:02:31
- 2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank closes 'Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections'. (playful) — 00:03:29
- 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Hank reports forum discussion that Stephen Colbert did presidential anagrams on The Colbert Report the same day as Hank's video, a couple exactly like his. — 00:02:28
- 2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — Hank: Asked whether Colbert stole them, Hank says maybe but probably not: he and John are pretty sure the show is filmed well before Hank put his video online. (hedged) — 00:02:57
- 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank: In 2008, in the vlogbrothers' first year, Hank anagrammed the presidential candidates' names; now, nearly in 2012, he anagrams this year's (2011) Republican presidential hopefuls. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas — Hank recalls making a video anagramming presidential candidates' names; about a week later The Daily Show did the same, but John, through his writer friends, found its segment was written first. — 00:00:00