John asks Nerdfighters to research Ivan the Terrible's lost library in a Your Pants thread (2011)
ask · status: reported back · last event: result reported (2011-10-24) · owner: John
In March 2011 John set Nerdfighters the task of finding out everything knowable about Ivan the Terrible's lost library, in a thread on Your Pants. Within two weeks he said they had become the internet's largest resource on the library, and in October 2011 he again credited them with uncovering its story.
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to research the fake ruins in Holiday Park, Indianapolis (2011)
About: Your Pants, Library of Ivan the Terrible
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-03-18 | asked | John asks Nerdfighters to search out everything knowable about Ivan the Terrible's lost library in the thread he created on Your Pants. | TERRIBLE 00:03:23 |
| 2011-04-01 | result reported | John reports Nerdfighters researched Ivan the Terrible's library so much that they are now the internet's largest resource on it. (playful) | Many Truths, 1 Lie! 00:00:22 |
| 2011-10-24 | result reported | John says Nerdfighters uncovered the story of Ivan the Terrible's library. | Signing Psychosis Takes Over 00:02:11 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John: Impressed by Nerdfighteria's Gussie Manlove hunting, John sends them on a new quest: a 427-year-old mystery starring Ivan the Terrible. — 00:00:04
- 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John says Ivan died 427 years ago in the middle of a chess game without telling anyone where his library was. — 00:02:17
- 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John jokes that, worse than his massacres and killing his son, Ivan's worst deed was dying without revealing where his library was, since John gets very upset when people screw around with libraries. (joke) — 00:02:17
- 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John says Ivan III married a Byzantine lady whose dowry was a library of jewel-encrusted illuminated manuscripts, so valuable that it was hidden in an underground library beneath Moscow. — 00:02:35
- 2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John says that if the legends are true, billions of dollars' worth of books lie under Moscow right now, and people have searched for them for 427 years. (hedged) — 00:03:14
- 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says the library story Nerdfighters uncovered involves fireproof dungeons, crucified skeletons and a supposedly blind architect, like National Treasure but real. (playful) — 00:00:30
- 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John recalls that Nerdfighters uncovered the story of Ivan the Terrible's library and found the truth about Gussie Manlove. — 00:02:11