Winner, South Dakota: the brothers' midpoint and a Nerdfighter commune (2007)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2007) · last event: callback (2007-11-13)
In August 2007 John reported that the brothers' midpoint is Winner, South Dakota, and floated buying it for a Nerdfighter commune. Hank called it the Nerdfighter Center of the Universe, and it turned up as a scavenger hunt clue that November.
Told alongside: John's proposal to say 'jokes' instead of 'cool' (2007) · The brothers' 'secret siblings' (2007)
About: Winner, South Dakota, Secret Brother Tom
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-08-20 | first use | John reports secret brother Tom's finding that the brothers' midpoint is Winner, South Dakota, 'the opposite of Loser', and floats buying it for a Nerdfighter commune. (playful) | August 20th: Winner, South Dakota 00:00:09 |
| 2007-08-21 | callback | Hank says the Nerdfighter Center of the Universe is at a place called Winner. (playful) | August 21: Hairy Hairy Head Hair 00:02:01 |
| 2007-11-13 | callback | John's scavenger hunt clue names a South Dakota place heard as 'Winter', probably Winner, the brothers' midpoint. | November 13: You Can't Scare Me. I'm Stickin' to the Union. 00:03:52 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — John: Secret brother Tom calculated the midpoint between Hank in Missoula and John in Indianapolis: a town called Winner, South Dakota. (playful) — 00:00:09
- 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — John muses that the brothers and the Nerdfighters could pool their resources, buy Winner and build a Nerdfighting commune of sustainable buildings where everyone sleeps in race car beds. (hypothetical, hedged) — 00:00:54
- 2007-08-20 · August 20th: Winner, South Dakota — John: For the first time John feels the world may contain more nerdfighters than nerdhaters; having long thought himself suited to 'Loser, South Dakota', he now thinks maybe nerdfighting is for winners. (hedged) — 00:02:58
- 2007-11-13 · November 13: You Can't Scare Me. I'm Stickin' to the Union. — announcement: John gives today's scavenger hunt clue, warning it is a doozy: a South Dakota place name (heard as 'Winter'; probably Winner, South Dakota). — 00:03:52