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DOCTOR GREEN

2013-04-23 · John · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

John announces that Butler University will make him an honorary doctor of letters on May 11, jokes about the title, learns from Wikipedia that he cannot call himself doctor, and celebrates The Fault in Our Stars returning to No. 1 on the New York Times list.

What is said

00:00:00 — Reply to Hank's Friday video: still room for new things; Nerdfighters grow with the brothers; filming on the way to the dentist

  • ★★ John says Hank's Friday video inspired him: after six and a half years of YouTube videos there is still room to do new things, and Nerdfighters are willing to change with them. — 00:00:01 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John makes this video on his way to the dentist; he later says he is in quite a bit of chronic dental pain. — 00:00:12

00:00:17 — Least educated in the family; Butler University to make John an honorary doctor of letters on May 11; higher doctorate jokes

  • ★★ John says he has long been the least educated in the family: Hank and Katherine have masters of science, Sarah a master of arts, John only a bachelor of arts. (playful) — 00:00:17 · Hank Green, Katherine Green, Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★★ John announces that on May 11 Butler University will make him an honorary doctor. — 00:00:36
  • ★★ John says his degree is a doctor of letters (D.Litt), a so-called higher doctorate, technically a higher degree than a PhD. — 00:00:58

00:01:23 — Wikipedia: honorary doctors should not use the title; Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Johnson as honorary doctors; John will still be a mister

  • ★★ John says he looked on Wikipedia and found that, as an honorary doctor, he cannot call himself a doctor. — 00:01:23 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ John says that, it seems, a few honorary doctorate holders used the title, including Benjamin Franklin, who called himself Dr. Franklin after a 1758 honorary degree from William and Mary, but that today it is frowned upon. (hedged) — 00:01:32
    • number check: 1758 — doubtful
  • ★★ John says the lexicographer and 'professional quote machine' Dr. Samuel Johnson was only an honorary doctor. — 00:01:52
  • ★ John attributes to Samuel Johnson 'hell is paved with good intentions', 'patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel', a mock cucumber recipe and 'what is written without effort is in general read without pleasure'. (playful) — 00:01:55
  • ★★ John concludes he will be in excellent company as an honorary doctor but will still just be a mister. (playful) — 00:02:14

00:02:18 — Chronic dental pain; The Fault in Our Stars back at No. 1 on the New York Times list, passing Stephen Chbosky; sign-off

  • ★★★ John says The Fault in Our Stars, fifteen months after publication, is back at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, passing Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, now No. 2. — 00:02:22 · The Fault in Our Stars, The New York Times

Humor (significant)

  • Anyone can be a bachelor: all you have to be is an unmarried male. — 00:00:27 > «I mean, my three year-old son can't read but he's a bachelor!»
  • On a plane a flight attendant asks for a doctor because a lady is having a heart attack; John answers. — 00:00:45 > «I'm an honorary doctor of letters, maybe I could write her a poem?»
  • John promises that as a doctor he will be humble, generous and non-judgmental rather than lord it over Hank. — 00:01:23 > «I just looked on Wikipedia and it turns out that I cannot call myself a doctor!»

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