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Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd

2007-01-23 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

Hank toasts John's Printz Honor with tea, reports being recognised as John's brother in a bookstore, asks whether John's happy dance is real, and introduces the 'in your pants' book-title game from Maureen Johnson's blog.

What is said

00:00:00 — Tea in a wine glass; toasts to the Printz Honor ('silver medals'); a bookstore owner recognises Hank as John's brother and has heard John won

  • ★ Hank explains he is blowing on his wine glass because it holds tea; he needed something to toast with. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • ★★ Hank congratulates John on his Printz ('prince nomination' in ASR) and toasts the award, An Abundance of Katherines and 'silver medals', teasing that it falls short of last time. (playful) — 00:00:03 · An Abundance of Katherines, Katherine Green
  • ★★ At a bookstore a woman recognised Hank as John Green's brother; Hank jokes that he is famous now. (playful) — 00:00:30 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says the bookstore owner might be John's biggest fan, with several (small) sections devoted to him, and had heard he won the Printz. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:57
  • ★ Hank jokes that John is racking up Printz Awards and asks what one does with two: a statue, a sticker on every book (which he likes), or more money? (playful) — 00:00:57

00:01:21 — Two Printz Awards: a statue, stickers or money?; John didn't do his happy dance: is it real or just to entertain?

  • ★★ Hank notes John didn't do his happy dance on hearing of the Printz and asks whether it is real or just to entertain viewers: if the latter, 'this thing isn't real', and it has to be. (playful) — 00:01:21 · Happy dance
  • ★ Hank then says they could start faking things, and demonstrates 'fake time', claiming to sit by the fire in his 'girlfriend's' coat because they aren't married. (joke) (hedged) — 00:01:21

00:01:57 — 'Fake time': by the fire in his 'girlfriend's' coat; the 'in your pants' suffix from Maureen Johnson's blog

  • ★★★ Hank says he was recently at Maureen Johnson's blog, about a long conversation John, Johnson and Lockhart had on the suffix 'in your pants': every book title gets better with it. (playful) — 00:01:57 · Maureen Johnson, in your pants > «every book title becomes better when you add in your pants to the end of the title»

00:02:28 — Book titles from the cabin with 'in your pants'; sign-off and 'one Catherine in my pants'

  • ★★ Hank applies the suffix to books in the cabin: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, Present Moment Wonderful Moment, Stumbling on Happiness, The Left Hand of Darkness and a student bible. (joke) — 00:02:28 · in your pants

Humor (significant)

  • The bookstore owner has several sections devoted entirely to John. — 00:00:57 > «Though, they're all kind of small.»
  • Demonstrating faking things, Hank says he sits by the fire in his girlfriend's coat. — 00:01:57 > «We aren't married because this is fake time.»
  • Going around the cabin, Hank adds 'in your pants' to the titles of the books he finds. — 00:02:28 > «Stumbling on Happiness in Your Pants.»
  • Signing off, Hank says 'Catherines in your pants' is nice, disclaiming an abundance of them. — 00:02:54 > «But one catherine in my pants is quite nice.»

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