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DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day

2011-03-10 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · conversation qa

Lower-confidence wave

2011 videos did not pass the QA gate (17 %); their analysis is shown but less reliable.

With Hank in Haiti, John answers rapid-fire Nerdfighter questions: his untitled new novel (out in about a year, two teenage cancer survivors, narrated by Hazel), Libba Bray's Beauty Queens and broken elbows, his old phone number in Looking for Alaska, and a string of joke answers.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting to Hank, who is in Haiti and not watching; thanks to the 'noble brother' on the front lines of decreasing worldsuck

  • ★★ John thanks Hank for being the noble brother who goes to the front lines to decrease worldsuck, which lets John stay in his basement. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Hank Green, world suck, Haiti

00:00:16 — Questions from Your Pants: last words (Barrymore), teenage nickname 'Kuffs', dandy lions, fishing boat proceeds

  • ★★ John says that this morning he went to Your Pants and asked Nerdfighters for questions, and now answers them. — 00:00:16 · Nerdfighteria, Your Pants
  • ★ Asked whether reading Looking for Alaska made him think about his own last words, John says not at all, paraphrasing John Barrymore: dying is the last thing he would ever do. (playful) — 00:00:25 · Looking for Alaska
  • ★ John says that as a teenager friends nicknamed him 'Kuffs' after he said Christian Slater never made a bad movie. (playful) — 00:00:31
  • ★ Asked at tax time about fishing boat proceeds, John jokes that the stupid fishing boats always refuse to give him proceeds. (joke) — 00:00:47

00:00:53 — John's new novel: out in about a year, two teenage cancer survivors and a reclusive novelist, narrated by Hazel, no title yet (send suggestions); the biggest obstacle for writers; the alphabet backwards

  • ★★★ John says his new book comes out in almost exactly one year. — 00:00:54
  • ★★★ John says the novel is about two teenage cancer survivors obsessed with a reclusive novelist, and also about Swedish hip-hop and the meaning of life. — 00:00:57
  • ★★ John confirms the novel is narrated by a girl, Hazel. — 00:01:07 · Hazel Grace Lancaster
  • ★★ John says the novel has no title yet: he changes it about every day and all the titles are bad. — 00:01:09
  • ★★ John asks viewers with good title ideas for the novel to leave them in the comments. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ John says the biggest obstacle to becoming a professional writer is that the world contains many books and few people willing to pay to read them. — 00:01:19

00:01:29 — Libba Bray: friendship, Beauty Queens (pre-order it), her two broken elbows; no desert island novel from John

  • ★★★ John says he is friends with Libba Bray and has read all her books, including the not-yet-released Beauty Queens, which is amazing; viewers should pre-order it. — 00:01:32
  • ★★ John reports that Libba Bray just broke both of her elbows, and jokes that he is not surprised it was her rather than, say, Sarah Dessen. (playful) — 00:01:37
  • ★★ John says he didn't end up writing a desert island novel because, after Libba's, he doesn't have to. (playful) — 00:01:59

00:02:05 — Liverpool scarf, his old phone number in Looking for Alaska, Pong, never arrested, coffee, 'if you could, would you?'

  • ★★ John confirms his then phone number is in Looking for Alaska: he didn't think more than about nine people would read it; he apologizes to its current owner. — 00:02:17 · Looking for Alaska

00:02:49 — Thanks to Hank for going to Haiti; Thoughts from Places to come; John will upload Hank's pre-made video on Friday; sign-off

Humor (significant)

  • Asked 'dandy lions or dandelions?', John picks dandy lions, then asks what happens if you wish on one. — 00:00:43 > «He eats you.»
  • Asked about fishing boat proceeds at tax time. — 00:00:49 > «Stupid fishing boats always refusing to give me proceeds.»
  • John says Libba Bray broke both elbows and he isn't surprised; told a friend had done so, he would guess. — 00:01:48 > «I bet it was Libba!»
  • Asked his favorite old-school video game, John picks Pong because he likes games that are like life. — 00:02:31 > «Pong just keeps getting harder until you die.»

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