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Don't Suck on That Bone

2008-06-26 · John, Sarah Urist Green · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John works through ten things Nerdfighters asked him to do: more Willy and Sarah, Tobian phrases, walking, Ning time, reviving the Blurbing Book Club with The Catcher in the Rye, a charity book auction, a Question Tuesday and secretly signing his own book in a store.

What is said

00:00:00 — Willy's cast comes off (things 1-2: more Willy, more of the Yeti); thing 3 introduced: the Tobian language

  • ★★ John shows Willy, 'the Nerdfighting Puppy', getting his cast off; Willy still walks with a limp, which John jokingly says is because he thinks he still has the cast. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Willy
  • ★ Sarah says she is pretty excited, calling it a really big day for Willy. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Willy
  • ★★★ John frames the video as doing ten things the Nerdfighters asked of him; the first two were to see more of Willy and more of the Yeti (Sarah). — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, Willy, Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John says only about 150 people alive speak Tobian, yet a website serves as a repository of all things Tobian. — 00:00:00

00:00:48 — Three ridiculous Tobian phrases from a language website

  • ★★ John says, like any foreign-language course, the Tobian site teaches ridiculous sentences, and recites three, planning to visit Tobi knowing only those. (playful) — 00:00:48

00:01:17 — Things 4-6: walking instead of driving, more time on the Ning (text Question Tuesdays, blurb poll), Blurbing Book Club returns with Catcher in the Rye

  • ★ For thing four, walking somewhere he would usually drive, John walks to the location of thing ten and films the rest of the video on the way. (playful) — 00:01:17
  • ★★ For thing five, more time on the Ning, John updated its favorite photos and started text-based Question Tuesdays there; Hank added a poll to vote on favorite Going Postal blurbs. — 00:01:17 · Nerdfighter Ning, Question Tuesday, Hank Green
  • ★★★ For thing six, John brings back the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club; its new book is The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. — 00:01:47 · Blurbing Book Club
  • ★★ John expects many teenage Nerdfighters hate Catcher in the Rye but thinks they should read it anyway; they can say why they dislike it and he will explain why they should like it. (hedged) — 00:01:47 · Nerdfighteria

00:02:16 — Thing 7: Debbie's auction of the last copies of 'Mummy, How Do I Know If I'm a Nerdfighter?' for an orphanage in Lebanon

  • ★★ John calls 'Mummy, How Do I Know If I'm a Nerdfighter?' by Debbie, 'the queen of Australian nerdfighting', the great work of Nerdfighter literature, of which only about five copies exist. (playful) — 00:02:16
  • ★★★ Debbie is auctioning the last copies to benefit an orphanage in Lebanon; John asks viewers who want the book or want to help decrease suck to check out the video this one responds to. — 00:02:16 · world suck

00:02:45 — Things 8-10: Xbox-worth donation already made, Question Tuesday next Tuesday, secretly signing his own book in a bookstore; sign-off

  • ★★ Asked (thing eight) to be like Hank and give an Xbox's worth of money to a charity, John says he already did so before leaving, to Save the Children. — 00:02:45 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Agreeing to thing nine, John will do a Question Tuesday next Tuesday and asks Nerdfighters to leave him questions and comments. — 00:02:45 · Question Tuesday, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ For thing ten, John goes into a bookstore to secretly sign one of his books, calling it one of his favorite secret hobbies; finding that the store seems not to have his books, he wonders what to sign. (playful) — 00:02:45

Humor (significant)

  • Willy, freshly out of his cast, looks at his reflection. — 00:00:00 > «He's like, I am a handsome lad.»
  • John promises to speak real Tobian from a language website whose phrasebook sentences are ridiculous. — 00:00:48 > «He is sucking the bark of the tree. Take the pumpkin. Don't suck on that bone.»
  • John imagines leading a book discussion of Catcher in the Rye with teenagers who hate it. — 00:01:47 > «I am the English teacher, I am mad with power!»
  • John says he already gave an Xbox worth of money to charity before he left, to save the children. — 00:02:45 > «You're welcome, the children.»

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