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August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections

2007-08-10 · Hank · watch on YouTube · US politics & society · comedy performance

Hank rules that the donor count (189, plus about 50 gifts to the fund) means John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal, then presents a comic 'Anagramming Guide' that picks 2008 presidential candidates by anagramming their names.

What is said

00:00:00 — Punishment verdict: 189 donations plus about 50 fund gifts; John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal, meal and drink left to him; Peeps; Daniel Biss benefits

  • ★★★ Hank reports a count of 189 (by context, donors to Daniel Biss's campaign), 'not technically enough', but about 50 people also gave to the Foundation to decrease world suck. — 00:00:10 · Foundation for Decreasing Suck Levels Worldwide, Happy Meal
  • ★★★ Hank judges the total will not rise further and rules that John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) — 00:00:10 · Happy Meal, Punishment
  • ★★ Hank leaves the kind of Happy Meal and drink (a soda flavour, or milk) to John, and says he doesn't think he will watch. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:31 · Happy Meal
  • ★ Hank says he would almost rather see John eat Peeps, but knows how nauseating they are; he is glad Daniel Biss and the world benefit from John's pain. (playful) — 00:00:31 · Peeps, Daniel Biss

00:00:58 — The Chicago-area election makes Hank think about the national election; he is scared and undecided ('supposed to be Obama guys'); plans research inspired by An Abundance of Katherines

00:01:28 — Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections: Gore, Edwards, Clinton, Obama, Paul, Romney, Giuliani, Biden; sign-off

  • ★★ Democrats: Albert Gore (not running) yields 'retro bagel'; John Edwards 'jihad drowns'; Hillary Clinton 'lynch a trillion'; Barack Obama 'maraca kebab' and, with Hussein, 'Bushmania Cobra Sake'. (joke) — 00:01:28 · Barack Obama
  • ★★ After the Republicans (Ron Paul 'Lunar Op', Mitt Romney 'Metro Minty' and 'Are Not My Time', Rudy Giuliani 'Godly I Ruin'), Hank ends with his favourite: Joe Biden, 'I need job'. (joke) — 00:02:31 · Republican Party
  • ★ Hank closes 'Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections'. (playful) — 00:03:29 > «Hank Green's Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Presidential Elections»

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank says he is a John Edwards fan because Edwards will obviously be hard on terror. — 00:01:28 > «John Edwards' anagrams to jihad drowns.»
  • After 'lynch a trillion', Hank anagrams Hillary Clinton's full name, then muses whether it refers to the Chinese or her China policy. — 00:02:01 > «Hillary Rodham Clinton anagrams to China. A mild, horny troll.»
  • Rudy Giuliani's full name yields a sinister anagram that Hank takes personally. — 00:03:00 > «I Pious Liar, I'll Undo Hug. I don't like it when people undo hugs. You can't undo hugs.»
  • Hank saves his favourite anagram for last. — 00:03:29 > «Poor Joe Biden. I NEED JOB!»

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