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Metric Sabbath

2008-08-15 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

Hank performs a viewer-suggested punishment by killing the spiders in his basement, then says his run of awesome days ended in a 'metric Sabbath' and he is now coming down and missing Terminus, with Yellowstone and a wedding ahead.

What is said

00:00:00 — Punishment: Hank introduces the spiders in his basement as his 'Terminus friends', then kills them; explains the punishment was a viewer's suggestion and justifies killing the spiders

  • ★★★ Hank says the punishment he just did turned out worse than expected; someone suggested it, and since most people didn't want him punished at all, he chose it as easy and peculiar. — 00:00:43 · Punishment
  • ★ Hank says one of the spiders was still alive, giving him the willies; his heart is beating hard. (playful) — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Hank says there are many spiders in his basement, where he has to work, and he only kills them because they are a dangerous kind (comically: they eat you and your leg rots off). (playful) — 00:01:07

00:01:36 — Ten days of awesome and a 'metric Sabbath'; coming down after Terminus and New York; improvised 'I miss Terminus' song

  • ★★ Hank says the eight days of awesome from his last video became about ten, thanks to John's peanut-butter-face Georgia discussion and his wife being glad he was home. — 00:01:36 · Katherine Green, John Green
  • ★★ Hank calls his rest after the awesome days 'a sort of metric Sabbath': on the tenth day he rested. (playful) — 00:01:36 > «a sort of metric Sabbath»
  • ★★★ Hank says that around day twelve he is coming down: he spent a lot of time thinking and writing about Terminus and New York, and part of him is crashing and missing Terminus. — 00:01:36 · New York City

00:02:33 — Pathetic but part of life; upcoming Yellowstone trip and a friends' wedding; the Nerdfighter T-shirt contest is in the works

  • ★ Hank admits missing Terminus is a little pathetic, but says that's part of life: every week can't be the awesomest week ever. (playful) — 00:02:33
  • ★★ Hank says he and Katherine will go to Yellowstone next week and hopes to have Yellowstone footage to show. (hedged) — 00:02:33 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank says they will then witness the wedding of two more of his very good friends, since that's the kind of summer it is. — 00:02:33
  • ★★ Hank says many Nerdfighters at Terminus asked about the Nerdfighter T-shirt contest; it is in the works and hopefully a video about it will come soon. (hedged) — 00:02:33 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • Hank answers viewers upset that he is killing spiders. — 00:01:07 > «I wouldn't do it if they weren't the kind that eat you and then your leg rots off.»
  • Hank voices a half-crushed spider taunting him. — 00:01:07 > «Four of my legs and both of my fangs are still perfectly active. Here I come!»
  • Hank rests after ten days of awesome, recasting the Genesis Sabbath in base ten. — 00:01:36 > «On the tenth day, he rested, and it was awesome.»
  • Hank sings an improvised lament about crashing after Terminus. — 00:02:05 > «I miss awesome girls and shiny beans and wizard rock and nerd fighting, oh I miss Terminus»

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