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October 25th: Down Memory Lane

2007-10-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

At his dad's house in Fairview, North Carolina, Hank goes through a box of his childhood and college keepsakes, mostly to make fun of himself, and says it is strange to see so much of his life in one box.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; at dad's house in Fairview, NC; unopened Yoda; Dexter the stuffed black-footed ferret

  • ★★★ Hank is at his dad's house in Fairview, North Carolina, surrounded by childhood memories, with a big box of 'everything that ever mattered' in his life. — 00:00:10
  • ★ Hank shows an unopened Yoda, probably worth much less than the $6.74 he paid for it. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:32
  • ★★ Hank shows Dexter, the stuffed black-footed ferret he slept with every night for a long time, and mentions a Florida State Director of the Nature Conservancy (wording unclear). (playful) — 00:00:32

00:00:53 — Teddy black-footed ferrets and the Nature Conservancy line; Skylux the blankie vs John's BB; college research on pine-cone extract; transcript; first publication 'Let's Go to Mars' at 16; IHateI4.com newspaper feature

  • ★★ Hank shows his childhood blankie, Skylux, notes John's was called BB, and remarks that neither name can be anagrammed. (playful) — 00:00:53 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank shows his college research on a pine-cone extract stimulating human blood cells to become dendritic cells, jokingly summarised as a cancer cure from pine cones. (playful) — 00:00:53
  • ★★★ Hank's first publication, at 16, was 'Let's Go to Mars' in Space Times, which he calls the magazine of the American Astronomical Society; he finds it embarrassing. — 00:01:42
  • ★★ Hank got a flattering front-page photo in a newspaper's lifestyle section for making IHateI4.com, a site Orlando drivers could relate to; the site no longer exists. — 00:01:42 · Orlando, Florida

00:02:29 — Mars Society, Rocky Horror ticket stubs, best dancer award; how strange it is to go through the box; asks John for his version; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says he was a founding member of the Mars Society. — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Hank shows ticket stubs from seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show many times and says he really did win his high school's best dancer award. (playful) — 00:02:29
  • ★★ Hank says it is very strange to go through a box holding so much of his life, and he is glad to share some of it since John doesn't know a lot of it. — 00:03:08
  • ★★ Hank tells John that if he has a similar box he would love to see his version. — 00:03:08 · John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Hank explains the stuffed ferret he slept with as a child. — 00:00:53 > «Some people have teddy bears. I have teddy black-footed ferrets.»
  • Comparing his blankie Skylux with John's blankie BB. — 00:00:53 > «I would like to point out that neither of our blankets have anagramable names.»
  • Hank reads out the long technical title of his college research paper. — 00:00:53 > «What that translates to is cancer cure from pine cones?»
  • Hank holds up the newspaper photo from his IHateI4.com feature. — 00:01:42 > «possibly the most flattering picture of me in history»

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