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May 15th: A Bit More EBO and Wikipedia

2007-05-15 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · personal update

Hank congratulates John on his accepted house offer, argues the brothers must develop the Evil Baby Orphanage and formally asks Brooke and the Nerdfighters for permission, then celebrates being on Wikipedia, which he believes in despite vandalism he once fixed himself.

What is said

00:00:27 — Greeting; congratulations on John's accepted house offer; John was born in Indianapolis

  • ★ Hank opens with a bit that one of the Nerdfighters told him to try, and says it was amazing (the bit itself is garbled in the transcript). (playful) — 00:00:27 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank congratulates John on buying a house: not final yet, but the owners accepted his offer, and the 'horrible process' of buying remains. — 00:00:27 · Indianapolis
  • ★★ Hank says John grew up in Indianapolis, living there until he was 'like, three', and that he doesn't feel John has mentioned this. (hedged) — 00:00:27 · Indianapolis

00:00:56 — Teasing John about returning to Indianapolis; Evil Baby Orphanage: 'we have to do this', permission asked of Brooke and the Nerdfighters

  • ★ Hank finds it strange that after Alabama, Chicago and New York, and always saying he'd go back to Alabama, John returns to Indianapolis, which he jokes John hated. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:56 · Chicago, New York City, Indianapolis
  • ★★★ On the Evil Baby Orphanage, Hank says there is only one option: the brothers have to do this. (hedged) — 00:00:56 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★★ Hank formally asks Brooke, who conceived the idea, and the other Nerdfighters working on it for permission for John and him to run with the Evil Baby Orphanage. — 00:00:56 · Nerdfighteria, Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ Hank says he is not saying there will be a Hank and John Green book called Evil Baby Orphanage, but thinks the idea is pretty fertile ground for storytelling. (hedged) — 00:01:27 · Evil Baby Orphanage

00:01:57 — Hank is on Wikipedia; Wikipedia as a source, the vandalised Russell Crowe page he fixed; he believes in Wikipedia; thanks; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank is now on Wikipedia, feels important, and calls it another gift from John and the Nerdfighters. (playful) — 00:01:57 · Wikipedia, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Noting comment discussion of Wikipedia as a source, Hank says it is huge with a lot of amazing information, but is sometimes vandalized and things go wrong. — 00:01:57 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ Hank once found Russell Crowe's Wikipedia page vandalized with a line calling him gay, and removed it himself by clicking edit. — 00:01:57 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ Hank says Wikipedia's flaw is that anybody can edit it without even signing up and write whatever they want. — 00:02:26 · Wikipedia
  • ★★★ Hank says he really believes in the idea of Wikipedia and is thrilled to be there among 'the million other articles'. — 00:02:26 · Wikipedia
  • ★ Hank puts Wikipedia's size at about a million articles. — 00:02:26 · Wikipedia

Humor (significant)

  • Hank teases John that he is moving back to Indianapolis, where he lived only as a small child. — 00:00:56 > «You were three, but I think you hated it.»
  • Hank asks the Nerdfighters nicely for permission to use the Evil Baby Orphanage and threatens that next time will be different. — 00:01:27 > «Next time won't be so nice. I'll be groveling at your feet, begging and pleading»
  • Hank admits he once visited Russell Crowe's Wikipedia page. — 00:01:57 > «please don't ask me why»
  • Hank deleted a vandal's line from Russell Crowe's page. — 00:02:26 > «now people looking for information on Russell Crowe will be completely happy with what they find.»

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