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Show 'n Tell Thursday

2008-10-31 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · personal update

For 'Show and Tell Thursday' John shows Hank presents Nerdfighters gave him on the Paper Towns tour, book-related and Nerdfighter-related, from a Ning employee's hat to a puppy-sized-elephant costume for Willy, and thanks them.

What is said

00:00:00 — Show and Tell Thursday: two kinds of presents; book-related: the dreidel

  • ★ In the description John says it is still Thursday where he is, having just got home from the tour event, and hopes that gets him out of a punishment. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00 · Punishment
  • ★★★ John devotes Show and Tell Thursday to real presents Nerdfighters gave him on his tour, of two kinds: related to his book, and related to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, Paper Towns Tour, Paper Towns
  • ★★ Book-related presents include a dreidel (John recalls the minivan is called that), a Black Santa with 'do not forget to be awesome' on his hand, and a 'real-life minivan' from Phoenix. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Paper Towns, DFTBA

00:00:25 — Black Santa with DFTBA, a minivan from Phoenix; Nerdfighter presents: hat from a woman who works at Ning

  • ★★ At a signing, a woman who works at Ning.com gave John a hat; he calls meeting someone from the company that made their Ning possible a celebrity sighting. (playful) — 00:00:25 · Nerdfighter Ning

00:01:06 — Bracelet; spongy puppy-sized elephant and Willy with a cast; elephant costume for Willy

  • ★★ Nerdfighter-related presents include a Nerdfighter bracelet and, made of a spongy material, a puppy-sized elephant and a little Willy with a cast. — 00:01:06 · puppy sized elephant, Willy
  • ★★ John says he kind of misses Willy and can't wait to get home, because a Nerdfighter in Los Angeles made a puppy-sized elephant costume for Willy. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:06 · Willy, Los Angeles, puppy sized elephant

00:01:54 — Finger-puppet monkey conversation; fictional National Enquirer page with Oprah pwned

  • ★★ John shows a page from a fictional National Enquirer in which Oprah is pwned, with a headline 'Margo flips out over Tell All Book'. (playful) — 00:01:54 · pwned, Margo Roth Spiegelman

00:02:24 — Margo headline; Peeps and other presents; thanks; see Hank Saturday for the Tour de Nerdfighting

Humor (significant)

  • John shows a Nerdfighter bracelet from a fan. — 00:01:06 > «or alternately a necklace for an extremely small-necked person»
  • John imagines Willy walking around in his puppy-sized elephant costume, speaking. — 00:01:06 > «My name is Willy. I'm gonna pee on some stuff.»
  • John asks a finger-puppet monkey whether it's hard to have a banana forever near its mouth that it can never eat. — 00:01:54 > «Yeah, it sucks!»

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