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Tales of Nerd Love!

2011-04-06 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · conversation qa

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John tells four stories of Nerdfighters falling in 'Nerdfighterlike', from the couple he proposed for in 2009 (now married and expecting) to a crush lost in a bookstore, while sitting in spilled champagne. He closes by plugging the Will Grayson, Will Grayson paperback and giving $300 to Water.org in thanks for Hank's Haiti videos.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Nerdfighters falling in Nerdfighterlike: four stories of nerd love

  • ★★ John says Nerdfighters sometimes meet and fall in 'Nerdfighterlike' and presents four stories of nerd love. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:09 — Story 1: flashback to John's 2009 on-air proposal; the couple are married and expecting; champagne spill; TJ's pregnancy blog

  • ★★ John recalls being part of a Nerdfighter marriage proposal a couple of years ago, shown in a flashback in which the woman says yes. — 00:00:09
  • ★★★ John updates that the couple he proposed for are now happily married and expecting their first child. — 00:00:26
  • ★ Celebrating the news, John spills cheap champagne and sits in it for the rest of the video. (joke) — 00:00:32
  • ★★ John recommends TJ's blog chronicling her pregnancy, with diagrams of her fetus eating its feet, as one of the funniest on the internet, warning it contains frank language. — 00:00:44

00:01:01 — Story 2: a homecoming ask with an Air Force bear via Eff Yeah Nerdfighters, a reply in honor of Alaska; still together six months on

  • ★★ In story two, a boy and his Air Force bear asked a girl to homecoming in a picture run by Eff Yeah Nerdfighters; she answered she'd paint her nails electric blue in honor of Alaska. — 00:01:01
  • ★★ John says the homecoming couple went together six months ago, a long time in Nerdfighterlike since every relationship ends, and they are still together. (playful) — 00:01:39

00:01:53 — Story 3: a Pizza John shirt in a statistics class leads to a Gaming and Anime Society date

  • ★★ In story three, a woman emailed that a boy asked if she was a Nerdfighter when she wore her Pizza John shirt in Elementary Statistics, then invited her to a Gaming and Anime Society meeting; they're now in Nerdfighterlike. — 00:01:53 · Pizza John

00:02:29 — Story 4: help find a Nerdfighter's crush from the Bel Air, Maryland Barnes and Noble

  • ★★ In story four, a Nerdfighter met a cute Nerdfighter boy at the Bel Air, Maryland Barnes and Noble without swapping contacts; John asks the 5'7" boy with brown hair and blue eyes to get in touch. — 00:02:29

00:02:54 — Three other things: Will Grayson, Will Grayson paperback; share Nerdfighterlike stories; John's $300 gift to Water.org for Hank's Haiti videos; changing pants; sign-off

  • ★★ John says Will Grayson, Will Grayson came out in paperback yesterday, with a buying link in the description. — 00:02:56 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighters to leave their own Nerdfighterlike stories in comments. — 00:03:04 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John says Hank's Haiti videos inspire him and Nerdfighteria and that, to thank Hank, he has made a $300 gift to Water.org. — 00:03:08 · Haiti, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John invites Nerdfighters to join him in giving and in following 'our community in Haiti' via the link in the description. — 00:03:11

Humor (significant)

  • Overexcited at news of the couple's baby, John has an accident with the champagne. — 00:00:32 > «And now I am seated in a pool of cheap champagne. What’s new?»
  • After reading the homecoming reply mentioning a boy's Air Force bear, John gushes. — 00:01:21 > «it’s so cute I can hardly bear it! Get it? Bear it? Because of the bear!»
  • John claims he is drunk because the champagne in his chair went into his pants and through his skin. — 00:01:30 > «I’m not a scientist, but I believe that’s called osmosis.»
  • Asked by a boy whether she, in a Pizza John shirt, is a Nerdfighter, John voices a mock answer. — 00:02:05 > «Nah, I just love pizza and men with creeper mustaches»

Threads in this video

Replies to

  • Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL — «Hank, you may remember that a couple years ago I was part of a Nerdfighter marriage proposal. Nerdfighter flashback!»
  • Thoughts from The Well — «your videos about Haiti continue to be an inspiration to me and to all of Nerdfighteria»

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