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August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS

2007-08-22 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

Low on awesome and unable to discuss Paper Towns, John does three things: hair news (a horcrux comment, 'jokes' grammar, two Nerdfighter hair-for-charity efforts), website trouble (wiki suspended, Brotherhood2.com will return), and a run of literary 'in your pants' jokes.

What is said

00:00:00 — Nothing to talk about: can't discuss Paper Towns; awesome burns bright but fast; daily videos; three things announced

  • ★★ John says he has nothing to talk about: his brain can only think about Paper Towns, which he can't discuss without giving away plot or characters. (playful) — 00:00:09 · Paper Towns
  • ★★ John says awesome as life fuel burns extremely bright but fast, so when you run out you need time to recover; with daily videos, he apologizes for being low on awesome. (playful) — 00:00:32 · Brotherhood 2.0

00:01:02 — Item 1, hair: best comment 'your hair has a horcrux'; 'jokes' as an adjective gets grammatically confusing

  • ★ John picks as the best comment on Hank's previous video: 'Hank, I think your hair has a horcrux.' (playful) — 00:01:02
  • ★★ Calling Harry Potter jokes 'so... jokes', John notes that using 'jokes' as an adjective makes calling a joke 'jokes' grammatically confusing, though English has precedents. (playful) — 00:01:02 · Harry Potter

00:01:26 — Bear pun; Nerdfighter head-shaving fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and a Locks of Love donation; thing two, the website keeps going down

  • ★★★ John says a Nerdfighter will shave off her hair if she raises $1,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and points viewers to more information. — 00:01:26 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John says another Nerdfighter shaved off all her hair except a mohawk and gave it to Locks of Love, which he thinks is pretty awesome. (hedged) — 00:01:26
  • ★★ John says the website isn't working well and goes down constantly through the day, joking that the servers ran on awesome and there wasn't quite enough. (playful) — 00:01:26 · Brotherhood 2.0

00:02:12 — Wiki temporarily suspended; watch on YouTube for a few days; Brotherhood2.com will be back

  • ★★★ John says he had to temporarily suspend the wiki and people may have to watch the videos on YouTube for a couple of days, but Brotherhood2.com will be back and more awesome. (hedged) — 00:02:12 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum, YouTube, Brotherhood 2.0

00:02:37 — Thing three: literary 'in your pants' jokes (Sontag, As You Like It, Robert Frost, The Escapist, Make Lemonade); sign-off

  • ★★★ John declares that 'in your pants' jokes never get old, like the family in Tuck Everlasting, and runs through literary titles 'in your pants'. (joke) — 00:02:37 · in your pants, William Shakespeare

Humor (significant)

  • English already tolerates a word used two ways in one sentence. — 00:01:26 > «I shot the bear and then I had to bear the bear back to camp.»
  • John starts his 'in your pants' titles with a book on how people died. — 00:02:37 > «How did they die in your pants? Probably of suffocation.»
  • Last 'in your pants' title: Virginia Euwer Wolff's Make Lemonade. — 00:03:07 > «which is, of course, a novel in verse about bedwetting»
  • John recites the opening of Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken'. — 00:03:07 > «I took the pants leg less traveled by.»

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