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Shawty Got Low, Tritube and Blurbing

2008-03-08 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

Hank launches 'popular songs sung in unpopular styles' with an acoustic 'Low', finally shows the tri-tube's rubbing from Secret Brother Tom, closes the first Blurbing Book Club blurb fest with new forum rules and Slaughterhouse-Five, and announces a Stickam video chat for 20,000 subscribers.

What is said

00:00:00 — New segment 'popular songs sung in unpopular styles': acoustic 'shorty got low'

  • ★★★ Hank introduces a new segment, 'popular songs sung in unpopular styles', and performs 'shorty got low' in it. — 00:00:04 > «popular songs sung in unpopular styles»

00:00:50 — Contents of the tri-tube (Secret Brother Tom's rubbing); end of the first blurb fest

  • ★★ Hank finally shows the tri-tube's contents: Secret Brother Tom's rubbing of 'On this spot in the year 1000, Leif Erikson built his house', done in every green of Crayola's 64-pack. — 00:00:50
  • ★★ Hank announces the end of the first Blurbing Book Club blurb fest; blurbs were hard to find, but most are catalogued at nerdfighters.com and in three blog posts below the video. — 00:00:50 · Blurbing Book Club, nerdfighters.com

00:01:26 — Blurbing Book Club: vote in the forums, new blurb rules, Slaughterhouse-Five

  • ★★★ Hank asks everyone to read through the blurbs and list favourites in the forums to decide the best blurb and the prize winner. — 00:01:26 · Blurbing Book Club
  • ★★★ New rules for the second Blurbing Book Club: post blurbs in a specific forum topic, blurbs only, no discussion; one blurb per person, ten words per blurb, or no entry. — 00:01:26 · Blurbing Book Club
  • ★★ The new Blurbing Book Club book is Slaughterhouse-Five; there's a sidebar link, any bookstore has it, and it is easy to find used. — 00:01:56 · Blurbing Book Club
  • ★★ Hank says the blurbs are great, many are awesome, he likes a lolcat one, and it will be hard to choose. — 00:01:56

00:02:19 — 20,000 subscribers: Stickam video chat tomorrow night on Nerdfighters.com; sign-off

  • ★★★ For the 20,000th subscriber, Hank, and possibly John, will video-chat via Stickam on Nerdfighters.com's front page tomorrow night at 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern. (hedged) — 00:02:19 · nerdfighters.com, John Green
  • ★★ Hank can no longer work out who the 20,000th subscriber is because his counting method stopped working; he calls 20,000 subscribers insane. — 00:02:19

Humor (significant)

  • Hank opens 'popular songs sung in unpopular styles' by crooning the club hit acoustically. — 00:00:04 > «Next thing you know, shorty got low. Shorty got low.»
  • After showing Secret Brother Tom's all-green rubbing, Hank points out one more line. — 00:00:50 > «Also, I wanted everybody to see that it says, P.S. You're my favorite brother.»
  • Hank says he's looking forward to seeing everyone in tomorrow night's chat, then corrects himself. — 00:02:48 > «Actually, I'm looking forward to having all of you see me tomorrow night. You will mostly just be names.»

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