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Brotherhood 2.0: February 14th

2007-02-14 · challenge / punishment · Hank · 3:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: History & curiosities, Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, timely hook

Home in snowy Montana with a corrupted hard drive, Hank offers a mock etymology of Valentine's Day (Babylon 5's Valen plus 'tine', a point) and then shows himself drinking Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill to complete the Strawberry Hill Challenge.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Back in Montana for real; cold and snow; corrupted hard drive and Valentine's Day plans; Hank's high-school discovery of the 'true meaning' of Valentine's Day

  • ★★ Hank says he is back in Montana 'for real this time'; it is cold and snowing. (playful) — 00:00:04 · Montana
  • ★★ Hank returns home to a corrupted hard drive and thinks he may need a new computer, but feels bad about taking his wife to Best Buy on Valentine's Day. (hedged) — 00:00:04 · Katherine Green

00:00:47 — Mock etymology: Valentine = Valen (Babylon 5) + tine (point); Valen's 11th-century visit to Earth; the promised challenge introduced

  • ★★ In a mock etymology Hank says 'Valentine' joins 'tine' (a point or pinnacle) and Valen, Babylon 5's Minbari leader, who he 'believes' visited Earth in the early 11th century. (joke, hedged) — 00:00:47
  • ★★★ Hank presents the promised Strawberry Hill Challenge, which he is watching for the first time himself, and declares he has successfully completed it. — 00:01:22

00:02:02 — The Strawberry Hill Challenge: Hank drinks, declares success, ends up nearly finishing the bottle; the Nepal tongue twister

  • ★★ Hank says the wine made him drool and burp and doesn't taste good, yet he kept wanting more, and the bottle is now nearly empty. (playful) — 00:02:45
  • ★ Closing the challenge, Hank says the tongue twister 'Eat five sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal' twice. (playful) — 00:03:23 · first in: 2007-01-02, Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank explains how he worked out the true meaning of Valentine's Day. — 00:00:04

    “back-of-the-napkin etymology, etymology, entomology, etymology, etymology”

  • Hank's etymology ends with Valen bringing Earth the message of his 'pinnacle', raising the birth rate. — 00:01:22

    “Happy Valen's penis day!”

  • Hank says the wine tastes bad and he is definitely not drinking the rest. — 00:02:45

    “It doesn't taste good, but I keep wanting to drink more.”

  • Hank asks whether John knew he would end up drinking the whole bottle. — 00:02:45

    “How is there only that much left?”

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Mentioned

Babylon 5 · Best Buy · Boone's Farm · Katherine Green · Montana · Nepal · Valen · Valentine's Day

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