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Brotherhood 2.0: May 24: How to Happy Dance

2007-05-24 · letter vlog · John · 2:38 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life · mode: Personal update · tags: on location, community lore

From the Netherlands, John shows a visit with attentive kids, bitterballen with mustard and his happy dance, which he says is huge there: his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asked him to perform it outside a restaurant.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting; attentive kids; standing on a sign despite fear of heights; German tourists in camo; windmills blocked by a truck

  • ★★ John says the kids shown were quite attentive, and some of them seemed to speak English better than he does. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:03
  • ★ John stands on a sign for a photo, which scares him because he is afraid of heights, even of four feet. (playful) — 00:00:03

00:01:20 — Eating a bitterbal with mustard; a happy dance

  • ★★ At a café John eats a bitterbal with mustard, which amuses everyone there; he finds it delicious. (playful) — 00:01:20

00:01:47 — The happy dance is huge in the Netherlands: the Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asks for it outside a restaurant

  • ★★★ John says his happy dance is huge in the Netherlands: people from his Dutch publisher in Rotterdam asked him to do it outside the restaurant where they took him to dinner. (playful) — 00:01:47 · Happy dance (practice)
  • ★ John calls his Dutch publisher the best publisher in all of Holland and says he never turns down its requests. (playful) — 00:01:47

00:02:22 — Police stop to watch; the Yeti's response to Hank's song must wait until Monday; sign-off

  • ★★ John says the Yeti's response to Hank's song will have to wait until Monday (28 May 2007). — 00:02:22 · Sarah Urist Green

Humor (significant)

  • John's interesting fact about the Netherlands: German tourists are easy to spot because they always wear camo pants. — 00:00:03

    “Even the babies.”

  • John tries a bitterbal with mustard and describes the taste. — 00:01:20

    “It tastes like if you took meat and flour and hope and you fried it.”

  • John does his happy dance outside the restaurant for his Dutch publisher. — 00:02:22

    “The police stopped because I think they were trying to figure out if that was illegal.”

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Mentioned

Central: Netherlands

Also: Happy dance (practice) · Lemniscaat · Miniature Soccer Team · Rotterdam · Sarah Urist Green

Also centred on Netherlands: Brotherhood 2.0: May 18: How to Write a Book Proposal · John Loves Amsterdam

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