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People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes

2008-02-21 · Q&A · John · 3:39 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: community lore, recurring series

John reports on his growing puff, announces that the next Question Tuesday will attempt a world record for questions answered in four minutes and asks for questions, then shows outtakes from the last Question Tuesday.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Intro music; the puff keeps growing, the Yeti's support

  • ★★ John says the puff keeps growing and thanks the Yeti for supporting his hair, but thinks he is losing the will and the puff will be gone next time. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:13 · the Puff, Sarah Urist Green

00:00:26 — No Question Tuesday today; world-record Question Tuesday next time, leave questions

  • ★★ John wants to hold Question Tuesday on an actual Tuesday; having nothing else to talk about today, he shows outtakes from last week's (week of 11 February 2008) Question Tuesday instead. — 00:00:27 · Question Tuesday
  • ★★★ On the next Question Tuesday John will try to break the world record for most questions answered in four minutes. (hedged) — 00:00:36 · Question Tuesday
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to leave questions in the comments; any he doesn't answer in the video he'll try to answer in a big blog post on the Ning. — 00:00:41 · Nerdfighteria, Nerdfighter Ning

00:00:48 — Outtakes from the last Question Tuesday: quick answers to viewer questions

  • ★★ Asked for his favourite graphic novel, John picks Maus by Art Spiegelman. — 00:01:07
  • ★★ For a trip to the Evil Baby Orphanage John would take A Love Supreme by John Coltrane and something by the Mountain Goats, though evil baby Stalin would steal them. (playful) — 00:01:14 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ Given an hour with a Disney character, John would ask Mickey how it feels to be single-handedly responsible for the death of reasonable American copyright law. (playful) — 00:01:24
  • ★ In high school John said Christian Slater had never made a bad movie, and people called him 'Kuffs' for a long time afterwards. (playful) — 00:01:32
  • ★★ Asked why the most-viewed Vlogbrothers videos are Hank's, John guesses Hank is funnier, but says one owes its views to a screenshot of two giraffes having sex. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:42 · Hank Green, YouTube
  • ★★ Asked which Republican presidential candidate he'd vote for, John jokes Abraham Lincoln; of living ones, he votes for the individual not the party and wants none of them. (playful) — 00:02:17 · Republican Party
  • ★★ Asked why Maureen Johnson, who has read Paper Towns, can't talk about it, John says for the same reason Hank can't: it's secret. (playful) — 00:02:31 · Maureen Johnson, Paper Towns, Hank Green
  • ★ Asked to choose between the Iliad and the Odyssey, John picks the Odyssey. — 00:02:53
  • ★★ Asked whether Helen Hunt has seen the Helen Hunt song, John says no and tells Nerdfighters to keep fighting. (playful) — 00:02:56
  • ★ John says the Yeti is 28, and that seeing her would take money for a long expedition to Nepal. (playful) — 00:02:58 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★★ John jokes he'd play Twister with Mike Huckabee, who doesn't look flexible, and that Ron Paul's Twister would drop every colour but yellow for freedom and cost; he expects Paul's supporters to attack. (joke) — 00:03:07

00:03:32 — Thanks for the questions; farewell to the puff

Humor (significant)

  • Given an hour with a Disney character, John picks Mickey. — 00:01:24

    “how it feels to be single-handedly responsible for the death of reasonable American copyright law.”

  • Asked why Hank's videos get the most views, John points to one whose screenshot shows two giraffes having sex. — 00:01:43

    “We're people who love giraffes who love girrafes.”

  • A riddle: a plane crashed and every single person on board was killed, yet there were survivors. — 00:02:41

    “Every single person on board was killed, but many married people survived.”

  • John explains that Ron Paul's version of Twister has only yellow dots, for more freedom of choice and lower cost. — 00:03:17

    “the red dots, the blue dots, and the green dots. And also the spinner.”

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Mentioned

Central: Question Tuesday

Also: People: Abraham Lincoln · Christian Slater · Helen Hunt (actor) · Joseph Stalin · Maureen Johnson · Mike Huckabee · Ron Paul · Sarah Urist Green

Projects: Nerdfighter Ning

Works: ...Baby One More Time · A Love Supreme · Iliad · Kuffs · Maus · Odyssey · Paper Towns · Twister (game)

Organizations: Republican Party · The Walt Disney Company · YouTube

Groups: The Mountain Goats

Terms: Evil Baby Orphanage · the Puff

Concepts: copyright · giraffe

Places: Nepal

Events: United States presidential election

Characters: Mickey Mouse

Memes: pwned

Only in the description or credits: Alan Lastufka · Art Spiegelman · John Coltrane

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