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Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday)

2008-08-06 · Q&A · John · 3:54 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: recurring series, community lore, self promotion, on location

Sitting in an airport, John brings back Question Tuesday: he gives logistics for the 8/8/08 Chicago gathering and answers a rapid run of viewer questions, from why the An Abundance of Katherines paperback costs $3.99 to how he proposed to the Yeti.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Question Tuesday opener in an airport; 8/8/08 Chicago event logistics (library, Grant Park, The Bean); flashlight question

  • ★★★ Asked about the 8/8/08 Nerdfighter event in Chicago, John says the Harold Washington Library will try to accommodate everyone for the 2 p.m. event, and there will be awesome for those who cannot get in. — 00:00:00 · Chicago (city)
  • ★★ John adds that they will meet at 4 o'clock for the wizard rock concert in Grant Park and at 8:08 p.m. at The Bean, where Amy Krouse Rosenthal will "make awesome happen". — 00:00:00

00:00:45 — Questions: siblings, stage nerves, Paper Towns, the $3.99 Katherines paperback, college and high school, arm wrestling, unsubscribing, Mary Tyler Moore, riddle, autobiography titles

  • ★★ John says he gets extremely nervous speaking to large groups, and on video he looks like his seventh-grade self attempting to fast dance. (playful) — 00:00:45
  • ★★★ Asked why the new An Abundance of Katherines paperback costs only $3.99, John says books are generally too expensive, he would rather have readers than money, and it thanks readers in advance for buying Paper Towns. (hedged) — 00:00:45 · An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns
  • ★★ John says he attended Kenyon for college and Indian Springs School for high school. — 00:01:10
  • ★ Asked for his autobiography title, John offers "Does My Eye Look Okay to You?" or "As the Puff Riseth", each subtitled "The John Green Story". (playful) — 00:01:40 · the Puff

00:02:09 — Questions: being a nerd, proposing to the Yeti via Hendrik Hertzberg, superhero, starting the next book, favourite Hank song, parents, Green Green Manifesto, another P4A, grades, what Hank does for money, toast

  • ★★★ John says he proposed to the Yeti by having Hendrik Hertzberg, a writer she likes whom he met at a conference, sign a book to Sarah asking "Will you marry John Green?". — 00:02:09 · Sarah Urist Green
  • ★ Asked which superhero he would be, John names Pants Power, the superhero with power pants created by his "secret sister" Debbie. (playful) — 00:02:09 · secret sibling
  • ★★ Asked how soon after finishing one he starts the next, John says pretty much the next day, because he worries that if he waits longer he will just stop. — 00:02:38
  • ★★ John names "Helen Hunt" as his favourite Hank song, with "I Sold Your Dog on eBay" as his dark-horse pick because you can rock out to it. — 00:02:38 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says he has just posted the Green Green Manifesto on the Ning. — 00:02:38 · Nerdfighter Ning
  • ★★ Asked whether there will be another Project for Awesome, John answers that Secret Brother Tom did not call it the "first annual" Project for Awesome for nothing. (playful) — 00:03:07 · Project for Awesome, secret sibling
  • ★ John says Hank got better grades than he did. — 00:03:07 · Hank Green

00:03:36 — College essay joke; another Question Tuesday next week, leave questions; sign-off (see you on 8/8/08)

  • ★★ John says he will do another Question Tuesday next week (week of 11 August 2008) and asks Nerdfighters to leave questions and comments. — 00:03:36 · Nerdfighteria, Question Tuesday

Humor (significant)

  • A viewer who subscribed by mistake asks how to unsubscribe; John describes a letter to the Nerdfighter Council and Hank sucking the awesome out of their body. — 00:01:40

    “And then we gotta hit you with a memory zapper so you permanently forget to be awesome.”

  • Asked whether he and Hank are the same person, John answers and flags it as an obscure Brotherhood 2.0 joke. — 00:01:40

    “Yes, we're both Mary Tyler Moore.”

  • John tells how Hendrik Hertzberg inscribed a book to Sarah asking her to marry John. — 00:02:09

    “but no one can say no to Hendrick Hertzberg.”

  • Asked what Hank does for money, John imagines Hank robbing a bank with an environmental twist. — 00:03:07

    “contemplate the size of your carbon footprints, and give me all your money because Daddy needs some new corn dogs.”

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Mentioned

Central: Hendrik Hertzberg · Question Tuesday · Sarah Urist Green

Also: People: Amy Krouse Rosenthal · Mary Tyler Moore · Mike Green · Sydney Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · Nerdfighter Ning · Project for Awesome

Works: An Abundance of Katherines · Baby I Sold Your Dog on eBay · Green Green Manifesto · Helen Hunt (song) · Paper Towns

Organizations: Harold Washington Library Center · Indian Springs School · Kenyon College

Groups: Smosh

Terms: secret sibling · the Puff

Concepts: Wizard rock

Places: Chicago (city) · Cloud Gate · Grant Park

Characters: Fred Figglehorn

Products: Degree

Only in the description or credits: Los Angeles International Airport · Secret Brother Tom

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