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This Video Comes in Threven Parts

2008-08-18 · list · Hank · 3:54 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: community lore, civic or action cta, self promotion

In a multi-part housekeeping video that loses count of its parts, Hank shows his new glasses, names a Blurbing Book Club winner, invents the non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day, and points Nerdfighters to a secret-project sign-up, the T-shirt vote and John's European scavenger hunt.

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: John is on a boat in Europe with no internet; 'five parts'; part one: Hank's new glasses

  • ★★ Hank says John won't see this for a while because he is on a boat in the ocean in Europe without internet; Hank never really knows what John is doing anymore. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · John Green, Europe
  • ★★ Hank shows his new glasses, green in the right light and very cheap, and thanks Nerdfighters and YouTube for helping him choose them. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, YouTube

00:00:35 — Going Postal Blurbing Book Club winner; the non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day and its advantages

  • ★★ Hank announces the winner of the Going Postal round of the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club and hopes she enjoys her prize. — 00:00:35
  • ★★ Hank admits he and John are embarrassingly bad at giving rewards; past Blurbing Book Club winners never actually received anything. (playful) — 00:00:35 · John Green

  • ★★★ Hank introduces the non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day, a badge of honour for a deserving Nerdfighter, which he has been awarding in his head and sometimes in comments. (playful) — 00:00:35 · non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day, Nerdfighteria

    “the non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day”

  • ★★ Hank lists the prize's advantages over real prizes: winners can show it to everyone, get it immediately, it needs no shipping or carbon dioxide, and anyone might win. (playful) — 00:01:05 · non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day

00:01:34 — Call for a Prize of the Day graphic; the fifth Terminus album buyer asked to email

  • ★★ Hank says a really good awards graphic for the Prize of the Day emailed to him will definitely win its designer the prize. — 00:01:34 · non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day
  • ★★ Hank has heard from four of the five people who bought his album at a Terminus show (orders whose slips he lost); he asks the fifth to email him and says he will actually send it. — 00:01:34

00:02:03 — Lost count of parts; secret project sign-up at nerdfighters.com

  • ★★ Hank loses track of which part he is on and says this is why he doesn't do parts videos. (playful) — 00:02:03
  • ★★★ Hank announces a secret project needing a lot of Nerdfighter help and asks people to sign up at nerdfighters.com; it uses the same list as an earlier secret project. — 00:02:03 · nerdfighters.com, Nerdfighteria

00:02:34 — T-shirt design contest closes: designs shown, vote at nerdfighters.com, shirts for the Tour de Nerdfighting; bet on beating John's Catcher video

  • ★★★ Hank says submissions to the Nerdfighter T-shirt design contest are closing, shows the entries in rapid motion, and asks Nerdfighters to vote on them at nerdfighters.com. — 00:02:34 · nerdfighters.com, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says they may print the top three or four shirts, and some will be available on the Great American Tour de Nerdfighting. (hedged) — 00:03:03 · Tour de Nerdfighting
  • ★ Hank bets he will get his next video up before John posts his Catcher in the Rye video. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:03 · John Green

00:03:32 — Last thing: John's new European scavenger hunt; first clue in Sweden gives the letter B

  • ★★ Hank says John started a new, European scavenger hunt; the first clue, in Sweden, has been found and deciphered, giving the letter B, whose meaning is unknown. — 00:03:32 · John Green, Europe

Humor (significant)

  • Hank scolds John for not vlogging from a boat with no internet. — 00:00:00

    “Just because there's no internet on the boat doesn't mean you can't vlog. Okay, yes, it does.”

  • Hank explains the non-existent prize: winners deserve something. — 00:01:05

    “We just happen to be too lame to actually get it to you.”

  • Hank lists the advantages of a prize that doesn't exist. — 00:01:05

    “there's no shipping at all, so it doesn't produce any carbon dioxide”

  • Hank, announcing numbered parts, loses count mid-video. — 00:02:03

    “No idea what number I'm on. This is why I don't do parts videos.”

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Mentioned

Central: non-existent Nerdfighting Prize of the Day

Also: Projects: Blurbing Book Club · nerdfighters.com · Tour de Nerdfighting

Works: Going Postal · The Catcher in the Rye

Terms: link in the sidebar

Places: Europe · Sweden

Events: Terminus

Only in the description or credits: YouTube

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