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Show 'n Tell Thursday

2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded 1 day later) · letter vlog · John · 2:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore

For 'Show and Tell Thursday' John shows Hank presents Nerdfighters gave him on the Paper Towns tour, book-related and Nerdfighter-related, from a Ning employee's hat to a puppy-sized-elephant costume for Willy, and thanks them.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Show and Tell Thursday: two kinds of presents; book-related: the dreidel

  • ★★★ John devotes Show and Tell Thursday to real presents Nerdfighters gave him on his tour, of two kinds: related to his book, and related to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, Paper Towns
  • ★★ Book-related presents include a dreidel (John recalls the minivan is called that), a Black Santa with 'do not forget to be awesome' on his hand, and a 'real-life minivan' from Phoenix. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Paper Towns, DFTBA

00:00:25 — Black Santa with DFTBA, a minivan from Phoenix; Nerdfighter presents: hat from a woman who works at Ning

  • ★★ At a signing, a woman who works at Ning.com gave John a hat; he calls meeting someone from the company that made their Ning possible a celebrity sighting. (playful) — 00:00:25 · Nerdfighter Ning

00:01:06 — Bracelet; spongy puppy-sized elephant and Willy with a cast; elephant costume for Willy

  • ★★ Nerdfighter-related presents include a Nerdfighter bracelet and, made of a spongy material, a puppy-sized elephant and a little Willy with a cast. — 00:01:06 · puppy sized elephant, Willy
  • ★★ John says he kind of misses Willy and can't wait to get home, because a Nerdfighter in Los Angeles made a puppy-sized elephant costume for Willy. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:06 · Willy, Los Angeles, puppy sized elephant

00:01:54 — Finger-puppet monkey conversation; fictional National Enquirer page with Oprah pwned

  • ★★ John shows a page from a fictional National Enquirer in which Oprah is pwned, with a headline 'Margo flips out over Tell All Book'. (playful) — 00:01:54 · pwned

00:02:24 — Margo headline; Peeps and other presents; thanks; see Hank Saturday for the Tour de Nerdfighting

In the description and comments

  • ★ video description: In the description John says it is still Thursday where he is, having just got home from the tour event, and hopes that gets him out of a punishment. (playful, hedged) — video description · Punishment

Humor (significant)

  • John shows a Nerdfighter bracelet from a fan. — 00:01:06

    “or alternately a necklace for an extremely small-necked person”

  • John imagines Willy walking around in his puppy-sized elephant costume, speaking. — 00:01:06

    “My name is Willy. I'm gonna pee on some stuff.”

  • John asks a finger-puppet monkey whether it's hard to have a banana forever near its mouth that it can never eat. — 00:01:54

    “Yeah, it sucks!”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Oprah Winfrey

Projects: Nerdfighter Ning · Paper Towns Tour · Tour de Nerdfighting

Works: Paper Towns

Organizations: National Enquirer · Ning

Terms: DFTBA · made of awesome · puppy sized elephant

Places: Los Angeles · Phoenix, Arizona

Characters: Margo Roth Spiegelman

Products: Peeps

Memes: pwned

animal: Willy

Only in the description or credits: Punishment

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