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Tales of Nerd Love!

2011-04-06 · list · John · 3:27 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Q&A & conversation · tags: community lore, self promotion, fundraising ask, civic or action cta

John tells four stories of Nerdfighters falling in 'Nerdfighterlike', from the couple he proposed for in 2009 (now married and expecting) to a crush lost in a bookstore, while sitting in spilled champagne. He closes by plugging the Will Grayson, Will Grayson paperback and giving $300 to Water.org in thanks for Hank's Haiti videos.

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; Nerdfighters falling in Nerdfighterlike: four stories of nerd love

00:00:09 — Story 1: flashback to John's 2009 on-air proposal; the couple are married and expecting; champagne spill; TJ's pregnancy blog

  • ★★ John recalls being part of a Nerdfighter marriage proposal a couple of years ago, shown in a flashback in which the woman says yes. — 00:00:09
  • ★★★ John updates that the couple he proposed for are now happily married and expecting their first child. — 00:00:26
  • ★ Celebrating the news, John spills cheap champagne and sits in it for the rest of the video. (joke) — 00:00:32
  • ★★ John recommends TJ's blog chronicling her pregnancy, with diagrams of her fetus eating its feet, as one of the funniest on the internet, warning it contains frank language. — 00:00:44

00:01:01 — Story 2: a homecoming ask with an Air Force bear via Eff Yeah Nerdfighters, a reply in honor of Alaska; still together six months on

  • ★★ In story two, Conner and his Air Force bear asked Amy to homecoming in a picture run by Eff Yeah Nerdfighters; she answered she'd paint her nails electric blue in honor of Alaska. — 00:01:01
  • ★★ John says Conner and Amy went to homecoming six months ago, a long time in Nerdfighterlike since every relationship ends, and they are still together. (playful) — 00:01:39 · nerdfighterlike (coinage)

00:01:53 — Story 3: a Pizza John shirt in a statistics class leads to a Gaming and Anime Society date

  • ★★ In story three, Janice emailed that a boy, Andrew, asked if she was a Nerdfighter when she wore her Pizza John shirt in Elementary Statistics, then invited her to a Gaming and Anime Society meeting; they're now in Nerdfighterlike. — 00:01:53 · Pizza John, nerdfighterlike (coinage)

00:02:29 — Story 4: help find a Nerdfighter's crush from the Bel Air, Maryland Barnes and Noble

  • ★★ In story four, a Nerdfighter met a cute Nerdfighter boy at the Bel Air, Maryland Barnes and Noble without swapping contacts; John asks the 5'7" boy with brown hair and blue eyes to get in touch. — 00:02:29 · Barnes & Noble

00:02:54 — Three other things: Will Grayson, Will Grayson paperback; share Nerdfighterlike stories; John's $300 gift to Water.org for Hank's Haiti videos; changing pants; sign-off

  • ★★ John says Will Grayson, Will Grayson came out in paperback yesterday, with a buying link in the description. — 00:02:56 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
  • ★★ John asks Nerdfighters to leave their own Nerdfighterlike stories in comments. — 00:03:04 · nerdfighterlike (coinage), Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ John says Hank's Haiti videos inspire him and Nerdfighteria and that, to thank Hank, he has made a $300 gift to Water.org. — 00:03:08 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John invites Nerdfighters to join him in giving and in following 'our community in Haiti' via the link in the description. — 00:03:11 · Savann Tabak well

Humor (significant)

  • Overexcited at news of the couple's baby, John has an accident with the champagne. — 00:00:32

    “And now I am seated in a pool of cheap champagne. What’s new?”

  • After reading the homecoming reply mentioning a boy's Air Force bear, John gushes. — 00:01:21

    “it’s so cute I can hardly bear it! Get it? Bear it? Because of the bear!”

  • John claims he is drunk because the champagne in his chair went into his pants and through his skin. — 00:01:30

    “I’m not a scientist, but I believe that’s called osmosis.”

  • Asked by a boy whether she, in a Pizza John shirt, is a Nerdfighter, John voices a mock answer. — 00:02:05

    “Nah, I just love pizza and men with creeper mustaches”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: nerdfighterlike (coinage)

Also: People: Kelly · Phil

Projects: Eff Yeah Nerdfighters · Savann Tabak well

Works: TJ's blog · Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Organizations: Barnes & Noble · Water.org

Terms: doobly-doo · Pizza John

Concepts: champagne

Places: Bel Air, Maryland · Haiti

Characters: Alaska Young

Also centred on nerdfighterlike (coinage): Best Wishes!

Replies to

  • continues · Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL — “Hank, you may remember that a couple years ago I was part of a Nerdfighter marriage proposal. Nerdfighter flashback!”
  • answers · Thoughts from The Well — “your videos about Haiti continue to be an inspiration to me and to all of Nerdfighteria”

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