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Tattoo Typos, Senses, Posters and Bad Movies

2011-09-02 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Science & nature, Pop culture) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: self promotion, community lore, self correction

Hank launches the first DFTBA posters, rants that everyone may make writing mistakes except tattoo artists, defends the school 'five senses' as a simplification rather than a lie, mocks the Shark Night 3D trailer, and gives three quick updates.

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; comments praised Hank's hair, so he cut it; reveal of a poster

  • ★ Hank says comments praised his hair in his last video, which troubled him, so he got it cut, but jokes it now looks too good to make bad. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:26 — First-ever posters for sale at DFTBA.com, designed by Nerdfighters; limited stock; Hank messed up his last video's description

  • ★★★ Hank announces that, for the first time, there are vlogbrothers posters, for sale now at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:26 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank thanks the Nerdfighters who designed the posters: Ryan for one shown on screen, Lorian for the llama poster, and Vondel Swain for the Ellen Hardcastle Hank Green one. — 00:00:26 · Nerdfighteria, French the llama
  • ★★ Hank says there are not many of the Ellen Hardcastle and French the Llama posters, so viewers should be fast. — 00:00:26 · French the llama
  • ★ Hank says he messed up something in the description of his last video. — 00:00:26

00:00:55 — Rant: everyone makes writing mistakes, except tattoo artists may not; start of the senses rant

  • ★★ Hank says anyone who writes a lot will sometimes get words wrong, from not knowing or from changing a sentence midway; we strive for correctness, but no one is perfect. — 00:00:55
  • ★★ Hank says New York Times editors, novelists and copy editors may make mistakes, but one profession must never get grammar wrong: tattoo artists, since tattoos are permanent. (playful) — 00:00:55 · The New York Times
  • ★★ Answering discussion of his last video's claim that most sensing organs are on our heads, Hank grants he left out many senses: hunger, equilibrium, knowing where body parts are. — 00:01:22

00:01:51 — The school 'five senses' are the organs for experiencing the world, a simplification, not a lie

  • ★★★ Hank says the five senses taught in school (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, skin) are special: they let us experience the world, while the other senses let us experience ourselves. — 00:01:51
  • ★★ Hank says the five senses are taught in grade school not because it is a lie but because it is a simplification of the truth. — 00:01:51
  • ★ Hank says these are two problems viewers had with his last video that he does not accept were actually his fault. (playful) — 00:01:51

00:02:20 — Posters must be ordered alone (tube shipping) but ship free; advice to the protagonists of Shark Night 3D

  • ★★ Hank says posters must be ordered on their own, without other DFTBA items, because they ship in a tube; to make up for it, poster shipping is free. — 00:02:20 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Mocking the Shark Night 3D trailer, Hank advises its protagonists that once a friend is eaten by a lake shark, they are safe if they stay out of the water. (playful) — 00:02:20

00:02:48 — Shark Night punchline; updates: John's Gatsby video Monday, Ellen Hardcastle 10-word videos, about 6,000 Nerd Factor entries; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says John is going to make a great Gatsby video on Monday. — 00:02:48 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says he is working hard on his Ellen Hardcastle 10-word videos. — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Hank says the Nerd Factor contest received about 6,000 entries, so getting through them is taking a while; many are really amazing. — 00:02:48

Humor (significant)

  • Comments praised Hank's hair; not wanting to be liked for his hair, he got it cut — 00:00:00

    “unfortunately it looks so good now I just can't make it look bad.”

  • Hank builds up the one profession in America that must know grammar, ruling out NYT editors, novelists and copy editors — 00:01:22

    “that cannot, will not, should not, ever, yes, tattoo artists!”

  • Listing the senses he left out of his last video: hunger, equilibrium, proprioception, and the sense of... — 00:01:51

    “fullness of the colon.”

  • Hank's advice for the Shark Night 3D protagonists after their skiing friend is eaten by a shark in the lake — 00:02:48

    “Don't go back in the water! Done! You're safe!”

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Mentioned

Central: sense

Also: Projects: DFTBA Records · Nerd Factor

Works: Ellen Hardcastle · Shark Night · The Great Gatsby

Organizations: The New York Times · Tumblr

Terms: French the llama

Concepts: equilibrioception · hunger (physiology) · linguistic prescription · proprioception · tattoo artist

Products: Microsoft Word

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