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Corndog Ghost Attack, Book Towers, and Census

2015-08-14 · challenge / punishment · Hank · 3:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, recurring series, civic or action cta, community lore

Hank builds a 155 cm book tower and challenges viewers to beat it (rules, prizes, entry by email), then launches the third annual Nerdfighteria Census.

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; eight years on YouTube; an unseen 'corndog' encounter drives Hank from his chair (title 'Corndog Ghost Attack')

  • ★ Hank remarks that the brothers have been doing this on YouTube for eight years, before being interrupted. — 00:00:01
  • ★ Hank's opening is interrupted after he greets a 'corndog'; he screams, and says the universe wants him out of his chair and with his books (title: 'Corndog Ghost Attack'). (joke) — 00:00:06

00:00:35 — Hank builds a book tower to music: 125 cm, 155 cm, one more level, collapse; 'can you beat me?'

  • ★★ Hank builds a book tower to 125 cm, then 155 cm, tries one more level, and it falls. (playful) — 00:01:06

00:01:53 — Underwear apology; the book tower challenge: prizes, four rules (inches are dumb), how to enter

  • ★★★ Hank challenges viewers to beat his 155 cm book tower, which he believes is not as tall as one can be; the five tallest and five most stylish win a gift package from him. (hedged) — 00:02:08
  • ★★ Rules: loose books only with no adhesive or clamps; don't do anything that might hurt yourself; only books, pooled from any sources; measure in centimetres with a tape measure. — 00:02:23
  • ★★ Hank says inches are dumb and he cannot believe people still use a measurement system not based on base 10, like the number system; why 12 inches in a foot? (playful) — 00:02:37
  • ★★ To enter, viewers email a photo of their tower to hankandjohn@gmail.com with 'Book Tower' and its height in the subject line. — 00:02:51

00:02:59 — Third annual Nerdfighteria Census: purpose, researchers' questions, 10-30 minutes, link; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank launches the third annual Nerdfighteria Census, run since 2013, so the community can know itself, Hank can analyse it, and future tours can be planned around where people are. — 00:02:59 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ For the first time, the brothers had researchers doing science add a few questions to the Census to help them understand the world and its people. — 00:03:13
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to take the Census, which takes 10-30 minutes, via the link in the description, and thanks those who do. — 00:03:29

In the description and comments

  • ★ The description sets the entry deadline: next Wednesday (19 August 2015). — video description

Humor (significant)

  • Hank greets a 'corndog', screams through an unseen attack, and gives up on his chair. — 00:00:06

    “The universe apparently wants me to do something not in this chair and with these books.”

  • Hank apologises for showing so much underwear while building his tower, but won't redo it. — 00:01:53

    “I'm certainly not gonna go rebuild an entire book tower just so I can go put on a belt”

  • Insisting entrants measure in centimetres, Hank rants that inches are dumb. — 00:02:49

    “Why are there 12 inches in a foot?”

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Central: Nerdfighteria Census

Also: decimal · metric system

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