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  • :) I've been doing KIVA for ages. !! I feels special

  • I HAVE THE SAME PEN.

  • Can I have your Christmas tree?

  • "This Star Won't Go Out" has to be one of the most touching and awesome names for anything I have heard of in a long time!

  • Ur nerdness makes u funny..i luv u guys

  • I thought the background was just a backdrop until Hank hit the tree. XD

  • I thought you may have to spend the night in the woods...SO glad it worked out and you found your way!

  • I worked on A Christmas Carol on campus this year. I was SO thankful for the end of Christmas Carol season (both the show and the music)!

  • I was at this local breakfast place the other day and the waiter kept on checking me out and hitting on me.

    Yeah, he got tipped, and he got my number, (:

  • Christmas season ends at the 6th

  • but....what if I'm a nerdfighter who doesn't know what the Harry Potter Alliance is??

  • @FlargTheKitty Read up it's kind of awesome. I'm a chapter organizer and it is one of the most fun and satisfying things I've ever done.

  • Recently, I watched Breakfast At Tiffany's, featuring the fabulous Aubrey Hepburn. Afterwords, I felt the need to be her, and to improve myself to match that ability of brimming with grace and eloquence. But, fortunately, a lovely Oscar Wilde quote saved me, "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." lesson learned.

  • I'll do the truth or fail later, I got back from a holiday and I've got over 100 videos in my subscription box I have to watch...

  • @charliesbass i'm in the same boat my friend

  • INUYASHA POSTER: FTW

  • did he seem like santa in this video at the start

  • I have such a crush on him...

  • "Nerdfighteria knows what it's doing." YES WE DO!

  • DUN DUN DUN HONEY BADGER!!!!

    1.The Honey badger is the most fearless animal in the world. It will approach and track animals much bigger than itself

    2.The honey badger has very loose skin that allows it to twist and turn even if bitten by a predator

    3.The honey badger can withstand the venom of a snakebite that could kill an elephant

    4.The honey badger has thick skin which is almost 6mm thick at the back of his neck

    (most of these are already known, but still)

  • i was so mad that i couldn't participatre inp4a this year. :( i didn't have internet that day.

  • "Round 1: The Twelve days of Christmas" Aw, crap.

  • Why can't I have your Christmas Tree!!!! >.<

  • Hank, when are the funds going to be distributed?

  • Hank, the 'holiday season' is not over. Christmas is twelve days long. If you go by the Church's ecumenical calendar, it's, like, two weeks long.

  • Everyone in this world is made up of the same little pieces that have been around since the beginning. When you die, or I die, or anyone or anything dies, those little pieces go on to make new and amazing things.

    No matter what faith you follow, or how you see the afterlife, you know that what you are now will become something special.

    Really and truly, this star won't go out.

  • I was in a church-turned-restaurant today and they were playing "There's no place like home for the holidays" followed by "I'll be home for Christmas". I think they proved your no more Christmas music theory wrong, Hank.

  • My interesting comment: Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh was named that because its the sound a donkey makes. I bet you're thinking, "But donkeys say hee-haw!" Well, the books were made in England so, try saying hee-haw in a British accent.

    Since you don't have a poster, if I win, can I just have...I don't know...a sticker?

  • Dear Hank,

    My jocularity has succumbed to the frenetic nature of the celebratory days of Christmas festivities. So I would inquire after a vindication of my current circumstance. I am quite covetous of one of those ostentatious strips of stationary, for they are the most singular phenomenons.

    Sincerely,

    Myself.

  • HAHAHAHA The 12 days of Christmas fact was on QI :D

  • thumbs up if you can take it up the ass like a champ

  • my computer screwed up on me and clicked something else while this screan was loading or something but i am here to click on all the wrongs up until the anotation that was broken if that anotation isnt fixed i am going to try to fail all

  • I just love Hank's weirdness 

  • Dec. 25th is Day 1 of the Christmas season! The season lasts 12 days. Therefore, we should continue singing Christmas carols through January 5th.

  • I hope you had a happy holiday/Merry Christmas, Hank. That's awesome news about how much money each charity will receive! "Liked"!

  • Although I love the This Star Won't Go Out, I think Water.org should've won, as water is the thing people need the second most (air being no.1).

  • i thought all swans were owned by the queen... (in UK) or is that only the white ones?

  • this comment is not interesting.....take that society....

  • 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

    This is sad you think with our health system they'd keep their paper work straight

  • Oh, Hank Green-Oh, Hank Green, you sit in verdant beauty! Your Christmas tree is next to you, we all want it but...you said we can't...Oh, Hank Green-Oh, Hank Green, the nerdfighters demand your Christmas tree. We don't want gifts, or ornaments, no tinsel or some strings of lights-we want your tree, we want your tree, oh wait-the comments are for posters! Like "Victory" or "Pac Man", or even the poster for "Assassins Creed". Oh, Hank Green-Oh, Hank Green...hell , I'll just settle for the tree!

  • movement is impossible

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  • *Brain explodes*

  • Cows can sleep standing upright, but they can only dream when they lie down. After I learned about this I can't help myself staring at every cow that's lying down, and wondering what it's dreaming...

  • Anything made after Mickey Mouse will probably never be a common good because Disney pays lobbyists a lot of money each year to get copyright laws extended. Also the song "Happy Birthday" is copyrighted so technically you should have to pay before singing it at a party. At least, as I understand it, these two statements are true.

  • zomg that beam of light is MAGICAL.

  • @TearsKeepAFalling ah shiney things, how they make our life great :P

  • ...can I have an ornament then?

  • On Tuesday, May 14, three things happened that seemingly had nothing in common: One: A school was evacuated. Two: A man paid no attention to a very important dial. And Three: Some horrendous criminals tried to rob a bank. This story starts, though, at a drinking fountain in a completely unrelated hospital. Why? Because I feel like it, that's why. "Chicken", Tommy replied, exasperated. "I told you 12 times already!" "Oh yeah!", said Sally, mockingly. "Guess again." At tha-

  • I bought a "Keep Calm and DFTBA" t-shirt before Christmas (3$ shipping ftw). When I wore it in front of my parents they naturally asked what DFTBA meant. I answered "Don't Forget To Be Awesome". They said: "What does awesome mean?". O__O

  • Has anyone else seen the ad that says "I love you, Vlogbrothers" with the creepy guys face? Creeped me out a bit, but i love the vlogbrothers too creepy man.

  • there are 396 dimples on a golf ball

  • In Montana, it is illegal to pretend to abuse an animal in front of a minor. I found this law on a website for weird law. In reality, this law is not so strange. There was once a man named Albert Bandura. Albert was a psychologist who performed an experiment with children, bobo dolls, and adults. The adults would either beat up or play nicely with the bobo doll. Those who had been exposed to aggresive role models were more likely to play aggresively. That is why having that law makes sense.

  • I have no iead about anthing you were talking about. -_-

    And I checked for retardetion in my family, there's only a little, so I gues this video is just unclear.

  • @TwistedStarPro I think the word your looking for is bigot, and I don't need some fucking 4 year old telling me I am and not. Your obviously to retarded to realize that I was just showing how much people overreact to what religion someone is, so do the world a favor and learn how to spell before you comment and your just proof why little babies can't go on the internet so instead read a book you might learn something you prick.

  • Ooh you have links in the doobly doo now for mobile YouTube! Yay! :D

  • The amount of gifts the singer of 12 days of Christmas on the 12 day gets is 936! And I did all that math in my head. XD

  • Why do atheists celebrate Christmas when it is a Christian holiday?!

  • There's a lot of discussion going on about the real meaning of Christmas, which is the Christian celebration of Jesus. But I think that's not all true. Christmas is about celebrating love and friendship with your friends, Christian, Muslim and Pastafari. It's about your 2-year-old cousin sitting on your lap at Christmas Eve although he used to hate you, screwing up your name and telling you to please look at a book with him and then giving you a wet baby kiss. It's about LOVE and foreverness.

  • @butterflyinwinter Actually Christmas is about the birthday of Jesus Christ. I agree, it involves lots of love and foreverness with your family, but none of that would've been possible without that birthday. The holiday wouldn't exist.

  • My name was supposed to be Kaitlyn Grace Bradley, but my father accidentally screwed up my birth certificate while my mother was asleep. Now, my first name is Katrina, and I have no middle name. I do, however, plan on naming my first daughter Kaitlyn Grace. If I ever have a daughter...

  • Great...now I have to go and look for genevive429's comment. -.-'

  • @lennic95 My thoughts exactly! XD

  • @lennic95 I like this because, while that is not my comment, that is my name. (:

  • @lennic95 Great, now I have to look for genevive409's comment AND the reply... -__-

  • Is there any chance that HPA would consider some of that money going to the Uncultured Project? I'm amazed that didn't get into the top 5.

  • Whenever my family are talking about Sci-Fi shows, Namely Star Trek, my Mum mentions that she always wanted to call me Seven Of Nine. (She didn't.) I tend to say "Pfft, whatever. That's a stupid name." but secretly, I think that would be an awesome name.

  • The Queen owns all the swans in the UK :L

  • @MrJimmyTheJoker Except for one of the islands by Scotland and Swansea. Swans in Swansea belong to an old vikking guy Svain, Svain's Sea!

  • Somtimes i laugh. but only sometimes >:}

  • We all knew this star won't go out would be first.

  • Hank I have something interesting to tell you, each sperm holds 34 MB of genetic data(I think that's the number but I'm not certain). And after my calculations(I did them a while ago) the average humans testicals hold 7-8 terabytes of genetic data

  • wut

  • BUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTT I WANT UR TREE!!! CAN I HAZ IT?

  • The Christmas charols stop after Christmas? You certaintly have never been to my house...

  • The Christmas season actually does not end until January 6th this year with the feast of the epiphany. The twelve days of Christmas are actually the twelve days /after/ Christmas.

  • @apandaforamanda Christmas season offcially ends 2nd of February. Don't ask me why. But I volunteer at a church, so I guess it's true.

  • I only recently discovered that it was "gold rings" instead of "golden rings". Huh.

  • I already put this on effyeahnerdfighter's tumblr, buuuttt

    If Colin shortens all the Katherine (Insert Roman numeral here) to K-# then does Katherine IX become K-9?

  • Dear Hank,

    please start making more truth or fails with the 2 choices in the doobly doo

    I dont own a computer, but still follow the vlogbrothers on my ipad and android

    I love the truth or fails but can't really participate seeing as how the ipad and android youtube apps dont do annotations

    so please help me out!

  • today I saw some universe show narrated by Stephen Hawking that was talking about potential alien life. At on point it was talking about how Jupiter's moon Europa could have a large underwater sea that is sealed off from space by the 15 mi thick sheet of ice surrounding the moon. Hawking said that there is a heat source in the middle of Europa that makes the underground ocean possible. He said that if there is life there, the organisms would be blissfully unaware of the universe around them.

  • I recently discovered i am the defintion of a nerd (by stereotype) i am overweight, near sighted, asthmatic, and spend 95% o my time online

  • AHMAHGAD

    THAT'S MY COMMENT

    HOLY CRAP ON A CRACKER WITH BRIE AND HAPPINESS AND AND AND AND AND

    AHHHHHHHHH

  • @rococo7777 Congratulations! :D DFTBA

  • @rococo7777 congratulations!

  • @rococo7777 Tha's a damn fine comment.

  • @HighKingTurgon Thanks very much!

  • @rococo7777 Ahaha. Awesome. :)

  • punky ham.

  • Way to go to all of the P4A organizations. I'm so happy for This Star Won't Go Out. :]

  • Did you know that when you are a grown man, who lives on his own and hasn`t seen his mother in a long while . . . . .

    ..... she will treat him like he was still in high school, no matter what?

    I find this quite interesting because the mother does not seem to be aware of it.

    It`s like her mental image of you is somehow stuck somewhere where she cannot fathom you will get things done properly without constant monitoring and continuous advice/commands.

    And I think she thinks she is HELPING.

  • This IS the most interesting comment. It has declared itself to be thus.

  • Somewhere out there is a lady with a pear orchard, an aviary full of birds, a pond with beautifully graceful swans, golden rings gracing her fingers, and servants doing the work for her. And I hear her true love throws one a hell of a party for her every Christmas. Who wouldn't want to be this guy's gal?

    What do I get for Christmas? A single stemmed rose and a hand-crafted necklace... never mind, I'm good :3

  • I'm a bit sad that the Ross Nugent foundation didn't get a mention, because it deserves a lot more attention (see bribryontour's channel for more info). But I'm so happy that T.S.W.G.O came first, because it's also dedicated to curing cancer. Something that my grandma had to fight against, and unfortunately later lost. Curing cancer is a cause very close to my heart. Thank you nerdfighteria and DFTBA.

  • 3/5. Fun Truth or Fail!

  • Did you know that Jesus wasn't born in December? He was actually born some time in March. The reason why Christmas is celebrated in December is because The Church decided to celebrate Christmas around the time of a Pagan holiday (Saturnalia) to promote the Christian religion. We now know that not only was Jesus' birthday in March, but that the Bible is off by about 40 years in terms of time.

  • It just goes to show you. Every wall has room for the null poster.

  • Did you know that it took 21 seasons of pro basketball for a hole to be put in the bottom of the hoop!! Wow, they played baskeball for 21 years and in these years had to employ and man who climbed a ladder at every score wasting over 1 minute. The longest of which was 3 hours when the man on his ladder became tangled in the hoop and got stuff, he had a heart attack and then the next 3 hours where spent helping him. It is estimated that games back then were 90 mins longer, not in game play.

  • really great charities will be getting money from p4a

  • Recently I discovered that so jokes is a thing. I was sitting in the cafeteria and one of my friends was describing an encounter with her favorite singer. She ended the sentence with "It was so jokes!". I thought I had discovered a nerdfighter and said "French the llama that's cool!" They all stared at me. So turns out everyone says so jokes but only a few select people think that French the Llama is a phrase that needs to be said.

  • @Ijustsawahippogriff If it makes you feel better, I've never heard "So jokes" before either.

  • @radness13 Love the white stripes trivia! Did you know that Jack White was actually going to be a priest but changed his mind when he discovered he wasn't able to take his guitar to the seminary?

  • The song "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes is so named because when he was little, Jack White thought that the Salvation Army was called the Seven Nation Army.

  • $14,000 each! French the Llama that's so jokes!! :D

  • 2:00 NEW YEARS!!

  • Yay my charity won!!! Kiva.org is such an amazing charity <3 Also I am so happy someone donated $25 because of my video :)

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  • Hank, the second half of the video, your hair was all out of whack in the back.

  • You said that Christmas is over...you realise Boxing Day is only the second of those Twelve Days of Christmas you mentioned, right? Christmas doesn't end until January 6th.

  • Casual ray of light directed at Hank like he's God or something.

  • My Geography teacher told that he once went to Zambia because he decided that he wanted to help out there. He went with a charity and because of him, other volunteers and some of the villagers he stayed with they now have a water pump close by. They would normally trek for hours trying to find water and would come back with a bucket of desease infested water. Now they are much less likely to become ill. You can probably guess how happy I am with the outcome of the votes.

  • @avatarnaruto77 I clapped and cheered like a crazy person.

  • I approve of all the charities where our money is going.

  • Imogen the name, is probably the only name that came about because of a spelling mistake. It is thought that Shakespeare when writing his stories wrote Innogen which was a name at the time however the print was sooooooo small that many readers read it as Imogen as the n's squashed together. This because of shakespeare, it became a popular name and has stuck ever since.

  • @Beastwood2010 Didn't John mention this in one of his videos about a month ago? Or maybe I just watched an old video about a month ago, but I remember him talking about this anyway.

  • Now is the time of year when I WANT to hear Christmas carols! I hate that the radio starts so early, then quits so soon. Anyway, fun truth or fail game! And I'm glad P4A did so well. :)

  • My cousin's wife is pregnant, and we just found out she's having a girl! I informed her that I will make sure I "nerdify" her. Meaning I will read her John Green books, The Call of the Wild (a childhood MUST), Les Miserables, Antigone, and more. I also plan to teach her the Nerdfighteria dance. My cousin then threatened me, at which time I attempted to explain the wonders of being a nerd and that it was a good thing. I'm not sure they understood. xD

  • Did anyone else clap when he announced the first place charity?

  • At 1:42 I am reminded of Emily Dickinson.

  • Cats have barbed penises that destroy the vagina on the way out.

  • Dude we totally have the same glasses!

  • The other day I went to pick up some of my asthma medication when I got out of my car to see.....a man with a white beard that went down to his chest and a matching white moustache. He had a walkman in his hand and dark green sweat pants and a bright red sweater and was jogging through the parking lot. Just imagine a skinnier Santa in the before mentioned outfit running through the lot...

  • For christmas this year I put footie Pajamas, because I Didn't have them as a child and I very much enjoy them. I recieved 3 pair (because my family is cool). My favorite pair were ones that you can only find in Hong Kong (my aunt and uncle live there), they were sock monkey pjs that came with a red scarf, white mittens, a hat with the sock monkeys face on it, a tail and a hatch in the butt. This is made funnier by the fact I am nearly 6ft and they are way too big.

  • same shirt as 5 days ago!!!!!

    

  • you can't buy swans in the uk, the Queen owns all of them. true facts.

  • @destijl1337 Actually the Queen historically owns only the unmarked wild mute swans living in open water. Any others can be purchased quite legally

  • Damm iPad!

  • I actually don't know that "12 days of christmas" song.

  • annoying how you can't play Truth or Fail on the iPad/iPod/iPhone...

  • Did you know, that whenever someone fails at Truth or Fail, a kitten dies. But not just any kitten. The kittens that die have super powers, they fly, and save scantily clad women from burning buildings, and lesser intelligent cats from trees. One of these kittens that died was on the verge of bringing Fall Out Boy off haitus, and another almost killed Rick Parry.

    Think before you fail.

  • @StaticZeta I will not fail for the sake of Fall Out Boy coming back.

  • The rays of heaven shine gloriously upon Truth or Fail. Jesus/Muhammad/Buddha/Carl Sagan approves!

  • I approve of all those organisations :)

  • off topic. but please talk about Ron Paul he is awesome and needs support! please!

  • They're still playing Christmas carols at harkins theaters

  • I'm excited Christmas is over. My boss would get on the headset at work and scream-sing at the top of his lungs... Anything that came on the intercom.. And I died on the inside. And I'm probably partially deaf.

  • I like your X-mas tree.

  • Here's a depressing thought. If people sleep 8-9 hours a day, we only get to live one third or less of our lives.

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  • GOSH DANG IT!! I MISSED THE LAST ONE!!!

    but half way through this video hank became an angel!!

  • Why do people think that Christmas ends on December 26th?! It begins on Dec 25th (not the day after Turkey noms!) and ends on Jan 6th- 12 days of Christmas- Christ is born a symbolic period of time passes before the wise men enter stage right with gifts!

  • This is such a wonderful video!

  • Due to YT's new stupid site design I missed this video.. till i went looking for it.

  • You kidding me? I'm still hearing Christmas songs on the radio. Several days after Christmas!!

  • I MISSED TRUTH OR FAIL SO MUCH!!!!!!!! need more

  • I could always use a lightswitch, Hank!

  • Hank for christmas i got a DFTBA tshirt and my parents didnt even know what it meant S: I've had to explain it about a billion times

  • Glare o.o

  • Something is different about Hank.

  • @NeonGir7 He's twice as sexy.

  • HARRY POTTER ALLIANCE, YES! I voted for that at least 30 times :)

  • Carolline's calorie intake is equal to the top speed of a Ford Mustang + 5 Unicorns( unicorns being equated with 20 million cubits) and as a law carolines calorie intake is also equal to the amout of worldsuck going on in Skyrim which, with all of the random arrows, one must guard his or her knees... It's a bad day to be in Skyrim.

  • @bookwizard7 AND IT ALL TOOK PLACE IN A PAPER TOWN. >:D

  • I need John to call my friend to help him win a slap bet. I find this to be a very interesting turn of events. Ah, how much simpler this mission would have been in the early days of Nerdfighteria. But we decrease so much more worldsuck now.

  • can I eat your christmas tree?

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  • I'm glad that many worthy charities won, and I'm especially glad that one of them one despite not being one of Nerdfighteria's go-to charities, but if anyone sees this: My parents started a charity known as Hunter Hospitality House (named after my late brother, Hunter) which operates as a sort of Ronald McDonald house for our local hospital, providing a place to sleep and food for new mothers and loved one's of the elderly and sick. There is a P4A video on my channel with info on how to help.

  • Wow. $14k is a lot of money.  I'm really happy for each of these charities; I know they'll be able to do so much with the funds! Thanks to John & Hank for the inspiration & organization for P4A!

  • @thedudewiththesax That's okay. I misread your comment as "Kids in Need of Daleks".