A History Teacher Reacts | "Timothy Dexter: The Dumbest Rags-to-Riches Story" by Sam O'Nella
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A Pickle For the Knowing One's is a life-changing experience. I thought I was having a stroke the whole time. Every sentence is a crime to the English language.
That book having sentences would be an improvement.
Sentences? Show me one place where there is a full stop. (I can't make it past the first page, but the preface calling it "unique" is just hilarious)
The Alright Tank Historian Yes, it is certainly unique.
But there are no periods.
The English language is a crime to the concept of language
"Sounds like the paper I get in class."
Savage teacher is savage
I call it like I see it.
I wanted to make the same comment... damn you time zones!
@Battered Boggart well 3 days before the last day of high school one of my classmates asked what year did WW2 end, so...
@Battered Boggart sadly she meant the official end, 1945. Nobody but myself and the teacher knew about the japanese
@Battered Boggart well being high school we went with the official program stuff, so it's the nazi's invasion of Poland 1st september of '39.
Imagine how frustrated those other wealthy people must be when they keep accidentally helping him lol
Thimothy must have been thinking "Wow their so nice 2 me, i hv so mush mone now"
@@funnySIMON99 It's the American way.
It’s like every time someone tried to fuck over the Adams Family in the old TV show. 🤣
@@funnySIMON99 did- did you speak in dumb?
@@Nevir202 love those moments
Timothy Dexter: The Embodiment of Task Failed Successfully
Ethan Johnson yes
Segmentation fault but the exit code spells 0
I made a comment like that but you beat me to it
@@nolongerusing7430 I don't think anybody's made that comment on the original video yet, so I think it's still fair game
Ethan Johnson
He’s the OG. 🤣
“Jnerl Jorge washeton”
seems legit to me.
was a terrible "felosfer" who had an even more horrendous "adtetoude" because of his "tobacker" which he chewed
@@lsb5387 no Kompliitly Rändom capitalizashon and aksual Punktuation not Lejitimet
Tunkkis sorry I don’t speak Dutch lmao
@@yaboicash6666 You're in luck, because neither do I.
You know if they told Timothy to invade Russia in the winter he will probably be lucky enough to actually succeed. all hail tsar Timothy
“Record breaking heat waves soar across Russia, Winter projected to be the coldest in centuries
it will the the time when the russians are the least prepared, and then you finaly outrun your supply line through the snow, everything melts and you stand in front of moscow for your summer offensive!
He would plan to invade it during the winter, but it would take him such a long time to get there, it would be in the middle of summer when the invasion actually started
If you can’t beat Russia in less than 6 months, retreat. The winter is too cold, and spring is too wet. This causes it it also be very humid, which is perfect for diseases. This is what crippled napoleon “ Grand Army” ( I believe, correct me if I’m wrong, include a source for me to use in the future)
@@MrJdmcd3 that and spring is also an insanely muddy season for russia which bogs down supply carts and the like
RNGesus is an old meme that was basically like, the god of luck in video games.
RNGesus is my personal deity, I pray to him every night with dice in hand and a deck of cards arranged in a royal flush, hoping he'll give me immense luck in my next match.
RNGesus is no meme. He is real...
RNGesus is the deity of every card game/ any game with Randomness in it
Bonyfax 234 Pretty much
Oh, thanks for the explanation because the joke looked random
If your students misbehave say, "If you dont listen you'll end up the Informer of Deer."
@@bruh-ux1ns yeah
Don't threaten _me_ with a good time
@@tuttiflooti panic at the disco?
Correction: you'll be the informer of deer of hawaii
still think they missed a huge chance to call him the overseer of deer
Strength: 1
Perception: 1
Endurance: 1
Charisma: 1
Intelligence: 1
Agility: 1
Luck: EVERYTHING
Ben's Election Forcasting This sounds like Kazuma from Konosuba! 😆
Guess you could say hes special lol
The average build
@@NaughtyWeiss But Kazuma is smart
@@laerteje but he's also super lucky. he has never lost at rock paper scissor.
This is cool and all, but did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?
Catalin Panduru idc about that, all I know is that Epstein didn’t kill himself.
No. I haven't. (Yes I have)
Ironic, Epstein could kill the ones he raped... but not himself
It's not one the jedi would tell you..
@@Neo2266. holy shit my sides
Jenrl Jorge washeton
Timothy Dexter was a genius man...
That's one way to escape libel. A person could be so far off in the spelling that he could claim that he was writing about some other guy.
Jenius*
@@gemista Jenus*
Jnrel*
Very stable genius, I suppose
This guy is like playing DnD, having 1 int and rolling nat 20 on every decision.
Closer to a 6 INT, 1 INT would be like a bug with brain damage.
@@adwitatherealadwita 1INT. Even then thats a compliment
But you couldn't get under 3 as your base int, you'd need to be under 8 and get a debuff to be that low.
@@IGSA101 debuff would be dropping out of second grade
@@BisexualPlagueDoctor Yep, that'd do it.
Fun fact: he also bought the bridge that went by his house so that he could toll anyone that drove by “to see his home and statues.”
I’ve read the entirety of A pickle for a knowing one. I regret it wholly.
There is what is basically a prayer at the back. A prayer to Timothy Dexter. It was nit written by him since every thing was spelt correctly. So he had some guy write a prayer about him.
Charles Calthrop
I’m gonna read all of it I can. Just because I want to be able to say I’ve read it 😂
i Also red it it was Very Fasinateing
@@charlescalthrop2535 link it please
I got through one page and my brain couldn't take any more
Has anyone else noticed that Sam's vocabulary has increased exponentially recently?
Insert skillshare/curiosity stream joke here
skillshare
recently?
A pickle for the knowing ones is said to increase your vocabulary tenfold, even in death dexter is a legend
and then his vocabulary shrunk to fucking nothing
I mean... statistically there has to be at least one person out there who has had everything always go right in their life.
Jeff Bezos: "Allow me to introduce myself."
@TreeckotheRebel
I mean. Not to be a mean person. But his marriage did in fact fall apart.
@@sorenkazaren4659 And he still is the richest person in American who owns the largest corporation next to Disney
@TreeckotheRebel
I never said he wasn’t. I just figure not everything has gone right for him.
I’m sure compared to many many people he lives a charmed life. But not a perfect life.
@@ThatDragonGuy Not anymore lol.
"He would tell guests that he was unmarried, and that he just had a ghost in his house."
WHAT A CHAD
Giga chad
Chad man
@@venuasaur560 Niga chad
@@Fred_the_1996 YOU SAY BAD WORD
hahahahahah
5:52 That's such a clever line, I can't believe I missed that on my first watch.
OOH, same here! How did I miss that?
That’s so clever!
Was it that he said “there’s alot of bucks” and he’s an informer if deer
@@mlalbaitero yes
Oh my god
Big brain
I missed it twice 🤣
Man this dude took “spell things how they sound” to the next level lmao.
I'm pretty sure the term is "phonetically". this comment got my upvote.
@@interestingrobot9247 there is nothing phonetic about the spelling
@@interestingrobot9247 fnetikli
He was born in 1747. America didn't really have standardized spelling till 1828 unless you were _very_ dedicated specifically to reading to import a Samuel Johnson 1755 dictionary of British spellings.
Before then and likely a good bit after then, whatever spelling you felt worked was basically valid.
WHY IS THERE NOT A TV SHOW ABOUT THIS MAN’S LIFE?!
It would be the best thing ever!!!
Probably because he was an unlikeable idiot. Hard to make a tv show with him as the main character.
@baldawen Unlikeable? No, the other characters would hate him but that’s what would make him endearing to us. The literal definition of an underdog who never gives up; cos he doesn’t know how to.
Like Pinky without the Brain.
King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England from how he was pictured in the video he is definitely unlikeable, unless a golddigger who treats his wife/family like shit and shoots at random people who don’t agree with him is someone good?
Of course in a show you can make anything up to fit the story better but this is very far from the mainstream “honest underdog who proved them all wrong” story.
@baldawen Yeah, I'm thinking more along the lines of a black comedy like It's Always Sunny, where it's a self-aware comedy about how the joke is that the characters ARE scumbags and we know it.
You couldn't take this shit and make a serious drama out of it, lmao.
@@baldawen You've never seen The Office before, I gather
I wrote a paper on that book, my teacher genuinely thought I was messing with him when I put in quotes of the book. He apologized to me the next day after I gave the book to him
i want to see that paper
I couldn't even get passed the first page much less read the entire book.
Love it when Mr. Terry is like raw chicken, and gives me Sam O'Nella.
Can you don't
Should I be disappointed only in you or humanity??.....
@@johncrq3594 wchat
@@Nothing-1w3
Only in them
Sad that Mr. Terry missed the dad joke, after making his first boatload of cash it said "[Timothy Dexter] realized that there were a lot of 'bucks' in Malden." Bucks being another word for male deer, which he was assigned to count. I had a good guffaw at that.
Also I honestly though the part where the second edition of the book just had all the punctuation at the end with the call for the reader to 'stick them wherever they thought they needed them' was really funny.
@Cole Casper-Tatum I like guffaw, it's one of those fun words that don't get used as often as it should.
@Cole Casper-Tatum It's cool, I'm not mad.
Imagine people taking that seriously and painstakingly cutting out them carefully and somehow sticking them to the pages.
@Cole Casper-Tatum "hear ye, hear ye"
Gotta admit Sam does a great job with his ad placement in his video lmao. Makes it funny. Nother good terry video! Props to you watching the mans adds to support his channel. Very gentlemanly of ya
I will always support a creator's advertisements! Thanks for supporting me in supporting them.
@@MrTerry Yah it's very cool, and I support you supporting Upser for supporting you to support the people supporting Samonella
share... skill... *gasp* AAAAAHHH
“ British and French rivalry at the time” could be said to like a thousand years in history
maybe someone said it already. I do not see it. but RNGesus refers to a gaming joke/term. Because a lot of gaming elements in a gaming can be randomly generated a random number generator (RNG) is used, most commonly a random value between 0 and 1. That is where that comes from.
i didn't know that, thanks for explaining it!
I have been cursed by RNGesus many times in my life. We are well acquainted.
@@Hi-bh2hx a bit bare bones my explanation, there is a bit more I am not covering and that I cannot properly explain. But I am happy it was usefull
@@MrTerry Indeed, I too have been, I see him as the cipple cousin of the Roman Godess Fortuna (or was Greek)
Ah, but of course... The great Mexican Jnerl, Jorge Washeton
Ole!!!!!!!!!!
That's Spaniard, Mexican be like "Ay wey"
umerickin*
Meksickun
“Failing upwards” perfectly describes the life of ol’ Timmy Dexter
This man's Wikipedia page is well worth a read
"when Dexter heard of people's complaints about lack of punctuation he had a special edition of his book made up with 11 pages of punctuation marks for readers to put in wherever they please"
When you fail so hard, you succeed
Task failed successfully
Click Ok to continue
"It looks like the colonies are stabbing the British, so let's see that again."
Spoken like a true patriot!
imagine going on youtube and seeing your history teacher say "wiener was balding"
Random
Number
Generation
This what defines luck in videogames
Rngsus
Jesus
Also clever since Tim's luck was random.
@@fandomguy8025 Yes
Thats what rng means.
@@kudrzyk wait so would that mean... an RNGeep is the luckiest car?
@@nolongerusing7430 propably
@@nolongerusing7430 it would be an RNGp
Hes definitely a teacher. He has the demeanor of someone who regularly deals with demon spawn.
This story is like something in the Addams Family where everything Gomez tried to do to loose money hit jackpots over and over
The same thing happened with the bitcoin, it suddenly had value and everyone who collected them got crazy money
"Failing upwards" a.k.a.
[Task failed successfully]
A very stable genius...
I was just thinking that the similarities are uncanny.
@@Tcrror the third edition of A Pickle For The Knowing Ones was retitled 'The Art of the Deal'
There's many more stories about the things he shipped and sold. Also,the 2nd edition of the book that included punctuation,out sold the first 8 printings.
“Sounds like the papers I get in class”
Jeez man, don’t light my house on fire with that burn!
"Sounds like the papers I get in class"
MR TERRY!
I just saw this one & thought "Mr. Terry should react to this."
Great minds think alike!
One thing I love about your channel is that the video you are reacting to isn't 1/10th of my screen and that I can actually see the video
Love how this dude always watches the sponsered segments all the way through, hes a true supporter
I’m curious to see if any of his students are watching
11:17 hahahaha you know his a legit teacher when he knows the real pain of reading student work
So theoretically and logically, if we destroyed money without replacing it, the value of the dollar would go back up
Genius!
AFAIK, destroying legal-tender notes is a federal offense
@Mr. Turnip They would just print more, which makes the value go down. are you from USA? If so, consider yourself lucky that you have not touched a 1 million note of any currency and said note have little to no value.
@Mr. Turnip My apologies. But it still baffles me that a million in a currency had no value!
React to Sam O'Nella's "the Presidential Assassination Nobody Talks About", it's really good too :)
I would love to have this guy as my history teacher.
The only problem...
4:00
Napomeon and Hitler invaded two days apart, one in 22nd June and the other in 24th June...
So uh
Who is napomeon?
When you play fallout with a LUCK 10 character
Timothy's luck has progressed into the modern day, as, if you look up his book now, not only does it still exist it is considered by historical Scholars to be and I quote "culturally important, and is a part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it"
honestly terry's videos are the most successful when they're stupid history ones
Just found your channel!
Im a bit of a history nerd and always have been.
Wish I had you as a teacher in high school. You should treat your students to the occasional Sam’O’Nella video if you don’t already.
Falling upwards is the best description of this guy I have ever heard
RNG stands for random number generator
It's a perception (maybe) of how in computer games loot is distributes. Once you loot a chest or a monster the random number generator determines if you get some good loot or just crap.
So praying to the lord of RNG once in a while will increase your luck to get good loot (very much like praying to the Lord in Heaven will make your lives easier).
Obiviously the messiah of the lord of RNG is his son RNGesus.
Timothy Dexter is the literal definition of "task failed successfully"
Real talk, this man is a legend. One of the few people who do "reaction videos" correctly.
RNGesus is the gamer luck god, RNG means random number generator, so when someone says you've been blessed by RNGesus, it just means you're very lucky.
Until this video, i had never heard the phrase "failing upwards" thank you.
Respect to this guy one reaction channel that doesn’t skip this part I wish more people were like you
"France and British rivalry"
Could be anytime
Thank you Mr. Terry for the historical background. Love your videos!!
11:15 Shots Fired! Shots Fired! Get DOWN! Duck and Cover!!!
Mr terry, please react to lemmino's lost colony of Roanoke video, I know you know the story, but the production quality is so high, it's worth a watch
Early adopter of text message style prose.. way ahead of his time
The way he transitions into the sponsorship is so funny 😂
There is one more thing about Timothy Dexter not mentioned. In recent times his booki now a sought-after collector's item.
He paused on the kid fliping off school😂
Which is kinda ironic sense he’s a teacher...
Teachers don’t care as long as you don’t flip them off or get yourself killed. Actually, then they’d have one less student to deal with.
Explanation time!: "RNGesus" is a non-serious deity created by the video gaming community. His name comes from mixing Jesus and RNG, which stands for "Randomly Generated Number".
RNG refers to mechanics that add randomness to a game, similar to dice rolls in Dungeons and Dragons. This is a term mostly used by the Speedrunning community, though the most broad part of the gaming community adopted it and turned into "RNGesus", a fickle god that grants his boons to anyone whenever he feels like it.
You hopped onto this quick, this just came out in the past few days. Awesomeness.
I'm a simple man. I see a new Sam O'Nella video, I watch it.
@@MrTerry Spoken like a gentleman and a scholar.
I have one sentence to sum this man’s entire life up: task failed successfully
Jorge would be Spanish and pronounced "hore hey"
No. Actually like "Horhe"
Jorge is a Scandinavian name
And also Portuguese, where the J is actually closer to English.
@@YEP753 I'm pretty sure it's not, which language would that be? I know Jörgen/Jørgen no Jorge.
Oh you should do Sam's video about Castro's love for milk. I think you'd get a kick outta that one
Love your commentary, it really adds to it. No sarcasm.
3 years late, but RNG means “Random number generator” RNGesus is video game slang for being bless by the random gods (like an enemy in a game dropping some really cool gear or something)
Timothy Dexter: I am the dumbest rags to riches ever
Mickey Carroll: Hold my beer
It is said this man ate nothing but lucky charms and 4 leaf clovers his entire life.
Timothy Dexter is the equivalent of 'Task failed successfully'
Great hat, reminds me a lot of the School of the Wolf medallion from The Witcher.
As usual though, you and Sam have thought me stuff I never knew so thank you
When you lose so hard that you win
Not only do I have respect for fully citing and giving proper credit to the original creator, but immense respect as well for even letting his ad play through to the end. Going to rewatch this video a few times with my ad blocker off just for that
It's really rare that I get a real teacher vibe from Terry's reactions but 11:14 was pure gold in that regard xD Man the amount of times I got scolded by my history and politics teacher for my spelling mistakes despite getting full marks content wise... That took me down memory lane
The other rich men telling him to do stupid things to bankrupt him, only to make him richer, sounds like a Spongebob and Squidward plotline lmao
Epicness at its peak
This guy telling you to sub and like the videos he’s reacting to is legendary, not once does he plug his channel but he thoroughly supports what he’s reacting to.
Love that you let his ad play ❤️
Timothy legit did the Massachusetts equivalent to getting headlight fluid and coming back with gold bricks.
Love your videos dude, literally watch all of them, but I've always got a question I notice in some videos. Have any of your students watched these videos and came in the next day and said, "sir you must get high as hell cos your eyes be Red AF"
No "hey" from Mr. Terry at the beginning in response to Sam....
dope video, dope intro. keep up the good work bruddah
I love that you sit through Sam's sponsor section everytime.
Kings and Generals would be a great channel to react to
britain and franch
- mr terry 2020
11:31 i can understand why if you manage to get pass the overwhelming bizzarnes of the book it becomes preety hilarious with how this is written
"I ask for giveness of the world of mankind for teling the trouth I meane No hurt to A flie only when he bits me then I kils the flye if I can I have bin my one tromter fore teene years my tromter is Dead my haveing so many wounds in fas and on my head I Doue it to make a good Lafe to keep my sperets from sinking pittey me all good peopel A men"
Literal excerpt from "A Pickle For The Knowing Ones" by Timothy Dexter.
11:11 damn dude haha!!
Terry will always be able to go over oversimplified’s videos and go into a little more detail about . But samo’nella teaches some of the most useless things, that nobody would ever care to learn this
Dexter isn't a story about failing upwards. That implies that the actual results of his actions turn out bad, yet he still gets a reward.
A better term is "stumbling into success" where you don't really put any thought into your decisions, but get lucky enough that it just works out.
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones reminds me of a text called Varaventtiili I received from my father, by his grandfather, which is an insane ramble about humanity, church, God and life. He sent this shit to the president, as well as the president of USSR. He was clearly insane, and that text fascinates me.