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| Are you a nerd? |
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56% |
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| No |
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Roach
SBR Belfry Bat
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 3233
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quote:
Originally posted by xSamhainx
The term "nerd" seems to have been around alot longer, and has somewhat more nostalgic and sentimental value to it. The word "nerd" has a cute sound to it, like some high-falutin' hot chick would actually have pity in her heart to rain down her blessings upon some lonely nerd, just for charity's sake. Just to possibly go "where no girl has gone before", it would be like feeding the hungry or somthing. It also seems to be less of a vile word, as to where "geek" almost seems as though it carries a harder tone to it, as if the person in question was too over the edge of nerd-dom and loses the compassion (or pity) that a true nerd might invoke. But on the other hand, the term "geek" invokes more of a techy feel, like a programming contest between a nerd and a geek would end up with the geek the victor every time. Maybe geeks are just harder versions of nerds, who trade what little social graces they have, either by heredity or consciously, for technical wizardry.
 I agree with everything you said there, except it reverse. I think of Nerd as the harder sounding one, and the one that implies technical know how.
I just looked up geek in the dictionary and the second definition is this... ‘a carnival performer who bites the heads off live chickens.’
Imagine my surprise as someone who just admitted to being half geek. It seems that all of these years I have been biting the heads off of chickens in my sleep, and never even knew it. Well, I guess this explains why I fought with Jericho so much when he first got here.  |
Sat May 10, 2003 8:23 am |
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Val
Risen From Ashes
Joined: 18 Feb 2002
Posts: 14724
Location: Utah, USA |
quote:
Originally posted by Roach
Naa, I geek is someone that likes things that others see as silly, like fantasy novels/games, poetry, and singing loudly in the shower.
Hmm, I must be a nerdy geek then.
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Sat May 10, 2003 9:11 am |
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hoyp
High Emperor
Joined: 02 Oct 2002
Posts: 501
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I'm a normal guy that's addicted to rpgs......... |
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Sat May 10, 2003 8:18 pm |
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Oye
Noble Knight
Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Posts: 207
Location: inside it |
How can there be 8 nos?
YOU'RE REGISTERED USERS ON AN ONLINE ROLEPLAYING GAMES FORUM
Anyone but hardcore linux-geeks (that's right, if you use linux, you're a hardcore geek) would call you nerds. Wannabes! 
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Tue May 13, 2003 1:35 am |
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Jericho
Chicken?
Joined: 16 Oct 2002
Posts: 1535
Location: Toontown with the SANDY BEACHES |
quote:
Originally posted by Roach
I just looked up geek in the dictionary and the second definition is this... ‘a carnival performer who bites the heads off live chickens.’
Imagine my surprise as someone who just admitted to being half geek. It seems that all of these years I have been biting the heads off of chickens in my sleep, and never even knew it. Well, I guess this explains why I fought with Jericho so much when he first got here.
Well if you have been doing it in your sleep all these years how come you lost the fight? geek! 
And you must have been waking up with a horrible breath every morning.. no?
Im no nerd btw 
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Tue May 13, 2003 6:40 pm |
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Roach
SBR Belfry Bat
Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 3233
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Lost? Hell, I even had my own flag. My organized assault was far superior to your cheap little jokes. (and far more gory) |
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Tue May 13, 2003 7:13 pm |
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sauron38
Rara Avis
Joined: 14 Jan 2002
Posts: 4396
Location: Winnipeg's Sanctum Sanctorum |
I can operate an abacus... what does that make me?  |
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Tue May 13, 2003 10:32 pm |
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Finarfin
Baron of the Court
Joined: 20 Nov 2002
Posts: 345
Location: London |
surely contemplating about whether you are a nerd or not, qualifies you immediately.
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Wed May 14, 2003 12:12 pm |
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Oye
Noble Knight
Joined: 28 Nov 2002
Posts: 207
Location: inside it |
so does voting 
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goshuto
Wanderer
Joined: 29 May 2002
Posts: 1142
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Just read this:
$ Michael Jordan having "retired," with $40 million in endorsements, makes $178,100 a day, working or not.
$ If he sleeps 7 hours a night, he makes $52,000 every night while visions of sugarplums dance in his head.
$ If he goes to see a movie, it'll cost him $7.00, but he'll make $18,550 while he's there.
$ If he decides to have a 5 minute egg, he'll make $618 while boiling it.
$ He makes $7,415/hr more than minimum wage.
$ He'll make $3,710 while watching each episode of Friends.
$ If he wanted to save up for a new Acura NSX ($90,000) it would take him a whole 12 hours.
$ If someone were to hand him his salary and endorsement money, they would have to do it at the rate of $2.00 every second.
$ He'll probably pay around $200 for a nice round of golf, but will be reimbursed $33,390 for that round.
$ Assuming he puts the federal maximum of 15% of his income into a tax deferred account (401k), his contributions will hit the federal cap of $9500 at 8:30 a.m. on January 1st.
$ If you were given a penny for every 10 dollars he made, you 'd be living comfortably at $65,000 a year.
$ He'll make about $19.60 while watching the 100 meter dash in the Olympics, and about $15,600 during the Boston Marathon.
$ While the common person is spending about $20 for a meal in his trendy Chicago restaurant, he'll pull in about $5600.
$ This year, he'll make more than twice as much as all U.S. past presidents for all of their terms combined.
Amazing isn't it? However...
$ If Jordan saves 100% of his income for the next 450 years, he'll still have less than Bill Gates has today.
$$$ Game over. Nerd wins.
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Fri May 23, 2003 2:45 am |
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piln
High Emperor
Joined: 22 May 2003
Posts: 906
Location: Leeds, UK |
OK, I apologise in advance for just skimming over the thread and not reading it properly, but I can't hold this in much longer....
We're posting on a forum on a site called RPGDot.com. That's more than enough to qualify for 100% nerd-dom. You don't even need to go as far as seeing the thread about nerds, reading it and casting a vote. Anyone who got that far is nerd enough for the whole family (yes, that includes me). But I see that, at this time, only 58% voted yes. I think we've got some nerds in denial here.
Before anyone gets upset, consider this: if you're even reading this, then you're almost certainly a nerd (come on, nobody gets to RPGDot Forums > Absolutely Off Topic > All hail the nerds! by accident), and if you even think about replying then it's an open and shut case. You nerd. |
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Fri May 23, 2003 3:48 am |
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Korplem
Swashbuckler
Joined: 23 Dec 2002
Posts: 853
Location: Pearl Harbor, HI |
I always considered myself to be a geek... I thought 'nerd' was for people that were good at math and had pocket protectors. So by my standards, unless pre algebra in 10th grade is good at math i dont quite qualify for nerd. being tech savvy is the only thing keeping me from crossing the line of geek and complete wierdo
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Fri May 23, 2003 4:18 am |
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Gothic Soul
Master of Shadows
Joined: 27 Aug 2002
Posts: 682
Location: Underdark |
I alaways consider myself a GEEK cause I like to make fun at nerds. Now reading this topic I'm afraid I can't make fun of them again cause I might be one too  .
But I might add I have never met a Nerd that hears HIP HOp. So HAILS TO THE NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE NERDS!!!!!!!!AND ROCK!!!!!!!!
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Fri May 23, 2003 5:12 am |
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sauron38
Rara Avis
Joined: 14 Jan 2002
Posts: 4396
Location: Winnipeg's Sanctum Sanctorum |
quote:
Originally posted by dteowner
It's a personal failing of mine that I only know 12. I'm afraid you can only claim junior-grade nerd-dom until you you can do at least 10 digits.
I can hook you up with something for your problem.
http://members.shaw.ca/mwillco2/Pi.wav
(Right-Click, Save Target As)
(The pauses were when my minion needed a break for air... He, however refused to do more than 1:27 of it. >:] ) |
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Thu May 29, 2003 5:28 am |
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Temptress
Purely Innocent
Joined: 05 Jul 2002
Posts: 793
Location: Back in the saddle in leather and chaps! |
Ok all, it's time to prove. . . . How much of a geek you really are!!!
Clickety-clickety!!!
I was browsing my other website and saw this, so I did the test.
Loves ~T
BTW, 40.03945% - Major Geek. Dunno how happy I am about that either. |
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