Posted on 07/18/2005 2:08:32 PM PDT by orionblamblam
... Whatever the reason, being a nerd, a geek, a dork -- whatever you want to call the tragically unhip -- is becoming a source of pride. ... And, increasingly, people are parading around in shirts that say "Dork Pride!" among other things. Such items have gotten so popular that CafePress.com, an online merchandiser, has created a special category for shirts and other items celebrating geeks, dorks and nerds. ... For now, though, he's going with it and has put a bumper sticker on his motorcycle that says "Talk Nerdy To Me" so he attracts the kind of women he's looking for -- "a librarian type girl," who likes to go to bookstores and art galleries and whose eyes don't glaze over when he starts talking about the finer points of "Babylon 5" or "Battlestar Galactica." ... "I see them as eccentrics or maybe smart, gentle people with a passion for something that may not be popular at the moment, like maybe computers, 'Star Wars,' physics," says Mai, a 28-year-old university employee who lives in Walnut, California. "Say, for instance, we're watching a dream movie with Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt and Topher Grace. I'd gush over Topher Grace," she adds, referring to an actor from "That '70s Show" who's known for his geek appeal.
To prove her point, Mai has an "I (Heart) Dorks" tank top, which she wears often.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I wish I knew a nice geeky woman to fix you up with, but alas, I do not. Unfortunately, a lot of geeky women try to hide their geekiness, making the male geek's search even more difficult.
Hunting wolverines with a friggin' 12 gauge, in Alaska, with my uncle. Throwing a pigskin a quarter mile. You know, useful skillz.
And the ion shall lay down with the LAN,
and the geeks shall inherit the stars.
Geeks are often 5-15 years ahead of the curve. Some would say that is leading edge or uber hip.
But the square "cool people" define the norm. Cool is eternal and the pretenders to the throne are seldom right about any of it. Juat because something is a "hit" does not mean it is any good.
You can be a geek about any number of things (whether it is fact or fiction, science, politics, books, music, etc.). Musicians can be geeks. News junkies are geeks too.
That's okay, because often the geek follows his own path and that is what being an individual is all about. Some dorks may follow the herd for awhile but eventually they hopefully draw their own conclusions.
All of the people who use home computers to connect to the internet and watch movies with digital audio offering director commentary and bonus footage could have had that back in 1987.
Rather than gushing about a documentary about the Ramones, they could have seen them live (I'm not aware of any sold out concerts). But those were the days of "good" bands like Bon Jovi, Tone Loc, and Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians.
Reject the top 10 culture and live your own life. Who wants to eat McDonald's every day?
I love geeks. I've never dated or wanted to date a guy who wasn't a geek.
I loved 'Beauty and the Geek'.
It is extremely rare for everyone to leave a reality show experience with their lives significantly improved, whether they won or not.
I hope to someday have all of the dialogue memorized like my son who has skillz.
There are. It's just that we're all taken. :-)
-Foxfire, geeklette extraordinaire
I even gave up on nerdbabes, so now I'm working on my new interspecies strategy. There must be less-discerning females out there someplace, I figger. Perhaps in the marsupial group . . . . . . .
> If only there were some around here... :(
> There are. It's just that we're all taken. :-)
Well, if your "around here" was *my* around here (northern rural utah... not that far from Preston Idaho)... you'd know that there's really no such thing as an available female human above the age of twenty or so. An engagement ring seems to come with the high school diploma. Geek or no geek, Goth or square... all the wimmins is taken.
>:(
geeky girls rule!!!
> I even gave up on nerdbabes
Not me, not quite yet. Still hoping that somewhere out there is that perfect nerdgirl with bad eyesight and low standards...
Sorry I'm taken :o)
> When you think of the archetypal "nice guy" are you more likely to picture a geek or a frat boy?
Indeed. I think one of the bigger distinctions between the "cool" crowd and the "geek/nerd" crowd is taht the cool ones seem to have a much more highly develoiped sense of personal ambition. While the nerd might dream of, and work toawrds, changing the world (through, computers, medicine, space colonization, whatever), you're more likely to find the Cool Ones dreaming of personal power, vast wealth, yes-men and sycophants.
Which group of people is better for society? The quiet and socially unpopular ones who nevertheless are responsible for the bulk of the progress mankind has made since the first Australopithicus Nerdicus figured out that he/she could generate more moment arm with a stick... or the loud ones who know how to play the system to put themselves at the peak of the tribe so's to get the first dibs on the dead zebra?
Nerd girls are the best. They REALLY turn it on behind closed doors.
DORK POWER! DORK PRIDE WORLDWIDE! ;-)
Rub it in, rub it in....
"All jocks think about it sports. All nerds think about is sex."
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