Dork Pride! Suddenly, it's cool to be uncool

CNN ^ | July 18, 2005

[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.

[cripplecreek]

"All nerds think about is sex'


We don't think about it, we come up with detailed plans with bluprints and a timeframe.

[Clemenza]

See #137. Its SO true.

[orionblamblam]

> We don't think about it, we come up with detailed plans with bluprints and a timeframe.

It's the Critical Design Reviews and Flight Readiness Review that'll really get ya...

[Junior]

ustralopithicus Nerdicus

Lucy in the sky with ... glasses?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Woohoo! Geeks rule, nerds drool!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Certainly!

:)

[JCEccles]

A quarter mile, huh? Some arm. Or not much ability to measure.

Dead serious. If coach would've put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind.

[JasonC]

440 yards a throw and the coach didn't put you in. Gosh, that is so remarkable. And so believable, too.

[Junior]

Why would wolverines have a 12 gauge?

[ExGeeEye]

Might make the games more interesting.

Watchable, even.

"Forty-nine! Fifty-seven! Pull!"

[ko_kyi]

HA! Risk taking and uncertainty? You've obviously never tried setting up a mixed routable and non-routable protocol network, or tried solving a Microsoft "blue screen" problem!

And as for finishing what you start? Don't forget working from Friday to Sunday night without sleep because the RAID controller ate the mail server file system and on Monday morning 200 people are counting on you to have it back or your company loses tens of thousands of dollars of business.

[Ol' Sox]

Where are the nerd girls?!?!?!

Here ya go!

[PigRigger]

"blue screen"

Ahhhh, I've always affectionately called them the "Blue Screens of Death".....

Thanks to dynamic registries and bigger amounts of RAM these little buggers are becoming a thing of the past.....I miss them.....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Live cat trumps dead dog any day.

[rabidralph]

Can you build me a cake?

[rabidralph]

Napoleon Dynamite: Stay home and eat all the freakin' chips, Kip.
Kip: Napoleon, don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day. Besides, we both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.
Napoleon Dynamite: Since when, Kip? You have the worst reflexes of all time.
Kip: Try and hit me, Napoleon.
Napoleon Dynamite: What?
Kip: I said come down here and see what happens if you try and hit me.

[Shazbot29]

Clay Aiken- (pause here for big fan girly sigh) the fantasy fodder of geek lovers every where!

A more accurate picture:

[Shazbot29]

Those were the skills the football jocks learned.

I have football, soccer and baseball jocks that work FOR me. The only "skills" they got were how to cowtow to the Coach (now I am a substitute for that) and how to play sports.

I love having them "run laps" (do crap work).

Revenge is sweet.

[SunnySide]

That pic of Clay Aiken. Baby corn teeth and scarecrow hair. If he can make it, ANYONE can! :D

[Shazbot29]

If he can make it, ANYONE can! :D

Good point!