"I like your sleeves. They're real big."
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 ...
The dorks are still living high on the hog from all the money they fleeced from everybody in the Internet Bubble. As they exhaust their supply of funds, they will re-gain their rightful place in society as the weird guys who sit by the computer servers in the room with no windows.
I was uncool when uncool was uncool.
Brad and J who? Are these comic book characters of some type?
Which just begs the question:
What are YOU doing right now?
*I* was a geek before it was cool!
Amen to that, sass! Mr. Gun is so nerd. Two nerdy kids later, he's still creative!
No but they will probably be cast as the leads in some comic book adaptation someday so that the masses can get from a movie what they poo pooed audiences getting from a "comic book".
> The dorks are still living high on the hog from all the money they fleeced from everybody in the Internet Bubble.
Not *this* dork. The vast bulk of us dorks, geeks and nerds work for a living and didn't make buckets of money in the internet bubble. That was mostly the business majors, anyway.
I'm not quite sure which category I fit into, but it's definately down to geek or dork. I'd have to say that dork gets the edge, because in order to be a geek you have to have some sort of special talent or knowledge. I, however, remain a pointlessly eccentric individual with an ultra-lame sense of humor (with a penchant for puns that embarrass the listener) and no discernable abilities.
BUMP
Sitting by the computer, but I am not maintaining the network or anything.
What goes around comes around. In the 80's it was Huey Lewis and the News with "hip to be square".
Do you guys get together and have "Revenge of the Nerds" viewing parties?
I think that Office Space replaced that for essential viewing.
I don't know, I would rather be like Louis and/or Gilbert then the guy with the red stapler if I was a dork.
> I'm not quite sure which category I fit into, but it's definately down to geek or dork.
I'm squarely in the "nerd" camp. However, "Hey, baby, I'm a rocket scientist" is not nearly as successful as one might wish. And neither is "I have over 1200 books" or "I collect fossils and meteorites" or "I'm working on a book about unbuilt US bomber projects."
Where are the nerd girls?!?!?!
Not just any old sex, she's into er, whale sized equipment.
The most overrated motion picture in film history, IMO.
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