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...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?

...were you on the air?

EDIT: Yeah, base stolen!

...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?

What is the geekiest thing you've ever done in public?

Knowing a hangman question was "All your base are belong to us" before any letter was even put on, and loudly proclaiming it

I called out, "Lollerskates" when my family and I missed a train by a sliver.

...were you on the air?

EDIT: Yeah, base stolen!

Oh yes. It was on the classic rock station in town, no less.

You are straight outta Geekywood!

Also, I wanna go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?

What is the geekiest thing you've ever done in public?

I saw Weird Al in concert years ago, ohh man that was fun. Nothing like seeing a skinny man in a fat suit jump around doing a Michael Jackson song parody while you are a child.

I called out, "Lollerskates" when my family and I missed a train by a sliver.
i've almost said lol in conversation.

in a recent discussion on seriousness, i informed the group that I are serious cat and seriousness are serious topic.

not the geekiest thing, but amusing. hard to pin down a single geeky moment when you're a physicist.

Knowing a hangman question was "All your base are belong to us" before any letter was even put on, and loudly proclaiming it

Now that is geeky.

You are straight outta Geekywood!

Also, I wanna go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have an extry ticket. :D

Now that is geeky.



I have an extry ticket. :D




*is now your best friend*

So nerdy you must click this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw) :cool:

Good. We can bring Doritos and Mountain Dew along on the car ride and play Star Wars trivial pursuit while we wait for the concert to start...

You care why? If you didn't want to be "geeky", you'd make a concerted effort not to.

...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?


ooh, where did you do that?

Hmmm... attended anti software-patent protests... created a constructed language for my NS nation, put a Tux on a computer so it runs 'under Linux', wear Linux-T-shirts almost every day. But I think the time where I stated I am emacsite and said that I could sue the uni for discrimination on religious grounds tops it.

You care why? If you didn't want to be "geeky", you'd make a concerted effort not to.

Ah, assuming of course I don't want to be geeky. Maybe I was making a concerted effort to be as geeky as possible, and therefore gauging which was geekier?

Hmmm... attended anti software-patent protests... created a constructed language for my NS nation, put a Tux on a computer so it runs 'under Linux', wear Linux-T-shirts almost every day. But I think the time where I stated I am emacsite and said that I could sue the uni for discrimination on religious grounds tops it.

Do you wear a tux under your Linux t-shirt? :p

*is jealous*

As for the geekiest thing I've done in public...man, there's so many options I don't even know where to begin. I've sung madrigals in full Renaissance attire in the middle of McDonald's, wrote and performed a parody version of "Baby Got Back" describing how much I like trivia games on the radio, went to see the Hitchhiker's movie dressed in a bathrobe and cheerfully waving a towel, organized a Viking takeover of one of the dining halls at my college...I could go on and on and on. Geekiness FTW, indeed. :D

Do you wear a tux under your Linux t-shirt? :p
Actually, once I did smuggle a Tux under my Linux-T-Shirt somewhere.

*is jealous*

As for the geekiest thing I've done in public...man, there's so many options I don't even know where to begin. I've sung madrigals in full Renaissance attire in the middle of McDonald's, wrote and performed a parody version of "Baby Got Back" describing how much I like trivia games on the radio, went to see the Hitchhiker's movie dressed in a bathrobe and cheerfully waving a towel, organized a Viking takeover of one of the dining halls at my college...I could go on and on and on. Geekiness FTW, indeed. :D

Huzzah!

There need to be more public displays of geekiness in the world.

Good. We can bring Doritos and Mountain Dew along on the car ride and play Star Wars trivial pursuit while we wait for the concert to start...



I would so love to go and dress as nerdy as possible.

http://www.monodam.com/2002Halloween/images/026%20Lucky%20nerd.jpg

Today, I wore a crown that said "Drama Queen" and ran around my school screaming about how happy I was to grad, and how I never had to see any of their stupid goddamn f.ckfaces ever again, or be part of their retarded little elitist world, and try to conform to something I'm not. It was a good time.

dressed in a bathrobe

Huzzah!

I spent three hours arguing with my friend on the physical impossibility of a lightsaber.

...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?

What is the geekiest thing you've ever done in public?

*grabs Weird Al tickets and runs*

Huzzah!

I spent three hours arguing with my friend on the physical impossibility of a lightsaber.

Brilliant!



*grabs Weird Al tickets and runs*

Hey! Me and Sumamba are gonna come after you with claymores!

Hey! Me and Sumamba are gonna come after you with claymores!

In the unitarian jihad thread I found out my name is Sibling Claymore of Enlightenment. So your threat doesn't scare me at all! Me and claymores have an understanding! ;)

Probably screaming "You smell like an ork!" and various other insults in Elvish at a girl who was annoying me to the point where she actually looked frightened. Maybe leaving sticky-notes saying "If you can read this please respond to locker number whatever it was" in Dwarvish all over my middle school. Possibly memorizing pi in my spare time.

Ha. About fifteen of my friends and I once spent about a week arguing over email as to who would win in a fight between Gandalf and Yoda. (Gandalf would, obviously.)

What about Palpatine vs Gandalf? :p

Huzzah!

I spent three hours arguing with my friend on the physical impossibility of a lightsaber.

Ha. About fifteen of my friends and I once spent about a week arguing over email as to who would win in a fight between Gandalf and Yoda. (Gandalf would, obviously.)

Ha. About fifteen of my friends and I once spent about a week arguing over email as to who would win in a fight between Gandalf and Yoda. (Gandalf would, obviously.)

Blasphemy!

Ha. About fifteen of my friends and I once spent about a week arguing over email as to who would win in a fight between Gandalf and Yoda. (Gandalf would, obviously.)

*attempts to lynch Poli in two forums*


Gandalf... you know Yoda could stop Gandalf's movements dead with the Force.

*attempts to lynch Poli in two forums*


Gandalf... you know Yoda could stop Gandalf's movements dead with the Force.

Puh-lease. Gandalf can rise from the dead. He can pwn a freaking Balrog. As if some silly little Muppet could hurt him! :p

Puh-lease. Gandalf can rise from the dead. He can pwn a freaking Balrog. As if some silly little Muppet could hurt him! :p

He could only rise from the dead because the gods (or whatever) thought it was a really really good idea. Presumably so that he could help defeat Sauron. Why would they think the same for defeating Yoda?

Knowing a hangman question was "All your base are belong to us" before any letter was even put on, and loudly proclaiming it
Painting a sign that read "All your base are belong to science" to hang in front of the engineering building.

I also tend to get rather excited about planetariums and observatories... plus I went and got my degree in Physics... and sat about with my friends during convocation pointing out how funny the titles for some of the physics/astro theses were only to realize that the fact that we understood them made us giant geeks.

Puh-lease. Gandalf can rise from the dead. He can pwn a freaking Balrog. As if some silly little Muppet could hurt him! :p

Hardly a guarantee as GT said. Besides, using that particular technique doesn't really work in this argument as he would have lost the duel if he had to use it. ;)

Puh-lease. Gandalf can rise from the dead. He can pwn a freaking Balrog. As if some silly little Muppet could hurt him! :p

I'd like to see Boba Fett against Aragorn. Now that would be cool...


Although come to think of it now, Gandalf and Obi-Wan are essentially the same character...

Hardly a guarantee as GT said. Besides, using that particular technique doesn't really work in this argument as he would have lost the duel if he had to use it. ;)

Again, though, the fact that Gandalf kicked the Balrog's ass certainly suggests that he could take down Yoda.

I mean, within the LOTR mythos, Gandalf is essentially analogous to an angel. He's not strictly mortal, he's absurdly wise, and he is, quite frankly, totally freaking badass. Yoda's not bad for a few-hundred-year-old, but Gandalf's got a couple of millennia of experience and wisdom on him. (And, heck, how smart can Yoda be if after all that time he still hasn't learned basic English grammar? Gandalf, by contrast, speaks at least half a dozen languages fluently.) Plus, Gandalf comes with Shadowfax, who could easily trample Yoda flat.

Today, I wore a crown that said "Drama Queen" and ran around my school screaming about how happy I was to grad, and how I never had to see any of their stupid goddamn f.ckfaces ever again, or be part of their retarded little elitist world, and try to conform to something I'm not. It was a good time.

i thought you were 16! youve graduated?

congrats! and congrats for having the guts to flame out. everyone should.

it will make for a more interesting class reunion down the line.

Again, though, the fact that Gandalf kicked the Balrog's ass certainly suggests that he could take down Yoda.

The fact that he had to die in order to do so suggests he would lose the duel. ;)

I mean, within the LOTR mythos, Gandalf is essentially analogous to an angel.

Analogous, but not equal.

Plus, Gandalf comes with Shadowfax, who could easily trample Yoda flat.

With Yoda comes the force-guided flying-lightsabers of doom. I don't think a horse is going to be effective here.

Again, though, the fact that Gandalf kicked the Balrog's ass certainly suggests that he could take down Yoda.

I mean, within the LOTR mythos, Gandalf is essentially analogous to an angel. He's not strictly mortal, he's absurdly wise, and he is, quite frankly, totally freaking badass. Yoda's not bad for a few-hundred-year-old, but Gandalf's got a couple of millennia of experience and wisdom on him. (And, heck, how smart can Yoda be if after all that time he still hasn't learned basic English grammar? Gandalf, by contrast, speaks at least half a dozen languages fluently.) Plus, Gandalf comes with Shadowfax, who could easily trample Yoda flat.

Perhaps he chooses to speak the way he does? Besides we don't know how many languages Yoda might speak, the canon has never gotten into such detail but I'm sure he knows more than Basic after nine hundred years. Gandalf and the other wizards also seem limited if they don't have their precious staffs with them and Yoda hardly needs anything such as that to use the Force, even the cane is just a prop really that he ditches when fighting. Yoda by the way is considered the wisest of the Jedi so in knowledge I have no problem in naming him the equal of Gandalf. When you have the ability to pick up large objects with your mind and are able to choke the life out of someone with a wave of your hand, I have no problem knowing who has the advantage in such a fight.

Perhaps he chooses to speak the way he does? Besides we don't know how many languages Yoda might speak, the canon has never gotten into such detail but I'm sure he knows more than Basic after nine hundred years. Gandalf and the other wizards also seem limited if they don't have their precious staffs with them and Yoda hardly needs anything such as that to use the Force, even the cane is just a prop really that he ditches when fighting. Yoda by the way is considered the wisest of the Jedi so in knowledge I have no problem in naming him the equal of Gandalf. When you have the ability to pick up large objects with your mind and are able to choke the life out of someone with a wave of your hand, I have no problem knowing who has the advantage in such a fight.

Wisest, yes. If you're going for all out power, that would go to Windu.
And we know Yoda at least has a basic grasp of Shyriwook.

I'm the person that everyone labels "nerd" before I've even spoken. Not that I generally mind. It's rather true. ^_^

Let's see... the nerdiest/geekiest thing I've done? Not answerable. But hey, I was attempting to find any pattern for prime numbers in middle school. I call one of my close friends "my salad" (see CJ Cherryh's works if you don't get it). And I'm always quoting something - and can correct almost anyone on it, if it is one of the things I geek out on. Bit of a Regency nerd as well. Don't get me started on Jane Austen. I can tell you almost anything you ever wanted to know, except who some of the actors/actresses are from specific movie/miniseries variations of the stories. :P

And obviously I belonged to the D&D club, math club, etc. (and philosophy club, but is that really geeky?) Play minesweeper and a few forms of solitaire. And I've been creating my own language for my book. Pretty much have the grammar down, it's just vocab that I really have left to flush out. :)

Again, though, the fact that Gandalf kicked the Balrog's ass certainly suggests that he could take down Yoda.

I mean, within the LOTR mythos, Gandalf is essentially analogous to an angel. He's not strictly mortal, he's absurdly wise, and he is, quite frankly, totally freaking badass. Yoda's not bad for a few-hundred-year-old, but Gandalf's got a couple of millennia of experience and wisdom on him. (And, heck, how smart can Yoda be if after all that time he still hasn't learned basic English grammar? Gandalf, by contrast, speaks at least half a dozen languages fluently.) Plus, Gandalf comes with Shadowfax, who could easily trample Yoda flat.

Yeah. When Yoda confronts his universe's incarnation of evil he's sent running with his tale between his legs. He gets flushed down the tube.

Gandalf does too, but he takes the villain with him. And he comes back to tell about it.

When Yoda dies, all he can do is phosphoresce. When a semen stain and a blacklight can duplicate your best trick, you know you aren't winning any coolness contests.

Painting a sign that read "All your base are belong to science" to hang in front of the engineering building.

I helped some friends write "All your board are belong to us" on all (about 10-12) of the whiteboards in our building at school last year.

It's hard to pin down one thing, mostly because I do or say something that qualifies at least once a day. The time me and my friends walked past the bio class with cardboard cut-outs of Pacman and the ghosts was awesome too.

wearing mario-themed t-shirts in public.

wearing mario-themed t-shirts in public.

I wanna get an NPC shirt!

...that I won tickets to a Weird Al concert in a radio contest, and I'm actually excited about going, or that I yelled "For the win!" at the DJ?

What is the geekiest thing you've ever done in public?

Omg, I have had a crush on Weird Al FOREVER! Lucky bastard.

Having a discussion on how fast a car would have to be moving to flatten out and hurtle under a moving train unharmed.

I think the geekiest thing I have ever done is bragged to my RL friends that I won the Sexiest NSer contest. They were like, what?

I think the geekiest thing I have ever done is bragged to my RL friends that I won the Sexiest NSer contest. They were like, what?

Winning the Sexiest NSer contest is like being the thinnest person at fat camp and you know it.

:p

Having a discussion on how fast a car would have to be moving to flatten out and hurtle under a moving train unharmed.

There are speeding ads on TV that say that going a few kph over the limit makes a big difference. So using the distance and speed data they provided along with the speed limit and assuming that reaction time is negligible I found that the little girl in the ad is going to get hit either way (it takes around 2 seconds either way I think).

It's hard to pin down one thing, mostly because I do or say something that qualifies at least once a day. The time me and my friends walked past the bio class with cardboard cut-outs of Pacman and the ghosts was awesome too.

Please tell me you made the Wakka Wakka Wakka noise... If you didn't it would be no where near the level that it oculd have been.

As for me... We had to memorize a soliloquy from Macbeth last year, so with the large amounts of free time in school (it's amazing how much reading I got done through high school... It's weird talking about it in the past tense (I just graduated)...) I translated the soliloquy into Klingon. And then, I recited it in front of the class. And my friend recorded it. And it became a commercial for my school's TV system. I'm known throughout the school, and will likely be so for years to come. In my defense, I got a 100 on the project. My friend has to put that on Youtube still (and, let's just say it won't be my only thing on youtube... Not even close...)

Beyond that, I've done a number of things to the song Skeletor vs. Beastman. For those of you who know it, check out my YTMNDS (http://www.ytmnd.com/users/bltztgr/). For those who don't, check them out at your own risk. I've also created new lyrics for the song about programming computers. One day, I may or may not type that up for the world to see.

Winning the Sexiest NSer contest is like being the thinnest person at fat camp and you know it.

:p

I PLEAD THE FIFTH

Come on now, you saw my competition, and it was tough. Plus some of the girls that didn't run for one reason or another...I wish Miss Holy See had been around for this one, she would have really given me a run for my money. SO that is not a nice thing to say.

Please tell me you made the Wakka Wakka Wakka noise... If you didn't it would be no where near the level that it oculd have been.

I can't remember, also the class wouldn't have been able to hear it through the window probably.

WHO CARES IF THEY COULD HEAR! I make the wakka wakka noise for no reason at all just because it sounds cool.

I spent alot of my high school lunches playing Magic: The Gathering out on the grass field with my friends for the whole school to see and none of us cared. Except of course when one of my friends saw a girl he had a crush on coming by. He just went running.

Having a discussion on how fast a car would have to be moving to flatten out and hurtle under a moving train unharmed.

Yes, but have you calculated the terminal velocity of an airplane shortly after taking off in said plane?

(Some years ago, some friends and I discussed this for two full minutes before noticing that the passengers around us did not look happy....) :p

Probably screaming "You smell like an ork!" and various other insults in Elvish at a girl who was annoying me to the point where she actually looked frightened. Maybe leaving sticky-notes saying "If you can read this please respond to locker number whatever it was" in Dwarvish all over my middle school. Possibly memorizing pi in my spare time.
How I wish I could remember pi . . . ;)

I use 'frack' as a swear word.

Also, when asked to write a story in Language Arts using a character who was 'different' from ourselves, I used one of my D&D characters. I then went and read the story to my class. Guess the reaction.

Applause. On my paper, my teacher wrote "You are clearly at home in this genre."

I use 'frack' as a swear word.

Also, when asked to write a story in Language Arts using a character who was 'different' from ourselves, I used one of my D&D characters. I then went and read the story to my class. Guess the reaction.

Applause. On my paper, my teacher wrote "You are clearly at home in this genre."

Pfft. You should be using Belgium.

Pfft. You should be using Belgium.

It comes from playing EVE Online. Frack was introduced, probably by Battlestar Galactica fans, and has since entered common usage. For instance:

Guy 1: 5-man pirate camp on the gate
Guy 2: Frack
Guy 1: Wait, a dreadnought just showed up
Guy 2: frack frack frack
Guy 3: We're screwed

Someone says the word "interesting"
Me: "Define interesting"
*pause to see if they come up with the next line. If it's someone in my family, the entire scene is reenacted*