Who are the coolest geeks?

forensics geek making chain mail = classics geek in disguise

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in fact, 90% of fantasy/rpg/larp geeks = classics geeks (some of them just dont know it yet!!)

the only goth 'geek' i know is a girl who does make-up & gore sfx for theatre & film, which does require at least a bit of technical proficiency

rite

all fantasy geeks descend from the ur-classics geek, HRH jrr tolkein

biggest classics geek I ever knew went from being a total wigger in high school to a devout eastern orthodox christian in college

other classics geeks I knew really didn't qualify next to him. dude was straight outta byzantium

nah...c'mon, its probs the geekiest youth sub-cult ever

i know what you mean, but isn't "geek" meant to mean, like, an excessive interest in and knowledge of something? corsets and anne rice novels is different (but may intersect many of the above).

other noted classics geeks: nietzsche, st. thomas aquinas

biggest classics geek I ever knew went from being a total wigger in high school to a devout eastern orthodox christian in college

CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM

isn't "geek" meant to mean, like, an excessive interest in and knowledge of something?

not necessarily, social ineptitude, innit. it's just that they often come as part of a package.

i liked the classics geeks i knew in college. the weirdest dude had a pet lizard and different colored eyes. the geekiest ones met weekly for beers and only talked in Latin (!).

xpost - Oh wait, no: that would just be like a Judgment Day rap-metal thing, except with System of a Down, wouldn't it

jordan those are exactly the kinds of kids im talking about!!! they RULE!!!!

i wish i knew what happened to my freshman year latin TA (would date A++)!

pc user: while there is some deviation in usage, geek does imply highly-specialized knowledge about a perticular subject

britishes

in the taxonomy of the socially inept, which we might comprehend in a sort of binomial nomenclature wherein geek is the container family, there are two primary (but by no means mutually exclusive) genera roughly corresponding to 'excessive interest' and 'excessive apathy/disinterest' that apply to the individual geek species

shut up u geek

wait which are the excessive apathy ones
I assume the other is nerd
or are you just typing shit

no, the excessive-apathy kids are 'smart kids with lots of potential' and the 'lazy stoners' and those who will 'never made anything of themselves'

i need graphs

e.g. there are nerds-by-investment (e.g. D&D players with big, expensive and hard come by sword collections they work hard to maintain) and nerds-by-default (D&D players who raid the medicine cabinet for phennies and end up walking next door for pizza and into the smack-dab center of a month long campaign against Ricven the Chaotic Evil Half-Orc Loremaster.)

i was a mathlete.
it was not very cool.

http://rrrojer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lindsayweir.jpg

anyways this is missing lots of kinds of geeks. where are the popular mechanics/electronic hobbyist radioshack geeks? or other kinds of science geek? none of these geeks even wear lab coats, and they look really cool.

that's why I voted "other" and said "mythbusters"

basically, adam savage and grant imahara ftw

Linda C A+++

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i like how all the guys of ilx are gonna vote mathlete because they wanna bang lindsay wier.

i was an other geek too: i wanted to be

http://www.joodiff.com/images/articles/std001.jpg

and

http://aarkangel.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/oscar-wilde.jpg

and

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/a/a0/225px-Breton.jpeg

haha, i went to high school with that guy (possibly not the exact same guy)

-- elmo argonaut, Friday, December 28, 2007 4:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^ tell

i like how all the guys of ilx are gonna vote mathlete because they wanna bang lindsay wier.

-- bell_labs, Friday, December 28, 2007 6:25 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Dude, I'll post that picture of your boyfriend where he looks like her.

lol I have seen that photo and remember the thread about it

Do not us QUIZZERS count as geeks then? ;¨;?

+ humbleness
- arrogance
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0(+) humbleness & arrogance independently distributed relative to actual capacity.

erm...
i would say the ones who can get me the best drugs = winner.
(that would be music nerds)

Also medieval geeks != classic geeks, ffs!

Oops "classics". They do equal classic!

Goths are often fantasy/horror or comic or RPG geeks, but I agree that being a goth doesn't per se equate being a geek.

You know, I was going to make a joke, but it occurs to me that there might actually be such a thing as a "sex geek."

What would he/she do to show his geekery then? Have a complex system of notating, grading and analyzing people he's fucked, in what positions he's done it, in which locations, etc?

there's definitely a such thing as a sex geek. it's like bondage people, people who use elaborate outfits and latex, that kind of thing. they can usually be found on craigslist casual encounters, hbo's real sex, and at burning man.

i'm sure you could come up with something, xpost

actually maybe it's more like a sex nerd. sex geek sounds like something that would be in a soft cell song.

and, they are not cool.

but a sex geek could also be someone who knows the entire history of bondage equipment and has a vintage collection of bondage accessories that they have never actually used.

like that Museum of Mentruation guy. total tampon geek:

http://www.mum.org/visitMUM.htm

sports geek backlash = envy

and it's not about being a statto, it's about having a photographic memory for LOTS of sporting action.

sex geeks are those flabby people you see on HBO's Real Sex shows swinging on bungee cords while they paint the walls with their nude bodies or stick themselves in candle wax and play accordions while they fuck and shit