Who are the coolest geeks?

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i remember at school everything was "sad". then, a year later everything was "gay"

it's good that everyone found their bliss like that

old school geeks for me -- the ones who bite off chicken heads in the circus

*board games with scott* rules by the way:

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I think this current application of geek is getting out of hand, ever since I read a review referring to john coltrane as a jazz geek. i wanted to grab the critic and say "motherfucker JC was a virtuoso you're the geek."
anyway I digress - carry on.

i actually own the hardcover copy of nightmare alley with that cover. i am way cool.

that's what tobot was talking about above, i think. the word geek just gets thrown aound too easily these days.

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The coolest geeks have a doctorate in an -ology and can be found toiling away in the sub-basement of an enormous natural history museum when they aren't out on a dig.

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yeah, if you actively BUY poetry in actual book stores, then you probably qualify as a poetry geek.

What if, say, you've run and emceed a reading series for the past five or so years?

And if you have a BoardGameGeek account?

Anyway, there weren't foreign language geeks, so I went with the mathletes.

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."

And it's, like, not cool.

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o rly?

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to the tune of sex dwarf, obv

anyone whos taken a greek or roman or medieval lit class knows the coolest geeks are the CLASSICS geeks

dude, no.

i know a guy who MADE HIS OWN CHAIN MAIL

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

Chain mail = not a classicist. I did forensics with that guy

Classics geeks are okay; I have yet to see them step it up and combine LARPing, war re-enactment, and Homer, so that's a point for

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i know a guy who MADE HIS OWN CHAIN MAIL

throw the book at him

I guess the Iliad would be more war re-enactment, the Odyssey would be more LARPing

Venn Diagram = Goth Geeks and Sex Geeks.

goth geek = someone who is not a goth but is really into them?

goth = geek

i don't know if geek is quite the right term for goths

^^ geek geeks ^^

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

i'm too old and/or too urban to really grok goths

goth = geek
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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

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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

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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