Who are the coolest 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
rong

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

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.

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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

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and

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