i know a guy who MADE HIS OWN CHAIN MAIL
― max, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:03 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, i went to high school with that guy (possibly not the exact same guy)
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
uggggh
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Results 1 - 10 of about 333,000 for "geek chic". (0.08 seconds)
― sleep, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
USATODAY.com - Geek chic We used to shun them, mock them, give them wedgies and snicker when they played Dungeons & Dragons. Those loser days, however, are as over as Dumb and ... www.usatoday.com/life/2003-10-22-geek-chic_x.htm - 59k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
― sleep, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
throw the book at him
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess the Iliad would be more war re-enactment, the Odyssey would be more LARPing
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Venn Diagram = Goth Geeks and Sex Geeks.
― Eazy, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
goth geek = someone who is not a goth but is really into them?
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
goth = geek
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know if geek is quite the right term for goths
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ geek geeks ^^
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
nah...c'mon, its probs the geekiest youth sub-cult ever
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm too old and/or too urban to really grok goths
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
goth = geek rong
― sleep, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
forensics geek making chain mail = classics geek in disguise
― max, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.unitedmaskandparty.com/Halloween/images/the_crow_15720.JPG
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
in fact, 90% of fantasy/rpg/larp geeks = classics geeks (some of them just dont know it yet!!)
― max, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
other classics geeks I knew really didn't qualify next to him. dude was straight outta byzantium
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
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).
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
other noted classics geeks: nietzsche, st. thomas aquinas
― max, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (!).
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost - Oh wait, no: that would just be like a Judgment Day rap-metal thing, except with System of a Down, wouldn't it
― nabisco, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
jordan those are exactly the kinds of kids im talking about!!! they RULE!!!!
― max, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish i knew what happened to my freshman year latin TA (would date A++)!
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
pc user: while there is some deviation in usage, geek does imply highly-specialized knowledge about a perticular subject
― elmo argonaut, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
britishes
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
shut up u geek
― pc user, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
wait which are the excessive apathy ones I assume the other is nerd or are you just typing shit
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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'
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i need graphs
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
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.)
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i was a mathlete. it was not very cool.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://rrrojer.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/lindsayweir.jpg
― Jordan, Friday, 28 December 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
that's why I voted "other" and said "mythbusters"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
basically, adam savage and grant imahara ftw
Linda C A+++
― HI DERE, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bestuff.com/images/images_of_stuff/210x600/doctor-bunsen-honeydew-4994.jpg
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i like how all the guys of ilx are gonna vote mathlete because they wanna bang lindsay wier.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/a/a0/225px-Breton.jpeg
― remy bean, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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^ tell
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 28 December 2007 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link