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GEEK OUT! geekiest things about you

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:06 PM

OPPYH


OF course we are all geeks in one way or another.

Name 3 things that really confirm your inner geek.

Mine:

3. I own Mr. Belvedere on dvd, and plan on buying all the seasons.

2. Once I got into a serious argument with a friend about the better sci-fi film. Planet of the Apes, or 2001. I was pro POTA. The debate lasted over an hour LOL!

1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the phone Buffy uses to call 911 in the episode "The Body" I won that in the Buffy Auction on E-Bay shortly after the series ended. I paid big bucks, and of all my toys and knick knacks it is my prized possession.


I also still play Dungeons and Dragons(I have since 1985).

I could name more, but at the expense of making myself a dweeb, I'll stop there.

Come on people, what realm of geekdom do you inhabit?


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Thursday, December 10, 2009 2:38 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


1. I own The Hitchhikers full collection. And I mean FULL.Original radio series,TV series, Movie,books,LP's, Radio scripts and new release by Eoin Colfer. I even have a genuine Arthur Dent dressing gown.

2. I can tell you every single character in oreder of appearance,episode titles in alphabetical order and original air dates for Farscape without looking it up.

3.I am the only Englishman I know that can list all 50 US states in alphabetical order WITH their state capitals.

4.I have a Monday DVD night where I watch one episode of each of my favourite series, just like it was my own TV channel.

5.My missus hasn't left me yet!!!!!!!

I think you can regain some pride now, dude!!

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:14 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA


Quote:

3.I am the only Englishman I know that can list all 50 US states in alphabetical order WITH their state capitals.


Well that's not being geeky, that's being smart.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 4:51 PM

CHRISISALL


1) I made a REALLY big phaser in my sculpture class last month:

2) I spent 6 hours over 10 days painting & re-painting this stupid toy last week:

3) Serenity is my favourite movie of all time.
4) I had drinks (at a hotel bar during a convention in NYC) with James Doohan in the early eighties.
5) In the seventies I used to walk to High School barefoot because of Kwai-Chang Caine.
6) I met Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster at DC Comics because of a Superman fan film I made & showed at a Creation Con (what a freakin' honour!! And they LIKED my film!!!!!!)
7) I did some stunts for the Troma flick "Citizen Toxie," got paid & fed for it, and am even in the credits (though they spelled my last name a little bit wrong)

Where's my Geek Crown?





The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:36 PM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Oh Good God. We are starting to turn it into a competition. We really are Geeks. Let's be proud and shout it loud.LOL

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:44 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


I scored 43 out of 50 on a test for Asperger's Syndrome. Is that geeky?

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:52 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


I still own sci-fi paperbacks I bought new that have a 35 cent cover price.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:52 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by peacekeeper:
We really are Geeks. Let's be proud and shout it loud.LOL


SAY IT NOW
& SAY IT LOUD
WE ARE GEEKS
AND WE ARE PROUD!


The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:52 PM

JAYDEPPS


Not sure if this is the type of geeky you guys were looking for, but I practically know everything about the Philadelphia Flyers. It is so bad that if someone says the last name I can give their first name and probably their number and when they played for the team.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:55 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Geezer:
I still own sci-fi paperbacks I bought new that have a 35 cent cover price.


I have issues of Superman I bought new that have a 12 cent cover price.
Not mint condition, but hey, that's 6-year old kid collateral damage for ya.



The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 5:57 PM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Jaydepps:
Not sure if this is the type of geeky you guys were looking for, but I practically know everything about the Philadelphia Flyers. It is so bad that if someone says the last name I can give their first name and probably their number and when they played for the team.


Geek, of a sort.



The laughing Chrisisall

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:47 PM

ZENMAN8512


1. I own all but 6 of the 25th anniversary G.I Joe 3 3/4" action figures.

2. I've bought Serenity & Firefly Blu-ray disks and I don't even have a Blu-ray player yet.

3. I own a Serenity lunch pail

4. Every time I hear "I aim to misbehave" I smile.

And too many other geeky things to list

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:37 PM

RIVERDANCER


Well, I know what an ellipsis is. I also know what a tittle is. I know not only what a semicolon is, but how it's actually meant to function. I subscribe to 'word of the day' e-mails. I enjoy annotated books. I am English Language Geek Extraordinaire!

Also, I am really, really jealous of Peacekeeper's HHGTTG collection.

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Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:33 PM

RAHLMACLAREN

"Damn yokels, can't even tell a transport ship ain't got no guns on it." - Jayne Cobb


Is anything Firefly/Serenity related too cool to be geeky or is it just me?

1. I know the Zork universe pretty well.
Senior year high school English (when I was still passing that class), I wrote a paper about the meaning of the word 'Zork'. When Chuck mentioned Zork in the very first ep of "Chuck", I knew what he was talking about! I haven't beat any of the text based games without cheats/walkthroughs (I've tried them all, but blind mazes kick my ass!), although I did print out the whole Encyclopedia Frobozzica.

2. I'm trying to design a spaceship AND a zeppelin. And I'm NOT an engineer. Getting the interior to match the exterior with form-and-function in a house is pain. For a ship with an angled outer hull (in places), it's a bitch.

3. This year I bought an old big-box Baldur's Gate (5 CDs), just so I could have all the bells and whistles (big manual, big map, big box). Too bad the "postal employee" crammed it into the mailbox! (It was rainy that day.) The box was in that weatherproof plastic bubblewrap stuff, it didn't NEED to go in the mailbox, GORRAMNIT!!! Luckly, my box massaging skills are well honed. I managed to get the box to about 95% OK status.

4. I have 3 Square One TV videos from YouTube. Also, the Wet Paint video from Seseme Street.

5. I have all my LEGOs (too many to list here, but still not enough), and I have access to my brothers for the time being.

6. I WANT to work at a Buy More.

7. I'm a lonely, lone wolf :(

More later. Maybe...


--------------------------------------------------
Find here the Serenity you seek. -Tara Maclay

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Friday, December 11, 2009 4:04 AM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Quote:

Originally posted by RiverDancer:
Well, I know what an ellipsis is. I also know what a tittle is. I know not only what a semicolon is, but how it's actually meant to function. I subscribe to 'word of the day' e-mails. I enjoy annotated books. I am English Language Geek Extraordinaire!

Also, I am really, really jealous of Peacekeeper's HHGTTG collection.

All available on Amazon or BBC website RD. Except the dressing gown of course.lol

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Friday, December 11, 2009 5:12 AM

NCBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
I scored 43 out of 50 on a test for Asperger's Syndrome. Is that geeky?



My daughter and I joke that Asperger's Syndrome should be renamed, "Ultimate Geek Syndrome" and this is from a young lady that has an official diagnosis of AS. She's currently working on an AA in web design and just started the Cisco Networking Certification courses.

OK, here are my geek symptoms:

1. I have worn really thick glasses (very nearsighted, but was an early adopter for soft contacts) since 3rd grade and lived with my nose in a book or wandering in rapture in any library pre-internet. I ended up #10 in my high school class of 250 without any effort.

2. I get waves of "tech lust" when new gadgets come out. Right now I desperately want a Droid phone from Verizon (the iPhone is passe INMHO despite being the owner of a iTouch) but I can't get a new phone until May. Hey, maybe something even better will be out by then.

3. I drove 5 hours to Maryland and paid for 2 nights in a hotel for a chance to be a unpaid extra in the Browncoats: Redemption fan film. I even supplied my own Chinese inspired outfit.

And let me see, I think I have 4 copies of Firefly including the Blu-Ray version, 3 copies of Serenity...

Long time divorced/single Mom, whose daughter, after dragging me reluctantly to see Serenity in 2005, and seeing the rapture on my face after the movie, told me to "embrace my inner geek" and I have.


And the list goes on.



http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/








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Friday, December 11, 2009 8:52 AM

STARTROOP


1. I have hand painted (by myself) a collection of over 10,000 military miniatures from many eras including WWII, Colonials, Medieval, American Civil War, Ships of many sorts, aircraft and other sorts of geeky stuff.

2. I keep an unopened, in the celophane, copy of Serenity for emergency gifts.

3. Between my wife and I (Geeks do marry) we have at last count over 12.000 books (including all the paperbacks I bought as a kid for 35 cents). We joke that the reason we stopped moving around was that the books were too hard to move.

4. At 53, I went back to school for my PhD in Computer Science.

5. In 1975, my college roomy and I build a home computer from a kit. It had a blistering 1 megahert processor, 32K (as in kilobytes) of memory that we had to pay extra for, storage was on a cassette drive and we even had a line printer hat was 40 charaters wide.

And the list goes on ;-)




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Friday, December 11, 2009 9:58 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


one of my proudest possessions is my 95c copy of the Berkeley paperback edition of Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It's a replacement- I found it at a used book store, to replace the copy I had since I was a teenager, that I wore out.

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Friday, December 11, 2009 10:04 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by startroop:


3. Between my wife and I (Geeks do marry) we have at last count over 12.000 books (including all the paperbacks I bought as a kid for 35 cents). We joke that the reason we stopped moving around was that the books were too hard to move.



Oh, I'm *J*E*A*L*L*O*U*S*. Not of your wife, of your library. Makes my "whole living room wall of books" look small. If you ever get divorced, can I get custody of your books? I'll make sure they have a good home...

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Friday, December 11, 2009 10:15 AM

STARTROOP


I appreciate that ;-) We have in our will to donate those the kids don't want to the public library.

As to a divorce, we have been married 31 years and she just about has me broken in ;-)

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Friday, December 11, 2009 1:23 PM

NCBROWNCOAT


Quote:

Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Quote:

Originally posted by startroop:


3. Between my wife and I (Geeks do marry) we have at last count over 12.000 books (including all the paperbacks I bought as a kid for 35 cents). We joke that the reason we stopped moving around was that the books were too hard to move.



Oh, I'm *J*E*A*L*L*O*U*S*. Not of your wife, of your library. Makes my "whole living room wall of books" look small. If you ever get divorced, can I get custody of your books? I'll make sure they have a good home...



I'd just want to read my way through it.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/








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Saturday, December 12, 2009 7:52 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
1) I made a REALLY big phaser in my sculpture class last month:

2) I spent 6 hours over 10 days painting & re-painting this stupid toy last week:

3) Serenity is my favourite movie of all time.
4) I had drinks (at a hotel bar during a convention in NYC) with James Doohan in the early eighties.
5) In the seventies I used to walk to High School barefoot because of Kwai-Chang Caine.
6) I met Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster at DC Comics because of a Superman fan film I made & showed at a Creation Con (what a freakin' honour!! And they LIKED my film!!!!!!)
7) I did some stunts for the Troma flick "Citizen Toxie," got paid & fed for it, and am even in the credits (though they spelled my last name a little bit wrong)

Where's my Geek Crown?



You get the spirit award my friend. Drinks with Scotty.....AWESOME. I like the giant Phaser. I was hoping for more lists like yours, but apparently there just aren't geeky types on this site. Either that or they just want to keep their inner geek more opaque than translucent.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:11 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Posted by NCBrowncoat:

My daughter and I joke that Asperger's Syndrome should be renamed, "Ultimate Geek Syndrome" and this is from a young lady that has an official diagnosis of AS. She's currently working on an AA in web design and just started the Cisco Networking Certification courses.



Heck, I can't argue with calling it that. Sounds about right, really.

I have no idea where to go from here, or what it means, really. To me, it wasn't any kind of trauma to hear it - it was like a lightbulb went off over my head (and not the flickery fluorescent kind, which really bother me, but which I only really notice the flicker of when I'm stressed). It was one of those forehead-slapping moments, when I heard the discussion and some symptoms, and it was like a checklist - then they started listing the some common behaviors, and it was as if somebody finally GOT me, after all these years! It didn't make me feel BAD at all, or "handicapped" in any way - it was one of those things that made me just say, "Well, SHIT - THAT explains a whole helluva lot!"

So, yeah. Not a handicap at all - it's an ABILITY!


Mike

Work is the curse of the Drinking Class.
- Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 4:55 PM

NCBROWNCOAT


The way it happened with my daughter was just about the same way. She'd been seeing a counselor to deal with problems associated with ADHD and learning problems (and a nasty divorce that I was going through) and I kept telling the counselor that she had more going on than straight ADHD. She had some OCD issues, depression,love of loose clothes, rigidy of schedule, social problems etc. Just a jumble of things.

After a visit one day he handed me an article and told me to read it...it described her exsactly.

And like you said, it was like a palm to the head and a "Duh". It's nice to have a name for the elephant.

She's working through her various issues and is doing very well. Friday she passed her exam in a course that she'd worked very hard on (second attempt at the course too)and I was so proud of her that I almost started crying.

And she immediately headed for the computer to play with her gaming buddies from around the world.

http://fireflyfaninnc.livejournal.com/








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Saturday, December 12, 2009 5:36 PM

GROTZ


in arbitrary order.
1) I memorised 209 decimals in pi
2) and the periodic table of elements
3) read Lord of the Ring atleast 7 times
4) read Dragonlance chronicles and legends atleast 4 times
5) plays world of warcraft
6) i love math, really love it.
7) I programmed a textbased adventure game on a c64
8) when people call me geek, it feels like a compliment
9) joss whedon fanboy, goes without saying
10) bought harry potter book one in walesish** even though I dont understand a word.

geeky xmas to everybody


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Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:19 PM

BLUESUNCOMPANYMAN


Limiting the list to three items:

3. In 1993 I participated in a shouting match in a gaming store with 9 other people about "what color orcs actually are" I & 4 others supported a "greenish-black" Tolkien orc coloring and stood opposed to a "forest green" coloring of a 5-person warhammer player faction. To this day the issue stands unresolved.

2. I own and play games on a working Commodore 64 in my basement.

1. I always keep 2 spares of the Firefly box set to give away when needed. Not to lend...TO GIVE. Like a missionary handing out bibles.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:33 PM

CHRISISALL


Okay- THE geekiest thing about me:
I once went to a showing of Superman II in NYC at the Loews Astor Plaza with a friend- we were attending a convention, and were at the costume event dressed as Superman (me) & Batman (him), and we went to the showing in our costumes, and before the movie started, we signed, like, three or four dozen autographs each on souvenir programs for thrilled little kids in the theatre.
Geek Heaven, let me tell ya!


The laughing Chrisisall

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:14 PM

RIVERDANCER


Well, I've only read Lord of the Rings like three times, so now I feel less geeky for that
And I'm all into literature! I need to break that great red tomb out again. Read it over the winter break.

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Saturday, December 12, 2009 11:25 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.


Far out on the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this sun at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended lifeforms are so mind-bogglingly primitive they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, and the problem was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this, but they largely concerned the movements of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained. A lot of people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.


That's from memory. I may be a little off, it's actually been a couple years since I've read it. I used to read it about every six months or so, but once you have a thing more or less memorized... well, anyway. I've done that with a few other books, too. Some, most of you would probably know, some are my own private geekiness.

I used to be able to recite about half the voice-over monologues from the X-files. As well as Mulder and Scully's badge numbers. And I could name episodes from single lines of dialogue... And tell you which number of which season that episode was. I can, of course, do that with Firefly. There being less of it, I don't know how impressive that might be. Buffy would be more impressive, but I'm not at that point yet.
Hm. I was the only person in my Typography & Layout class who could actually explain what a golden rectangle layout was. Including the teacher. I'm not sure if that's more teacher failing or more my geekiness.

209 decimals of pi???? Holy handgrenade!!

^That's geeky all by itself. I shouldn't even have to explain it

I'm sure there's more. Those are the most geeky things I can think of at this time. Other than the fact that I score at least 40% on every 'how geeky are you' quiz, and my highest score was 80% or so. Yeah, and I totally take those just to see if I can geek with the best of them, cuz I feel like a Beta most of the time. Oh yes.

edit: Don't feel too bad, Dancer, I've only read Lord of the Rings twice. Though I am partway through my third read now. My first readthrough might not even count, as I was fairly young at the time and only followed the very bones of the story. I didn't know what it was talking about most of the time when it went into the history and whatnot. I appreciated it much more when I read it as a teenager.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009 6:33 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Most GEEKS would not consider me a geek

Most others may beg to differ.


I'm a misfit in the land of misfit toys.





The T.Rex they call JANE!


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Sunday, December 13, 2009 9:06 AM

PEACEKEEPER

Keeping order in every verse


Quote:

Originally posted by Grotz:
in arbitrary order.
1) I memorised 209 decimals in pi
2) and the periodic table of elements
3) read Lord of the Ring atleast 7 times
4) read Dragonlance chronicles and legends atleast 4 times
5) plays world of warcraft
6) i love math, really love it.
7) I programmed a textbased adventure game on a c64
8) when people call me geek, it feels like a compliment
9) joss whedon fanboy, goes without saying
10) bought harry potter book one in walesish** even though I dont understand a word.

geeky to xmas to everybody


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Never kiss'em on the mouth.
[/QUOTE WELSH

Peacekeeper---keeping order in every verse!!!

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Monday, December 14, 2009 4:36 AM

JONGSSTRAW


I'm a Geek because:

1) I collect DC Silver Age comics. Have around 300 of them ranging from 1955 to 1969.

2) I collect sci-fi B movies from the 1950's.

3) I cry at the end of Rodan.

4) John Agar's life meant something to me.

5) I like going to sci-fi cons more than anything else.

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Monday, December 14, 2009 5:33 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

3) I cry at the end of Rodan.


You've out-geeked me.



The laughing Chrisisall

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Monday, December 14, 2009 5:48 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

3) I cry at the end of Rodan.


You've out-geeked me.



The laughing Chrisisall


I've loved the big bird and his mate for over 50 years! The ending gets me every time. But you're certainly more the Geek than I am Chris. Your knowledge and wide-ranged interests here prove that few are in your category.

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Monday, December 14, 2009 7:32 PM

CHRISISALL


When I was a little kid, I kinda cried at the end of Godzilla, though. It just seemed so wrong to kill him in that way...
*snif*


The laughing Chrisisall

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:14 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
When I was a little kid, I kinda cried at the end of Godzilla, though. It just seemed so wrong to kill him in that way...
*snif*


The laughing Chrisisall


So did I. I saw all those wonderful 50's-60's monster movies when I was a kid. Others in the genre that I loved were:

Gidrah, The Three-headed Monster (best Japanses monster imo)
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (the best of them, done by Ray Harryhausen)
The Giant Behemoth
The Giant Claw
Gorgo
Them
Cal-Tiki, The Immortal Monster
It Came From Beneath The Sea
The Monster Of Piedras Blancas
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
It, The Terror From Beyond Space




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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:01 AM

CHRISISALL


You forget Reptilicus...


The laughing Chrisisall

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:14 PM

GEE


Quote:

Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
Limiting the list to three items:

3. In 1993 I participated in a shouting match in a gaming store with 9 other people about "what color orcs actually are" I & 4 others supported a "greenish-black" Tolkien orc coloring and stood opposed to a "forest green" coloring of a 5-person warhammer player faction. To this day the issue stands unresolved.

2. I own and play games on a working Commodore 64 in my basement.

1. I always keep 2 spares of the Firefly box set to give away when needed. Not to lend...TO GIVE. Like a missionary handing out bibles.



Browsing post, guess will list mine in a mo but on point 1, given that Warhammer Orc Armies can include a unit of black orcs, which are painted in darker, green/black ie Tolkien colours, I would go with Tolkein although he didn't exactly invent them.

That the first point I guess

Erm... I still hark on about doing my work experience at a computer firm and learning how to put computers together when you had to understand dip switches to get them to work.

I am freaked out by GUI motherboard interfaces, a mouse in a BIOS?

I am currently studying maths and physics for interest.

I regularly introduce maths as a basis of song arrangements in my band.

I am a member of the national trust.

I am a book obsessive.

I cannot let a problem go until I have solved it and I have a job surrounded by problems.

Erm ... I could go on but I think people get the idea

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:23 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Ok, I don't own anything truly geeky except for my Star Wars (Eps. 4,5,6) DVDs and the Collector's Edition of Blade Runner.

1- But I get all gooey inside whenever I see River kick some serious butt in Serenity (somehow I got the notion that she was special when I watched the series when it first aired). I pretty much go gaga whenever I see a cool looking woman kicking butt - I especially drooled when I saw Watchmen (Malin Ackerman as Silk Spectre, Oh my!)

2- I was a Big Commander Cody fan (sort of like the Rocketeer), speaking of the Rocketeer - I'm still waiting for the follow-up sequel.

3- I'll watch just about any sci-fi film, even the bad ones (Ultraviolet, Aeon Flux).

Now, is that a geek or what?


SGG

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:28 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:

3- I'll watch just about any sci-fi film, even the bad ones ( Aeon Flux).


That's dedication in geekieness.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:43 AM

PDCHARLES

What happened? He see your face?


Good thread. Enjoying it so far.

I am a software developer.

I play WoW.

I own many 35 cent Marvel comics, but none of those 12 cent'ers.

I once drew on 18" X 24" sheets almost the entire 1992 Marvel Masterpieces card set in pen and ink. Still have a few of them.

EoS






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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:59 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Quote:

Originally posted by chrisisall:
5) In the seventies I used to walk to High School barefoot because of Kwai-Chang Caine.


In the 70s I wore leisure suits & khakis and ran around in slow-motion!

Nowadays the main decoration in my apartment is a triangular wing panel off a crashed SR-71 Blackbird!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:01 PM

SERYN


Quote:

I have no idea where to go from here, or what it means, really. To me, it wasn't any kind of trauma to hear it - it was like a lightbulb went off over my head (and not the flickery fluorescent kind, which really bother me, but which I only really notice the flicker of when I'm stressed). It was one of those forehead-slapping moments, when I heard the discussion and some symptoms, and it was like a checklist - then they started listing the some common behaviors, and it was as if somebody finally GOT me, after all these years! It didn't make me feel BAD at all, or "handicapped" in any way - it was one of those things that made me just say, "Well, SHIT - THAT explains a whole helluva lot!"



I had exactly that reaction when they told me I was dyslexic. And they broke it to me like it was bad news.

I'm not quite brainy enough to be geeky in the aformentioned sense - I re-read the entire Austen (including Sanditon etc) yearly, and often start talking in a manner circa 1820 whilst doing it, but no extensive knowledge as yet.

And I can work out the pattern shape of the clothing you are wearing just by looking at you.

BUT I fell in total love with a geek and live in awe of his geekiness and aspire to be more geeky myself, so in a way thats the ultimate in geekiness isn't it?

Heh.

(and this post was bought to you by being up way past my bed time.)

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:45 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

BUT I fell in total love with a geek and live in awe of his geekiness and aspire to be more geeky myself, so in a way thats the ultimate in geekiness isn't it?



Yes, it is. And it's awesome that you feel that way. :)


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Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:45 AM

ARTCAT81


Hmm.. the list is a bit extensive, and I should be getting dressed for work sooo...

I spent 14+ hours plotting and knitting Serenity, and several more hours concocting a way to make her light up..



Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
www.texasartcat.com/bluesun.html <--my bluesunshop

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Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:37 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


And since you are the Ultimate master in geekiness I consider that a compliment.

Anyone who actually walked barefoot because of the 'Grasshopper' and saw The Monster from Piedras Blancas must have a black-belt in Geekdom.

I bow to your awesome geekness ;-)

Your pal in the Geekhood,


SGG

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Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:11 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Good post. I once had 4 small boxes (just a little bit amaller than a box of copier paper) filled with great comics - Batman, Superman, Flash from DC and Spiderman, Thor, Daredevil, S.H.I.E.L.D. (I actually had the first Shield), Nick Fury, X-Men and Dr. Strange, to name a few.

I'm gonna date myself here but I started back in the mid-sixties, before comic book collecting became a mainstream business. We read for the shear enjoyment of it.

Dude I'm old......forget that, it's just a number. My fav artist then and now, was Jim Steranko. I'll never forget his Nick Fury and Shield.


SGG

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Friday, December 18, 2009 5:46 AM

SERYN


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:


Yes, it is. And it's awesome that you feel that way. :)




awww, i've gone all pink, he will laugh his socks off.


And its all thanks to this site, yey for FFF.net!

(and this post was bought to you by being up way past my bed time.)

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Friday, December 18, 2009 10:14 AM

CHRISISALL


Quote:

Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
My fav artist then and now, was Jim Steranko.

He's great.
My faves were/are John Romita & Paul Gulacy.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Friday, December 18, 2009 6:18 PM

SHINYGOODGUY


I'm assuming they're Marvel artists. Tell me which comic book character did they create/draw?

The ever curious SGGisall

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