Hey, try telling people that your hobby is etymology! All you get is blank looks, although I’ve had a couple of near-misses when people guess that I study bugs.
And trust me: it’s a real no-lay situation. Doesn’t do a thing for my bride of 13 years…
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I find this hilarious, because guess who is an avid scrapbooker?
Dude. No way are we to take this at face value…are we?
As for me? I only got 1 out of 10, and I haven’t played D&D in over 10 years. Interestingly enough, my life IS one great social humiliation, and since the birth of my 3rd kid my sex life hasn’t been so great either. :dubious:
Actually, a great many model railroaders are married.
That doesn’t necessarily imply that they have a sex life however.
And I believe ‘Klaatu Barada Nicto’ stands for “How you doin?”
This thread is hilarious.
I ran across a web site devoted to furry larping a while back. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a grown man in a fox costume pretending to be a ranger engaged in mortal combat. They were German, of course. Would that take a 0 position on the list?
And the “distinguishing features” listed for the D&D dork were spot on. I had the heavy metal shirts. My friend had the button down shirt with the wrap-around dragon. :eek:
Part of my collection of paper ephemera from the two world wars includes a generous selection of Canadian government forms for wartime rental controls.
That’s gotta be worth something.
Who was being ironic? Sigh.
I’m only here for the geeks, baby.
I get a tiny tiny, nearly nonexistent, bit of partial credit for interest (but little more) in Star Trek, Star Wars, and vampirism.
For a minute there…
I met my fiance through the SCA, and we both get laid regularly.
fetus, I loudly second your assertion that SCA folk know how to party. Every shin-dig I ever went to in high school and college pales in comparison. You just don’t know fun until you’ve stumbled across a guy walking down the path carrying a full-size hookah and he’s sharing, then got “special treatment” from a group of pirates weilding floggers and belaying pins, then encountered a large, hairy man screaming and running down the road with his pants around his ankles and teepee hanging out of his buttcrack (on fire), then was chased down the road by a guy with some mistletoe hanging from a stick – all on your way to a clove-and-fruit party of 150 people, where a real viking funeral for an imaginary dwarf is being held (complete with burning longboat in kiddie plastic swimming pool). Round it all off with fighting the next morning, hung over and full of rage, and there’s nothing I’d rather be doing!
My fiance is a 4 out of 10. I have a hard time explaining to my friends that he isn’t out with me on a Saturday night because it’s a “game” night. And does he get double points for beta-testing WoW on top of tanking in EQ?
What, do these people think they are too good for trainspotting?
How high on the Geekery level are the people who call every television station known to man, visit every garage sale, and search every basement in Greater London looking for the missing Doctor Who episodes?
I am utterly confused now. Back to normal, in other words.
Little willy Willy won’t
Go home
You can’t make Willy go
He wont go
I thought you were about to make a minipenis joke, you see…
Zero out of 10. I play a little Nethack every now and then–does that count for anything?
And I’ve been meaning to do something about those shoeboxes full of photos…
Well, considering I don’t have one at all, being that I’m a girl…
:: stops fiddling with his desktop trebuchet and looks up ::
Huh? What about us? Just because we use wood coffee cups at the office doesn’t mean we’re … well, maybe it does.
Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Sleep! Sleep! Death!
There are lots of geeky hobbies that weren’t mentioned, many of those out of the public eye because they are “old school.” Some that come to mind include:
[ul][li]Amateur radio[/li][li]CB radio tuning/modding/freebanding (still very popular among geeky rednecks)[/li][li]Scanning[/li][li]DXing (shortwave, broadcast band, television, etc)[/li][li]Electronic experimentation[/li][li]Marching band[/li][li]Linux usage[/li][li]Railroad history/photography/modeling (as opposed to UK-style trainspotting)[/li][/ul]
Oh man, after going through the list, I cannot believe I somehow managed to get married!
Roleplaying games? Check.
Scrapbooking? Wife does it and I think its interesting so, check.
Starwars? Just bought the new DVD set and watched every minute. Check.
Collectable card games? Played em. Check.
Star Trek? Slight mitigation because I prefer TNG, but check.
Live action roleplaying? Done it. Check.
Everquest. Check and Mate.
Plus many others have already mentioned.
Linux user
Ham radio operator
Want to try SCA but havent yet
and one I havent seen yet (but I know you guys are out there)…
Geocaching!!
I guess the solution is pretty obvious. I need to call my mom and ask if I can move into her basement. Then I will have reached the highest possible level of geek nirvana and will immediately be reincarnated as Bill Gates.
I am proud to be a geek. I read science fiction, loved Ultima VII, still play Diablo II, like trains, collect beetles, and have worked in the computer industry all my working life.
I am also a kind, loving mother of three wonderful children, one of whom is also a geek.
And, kind, loving,*** geek ** * mother that I am, I paint my geek son’s Warhammer miniatures for him. Wood elves rule!
