# Help me score a geek date! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895 "2005-06-26T05:59:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/81 "2005-07-06T03:20:34Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > The zombie monkeys would obliterate them. Duh! Oh, of course. I bow to your amazing logic. …Man, GDLJ is lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/82 "2005-07-06T03:58:57Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > Platypus…classified as mammal…order Monotremata…one of three extant species in the entire order. The other mammalian orders are Placentalia and Marsupialia; in case it, you know, comes up naturally in coversation again. > [@Tracy Lord](#): > > The zombie monkeys would obliterate them. Duh! You’re forgetting The Law of Conservation of Whupass, that as you eliminate ninjas the remaining ones grow stronger. That’s why you can beat up the first four or five with just one punch, but the last guy is a serious pain in the ass. Apart from that, good for you, TL. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/83 "2005-07-06T06:04:34Z")
> [@BlueKangaroo](#): > > A robot might make a good pirate in terms of focus, but where’s the wenching? Well Bender is good for, uh, bending stuff anyway. I give the vote to ninjas though. I tried to play Ninja Gaiden after determining that it was the first small step in a secret ninja recruitment scheme, but it kicked my ass. Hard. I am a fairly competent gamer, so I feel that if I got pwned by a mere ninja neophyte simulator, I had not a snowball’s chance in hell of becoming an actual ninja. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/84 "2005-07-06T11:58:47Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > ::falls at your feet:: > > So, um, do you come here often? Entirely too often for my own good health and sanity, I fear. [size=1)(Btw, flirting is fun, **H-s** , to say nothing of good for the ego, but I hope you realize I’ve nearly twenty years on you :eek: )[/size] ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/85 "2005-07-06T11:59:48Z")
…And **Mal** receives another lesson in why you should preview :smack: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/86 "2005-07-06T12:03:41Z")
Put on your reading glasses, hon – it helps. 😉 So, **Tracy Lord** – “very pleasant.” Are you being low-key here lest we see you doing the dance of joy – or did it not go as well as you hoped? I really can’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/87 "2005-07-06T21:15:27Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Entirely too often for my own good health and sanity, I fear. > > [size=1)(Btw, flirting is fun, **H-s** , to say nothing of good for the ego, but I hope you realize I’ve nearly twenty years on you :eek: )[/size] Heh. Are you trying to make me stop? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/88 "2005-07-07T07:41:08Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Heh. Are you trying to make me stop? No, just acquainting you with the facts in the interests of “utmost good faith”. You want to carry on flirting, that’s just fine with me. 😃 ~produces brandy snifters and clicks fingers for gipsy violinist~ 'k, geek chick. You into Larry Niven at all? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/89 "2005-07-07T21:04:47Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > No, just acquainting you with the facts in the interests of “utmost good faith”. You want to carry on flirting, that’s just fine with me. 😃 > > ~produces brandy snifters and clicks fingers for gipsy violinist~ > > 'k, geek chick. You into Larry Niven at all? It’ll lose me all my pitiful geek cred, but no. Never had the pleasure. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/90 "2005-07-08T02:44:32Z")
TANJ, Harimad-Sol! How could you not be into Larry Niven? ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/91 "2005-07-08T03:11:15Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > TANJ, Harimad-Sol! How could you not be into Larry Niven? Just never had the experience. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/92 "2005-07-08T03:36:30Z")
Well, go find N-Space. Read “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.” Trust me. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/93 "2005-07-08T04:29:44Z")
> [@BlueKangaroo](#): > > Well, go find N-Space. Read “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex.” > > Trust me. Oh, wait. I’ve read that. (three times) If that’s in any way representative, I must have more. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/94 "2005-07-08T05:29:02Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > So, **Tracy Lord** – “very pleasant.” Are you being low-key here lest we see you doing the dance of joy – or did it not go as well as you hoped? I really can’t tell. Well, it was a rather low-key date, you know? Coffee and good chat – now, if there had been smoochies or declarations of love, THEN you would see the Dance of Joy. 🙂 Although he hasn’t called/emailed, I think I’m going to ask him if he wants to go out again this weekend. In fact, through the magic of email, I just did. MAGIC EMAIL! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/95 "2005-07-08T11:27:56Z")
Keep us apprised! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895/96 "2005-07-08T15:38:16Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > Just never had the experience. (that was a Larry Niven joke… btw, I wasn’t making fun of you) Congrats Tracy! What Twickster said!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-score-a-geek-date/309895.md?page=4)