I Pit Myself for Exceptional Geekness

Cafe Society
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Today I was reading the “Weekend Web” article at Something Awful.

On page six, the author made a joke about “women leaving in a flash” for a photo of a loser wearing a superhero tee-shirt. The guy at the bottom of this page.

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3267&p=6

The Wife wanted to know what I was laughing at. I explained that it was funny that the writer did not knowq that the loser was not wearing a Flash logo on his shirt; this particular lightening bolt was the symbol of Captain Marvel… you know, SHAZAM!..

She just looked at me with that sad, disappointed look and shook her head slowly.

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Curse you, you big red cheese!

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Oh, thank Juju. I appreciate your taking one for the team, Doc.

I noticed it as well, but to my great fortune, my wife was nowhere nearby, so I was left with muttering “dork” to myself.

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/throws football to a friend.

/throws letterman jacket over shoulder and puts arm around girlfriend.

Hey! Check out the nerds!

:wink:

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Pardon me for not being geeky enough, but what the heck are the people in almost every photo in that linked page wearing on their wrists?

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What? You aren’t a sentai fan? You deserve to have your name stricken from the ranks of Nerds forevermore.

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Pitted? My friend, you should be commended!

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Dude! Power Rangers came to America when I was already too old for it. And my whole experience with anime begins and ends with Sailor Moon and Pikachu.

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Who is talking about “Power Rangers”?

I am talking about looking through poorly photocopied zines from the 70s and 80s detailing plot summeries of untranslated Giant robot shows, coppied off 4th generation copies of the video tapes. :smiley:

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backs away slowly

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Y’know, now that you bring it up, I have just such tapes of the classic Japanese series 5 Man lying around here somewhere.

Way I figured it back in the day, if you’re gonna go geek and you choose the Power Rangers as your route, you’d better at least be hardcore about it.

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This thread belongs in either Cafe Society or the very bowels of hell itself. I’m thinking Cafe Society.

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There’s a difference?