http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html
by the way, I consider published science fiction authors geeky, so this starts below my own annoyance level. But its true, so true!
Trekkers like the show. Trekkies wear the uniforms/makeup/speak klingon. There-in lies the difference.
You mean, pretending to be really depressed. I don’t like to wish ill on people, but what the hell: I wish for some of these jerks to, for once, experience real major depression. See if they like it. And I mean, silly or not, most of these people like the kind of art that is loosely based on Tim Burton’s work. Tim Burton. That’s right, a guy who is far from suffering the Wacko Jacko kind of vitiligo and dressing with clothes that look like they were rescued from the Exxon Valdez disaster.
Not really true. I have met too many Trekkers that were more likely to wear the uniforms than us much older, original Run and early syndication year’s kids, which were okay with the term Trekkies but would never dress up as the characters.
When there was only the original series and no movies yet, when the only books were Star Logs, not original Novels, Trekkies were just people that cared enough about the show to desperately hope it would rise again.
The ones who wore Spock Ears and dressed in PJs {I mean Starfleet uniforms} were Dweebs.
BTW I was born the day Star Trek first aired.
I also just say “a card game” when referring to Magic, because there’s just no way to explain the game to, for example, a girl and still have a chance in hell of getting laid.
I like that, about 9-10 times a year I Ref a long running D&D campaign. If I am asked what I’m doing Friday night, I just say I have some friends coming over for a game. 
Thankfully my wife tolerates this.
She gets more upset when I have other friends over to shoot pool and watch Baseball or Football. Apparently we are noisier and the pool table is in the basement under the bedrooms.
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Most annoying fans: Yankee fans and Raiders fans. I can do without the Sword Carrying Assholes, too.
Most asinine fans: The ones that turn against the object of their fandom the second it achieves a modicum of mainstream success. Mostly found in indie rock circles (the Death Cab For Cutie major-label-sellout-backlash should be starting any day now), although they can be found in TV fan communities as well (“X Files was great the first season, after that it sucked”)
I think I mentioned this earlier, but even if I did, it bears repeating: Crazed, pedantic, fanatical, foaming-at-the-mouth Initial D purist psychopaths
No understanding of how the American comic industry works.
No understanding of even the most elementary concepts of marketing and publicity.
No concept of demographics or how to appeal to them.
No historical perspective (Star Blazers, anyone?) whatsoever.
No appreciation of how big a chance Tokyopop was taking on this.
Tired, simpleminded arguments about rap music that got old fifteen years ago.
Violent, bordering on criminally insane, overreactions to minuscule changes.
Complete, utter blindness to ANY new developments (and how they tie in to some of the decisions Tokyopop made).
No arguement whatsoever. No responding to questions. No accepting of anything even a micron off the party line.
And might I add, they’re freaking rude as hell.
(I’ve never met one in person, BTW, for which I am extraordinarily grateful.)
I find the fans of the following people extremely annoying because they allow these people to have careers, thereby exposing me to them at least long enough for me to lunge for the remote:
- Nancy Grace (Damn, I cannot stand this woman! Wanna slap 'er.)
- Cher (I know, not around much lately…but in my heart of hearts I know she will never go away for keeps.)
- Rosie O’Donnell (Refer to no. 1.)
- Julia Roberts (Seems like a phony and a bitch.)
- Jon Stewart (Has never so much as made me smile…before The Daily Show or since.)
- Katie Couric (Also refer to no. 1)
- Ellen DeGeneres (I know: everybody loves her, and I don’t mind her that much myself, but that idiotic dancing drives me up a frickin’ wall. And those shoes…!)
- Madonna (I bet this woman doesn’t have a genuine friend in the world.)
- Jerry Springer (See no. 1, but change “woman” to “man” and “slap 'er” to “slug 'im”.)
- Geraldo Rivera (Attention whore. Another one that never goes away.)
You want specfic?
MySQL fans.
NEXTstep fans.
vi & emacs fans.
linux shell fans (tcsh vs zsh vs whatever).
linux window manager fans.
Jabber fans.
Wikipedia fans.
I get to work with these people all freaking day long.
Oh, i forgot: GPL vs BSD Licensing fans shudder.
And people who refuse to use garbage collected languages…
And naming convention/brace style fans…
hides in a corner and whimpers
Wow, small world. I went to a couple of those shows at the Rialto back in the day. It was kind of funny seeing the old guard of Rocky fans sitting with their toast and squirt guns, looking quaintly out of place as the current troupe did things that were completely different.
My friends love to tell the story about how we were playing magic, some girls came over and said “what’s this?”, I said “It’s like Pokemon for grownups”, and they instantly lost interest. My friends like to pretend that we were all gonna get laid until I opened my fool mouth. Riiiiiiiiiight.