# Nerdy Confessions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162 "2012-06-14T17:41:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/41 "2012-06-15T18:52:23Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Mario is a douchebag](http://www.cracked.com/video_18317_why-mario-secretly-douchebag.html). I wish I was in that argument. There are some holes. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/42 "2012-06-15T20:28:00Z")
I’ve played an MMO for 9 years and have no plans on stopping. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/43 "2012-06-15T20:42:17Z")
I’m wearing a t-shirt that explains quarks in rhymes derived from Dr. Seuss. It’s one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/44 "2012-06-15T22:00:35Z")
I tracked down a background of that ugly wallpaper in Sherlock’s and John’s flat, complete with yellow smiley face and bullet holes, and saved it as background on my work computer. I tracked down a recording of Deckard’s car phone ring (when he dials J. F. Sebastian and Pris anwers instead), and it’s my iPhone ringtone. And I’m proud that almost no one I know has a clue about the origin of either of these things. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/45 "2012-06-16T00:13:18Z")
I’m gearing up to make a steampunk short film. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/46 "2012-06-16T00:18:50Z")
I re-watched all of the Avengers prequels, in order, then again with voiceover, before going to see The Avengers. Tim Roth and Kenneth Branagh did a surprisingly good job of it on their respective movies. Confession 2: I cannot WAIT to watch The Avengers with Joss’s voiceover going. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_butterfly_s_ghost/32/3462_2.png) [@The\_Butterfly\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Butterfly_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/47 "2012-06-16T14:13:42Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > I’m wearing a t-shirt that explains quarks in rhymes derived from Dr. Seuss. It’s one of my favorites. I bought [this shirt](http://www.qwertee.com/product/blue-shirt/) recently. I got the joke immediately - not because I know anything about physics but simply because I had read Terry Pratchett’s “Thief of Time”. I was SO proud! 😉 I’m still waiting for anybody else to start laughing when I’m wearing the shirt though. So far nobody has said anything… . ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/48 "2012-06-16T14:51:52Z")
> [@Rheintochter](#): > > I bought [this shirt](http://www.qwertee.com/product/blue-shirt/) recently. I got the joke immediately - not because I know anything about physics but simply because I had read Terry Pratchett’s “Thief of Time”. I was SO proud! 😉 > > I’m still waiting for anybody else to start laughing when I’m wearing the shirt though. So far nobody has said anything… . I snerked when I saw it. 😃 (It was via physics, though, not Pratchett…) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/49 "2012-06-16T15:00:01Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I think Time Travel is possible. I used to think that in 2018. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/50 "2012-06-16T16:14:39Z")
I’m pro-York in the Wars of the Roses, too…but I know why - I’m pro-Richard. Screw you, Henry VII! > [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > I had a crush on the girl in Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers. Gadget. And who didn’t. Rrrowr. > [@thursday\_next](#): > > (nothing wrong with the other Doctors, but I’m guessing they aren’t … hot). Depends on your tastes. I’ve thought Jon Pertwee was quite attractive, and Peter Davison was, IMO, undeniably very good looking. Anyway…enough commenting on other people’s confessions…one of my own. My desk is pretty much a shrine to Hasbro - I’ve 8 Transformers Prime toys, one non-Prime Transformer, and 3 My Little Ponies. Until I decided there wasn’t room, there were 2 more Transformers, as well. (Additional TF-related confession…I’ve made it my goal to get all the female characters, though I doubt I’ll ever manage to even see a lot of them.) ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/51 "2012-06-18T04:30:45Z")
I have sent links to this song to all of my Diablo friends. I got the shirt joke as well and wants one. I love Terry Pratchit, but I also got it from the physics angle. My favorite sweatshirt is black and says “Cultist” over my left boob. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/52 "2012-06-18T05:17:33Z")
Every time I see Squidward playing his clarinet underwater, I get a little angry that it doesn’t just produce soundless bubbles. One time I saw an underwear advertisement with a guy holding a saxophone backwards and it filled me with raeg. Like the kid in [this ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcVRueT2cw) for Colgate (33 seconds in). Also whenever I see sheet music on tv or in a commercial, there’s a not-insubstantial chance that some of the notes will be backward. That really grinds my gears! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/53 "2012-06-18T07:26:19Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Every time I see Squidward playing his clarinet underwater, I get a little angry that it doesn’t just produce soundless bubbles. Why would it produce bubbles? He’s presumably not blowing air into it. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/54 "2012-06-18T11:42:14Z")
Most of the small talk I have with my friends sounds like dialog between #21 and #24. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/55 "2012-06-18T21:06:08Z")
I have a stuffed Opus, and two stuffed Cthulhus (one small, for the car; one larger, for the house). I sing along with Lovecraftian Christmas carols. I cried when Steve Jobs died, and went to Apple headquarters to see/take pictures of his memorial (I don’t live far, so it’s not _quite_ so nerdy). I had a crush on Speed Racer in grade school, and Mr. Spock in junior high. ---
**Author:** ![Deegeea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Deegeea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deegeea)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/56 "2012-06-18T21:27:47Z")
I love Tales of the Beanworld. I collected the comics when I was in college and grad school, buying individual volumes in clear sleeves. I bought the graphic novels even though I already had most of them in individual issues. Then I kept those, very carefully, during move after move when I lost my other comics (I had several other graphic novels and issues I really liked, like The Crow, the various Neil Gaiman comics, and The Invisibles, and one about Constantine getting lung cancer - probably others I don’t remember anymore). When my son was old enough to read them, I was unduly thrilled that he liked them and read them over and over. Then when new versions came out in hardcover I bought the whole set, even the ones I already had. And (here is the confession part) I think the original graphic novel version is better than the new hardback version. =D Also this: [Larry Marder's Beanworld: How did the Beanworld end up the United States of Tara?](http://larrymarder.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-it-was-that-beanworld-passed.html) … I saw the scene while watching the series and immediately paused and googled that =D ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/57 "2012-06-18T22:31:32Z")
I was at a friend’s party, and when I first walked in I shouted “Etta Koo-ram Nah Smech!” One person pretended to fall down unconcious, so it was worth it. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162/58 "2012-06-19T03:15:41Z")
I think of nerdy things at the worst times. For example: my daughter, who is now fine, was born not breathing and was immediately taken away to be resuscitated on a stretcher next to my bed while I, after days of horrible labour and no food and with my glasses off was being stitched and checked and pumped and full of needles, just like she was. Her tiny grey chest was going up and down like a bellows as hordes of masked doctors surrounded her and her arms were splayed like a baby doll. I turned my head, reached my arm over to her as far as I could, trying to reach hers and… Thought of a very similar scene in ET. Touching. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdy-confessions/625162.md?page=2)