# Single Doper and Nerd Hookup Thread and Cotillion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 12, 2004, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741 "2004-05-12T05:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/81 "2004-05-12T20:57:09Z")
Early twenties SWM, 6’2", 165#, brown hair, green eyes, social drinker Likes: The Simpsons, music (esp. rock, grunge), board games, D&D, cards, volleyball, disc golf, video games, sci-fi. Dislikes: Stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/82 "2004-05-12T20:58:12Z")
You should see the guy I know who speaks 20 programming languages. He is a god among men. I liked him better than Pirates of Penzance. ---
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/83 "2004-05-12T21:05:26Z")
mmmm here goes SWF, 27, English girl abroad currently in South Western Wyoming, long dark brown hair, green eyes, curvy Geekish-ness: I am an engineer. And that is pretty much it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![beergeek279](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@beergeek279](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beergeek279)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/84 "2004-05-12T21:07:20Z")
Ahh, what the hell, here goes. 25, single white male, 6’3, 250, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Currently reside in Washington, Pennsyvania. Recent Bachelors of Science in CS (California University of PA…bet that’s the first time 95% of people have ever heard of it!), with plans to move onto graduate school (possibly straight-to-PhD) at WVU in the fall. Hobbies: I enjoy craft beer (American micros and quality imports), and interested in starting to homebrew in the fall; semi-retired rugby player (due to school commitments and now due to a lack of match fitness); enjoy a round of golf or bowling when I get a chance; geek-wise, the obvious interest in computers and other technology, and the fact that I really am a bit of a beer geek ;). ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/85 "2004-05-12T21:07:27Z")
Single Doper Chick, 19, traveling via Americorps, currently stationed in Connecticut. I’m an atheist from Mississippi (hence the username) who is into Garth Ennis’ _Preacher_, George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”, strange morbid humor, and swimming. I’m tall and skinny with long dark-blonde hair. Any Dopers who wanna meet up in New York City or Boston sometime in the next few weekends drop me an email! ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/86 "2004-05-12T21:14:03Z")
> [@saramamalana](#): > > I will put in a lil personal ad later, but for now I need to respond to this: > > How nerdy does it make me that I want to add this: > > _One night in Straight Dope makes the nerds go horny > The dopes are funny but the posts ain’t free_ > > now back to studying for my abnormal psych final _One night in Straight Dope makes the geeks’ posts corny Can’t be too careful when you’re in GD I can feel a Cecil walking next to me_ (OK, it doesn’t make much sense… but it rhymes and it scans. Just wait until the part about “you’ll find a mod near every trollish poster”) ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/87 "2004-05-12T21:16:30Z")
> [@](#): > > **beergeek279** said: > 25, single white male, 6’3, 250, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Currently reside in Washington, Pennsyvania. Recent Bachelors of Science in CS (California University of PA…bet that’s the first time 95% of people have ever heard of it!), with plans to move onto graduate school (possibly straight-to-PhD) at WVU in the fall. Heard of CUP? I’ll do you one better, dude. I have eaten (and survived) their cafeteria food, and I have studied in the Manderino Library. I once got into a car accident (about 10 years ago) on their campus, and I took an English seminar there a year or so after that. Damn, dude, I think you’re the closest Doper (geographically) to where I am. ---
**Author:** ![jeevwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jeevwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevwoman)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/88 "2004-05-12T21:17:48Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > Um… I’m not really looking for anyone right now, but I just wanted to see how I stacked up against the competition. > > 34 yo SGWM (Single Geeky White Male) in Washington DC. Short medium brown hair, generally clean shaven, a tad pudgier than I’d like to be but I walk around two miles daily. > > History geek - I’m a re-enactor. Not US Civil War - Thirty Years’ War (Army of Gustavus Adolphus). Our entire group isn’t even big enough to make a decent Confederate regiment and we don’t care. Matchlocks rule and so does “Rufty-Tufty”. > > Language nerd - self-instructed in seven languages, going on eight - working on Arabic now. Passion for reading untranslated literature and newspapers. > > And, for anyone who hasn’t seen me post here - Politics nerd. Activist Bolshevik with a 6’ by 3’ bookshelf _packed_ with books, journals, and magazines. (The other bookshelf has all my language stuff in it.) > > So there you have it. Like I said, I’m not actively looking for anyone, but single female Dopers whose curiosity is piqued are welcome to say “How _you_ doin’?” and thereby provide me with reasons to attend Dopefests outside the Washington area. > [@Eva Luna](#): > > But then my geek creds are more of the liberal-artsy sort. Anyone else actually own not only a Chechen-English phrasebook, but a Russian-Uzbek-Farsi phrasebook? Hmmmm. Anyone else pick this up? It’s only a 2 hour flight from DC to Chicago . . . we’ve got a ChiDope on May 22. ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/89 "2004-05-12T21:27:37Z")
> [@petelin](#): > > Hey **RainGrowsBright** , before you get the old “how _you_ doin?”, I have to ask…were the tears at the end of Friends perchance, tears of joy?!? If not, I suppose it can be overlooked, due to your love of Monty Python and the Big Lebowski quote. Ah yes petelin, tears of saddness. But in my defense, it was sad to say goodbye to something that my girlfriends and I had been into watching for 10 years. But, I do indeed have much better tastes in movies. Ill chime in with some more of my favorite Lebowski quotes to redeem myself: “What’re you saying? When you divorce you turn in your library card, you get a new license, you stop being Jewish!” ;j “No, you’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.” “Yeah, well, you know, that’s like, your opinion, man…” “You brought the fucking Pomeranian bowling?” “I haven’t brought it bowling…I didn’t rent it shoes, I’m not buying it a fucking beer, it’s not taking a fucking turn…” "You got the wrong guy, I’m the Dude, man. " ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/90 "2004-05-12T21:28:17Z")
My Geek Code, for the Curious… GCS d-@ s:+ a–\>? C++(+++) U P L- E W++(+++) N\>++ o? K- w+ !O !M V- PS(+) PE Y PGP? t+(-) 5-- X R++\>+++$ tv++ b++(+++) DI++ D++ G+ e++ h+ r\* Or at least, that was it a couple years back… I’m slightly older than the given age range now. And I do know what PGP is, I just didn’t see a more appropriate answer at the time. 😉 I’m lazy, but I should update it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/91 "2004-05-12T21:38:43Z")
> [@Q.E.D.](#): > > Good enough for me. The rest is gravy. 😃 So, how _you_ doin’? 😉 I’m doin’ fine… how _YOU_ doin’? ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/92 "2004-05-12T21:39:45Z")
Soooo, **MaxtheVool** How _you_ doin’? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/93 "2004-05-12T21:41:08Z")
Hey **Misstake** simulposted my incredibly original pickup line. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![coffeecam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@coffeecam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/94 "2004-05-12T21:44:00Z")
Ahh, what fun. SWM(geek) 24, Madison WI 6’5/280 blue eyes, brown hair, glasses. law student Geek cred: I’m quoted on a CCG card. I read way to much. I love Chez Geek. I own a copy of D & D, you know, the one that came with those litel blue dice, and the best weapon was the halberd? I spent 3 years as a librarian in a federal depository library. I have gone for 24 hours using Simpson’s quotes as my sole means of communication. Oh and “Grrr, bring me cows!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/95 "2004-05-12T21:46:28Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > I’m doin’ fine… how _YOU_ doin’? Much better, now. 😃 Minnesota, eh? Sure you wouldn’t prefer someplace warmer? Like, oh, I don’t know…Virginia? 😃 I’m in _such_ a silly mood today. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/96 "2004-05-12T21:53:41Z")
Hmmm … I seem to be (semi) available for the time being. ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/97 "2004-05-12T21:58:36Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > -I own the box set of **My So Called Life** on DVD OH MAN, I friggin love MSCL. Love it! I could watch it over and over and over. “This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.” ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/98 "2004-05-12T22:05:58Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > Single Asian male, 29. Moving soon to Huntsville AL, having just obtained a Ph.D in astrophysics. Liberal, atheist. Avid bicycle rider with a preference for non-standard bicycles. Seeking an excuse to buy [this tandem bike](http://www.easyracers.com/ez_tandem.htm). Oh my… 😛 Single, white female from Sunny Southern California. I’m 22, just under 5’3, about 100 pounds with the longest, thickest brown hair you’ve probably ever seen. I have a thing for boyish, slender guys of asian descent, but intelligence is the sexiest thing about someone. I haven’t had many pictures of me uploaded, here is the only one, and it is an evil picture: [Me with no makeup!!](http://blademaiden.net/ava/disney01.jpg) I used to do cosplay and I did some “modeling” for a few websites. Here’s a pic from one of those. 😛 [Me in cosplay.](http://images.cosplay.com/showphoto.php?photo=14666&password=1766f43351bf10d885b43ff7cdef2472&sort=1&size=medium&cat=500&page=3) Now I mostly work, play Natural Selection and dream of traveling the world. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/99 "2004-05-12T22:11:01Z")
A bicycle built for two… 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/100 "2004-05-12T22:15:39Z")
Well hells bells! **av8rmike** just made my day. :o My brand of geekiness, in case you’re interested: \*I’m an accountant (that’s _got_ to count for something!) \*I don’t have cable, and watch virtually no TV \*As a result, I know diddly squat about many aspects of current TV culture \*I listen to NPR almost exclusively \*As a result, I know diddly squat about most popular music (except country) I think my brand of geekiness is of the “Closet Girl” variety. [(My LJ)](http://www.livejournal.com/users/scout1222/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741.md?page=6)