# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/101 "2004-05-12T22:16:20Z")
So, would it add to my geekiness/nerdliness if I admitted that my friends and I write haiku to each other (and typically bad haiku - what is the plural of haiku)? For example: Single dopers all Post personals to be read By nerdly dopers It amuses us, if nothing else. ---
**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, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/102 "2004-05-12T22:22:57Z")
It just adds that certain good _je ne sais quoi_. And it’s way better than haiku Windows error messages… 🙂 _Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams._ ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/103 "2004-05-12T22:44:27Z")
Haikus are well and good… but here’s the real challenge: Who can flirt with a fellow geeky doper in the form of a **palindrome**? ---
**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, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/104 "2004-05-12T22:58:10Z")
Do I need to come up with a palindrome to get a how you doin’ back from you, you tease? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/105 "2004-05-12T23:28:09Z")
See, you’re all thinking locally. Think nationally! Internationally! Think of myself and Dave (I’m from Canada, he’s from America), Monfort and Anniz (America and Sweden), Coldfire and Heloise (Netherlands, America) and Spiny Norman and Shayna (Germany, America). ---
**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, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/106 "2004-05-12T23:34:06Z")
I think locally because I have a well-established job thing going on and unless I had a really, really good job offer somewhere else wouldn’t be moving anywhere. ---
**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, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/107 "2004-05-12T23:34:24Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > See, you’re all thinking locally. Think nationally! Internationally! Think of myself and Dave (I’m from Canada, he’s from America), Monfort and Anniz (America and Sweden), Coldfire and Heloise (Netherlands, America) and Spiny Norman and Shayna (Germany, America). I must say, I definitly welcome international men! ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/108 "2004-05-12T23:36:03Z")
Sweet Merciful Blasphemies on a Cracker! Where are all you Southern California geekettes hiding? Northern Orange County resident. Male, 22, 6’3’’. White guy of Germanic descent. Holding a BS in computer science, for all the good it’s doing me. Unashamed Nintendo and PC gamer. I don’t listen to the radio much anymore aside from news and talk, but when it comes to music I’m partial to instrumentals. Big reader, though I read the SDMB enough to be aware of current TV trends. Quotable movies: Snatch, Pulp Fiction, and Army of Darkness. Seeks female for nights of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles over Mountain Dew, trading Simpsons quotes, and wondering where all my Pratchett books have run off to. Haiku, sonnets, and dirty limericks upon request. ---
**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, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/109 "2004-05-12T23:39:43Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > Sweet Merciful Blasphemies on a Cracker! Where are all you Southern California geekettes hiding? Some of us are hiding at the La Brea Tar Pits. 😛 [sub]I hope I’m not confusing you with someone else, but I seem to remember you explaining the origin of your name…[/sub] ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/110 "2004-05-12T23:41:08Z")
> [@luluBahrain](#): > > Do I need to come up with a palindrome to get a how you doin’ back from you, you tease? No… but it would help if you said more about yourself than this: > [@](#): > > Okay, I have some geekish tendencies. > > I am a SWF. I am 5’10. I weigh way more than I should but that is decreasing day by day. I have blue/gray eyes. uuuuummmmmm…don’t know what else to say I mean, surely in this, of all threads, you can admit some wacky and geeky details about yourself… C’mon… fess up! (And a palindrome wouldn’t hurt) ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/111 "2004-05-12T23:52:14Z")
> [@scout1222](#): > > Some of us are hiding at the La Brea Tar Pits. 😛 > > [sub]I hope I’m not confusing you with someone else, but I seem to remember you explaining the origin of your name…[/sub] Nope, that was me. Bones, bones, fish, bones, dinky little roller coaster. 😉 ---
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/112 "2004-05-12T23:56:41Z")
“Look in the dog.” “Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins, LONDON.” “It’s behind you, Tyrone. When you reverse, things come at you from behind.” “I don’t want that dog dribbling on my seats.” “Your seats? Tyrone, this is a stolen car, mate.” ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/113 "2004-05-13T00:05:08Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > “Look in the dog.” > > “Yes, London. You know: fish, chips, cup 'o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary fucking Poppins, LONDON.” > > “It’s behind you, Tyrone. When you reverse, things come at you from behind.” > > “I don’t want that dog dribbling on my seats.” > “Your seats? Tyrone, this is a stolen car, mate.” Dont mind if I do… “Anything to declare?” “Yeah, dont go to London” “Well because he makes stupid bets with dangerous people and when he doesn’t pay up they give him the chop Doug and I’m not talkin’ about his fuckin’ foreskin either!” “Do you know what “nemesis” means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt… me!” * * * ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/114 "2004-05-13T00:15:49Z")
Nice. ‘What’s to stop you blowin your bollocks off every time you sit down?’ ‘Then the rabbit gets fucked.’ ‘Proper fucked?’ ‘Yes, before zee Germans get there.’ ‘Why the fuck do I want a caravan that’s got no fuckin’ wheels?’ ‘What’s in the car?’ ‘Seats and a steerin wheel.’ ‘I thought you said he was a getaway driver? What the fuck can he get away from?’ ---
**Author:** ![RainGrowsBrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@RainGrowsBrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RainGrowsBrite)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/115 "2004-05-13T00:20:23Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > Nice. > > ‘What’s to stop you blowin your bollocks off every time you sit down?’ > > ‘Then the rabbit gets fucked.’ > ‘Proper fucked?’ > ‘Yes, before zee Germans get there.’ > > ‘Why the fuck do I want a caravan that’s got no fuckin’ wheels?’ > > ‘What’s in the car?’ > ‘Seats and a steerin wheel.’ > > ‘I thought you said he was a getaway driver? What the fuck can he get away from?’ I could do this all day long… but maybe we shouldnt hijack. :smack: Ok, ill throw one in for good measure… a good one… "So, you are obviously the big dick and the men on the side of ya are your balls. There are two types of balls: there are big brave balls, and there are little mincey faggot balls. " ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/116 "2004-05-13T00:20:28Z")
As your emcee, I will now provide some entertainment…Ahem… Zaaaaaaaaank heaven…for nerd-ee giiiiiiiiirls Viiiiiiiiiiiithout zem vut vould nerdy boys dooooooooo… Everybody sing along! ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/117 "2004-05-13T00:44:05Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > What Junie neglects to mention is her stunning beauty. She’s gorgeous. Also, she will tell you she’s fat, but she’s NOT. > > Carry on. Thanks, La Ginger. Check’s in the mail. Wanna be my girlfriend? I’m just fine, \*\*Frank #2 \*\*. I’d be better if you told us about yourself, though. ---
**Author:** ![so\_da\_ne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@so\_da\_ne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/so_da_ne)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/118 "2004-05-13T01:26:09Z")
Ahhhh a little shameless self promotion never hurt! Single unique female here! Let’s see…I’m 30, 5 feet tall, have all my fingers and toes. I’m more a nerdy bookworm type than a geek I think. I don’t have a TV (but I do enjoy visiting people who have one!) and I love listening to CBC radio. I travel as much as I can and have lived in a few interesting places. I just finished my first year of university and I’m currently spending the summer on a small island near Vancouver BC. I LOVE food and cooking, hiking, outdoorsy stuff, books and naps. Email addy is in the profile if anyone wants to say hi! ---
**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 13, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/119 "2004-05-13T01:29:17Z")
:: waves hands :: I’m international! I’m international! [sub]I speak Esperanto. I’d bloody well _better_ be international…[/sub] Er… carry on people… ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741/120 "2004-05-13T01:42:35Z")
married but playing along for fun… 43, gimp [broke back and neck but not a para, just movement impaired a touch] appearance - [http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/aru.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/aru.jpg) is me in evercrack [sol ro server if it matters…] [http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/img14.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/img14.jpg) is me in elizabethan clothing [http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/tattoo.jpg](http://www.geocities.com/aruvqann/tattoo.jpg) my tattoo=) hm ex professional chef, ex hazmat tech, ex inside/outside mechanic, NRC approved=), paralegal, insurance provider Inveterate reader of SF and fantasy, textbooks for fun, medievalist, sand table gamer, D&D, AD&D, everquest addict and for what it is worth, am currently using SUSE 9.1’s live disc to get online right now [to see if i like my desktop as a linux box] kicked back and using a german keyboard and wireless trackball [snarfed tea into keyboard and only have the spare german one i brought home to play a joke on mrAru with] and I have a new HDD staring at me begging to be installed. And if any midatlantic dopers are going to be at Baltcon at the end of the month, I am going to be there, in the bujold hospitality suite with homemade baklava [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/single-doper-and-nerd-hookup-thread-and-cotillion/244741.md?page=7)