# The most geeky group activity, aside from RPGing?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 30, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410 "2003-10-30T08:38:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/81 "2003-11-06T23:10:29Z")

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holding a draft for an Australian cricket fantasy league (in the US, no one participating having actually ever played cricket or been to Australia)

double-elimination tiddlywinks tournament

triple-elimination tiddlywinks tournament

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**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/82 "2003-11-07T00:17:12Z")

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> double-elimination tiddlywinks tournament
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> triple-elimination tiddlywinks tournament

We’re going -\>oo again, aren’t we 🙂

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**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/83 "2003-11-07T07:41:58Z")

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> \*Originally posted by bughunter \*  
> \*\*I forget the name of the standup comedienne, but in one joke she declared:
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> “You have to go pretty deep into the geek forest to find the Civil War Reenactment guys.”
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> It was an awesome geek routine…\*\*

**bughunter** , I believe that’s a [Margaret Cho](http://www.margaretcho.com/index.html) bit. Laughed my head off at that one, too.

This thread is hilarious. But I don’t think we’re going to beat **davidm** ’s offering of

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> a group of adults who, once a year, dress up in Star Trek costumes, visit their local renaissance fair (as customers, not performers) and walk around pretending that they’ve beamed down to a primitive planet. Geek squared!.

Whoa.

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