# What is the Nerdiest thing you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 20, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492 "2006-04-20T16:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/21 "2006-04-20T19:15:43Z")
> [@caveman](#): > > - my 20th Anniversary (“Masterpiece”) Optimus Prime I have him too! Isn’t it badass? ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/22 "2006-04-20T19:18:25Z")
> [@What Exit?](#): > > Deities & Demigods. The printing that included Cthulu and Melbonian Mythos. I didn’t think anyone had that any longer. I guess I’ll take mine out of the mylar and use it, then. We had a great Elric-type campaign for about 3 years. Nerdiest thing? I have the above, and I think the mylar bag helps my case. I also have all of David Foster Wallace’s books in duplicate, with one copy of each signed with a note. That’s nerdy! -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/23 "2006-04-20T19:29:18Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > My nerdiest possession? Probably a set of earrings bearing the emblem of the Romulan Empire. How _you_ doin’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/24 "2006-04-20T19:46:04Z")
> [@Cemetery Savior](#): > > I didn’t think anyone had that any longer. I guess I’ll take mine out of the mylar and use it, then. We had a great Elric-type campaign for about 3 years. > > Nerdiest thing? I have the above, and I think the mylar bag helps my case. > > I also have all of David Foster Wallace’s books in duplicate, with one copy of each signed with a note. That’s nerdy! > > -Cem You out geeked me, mine is just sitting on a shelf and gets used a few times a year. I still think having the Original D&D Books count for some extra points though I never use them and haven’t since around 1979 or 1980. 😃 Jim ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/25 "2006-04-20T19:48:32Z")
I’ve got a Jane Austen action figure. (She comes with her own writing desk and quill pen!) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/26 "2006-04-20T19:59:34Z")
Depends on which type of nerdiness you prefer. Computer: A 8-inch floppy disk. Sports: Dave Magadan action figure. TV/Movies: Stuffed Rocky, Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, and Snidley Whiplash dolls. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/27 "2006-04-20T20:04:53Z")
My Starfleet jacket. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/28 "2006-04-20T20:06:00Z")
DEC Tapes and a programming card from the PDP-11 I used in grad school, and an LGP-21 programmer’s manual. No newfangled 8 inch floppies for me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/29 "2006-04-20T20:17:52Z")
A hardbound book edition of the September 1966 Scientific topical issue on computers. It’s actually fascinating how some of the programming techniques demonstarted in a hypothetical checkers-playing program foreshadowed Java of the distant future. I also have a couple of Time Life Science Series books from the same era. They have become interesting artifacts of their time. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/30 "2006-04-20T20:19:42Z")
Probably the high-precision tracking force gauge and anti-skating calculator for my turntable. It’s more accurate than the devices that come on the tonearm for making these adjustments. And I use it, too! I have to switch tonearms and settings to play 78 RPM records or LPs/45s, so it comes in real handy. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/31 "2006-04-20T20:21:08Z")
I still have (and reference, on occasion) my copy of “The Official Preppy Handbook.” Signed, Muffy ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/32 "2006-04-20T20:21:20Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > Definitely [these](http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h234/wisdomy/ac2c6365.jpg). I recognize that photo. Do you post at FTOTZ? My husband and I have matching buttons. Mine is Clarke’s law – “Any suffiiciently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – and his is its inverse – “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.” I’ve ordered Terry Pratchett books that were available only in the UK just because I hadn’t read them. I own a Blue Sun t-shirt, which I wear frequently. I also paid $30 for a handknit Jayne “cunning hat” for my husband to wear to the premiere of the movie _Serenity_. He wears it frequently without irony in winter as well. My husband also owns an adult tricycle in safety yellow. I bow to his superior geekiness. ---
**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:** [April 20, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/33 "2006-04-20T20:22:51Z")
A nearly-complete set of Star Wars bubblegum cards. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/34 "2006-04-20T20:28:36Z")
Not one but _two_ BBC Micros (one model B, one Master) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/35 "2006-04-20T20:34:57Z")
A WhatIfSports.com Simleague Champion T-shirt. I haven’t played real life baseball since I was in high school, but I’ll kick your butt at a statistics-based baseball simulation. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/36 "2006-04-20T20:41:04Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Not one but _two_ BBC Micros (one model B, one Master) Do you still have Elite on either of them? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/37 "2006-04-20T20:47:07Z")
What to choose…? Is it my collection of Comic-Con T-shirts from the last 6 years? My complete collection of Pratchett British Firsts? Signed? My catapult wristwatch? My complete collection of Buffy and Angel trading cards? Or my autographed picture of Erin Gray (Col. Wilma Deering, _Buck Rogers in the 25th Century_)? In spandex? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/38 "2006-04-20T20:47:39Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Do you still have Elite on either of them? Alas, no. The best I can offer you is Hopper. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/39 "2006-04-20T20:54:45Z")
> [@GorillaMan](#): > > Not one but _two_ BBC Micros (one model B, one Master) For anyone else you didn’t know what one was like me: [BBC Micro Link in Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Microcomputer) I still have a my [first computer a TI99/4a](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A) I have an 8" Floppy from an IBM [system 36](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System/36) Midrange Computer I have a complete set of [The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Dictionary) from 1899. I have recently aquired on this board 7 bound volumes of Popular Mechanics from the 1870’s and 1880’s. Each volume is six months’ worth of issues, bound. I have a Star Trek Role Playing Manual sign by Walter Koenig when he was filming Star Trek IV the Voyage Home on my Carrier the USS Ranger CV-61. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/40 "2006-04-20T21:08:48Z")
Wait…it’s sitting (OK, sprawling) right here! I blew $894 last year on a full 20-volume copy of the OED: [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198611862/103-0490643-1455001?v=glance&n=283155](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198611862/103-0490643-1455001?v=glance&n=283155) That has to help me somewhat! I proudly identifty as a “Snoot” as well (I wish I could find a t-shirt that proclaims that fact, but I can’t), although my family called it something different (“word snob”). -Cem [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=3)