# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/61 "2006-04-21T06:19:40Z")
We have lots of nerdy stuff… but the following are pretty much the highest ranking items: I have the complete Star Trek TNG trading cards sets, the original ones with the burgundy border and the ones with the blue borders plus the foreign language and hologram cards… that’s pretty nerdy. :o Mr. Geeks nerdy possessions are his Geiger counters: one that measures up to 50 rem and the ionizing radiation Geiger counter that measures up to 500 rem :eek: ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/62 "2006-04-21T09:54:08Z")
[I have a robot that feeds me potato chips.](http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6787/robochips0rz.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/63 "2006-04-21T11:42:37Z")
Barlowe’s guide to fantasy creatures and sci-fi creatures. A drangon lovers guide to Pern A star trek encyclopedia All books written by Piers Anthony The Sims 😃 My husband… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/53a042/32.png) [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RancidYakButterTeaParty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/64 "2006-04-21T12:19:54Z")
A piece of filmstrip from the “Lord of the Rings” movies that was handed out to folks who watched all three back to back to back when ROTK was released. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/65 "2006-04-21T13:09:33Z")
I can’t decide on if it’s [this enormous TV](http://www.guanolad.com/stuff/hometheatre.jpg) (note the _Monty Python_ DVD collection, the _Fraggle Rock_ season one, and the _Digital Matte Painting_ art books); Or it’s [this DVD and book selection](http://www.guanolad.com/stuff/dvds_books.jpg) (note the _Star Wars_ and Special Effects collections, the _Simpsons_ season DVDs, the _Ray Harryhausen_ DVDs, the complete _Terry Pratchett_ set); Or if it’s [this collection of figurines](http://www.guanolad.com/stuff/toys.jpg) I keep above my enormous TV (note the out-of-shot _Harry Potter_ Hogwarts lego castle); Or maybe it’s something else. Like my _Danger Mouse_ DVDs, my _Strontium Dog_ figurine, my _Terrahawks_ Complete DVD Set, my _History of Matte Painting_ books, my _Homestar Runner_ figurine set and T-Shirt, or my anecdote of visiting _Revenge of the Sith_ at Fox Studios and getting to stand on the Blockade Runner set. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/66 "2006-04-21T13:28:09Z")
> [@cactus waltz](#): > > [I have a robot that feeds me potato chips.](http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6787/robochips0rz.jpg) I find that picture to be so sad. And yet…That’s cool! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/67 "2006-04-21T13:58:35Z")
Not sure I personally own anything myself, but the breakfast discussion this morning between my wife and son over the distinctions between spontoons and halberds suggested to me that some of the Am Rev War reenactment gear in our house might qualify. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/68 "2006-04-21T14:14:54Z")
I have a ‘that was easy’ button on my desk at home and I actually use it. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/69 "2006-04-21T15:16:54Z")
My Brian Rust 78rpm record discographies, _Jazz Records 1897-1942_ and _American Dance Bands 1917-1942._ Four hefty, well-thumbed, clothbound volumes of teeny typescript, plus a decade and a half of crabbed, cramped, chicken-scratch annotations by yrs trly. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/70 "2006-04-21T15:38:27Z")
I have…[ul][_]The computer I hand-built out of chips and wires in third year of electronics school (it worked only for as long as it toook to be marked);[_]My grandfather’s antique electronics books (Audel’s New Electric Library in 12 volumes (missing Vol. 11), and the Radio-Electronics Course, all 1930’s tech–if you want to know the wiring diagram for a 1930 Packard 4-cylinder automobile, I’m your man);[_]three ZX81s, one in an inproved case with a real keyboard and the 64k memory expansion;[_]a 23-inch widescreen HD LCD monitor on my computer, which just replaced 2 CRTs;walls of books, mostly about SF, computers, and cartooning. Some of them are in Esperanto.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Chew\_Barker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Chew\_Barker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chew_Barker)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/71 "2006-04-21T15:56:39Z")
I hava a luke skywalker force fx lightsaber[lightsaber](http://www.firebox.com/pic/p995h.jpg) [2000 AD prog 1384](http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=news&page=newsimage&choice=shaun) in plastic cover (the shaun of the dead issue) they are probably my top 2 nerdiest things. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/72 "2006-04-21T16:13:18Z")
[This.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v654/MachTurtle/c64_prg-ml.jpg) And yes, I still use it. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/73 "2006-04-21T17:00:38Z")
I have various things. I have autographed pics of a couple Star Trek actors. A stuffed “Fluffy” from Harry Potter, a stuffed killer bunny from Monty Python, a Klingon Bear, a few stuffed Looney Toons (Marvin Martian and his Dog are my favorite set) and numerous Wile E Coyote figures (wonder why?), and a stuffed Swedish Chef (the Muppet one, not an actual Swedish Chef that I had stuffed). I have some jewelry, the B5 emblem, Bajoran earring, and a Klingon emblem. I have lots of little knick knacks. I have a few signed books (Pratchett and Anthony). The nerdiest thing though has to be an original script for the Star Trek:Generations movie with the original Kirk death scene. I won it at a premiere party for one of the ST series. I never win anything but I won that. I was popular for a while after when everyone had to come over and read how Kirk really died. ---
**Author:** ![Megyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@Megyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Megyn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/74 "2006-04-21T17:52:15Z")
My viruses. 🙂 [http://www.giantmicrobes.com/health/](http://www.giantmicrobes.com/health/) I keep them in a display cabinet with the carousel horses I’ve accumulated over the years. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/75 "2006-04-22T01:19:25Z")
A Heathkit oscilloscope. It’s got a metal case and weighs twenty pounds. It just arrived today. Heathkit flight calculator- from the seventies, colorful layout, many buttons, led display. Plush _super_ Cthulhu Green Cthulhu ceremonial head dress (made it myself) Ceramic Cthulhu statuette (ditto) Commodore 64s, 128s, and a Plus 4 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/76 "2006-04-22T05:26:36Z")
A Model of the USS Enterprise- NCC 1701. A geek will know exactly which one I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/77 "2006-04-22T05:31:49Z")
Just remmebered: I have both a libretto and Soundtrack to “The Shoggoth on the Roof” ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/78 "2006-04-22T05:35:19Z")
My husband. ::rimshot:: Okay. . I guess that doesn’t count. How about the entire run of the Animorphs book series? It’s that or my custom BTVS figure. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/79 "2006-04-22T13:52:42Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > A Model of the USS Enterprise- NCC 1701. > > A geek will know exactly which one I’m talking about. I’ve got a partially built model based on the television series, and a model based on the first film- mint in box. Request For Rules Clarification I’m not sure either of the above actually count as I bought them with the intent to resell. Most of my nerdy Trek items are actually unsold inventory. My NCC-1701 D with light up nacelles and main deflector, and sounds is not rare or especially nerdy. However, IMO it gets extra points as it is hanging from my living room ceiling. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/80 "2006-04-22T14:11:29Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’ve got a Jane Austen action figure. (She comes with her own writing desk and quill pen!) I bow to your nerd goddess! Where did you get it? I must know!!!111!!!elevnty one! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=5)