# 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:** 5
**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, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/81 "2006-04-22T14:39:19Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Where did you get it? I must know!!!111!!!elevnty one! I’m guessing it’s from the same company that makes action figures of Freud and Shakespeare. Yep [Accoutrements](http://www.accoutrements.com/actionfigures/) You can either order from their website or check comic book stores near you. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/82 "2006-04-22T14:45:37Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > 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. We have the entire set of Hallmark’s Star Trek ornament series. (yes, the WHOLE set) It’s pretty much the thing that kicks off the holiday season for us. ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/83 "2006-04-22T14:48:52Z")
“Spock! Do you - - -see what _I_ see?” “A star.” “A. Star!” ---
**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 22, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/84 "2006-04-22T15:20:02Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’m guessing it’s from the same company that makes action figures of Freud and Shakespeare. Yep > > [Accoutrements](http://www.accoutrements.com/actionfigures/) > > You can either order from their website or check comic book stores near you. I have their Deluxe Librarian action figure, who will be going in my Sunnydale Library Playset with my Buffy action figures as soon as it’s released. (I preordered it back in October.) ---
**Author:** ![MrPeabody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@MrPeabody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrPeabody)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/85 "2006-04-22T15:30:17Z")
It would be my full size Han Solo in carbonite. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/86 "2006-04-22T16:30:34Z")
> [@caveman](#): > > As for my wife, **I** am by far _her_ nerdiest posession. I was going to write that about my husband. 😃 He comes complete with chemical engineering degree and lots of D&D books. I have a full bookshelf of Star Trek novels so there’s a residual nerd attraction right there. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/87 "2006-04-22T18:14:46Z")
> [@caveman](#): > > I had almost forgot the 4th contender: > > -His & hers _Serentiy_ [Halloween costumes](http://ret3.net/snap/hwn2005/index.html) worn to an Alamo Drafthouse costume contest & screening. > > As for my wife, **I** am by far _her_ nerdiest posession. Do you know where nerds(ok…me) can buy the T-shirts worn by Jayne on the show? I’d love to get some of them. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/88 "2006-04-22T18:22:50Z")
I have a complete collection of [_Urusei Yatsura_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urusei_Yatsura) videos. The entire series, all the movies, and the OVAs,in bulky-and-deteriorating-from-use VHS format, which I would like to replace with digital copies. Over the past ten years, I have tried to turn _so many_ people onto _Urusei Yatsura_ (which is one of the most brilliant things ever) and so far exactly one person has embraced it and gone through the entire collection. I also have a largish collection of dictionaries, mainly 19th and early 20th century, but including some that are simply peculiar, like my prized Cultural Revolution state-published English-Chinese dictionary, which somehow manages to fit outrageous propaganda into practically _every_ context sentence, no matter how politically neutral the word is. Joy! I have a holography table, which I can’t set up here because I don’t have a stable enough place for it. I think the UY is probably the nerdiest. ---
**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 22, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/89 "2006-04-22T18:43:27Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Do you know where nerds(ok…me) can buy the T-shirts worn by Jayne on the show? > > I’d love to get some of them. Cafe Press. ---
**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 24, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/90 "2006-04-24T18:10:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Cafe Press. Thanks for that info, I’m going to upgrade my nerdosity with a couple of obscure Firefly t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/91 "2006-04-24T19:02:40Z")
> [@Bippy the Beardless](#): > > Thanks for that info, I’m going to upgrade my nerdosity with a couple of obscure Firefly t-shirts. Last time I checked, there were also available at a number of shops on [Zazzle.com](http://Zazzle.com). ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/92 "2006-04-24T20:11:02Z")
> [@RancidYakButterTeaParty](#): > > 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. A friend of mine has one of those, with a strip of the film when the Fellowship is passing the Argonath. She calls it “The Heirloom of My People.” This is the person who gave me a set of lifesize cardboard hobbits for my birthday a few years ago (I posted about it at the time); they stand on top of a shelf a few feet from my desk. But they are not the nerdiest thing I own. The nerdiest thing would be my Babylon 5/Deep Space 9 chess set. I made it myself by collecting 6-inch action figures and little model ships: Sisko & Sheridan = Kings Kira & Delenn = Queens Dukat, Garak, G’kar & Londo = Bishops Worf, Dax, Ivanova, & Marcus = Knights Bashir, O’Brien, Garibaldi, & Franklin = Rooks Odo and Dana Scully referee. At Christmastime, they also stand in for the figures in the nativity. In addition, I also have Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and about 25 hobbits in action-figure form, besides the cardboard ones. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/93 "2006-04-25T02:02:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Many, many things, but the most visible is one of [these](http://img.tfd.com/thumb/c/c4/Zorkmidfront.jpg) which I wear on a chain around my neck. I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s actually recognized it, which is doubly depressing in that I work at a video game company. They don’t lack history, just years. You’ve got to be in your early thirties, at a minimum, to have really played those text adventure games. That said: _Oh. My. God._ :eek: I want one!! Where can I find it? As for replying to the OP: Lessee, I have “first edition” AD&D books (Player’s Handbook, DM Guide, Monster Manual, Deities and Demigods) on my shelf with a collection of various colored ‘hedron dice (d4 thru d20, unused in 20 years, but still there nonetheless); a “Darth Tater” Mr. Potato Head toy; numerous letter openers in the form of medieval or fantasy swords; original boxes and cards for the Steve Jackson “Illuminati!” game (not the CCG); and somewhere in my parents’ house I I hope I still have some remnants of my set of dot-matrix printouts of transcripts documenting my beginning-to-end solutions to various Infocom games. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/94 "2006-04-25T02:44:18Z")
Signed by Douglas Adams, in person, _The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_ book. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/95 "2006-04-25T03:18:53Z")
Oh, I have a[few toys](http://primewonderfultime.ytmnd.com/) (warning: sound). I wish. As for me its either a college marching band shako or my ancient Greek edition of the first Harry Potter book. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/96 "2006-04-25T03:52:07Z")
Heh. Heh. Heh. Where shall I begin? 1. Shelves full of Star Trek novels, Technical Manuals, and the blueprints for the Enterprise D. 2. At least a dozen Star Trek action figures, including a Cardassian (complete with workstation and bottle of kanar), and Zephram Cochrane (complete with PADD), and a 12" Picard figure, as well as a pewter statue of Spock undergoing Kohlinahr on Vulcan. 3. Lots of tiny little ships. 4. Hundreds of Star Trek CCG cards. In binders, in boxes, tons of them. 5. A plush Vulcan “beam-me-up” baby. 6. All of Star Trek: TNG. All of Star Trek: DS9. Large chunks of TOS and VOY. Special editions of all movies save 5, 9, and 10, and the regular DVD of 10. 7. A Star Trek “desk organizer” thing with space for pens/pencils, a notepad, and six buttons that play various TOS and TNG sound effects. 8. An NCC 1701 night lamp. And last but not least … 1. [This.](http://www.t-shirthumor.com/Merchant2/products/dhka.html?Category_Code=tech), [this (which I made along with the others in that store)](http://www.cafepress.com/spatialrift.54539416), and [this.](http://www.proudnerd.com/cgi-bin/store/nerdshop.cgi/1990605689/proudnerd.4325117) ---
**Author:** ![Wensleydale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@Wensleydale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wensleydale)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/97 "2006-04-25T19:28:47Z")
My spongebob Pez dispenser collection and other Spongebob sweet holders about 12 in total. My Tazo collection collected from Simba chip packets consisting of the first second and third sets, metal varieties in metal, green, silver and gold as well as the 3D varieties probaby about 200 hundred different Tazos. I even contemplated framing them. ---
**Author:** ![St\_Ides](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/98 "2006-04-25T19:53:05Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Oh, I have a[few toys](http://primewonderfultime.ytmnd.com/) (warning: sound). You’re the one behind that YTMND? I’ve seen it before (and shown it to many friends) You, sir, have a very nerdy collection of toys. Kudos. ---
**Author:** ![JannaChilds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@JannaChilds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JannaChilds)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/99 "2006-04-25T22:07:12Z")
It is like the one found as one of the few surviving knick-knacks after the earth is taken over in Half-Life2. I had a friend pick one up in Hawaii. Cheers ---
**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 25, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/100 "2006-04-25T22:36:23Z")
Oh, I also own a very “normal”-looking T-shirt for Wolfram & Hart, Attorneys at Law. Since I actually went to law school, people always ask me if I worked there, and I tell them I just did an internship and learned everything I know from them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=6)