# 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:** 9
**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:** [October 12, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/161 "2009-10-12T22:03:59Z")
In before the Zombie close: I built a Jacob’s Ladder this year: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ef4yRyeYNg/hqdefault.jpg "Bzzt3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ef4yRyeYNg) ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/162 "2009-10-12T22:21:25Z")
I have a plush Edgar Allen Poe doll (posed as if receiving a kick to the head from my Bruce Lee action figure), a humongous 1:18th scale F4U Cosair suspended from the ceiling, and a die cast Batmobile from the campy 60s TV show among other bits of weirdness hanging around my studio. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/163 "2009-10-12T22:22:34Z")
The original case of vintage Starship Enterprise blueprints, a super geek out in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![pharris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f1d935/32.png) [@pharris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pharris)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/164 "2009-10-12T22:25:10Z")
Life-size standup theater cardboard of Boba Fett. He keeps me safe at night. ---
**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:** [October 12, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/165 "2009-10-12T22:34:16Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > The original case of vintage Starship Enterprise blueprints, a super geek out in 1975. I have not one, but two TNG blueprint sets. I bought one at Barnes and Noble, saw the second one in the shelf and bought it too. The guy behind me looked at me funny. I said “One to keep and one to look at.” He bought two, too. Didja know the NCC-1701-D has Cetacean tanks? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/166 "2009-10-13T05:45:01Z")
Lord of the Rings Risk. A scale model of a DeLorean (big Back to the Future buff). ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/167 "2009-10-13T06:17:50Z")
My whole house is crammed with stuff that prolly makes the lot of you look like normals. It’s a veritable nerdfest in here. [Here’s one of my prize possessions tho](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/IBMcircuitboard.jpg). That’s a genuine IBM circuit board encased in plastic (not sure if it’s lucite or plexi) from sometime in the 60s. I’ve had it since I was a kid. It’s prolly at least partially responsible for my dismantling and reassembling of telephones that I started when I was 9 years old or so. FTR, I always got them back together in good working order, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kickback\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@Kickback\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kickback_Joe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/168 "2009-10-13T22:30:24Z")
I am not very nerdy by this groups standards but I am the Uber nerd in my family for having a Star Trek 3D chess set. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/169 "2009-10-13T23:29:35Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My whole house is crammed with stuff that prolly makes the lot of you look like normals. It’s a veritable nerdfest in here. [Here’s one of my prize possessions tho](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/snowboarderbo/IBMcircuitboard.jpg). > > That’s a genuine IBM circuit board encased in plastic (not sure if it’s lucite or plexi) from sometime in the 60s. I’ve had it since I was a kid. > > It’s prolly at least partially responsible for my dismantling and reassembling of telephones that I started when I was 9 years old or so. FTR, I always got them back together in good working order, too. I sent an email to a guy who collects IBM stuff, and found out a bit more about this childhood keepsake of mine. > [@](#): > > What you have is a salesman sample of what IBM referred to as an SMS cards (Standard Modular System) using diode-transistor logic (DTL) or resistor-transistor logic (RTL) it was introduced in the IBM 1400 series computers in about 1959 and remained in heavy use through the 7000 series computers. > > These cards could be found in limited use, mostly in I/O devices used with the 360 and 370 family computers untill sometime in the later 1970’s. > > The display you have most likely dates to about 1959-1960 when it was an example of the latest greatest in solid state technowlogy. So I actually have a piece of antique computer in a solid plastic display. Go ahead, tell me I’m not 1337! I dare you! I double-dog dare you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Taenia\_spp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Taenia\_spp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taenia_spp)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/170 "2009-10-14T03:26:46Z")
A Roche 2-part biochemical pathways poster series. [Part 1 Image](http://www.g-language.org/GenomeProjector/wiki/_media/pathwaymap.png) ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/171 "2009-10-14T10:24:12Z")
From various provinces of ‘Nerddom’ 1. Graphics Programming for the IBM PC 2. Software Engineering 8th Edition 3. Nobilis (the pen and paper RPG) 4. The Tower Towers EE and the Return of the Kings EE 5. Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria and Shadows of Angmar collectors’ edition 6. Warcraft III Cinematic DVD 7. War of the Ring board game (opened but never played) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/172 "2009-10-14T10:34:09Z")
Mmm, amongst the standard nerd paraphenalia of dice, rulebooks, plasma balls etc, I have: a plush dust mite an arduino clone that’ll soon be connected to a mechanical tentacle A pigfaced bascinet Several Elizabethan doublets & a rapier A Lego AT-ST with Professor Snape at the controls. LOTR-version Risk! game. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2009, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/173 "2009-10-14T10:57:26Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I’ve got a Jane Austen action figure. (She comes with her own writing desk and quill pen!) Does she have kung fu grip? ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/174 "2009-10-14T12:55:59Z")
> [@Cemetery\_Savior](#): > > I blew $894 last year on a full 20-volume copy of the OED Jealous! I’ve got a beautiful, hand-carved Harry Potter wand in a silk-lined display box that came from somewhere in the UK. Also, complete sets of US hardbound, paperback, UK hardbound, paperback, and both Jim Dale and Stephen Fry audiobook versions. Also: librarian action figure with push-button shushing action! My falconry license is pretty nerdy. ---
**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:** [October 14, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/175 "2009-10-14T13:40:53Z")
My wife has the -complete- collection of Hallmark Star Trek ornaments. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/176 "2009-10-14T14:41:23Z")
Probably my radio shack “illuma-storm” plasma globe ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/177 "2009-10-15T00:44:01Z")
Miniature Sandworm ([toy from the movie release](http://www.collectorsofdune.com/toys.asp), never saw the crysknife :mad:), Babylon 5 Ranger badge (thanks [Dragon](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0238255/)), [_Venus on the Half-Shell_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_on_the_Half-Shell), period garb & weapons (a Ren/SCAdian thing), and a hand towel from Harrods (sent my Aunt to England to collect it for me, though she thought it was a vacation) 'cause I’m rarely not the hoopyest frood in the room (except here, where I comfortably have “just zis guy, you know?” status :)). CMC fnord! If one can say “me too” to twenty or thirty+ items listed in this thread do they qualify as an uber-ubernerd? All the AD&D 1st ed. rule books, Car Wars, Gamma World, Traveller, etc, Monkey Chant MP3, Trinitite, etc, etc, etc. ☹ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/178 "2009-10-15T21:11:18Z")
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pilot script signed by Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendan, Anthony Stewart Head and Alyson Hannigan. Even better, it is prominently displayed on an easel on my carefully interior designed dining room. (Though I had to obtain a second, unsigned copy of the script to read it since I don’t want to wreck it.) ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/179 "2009-10-16T18:07:48Z")
I have a nice collection of diseases and viruses from [giantmicrobes.com](http://giantmicrobes.com), too. A T-shirt with Einstein’s face done in stars and galaxies that glows in the dark. A homemade voodoo doll as my pincushion. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492/180 "2009-10-16T18:47:38Z")
Slide rules of every variety from days of yore. The original IBM PC, monochrome monitor, and the MS-DOS 1.0 manual. Shelves and shelves of math and stat textbooks. Oh yes, I’m looking at an action figure of Albert Einstein on my desk right now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-nerdiest-thing-you-own/353492.md?page=10)