# What's the geekiest thing you own? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546 "2001-11-10T00:13:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/21 "2001-11-10T06:59:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \* > \*\*Probably all my Star Wars books-and my cardboard Ewan standup. \*\* Bah! I used to have a six-foot cardboard Boba Fett standup. And I shelled out thirty bucks for a 37th-generation dub of the _Star Wars Holiday Special_. ---
**Author:** ![Agent0069](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Agent0069](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent0069)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/22 "2001-11-10T18:22:50Z")
::I have all of the 101 Dalmation dogs that McDonalds was giving away when that 101 Dalmations move came out. How sad is that??? I had friends eatting Mickey D’s till they were ready to kill me…LOL…but I have 'em all damn it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/23 "2001-11-10T18:50:21Z")
My ever-growing collection of old NES game cartridges. (Including some very rare unlicensed and imported ones! 😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![greenlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@greenlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greenlady)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/24 "2001-11-10T18:57:34Z")
I have some truly hideous costume jewelry which I accumulated in the 1970’s. Remember mood rings and charm bracelets? ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/25 "2001-11-10T19:54:50Z")
I have a very nice 30 year old Dietzgen slide rule. I checked it out and it’s worth hundreds of bucks on the collector’s market. If that isn’t geeky enough for ya, I have a 300 baud acoustic coupler modem sitting somewhere in a box in the garage. ---
**Author:** ![JubilationTCornpone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@JubilationTCornpone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JubilationTCornpone)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/26 "2001-11-10T19:55:34Z")
My copies of _The Encyclopedia of Physics_, _The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Engineering_, _The Electrical Engineering Handbook_, _The AMA Encyclopedia of Medicine_, _The Encyclopedia of Computer Science_ and _The Star Trek Encyclopedia_. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/27 "2001-11-10T22:29:24Z")
7,000+ Magic: the Gathering cards. A collection of old Dragon[sup]tm[/sup] magazines. All of the 1st Edition AD&D books (including a copy of Deities & Demigods with the Cthulu and Melnibonian mythos gods). My bookshelf contains only around a dozen novels; just about everything else is a reference book or textbook. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/28 "2001-11-10T23:21:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch \* > … A collection of old Dragon[sup]tm[/sup] magazines. > > All of the 1st Edition AD&D books (including a copy of Deities & Demigods with the Cthulu and Melnibonian mythos gods). I have not only ‘Dragon’ magazines, but also a load of ‘White Dwarf’ (UK version of Dragon). Also **two** copies of all the 1st Edition AD&D books (I keep a reference set for the School Roleplaying Club). A computer with no word processing / spreadsheet or database software - just games. Does having no cooker\*, ironing board or washing machine\*\* in my house count? \*OK, I do have a microwave. \*\*my cleaning lady takes the laundry away and returns it. My philosophy is that housework interferes with computer gaming time. ---
**Author:** ![Philote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@Philote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philote)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/29 "2001-11-10T23:27:25Z")
I’ve still hung on to a lot of holdovers from my “anything Star Trek-related” youth… models of Next Generation ships, every episode of TNG on tapes in my closet, the Star Trek Encyclopedia (hardback)… and then, there’s the Star Trek novels I actually wrote. I wouldn’t call them good by any stretch of the imagination now, but for a seventh-grader I don’t think they were too bad. (Then again, the fact that a seventh-grader would spend his time writing Star Trek novels in the first place should be an indication of the supreme geekiness of my youth.) BTW, I know these titles should be italicized, but I’m not quite sure how to do it… could someone help me out on that? I appreciate it! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/30 "2001-11-10T23:39:01Z")
I have every episode of seasons one, two, three and four of _The X-Files_ on DVD. That’s 96 episodes. I have more than 20 [O’Reilly](http://www.ora.com/) books - and I’ve read them all (some several times.) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/31 "2001-11-10T23:53:57Z")
Philote, you can do **bold** , _italics_ and loads of smilies :eek: . Bold is started by typing a square open bracket\* , then the letter b\*\*, then a square closing bracket\*\*\*. You then type the word(s) you want bolded. Bold is finished by typing a square open bracket\* , then a slash\*\*\*\*, then the letter b\*\*, then a square closing bracket\*\*\*. - ``` [ ``` \*\* b \*\*\* ] \*\*\*\* / If you click on \*\*?\*\*faq, there is lots of other useful info. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/32 "2001-11-10T23:59:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philote \* > \*\*I’ve still hung on to a lot of holdovers from my “anything Star Trek-related” youth… models of Next Generation ships, every episode of TNG on tapes in my closet, the Star Trek Encyclopedia (hardback)… and then, there’s the Star Trek novels I actually wrote. I wouldn’t call them good by any stretch of the imagination now, but for a seventh-grader I don’t think they were too bad. (Then again, the fact that a seventh-grader would spend his time writing Star Trek novels in the first place should be an indication of the supreme geekiness of my youth.) > > BTW, I know these titles should be italicized, but I’m not quite sure how to do it… could someone help me out on that? I appreciate it! \*\* I wrote a few Trek stories too, but never a novel. I’m impressed! I have a number of 'zines also, a lot of Trek and other books, tons of non sports trading cards, SW Ep. 1 Taco bell collectibles, and so forth. I was even thinking of sending for the writer’s guidelines for **Enterprise** and maybe writing an episode. What the heck… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/33 "2001-11-11T00:01:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > > > \*\*I’ve got a DaynaFile in my closet. It still works. Does that count? \*\* > > > > What is it? \*\* > > A DaynaFile is a 360 KB, 5 1/4" floppy disk drive for a Macintosh. No Macintosh ever made has used that kind of floppy drive, but older PCs did, and the 3rd-party DaynaFile enabled the Mac owner to insert and read the floppies that PC users used, and to access the files on them. \*\* Definitely nerdy. 😉 Geeky? Yes indeed. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/34 "2001-11-11T00:02:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Philote \* > > \*\*I’ve still hung on to a lot of holdovers from my “anything Star Trek-related” youth… models of Next Generation ships, every episode of TNG on tapes in my closet, the Star Trek Encyclopedia (hardback)… and then, there’s the Star Trek novels I actually wrote. I wouldn’t call them good by any stretch of the imagination now, but for a seventh-grader I don’t think they were too bad. (Then again, the fact that a seventh-grader would spend his time writing Star Trek novels in the first place should be an indication of the supreme geekiness of my youth.) > > > > BTW, I know these titles should be italicized, but I’m not quite sure how to do it… could someone help me out on that? I appreciate it! \*\* > > I wrote a few Trek stories too, but never a novel. I’m impressed! I have a number of 'zines also, a lot of Trek and other books, tons of non sports trading cards, SW Ep. 1 Taco bell collectibles, and so forth. > I was even thinking of sending for the writer’s guidelines for **Enterprise** and maybe writing an episode. What the heck… \*\* And you can learn from the bolding mistakes in my post, and I otter know better. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/35 "2001-11-11T01:39:06Z")
I’ve got Mandrake Linux on my computer. How geeky is that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/36 "2001-11-11T02:27:13Z")
How did I forget my alien collection? –an alien head dispenser for small candy –a bigger alien head dispenser for small gumballs and jawbreakers –a small alien that grows to many times its original size when submerged in water –an acrobatic alien –a gymnastic alien –an alien head filled with green goo –a stuffed blue-green shiny alien And an action figure of Paul Atreides. Oh, and a small Rocketeer plastic figure that used to hold tiny pieces of gum. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/37 "2001-11-11T03:05:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by vivalostwages \* > \*\* > and a Jar Jar Binks digital watch which is more hideous than you can imagine. \*\* I thought I was the only one who had one of those. My boyfriend bought it for me. He’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/38 "2001-11-11T03:36:51Z")
64K Radio Shack Color Computer Full collection of all the Intel Clean Room Dolls Unopened copy of Mandonna’s SEX box with the aluminum covers A router connecting my PC, my 14 year old’s PC and my 11 year old’s PC are all networked together in one room, sharing a cable modem. Pet’[s.com](http://s.com) full size and accessory keychain sock puppet Complete set of PANAM die cast metal planes still in the box Microsoft Office on Floppies etc etc ad nauseum ---
**Author:** ![Operator6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c57346/32.png) [@Operator6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operator6)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/39 "2001-11-11T03:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I have one of those limited edition ( :rolleyes: ) hologram X-File prints. Actually, I have about five of them and one of them is mounted. \*\* …one of them is mounted… Colour me sick, but that was my only laugh of the day! Perhaps that was TMI 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/40 "2001-11-11T04:15:26Z")
Gotta be all the _Star Wars_ toys. Including several 12" poseable figures. [sub]Ok, dolls! Dolls! Happy?! They’re dolls, alright?[/sub] I’ve been contemplating making a Darth Vader costume as well. I hope it doesn’t come to that, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546.md?page=3)