# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![scotth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@scotth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotth)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/61 "2001-11-13T05:16:07Z")
And for myself, hows this for bad? I had a pair of greyhound dogs named Valentine and Ender. I can tell by the nicknames in here, alot of you will get that reference without help. Its an Orson Scott Card reference if you do need help (“Ender’s Game” series). ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/62 "2001-11-13T07:19:10Z")
An Aftery2k Linus Torvalds paper doll, and a slashdot gladiator’s poster signed by Nitrozac herself!!! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/63 "2001-11-13T14:10:28Z")
If comic books are geeky, than my 38 year collection of Legion of Super Heroes definitely qualifies. My cast CD collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber shows is probably up there, what with all the foreign language versions (I’m getting the Russian CATS, WHOO HOO!). HOWEVER, the geekiest thing is probably my ABBA CD collection. It’s so embarassing I hide it. Suffice it to say, I’m probably the only person on the planet who has songs from CHESS in Japanese, Swedish, German and Hungarian! I also have Benny Andersson’s three solo CDS. What the hell, it’s a good investment. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/64 "2001-11-13T20:37:50Z")
I have [It’s A Sunshine Day](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002OND/qid=1005683739/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_7_6/104-5167986-9912768) It’s a charming collection of songs by The Brady Bunch. The sad thing is, I know all the words to all of the songs that they sang in various episodes. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2001, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/65 "2001-11-13T23:40:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philote \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by vivalostwages_ > > Wouldn’t it be the pinnacle of geeky-cool to write and sell a Trek episode? > > Yeah, totally. They would put your name in the credits, right? (Can’t think of a good reason why they wouldn’t…) Imagine having your name immortalized as a geek among geeks the whole country over! We’d never be able to live it down. 😉 > > Oh, and I haven’t checked, but couldn’t the guidelines be found online somewhere, like at a Paramount site? They might not want to place that online for fear of being inundated with scripts… but even if they’re not, seems to me like it should be possible to email someone at their site and have the guidelines sent back to you. \*\* * * * Hmmm…I don’t know. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the tip! ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/66 "2001-11-14T15:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darwin’s Finch \* > \*\*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. \*\* 7000! Pshaw. I have over 9000 typed in the MagicBuddy database and another 4000+ still needing to be sorted and typed in. ---
**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/67 "2001-11-14T17:45:00Z")
I think it would be a tossup between my almost complete collections of Star Wars and Star Trek Micro-Machines toys (little fantastically detailed starships about 2 inches long!) and my Next Generation uniform (it was cheaper to buy it outright than it was to rent it for two evenings! I made a passable Riker impersonator…). And then there’s the Star Wars Lego sets my wife keeps buying me…why didn’t they have toys this cool back in the '70s when we were all at the mercy of Kenner? ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546/68 "2001-11-14T19:11:30Z")
The geekiest thing I own? My husband. Hands down! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-geekiest-thing-you-own/92546.md?page=3)