# When Daleks Strip -- Nerdlesque
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 5, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082 "2013-03-05T12:44:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/1 "2013-03-05T12:44:39Z")
Burlesque for Geeks. It’s like that SNL sketch about the 1-800 phone lines for geeks. And it’s in the Wall Street Journal. With a video:
[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578290500738995578.html?KEYWORDS=](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324906004578290500738995578.html?KEYWORDS=)\*
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> “I can never watch the Mario Brothers the same way again,” says Joshua Thomas, a 29-year-old rental-car manager in Orlando, who saw the show—headlined “A Super Mario Burlesque”—while visiting with friends.
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> Welcome to the quirky world of nerdlesque, or nerd burlesque, a place where women performers of all shapes and sizes bare their geeky souls, strip down to pasties and panties—and boldly go where no man has gone before.
Googling “nerdlesque” gets you lots of other sites covering this stuff, going back to last year.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/2 "2013-03-05T13:59:33Z")
There are a few things in life that make me wish I lived nearer to a large city. This is one.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/3 "2013-03-05T15:48:02Z")
I love the fact that the WSJ added a little stipple-art drawing of “Burlesque Luigi”.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/4 "2013-03-05T19:05:36Z")
Didn’t the reality HBO series _Cathouse_ feature a prostitute making a sexy Star Wars Stormtrooper outfit for a particularly good nerd customer?
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/5 "2013-03-05T19:21:32Z")
I found a burlesque video for _Catnip Dream_, by Shonen Knife, not too long ago. It was interesting.
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### Author:  [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/6 "2013-03-08T20:44:36Z")
We caught the Star Wars show “A Nude Hope” at the Chicago Gorilla Tango theater last spring. It was A LOT of fun, with creative costuming & very tongue in cheek humour. It was just a little naughty - I think only one of the performers went all the way down to pasties & g-strings.
I also appreciated that the performers were “normal” looking - different shapes & sizes & no (obvious) boob jobs - the frat boys sitting behind us looking for a sleazy strip show were disappointed. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-daleks-strip-nerdlesque/652082/7 "2013-03-08T20:53:16Z")
> [@Politzania](#):
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> I also appreciated that the performers were “normal” looking - different shapes & sizes & no (obvious) boob jobs - the frat boys sitting behind us looking for a sleazy strip show were disappointed. :rolleyes:
Why the hell were they at a new burlesque show and not at the Admiral Theater?