Errr… in Spain (and I imagine Gibraltar… help, Martha!) many of the restaurants that specialize in wedding receptions give the newlyweds a big sword engraved with their names and the dates, to cut the cake with. It’s certainly prettier than your usual big old knife.
So I guess here you should amend it to “the sword from your wedding is actually hanging on the wall, rather than a dark closet.”
You both play an online MMORPG. You stay home from work one day and level past your SO. SO refuses to speak to you for the rest of night.
- The guests at your wedding wore Medieval and Renaissance costume…
…although you didn’t actually specify it on the invitations.
uh-oh…
Distance from the telephone central office is seen as a valid criterion for house-selecting by both parties. An otherwise wonderful house is taken out of the running as it’s over 10,000 feet from the CO and thereby, unable to receive better than 2.5 megabit speed on DSL. The chosen house is 4,000 feet from a CO and gets 6 megabit service.
That’s romantic, but unrealistic. What happens when you get into an arguement over whether to make it a Semetic-style triconsonental language with clicks and no case system or a hypothetical PIE daughter language with split ergativity and lots of retroflexes? Not to mention the inevitable fight that leaves you not speaking to each other for days over whether to romanize /C/ as <hy> or <š>.
The first thing I though of when I saw the thread title was this high school prom photo.
Disclaimer: it’s not mine.
…Neither of you have ever said, “They’re playing our song”. But you’ve both said, “They’re showing our Star Trek episode.”
…For the sake of your marriage, neither of you will raise the issue of whether or not a prepared Batman could beat Superman.
…You’ve called each other by screen names during sex.
You feel the need to define “love” at innapropriate junctures, instead of saying “yes”.
You read a romantic list on the internet email your other half to ask if there is an aleph-4[sup]*[/sup]
You popped the question with “If I were to ask you to marry me, would your answer the same as you are to this question? Haha! Got you there.”
Indeed, there’s an aleph-infinity. And an aleph-aleph-infinity.
Osso buco in that area? It’s not Stephano’s, is it?
My husband buys me computer/video game hardware for presents, even for Valentine’s Day. (Either that or kitchen gear, yay!)
Three networked computers in our living room/dining room area. We panic when the net connection goes down, and immediately start troubleshooting. (I diagnosed a bad router the other night.) We bought the initial release of each RotK DVD when it came out, watched it, then bought each extended special edition and gave the original to our niece.
We play City of Heroes together, and have taken to hanging out with another RL couple in-game. They’re cute geeks too.
We play World of Warcraft together.
Our computer desks face each other so we can see while we play.
…You’re both Engineers.
…When describing materials you often use their atomic symbol or their elemental composition instead of their common names. (We use H2O2 instead of the cumbersome Hydrogen Peroxide.) This also helps with preventing mixups due to different native languages.
…When telling your SO the weather you give the temps in both degrees Farenheight and Celcius.
Heh. SWMBO and I are ubergeeks.
We both have a desktop. She has a laptop and a Palm, I have a Palm, so she’s ahead on technology points for the time being, but I’ve got knowledge and experience points 'cause I be a DBA and all that. The house is wireless, so the Teenaged Terror can get online with her laptop.
When I get my own laptop, we will sit in the living room watching TV out of one eye and our screen with the other. True Geek Love
I once asked an ex if he had any acetylsalicylic acid. He handed me the Bayer without asking a question.
If you ask your SO ‘can I plug in here?’ and they don’t respond ‘What?’
If instead of playing Marco-Polo in the pool, you play Ping/Pong and sometimes the response is ‘Destination Net Unkown’.
If you discuss on your mutual IRC channel where to go for dinner because talking outloud would disturb the melodic sounds of keyboard tapping…
If you were in this thread and read
and then immediately sent it to your SO.
I think you mean “…give the temp in Kelvin”
I would but then she would say “Who?”
…as foreplay.
Wow.
And I felt bad last week when my SO and I held a conversation over instant messenger on our laptops while sitting side-by-side on the couch.
My SO sent me flowers for my birthday. The card read “You are the r0xx0r!” We both laughed.
He’s got a light saber in his trunk. Should I be afraid?
Well, Stefano’s, yes.
Their smoked trout mousse appetizer was to die for, too.
But did you have a Jedi escort precede the couple?
Who later danced to YMCA with the groom for the entertainment of the audience?
And did your father present you with your lightsaber to cut the cake? (and you comment that the blade ‘would be put in during post’ while cutting the cake -to the amusement of half the guests and confusion of the rest)?
And did you use the Naboo ‘Celebration’ theme for the arrival of the food during the banquet?
Or Meco’s Disco-Star Wars Theme(s) as background music during dinner?
Or were your Bride and Groom voodoo-cake-dolls actually Playmobile figures? (with little guns to match their wedding attire) (which was actually a princess and a union soldier. (-his sideys that match my own))
and did you do the ‘yam seng’ wedding toast with Fanta (imported from Thailand for the event).
The wife’s not a geek, but she tolerates my geekitudinousity (sometimes barely).