DU Geek Roll call!

[Writer]

dictionary.com definitions:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geek (Which definition do you most fit? :P)

geek Slang.
–noun
1. a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, esp. one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
2. a computer expert or enthusiast (a term of pride as self-reference, but often considered offensive when used by outsiders.)
3. a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.


~Writer the Geek~ here! (Ummmm... I think I most closely fit #2, with bits of #1. I've never tried #3 but it seems interesting.)

[BreweryYardRat]

1. Here.

Going to get up and go finish a stupid essay in a minute.

[Lethe]

damn, i pretty much got 1 and 2

3, not so much but give it time....


:D

[jgraz]

6. Same here, though I draw the line at birdie head-biting

Birds are too smart and cute to do that to them.


Now puppies, on the other hand...

[DarkTirade]

2. Why do I only have to choose one definition? :P

[crim son]

3. I know you won't believe it

but I love to bite the head off a live chicken.
on edit: I also enjoy the occasional typo

[XemaSab]

4. XemaSab checking in...

:D

[TrogL]

5. All three definitions apply

[billyskank]

7. Hello.

[Guava Jelly]

8. I ain't posting in your nerd thread thats for sure

[Capn Sunshine]

9. How much paste do you have to eat

to qualify as a geek? I might be one after all

[Guava Jelly]

11. You must also name your pets after LOTR characters

:D :hide:

[DarkTirade]

23. ... d'oh.

First two pets I ever owned were a pair of cuban tree frogs named Sam and Frodo. :P

Of course, I named them BEFORE I found out Sam was a girl...

[Chovexani]

31. Er. My cat's named Frodo.

And when I was in middle school I had a pair of turtles named Duncan and Methos.

[Writer]

32. My cat's named Gandalf the Grey...

whose name, depending on his behavior, can morph into acceptable alternatives such as "Gandalf the Spaz" and "Gandalf the Breaker of Many Things."

My dog's name is Pippin, otherwise known as Peregrine Took.

[Guava Jelly]

33. Nerd

:loveya:

[Writer]

36. ...

:P

[DarkTirade]

38. That sounds like it might be a better pair of names for tortoises than turtles...

'cause tortoises live for freakin' ever. :)

[From The Ashes]

10. Here...

I fit both 1 and 2. :D

[SKKY]

12. Since I know what this means...

..."All your base are belong to us." I suppose I would qualify.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Put peculiar with enthusiast and that is where you will find me.

A lot of people find that disgusting and there you have it :D

[Fox Mulder]

14. Definition #1 here.

:)

[NewJeffCT]

15. another geek checking in

I guess I most fit into category one.

But, if you go a bit further:

1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

[Orsino]

16. I'm only a nerd. Not smart enough to be a true geek...

...of the number two variety. I might be said to qualify for number one, though.

[ThomCat]

17. I'm here.

:hi:

[Aristus]

18. Here.

I most often in life fit the definition of #1. I'm still considered over-intellectual (although in today's American pop culture, overly-intellectual is anyone who can string a coherent sentence together... ) but I'm actually enjoying a sustained period of personal popularity right now for the first time in my life. I like it. :-)

[DS1]

19. Oh, I can be dislikable all right

:bounce:


and I can fix your computer.

But I won't.

[SOteric]

28. But will you

perform sensationally morbid and disgusting acts?*


*Enquiring minds & alla that...

[DS1]

30. they got old

so no, not anymore

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I bite off the heads of live cihckens on a daily basis.

[bif]

21. Oh, I thought you said "Greek Roll Call"

Never mind.

[LeftyMom]

22. Checking in!

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

24. You rang?

[IronLionZion]

25. oh I am totally 1 and 2...and damn proud of it!

WOOT!

Geeks rule!

[hunter]

26. I'm posting from a home built computer running Debian.

http://www.us.debian.org

I first logged onto the internet in 1979.

I have built computers entirely from scratch -- soldering individual components onto a circuit board of my own design.

I've written Fortran programs on punched cards.

I am a number two geek of the worst sort, and in my formative geek years I was a number one geek too. The most hideous horrible skeletons hiding in my closet were recorded for posterity on nine track tapes.



I would never bite the head off a live chicken.

[gmoney]

27. yep

as dislikable as they come

[Deja Q]

29. Well, I qualify for definitions 1 and usually 2...

As for #3, I don't think Gold'n'Plump brand sells that variant of chicken in grocers' shelves...

[LSK]

34. hi

:hi:

[stuntcat]

35. a little of 1. and a little of 3.

srsly I'm more a Creep than a geek though :)

[FloridaJudy]

37. Definitely #1

I have two bumper-stickers I made on my car:

"Go Miskatonic University - Fighting Cephalopods"
"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes" (if you can read this, you're overeducated)

...and I once named a car "Gandalf"