In the return of the king I got choked up when Aragorn initiated the bow to the hobbits. That was the moment for me.
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Sauron is not the original dark lord. And I know who is. I also know far too much about the creation of Middle Earth and the influence of religion (Catholicism) and mythology (Norse/Celtic/British) on Tolkien's thought processes.
And I think in Dark Tower dialect. Folken, thankee sai, and so forth.
see the turtle of enormous girth on his back he holds the earth
Edit: I hope this wasn't limited to Tolkien geekiness.
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I also get choked up in the beacon moment, such a great moment.
I can quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail pretty much start to finish.
I can quote much of Firefly and Serenity.
I'm so much of a Lord of the Rings geek, that I've spent 4 years of my life spending much of my free time working on a game that is essentially an online simulation of Middle Earth.
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I get a little teary eyed at the beacon lighting scene too.
I can quote MP and the HG entirely from start to finish.
I know Yakko's "Nations of the World" song.
I have all of Stargate, Firefly, and much of Star Trek on DVD.
I've read the Histories of Middle Earth, after reading everything else anyone by the name of Tolkien has written.
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Good heavens, I have all of Macgyver, too. Sheesh! (And we're in the middle of watching season 3.) Dead Zone - just started watching season 4. Firefly isn't available here yet, and neither is most of Star Trek.
But no, I have nothing memorized and couldn't quote my way out of a wet paper bag. But I'm still a geek.
My proof?
I married a programmer two months after downloading his software and meeting him online and eight hours after meeting in person for the first time. That's TRUE GEEKNESS! Hah!
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I have the first season of Highlander and have watched it numerous times. I try to convert new watchers any time some one new comes over to visit.
I met my programmer boyfriend on Hatrack and he moved in with me a month and a half after we met.
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quote:I married a programmer two months after downloading his software and meeting him online and eight hours after meeting in person for the first time. That's TRUE GEEKNESS! Hah!
Psssh. I am a programmer. I have a Debian GNU linux server running on a mac mini, a dual booted windows XP/Ubuntu Linux desktop machine and a Mac Os X laptop. I'm teaching 13 - 17 year olds to program java, C++ and HTML/CSS at a computer camp all summer (almost done) and have written my own software.
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I was translating the word "traffic jam" into French n for class. Knowing that Mr. Dursley gets stuck in the "usual morning traffic jam", I opened up my French edition of Harry Potter and found the identical paragraph to get the word I needed.
You know you are a geek when you have a book memorized enough to use it as a dictionary.
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I'm so geeky that I have no particular need to prove my geekiness to unworthy people. Nonetheless, I will condescend to point out that I, too, get teary-eyed at the lighting of the beacons, and can program in four languages, five if you count HTML, which I don't. Because it's not Turing complete.
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I just realized... Who has to win anything? Couldn't we just celebrate our geekiness together, whilst reveling in the fact that there are more of us than just 'me'? What matters with geek? Is it language? Is it genetics? Is it learned? Is it nothing more than your particular space in time relevant to those around you?
Hoorah for Geeks!!!
As Valentine014 said - Tell me what makes you a true geek.
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I'm such a band geek, that I'm going to put it on par with plain old geekiness.
Where all my BGs at?
(If I ever seriously talk like that, please feel free to shoot me.)
I'm such a band geek that when I came across Santa Clara Vanguard rehearsing, I forgot that I was sick with the stomach flu and sat outside to listen to them for nearly an hour.
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quid: Well, I've been busy working my way through the entire Indiana Jones series. I know, it's not much of an excuse, but it took up a lot of my time. Besides, I was only introduced to LOTR when I was fifteen. Douglas Adams came into my life even later. I also spent a lot of time reading Spidey comics.
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I can quote Douglas Adams, Tolkien, Asimov, Herbert, and Heinlein on command. I have the Princess Bride, most of Monty Python, and the Matrix memorized, not to mention Shakespeare. Oh, and I can do the entirety of both Alice's Restaurant and Who's on First?
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I'm a programmer by trade, I always get teary-eyed during the first five minutes of Serenity, and I'm going to be taking a college math class just for fun this fall.
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I used the terms "coefficient of friction" and "correlation coefficients" in everyday conversation, including while at church.
I was on a long flight with my wife and was explaining that the acceleration due to gravity changes with altitude. The people around us thought we were geeks.
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Just took that test... 58.1854% Geek, Extreme Geek. You'd think "extreme" would mean higher percentage than that, but what can ya do. And they definitely were missing a lot of aspects of geekiness Posts: 3636 | Registered: Oct 2001
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quote:Originally posted by b boy: i know what kwsni stands for!
I didn't until you said that ... and then I started thinking about it ... and I do, too.
But I'm not a geek. I married a geek, but I'm not a geek. And having The Princess Bride memorized doesn't count ...
Although this might: I know many 1960's musicals by heart. I can do most of The Music Man word-for-word as fast as Robert Preston. Likewise The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Singin' in the Rain, etc.
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yeah I only got 29%, and I'm way geekier than that! I think they focused too much on the traditional definition of geek. I'd say that in today's society, "geek" is a much broader term, reserved for people other than just Tolkien enthusiasts (like scientists and people who love RDA).
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quote:I have watched 2001 from beginning to end, without falling asleep, twice in the same day.
I know that in the book 2001 the big monolith was on a moon of Saturn, not orbiting Jupiter. Kubrick changed it because his SFX crew couldn't make a convincing Saturn. However, in both the book and movie of 2010, the big monolith is around Jupiter. Since so many more people knew his story (2001) from the movie than the book, Clarke decided to keep it around Jupiter.
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quote:I think they focused too much on the traditional definition of geek.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken??? You people are weird!
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quote:Originally posted by Dan_raven: They range from Mercede's Lackey to Aristotle, Tolstoy to Asimov.
Dan, I am severely disappointed in you. I mean, plurals are one thing, but this? It's... it's... UNGEEKY! As punishment, you are required to read every Danielle Steel novel in existence, in order of their publication. And glue a tack to your apostrophe key.
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I corrected my pastor for something he said from the pulpit. It wasn't theology that I was concerned with. It was that he used an illustration from the Lord of the Rings and said that Tolkien wrote it as a Christian allegory.
I told him never mind anything he said about God or Jesus from the pulpit, but if he brings up JRR Tolkien, he better get his facts straight.
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I am so geeky, I believe Mercede's Lackey is a more fitting name than Mercedes Lackey for a writer churning out second rate books more interested in the cash than the craft.
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