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Geeks
« on: April 30, 2009, 01:28:22 AM »
Does a geek have to be super smart?
What's your definition of a real geek?
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2009, 06:19:37 AM »
No.  Super intelligence is not required for one to be a geek.

I personally think that a geek is anyone who is very involved with, or very knowledgeable about any one particular subject which is not his/her profession.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2009, 10:30:06 AM »
I got grandfathered in under the biting-off-chicken-heads definition.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2009, 02:23:16 PM »
I didn't know your son had a girlfriend.

Anyway, intelligence is relative.  A geek just has some of that french phrase.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2009, 03:31:34 PM »
Je ne sais quoi.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2009, 02:37:16 AM »

A geek is someone who gets all gushy and excited over one or more topics and is more than interested in it.

Around here most of the geeks go for a plethora of topics, making us geeky over general knowledge with an option to be specifically good at a few things.

....is what I think.

So no, not smart...just avidly interested.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2009, 10:38:09 AM »
Nerds: Smarter than average, an extreme interest in numbers/math, science and technology.
Geeks: See above; More technically inclined than Nerds.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2009, 11:10:43 AM »
Quote from: WickedWizard on May 01, 2009, 10:38:09 AM
Nerds: Smarter than average, an extreme interest in numbers/math, science and technology.
Geeks: See above; More technically inclined than Nerds.
Quote in bold, not always true, but the subject opinion of the poster.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2009, 11:42:58 AM »
Quote from: Detta on April 30, 2009, 03:31:34 PM
Je ne sais quoi.

I was thinking omelette du fromage, but that works too.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2009, 12:18:32 PM »
Quote from: pbsaurus on May 01, 2009, 11:42:58 AM
I was thinking omelette du fromage, but that works too.


hahahahahahaha




I thought nerds just fell down a lot and wore cellotape around the rim of their glasses!?
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2009, 01:10:44 PM »
Quote from: pbsaurus on May 01, 2009, 11:42:58 AM
I was thinking omelette du fromage, but that works too.

I was thinking fromage de pied, but that works too.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2009, 03:08:04 PM »
If a 2nd language is a matter of intelligence I suggest you all drop down on your knees and worship me.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2009, 03:09:20 PM »
Quote from: pbsaurus on May 01, 2009, 11:42:58 AM
I was thinking omelette du fromage, but that works too.

Oh.  I just meant that I didn't know what saying you were talking about.
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Re: Geeks
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2009, 04:24:54 PM »
Quote from: jeee on May 01, 2009, 03:08:04 PM
If a 2nd language is a matter of intelligence I suggest you all drop down on your knees and worship me.

What, you're saying Dutch is a language?
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