Rate Your Level of Nerdlihood

Nerds and sports
Nerds and sports


Nope.

No matter how many times I say that those words together,
it just doesn't seem right.

That's true.

It was some of the fringe nerds in my high school that began the futbol club.

C.bronco said:

One of our Pokemon gym leaders (yes, I just said that), lifts weights competitively, and also has his own youtube channel about pokemon.

One never knows.

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There may be some amount of overcompensation involved here... one of the guys I play FNM with is a competitive body builder.

J.S.F. said:

OP,

You do realize there are programs to help people like you return to reality. They cost very little and can help you become a fully functioning member of society again.

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I saw something about that many years ago, there was a 16 year old girl who adamant about not wanting to do it, but was told "everyone goes through this at your age." Afterward, she spoke in a monotone about how grateful she was. Then Rod Serling had a few final words.

KellyAssauer said:

Nerds and sports
Nerds and sports


Nope.

No matter how many times I say that those words together,
it just doesn't seem right.

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Triathletes tend to be nerds. But then no one hears about triathletes or knows what triathlons are.

ok, I may not cosplay, but I can rattle off all the different types of kryptonite there are, roll up a Dungeons and dragons character without looking in the books, I work at comic book and sci-fi conventions, and I have multiple versions of the Star Trek theme on my iPod. With lyrics.
In all good faith, I think I have to make that nerd claim.

I'm nerdy, but not in a pop culture way (though of course Star Trek is fun). I like history and political books. I'd rather do that than play video games.

I don't dress up at cons but I'm a Star Trek and Star Wars and video game/manga/anime/cartoon fan with hundreds of comic books. Also, I've loved Pokemon since high school and Mario since-well forever I guess.
And yes, I've played Magic: The Gathering, World of Warcraft, and Vampire: The Masquerade, to name a few things.
I don't call myself a nerd so much as a geek .
Nerds to me are good at math.
Math is my lifelong enemy...

A good deal of my friends are cosplayers or are involved in related activities.

Myself? Not a cosplayer (though I can appreciate it). Love the game of Pokemon and many other Nintendo games. Will listen to video game soundtracks non-stop (which I am doing right now ). Never got into MMOs though...

My Steam library is pretty light at the moment, mainly because during the sales, I don't buy that many games.

I go to more video game oriented conventions than anime ones.

I'm pretty "meh" on the nerd scale

My kind of nerdiness wasn't even listed. I'm a old school nerd, although I own and regularly enjoy original Star Trek and Next Generation discs. An educated nerd like the crew on Big Bang Theory, my expensive tools include laptops, but my dress-up games are real interactive shooting sports and fishing. My favorite solitary game is deuces wild quarter slots. Like Cooper, I like to go by train.

I think my problem was I don't like Pokemon all that much but will stalk for certain books or shows. I used to like dressing up but found as I got older I was too tired. I'd say I fit the dork mold much more than nerd but I like the question.

oh, and I forgot to mention that I run a mathematics podcast.

I studied Comp Sci in school, but boy, was math my worst subject ever. Once I passed Calculus II I celebrated!

C.bronco said:

Nerds have no boundaries, as verified in Shelley's famous romantic poem, Nerd Unbound.

His wife wrote Nerdenstein, a classic still studied at the University.


Blake wrote The Nerd, and Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Nerds.

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Then there's a bunch of American classics such as Moby Nerd, The Nerd Also Rises, The Great Nerdsby, and many, many, many more.

Not to mention contemporary masterpieces: Lonesome Nerd by Larry McMurtry, No Country for Old Nerds by Cormac McCarthy, and Khalid Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Nerds.

C.bronco said:

The Nerd Also Rises inspired me to drink red wine and eat a lot of cheese. That was my junior year in college. Good times!

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Hemingway rocks! I loved A Farewell to Nerds. Even better: The Old Nerd and the Sea -- so spare, so poetic.

There's nothing so sublime as a telling by one of our own: I, Nerd

I'm more geek than nerd. I failed math in high school, yet was indifferent to science then, but like it now.

I still enjoy comics. I love sci-fi and know that Forrest J. Ackerman coined that term. I also love fantasy.

I'm not a gamer in the least and never really have been. I prefer reading and writing to games.

And if anyone is curious, here are the differences between geek and nerd defined: http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-the-Difference-Between-Nerds-and-Geeks

I'd like to vote, but I'm not a 12-year-old boy, so Pokemon, Minecraft and Mario Kart are right out.

When taking our son to England for a graduation gift, we had to take a two day side trip to Cardiff in order to visit the Doctor Who Experience and tour the shooting locations.

I stood in line for two hours to meet Michael Dorn once.

My father and I use to play "name the episode" with ST:TOS. We could both name any episode from only the opening shot.

And you can't take the sky from me!

regdog said:

I make comics with my Tansformers and post them on my Deviant Art page.

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So you're a deviant and a nerd? Bad combination!