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15 March 2006
What do you keep in your bag of dork?→[More:]
Me?
• a fondness for C&C Music Factory
• I used to read the dictionary for fun
• I still play with legos
• I collected big leaves
• My mom would punish me by taking away my books.
* everything in my life is either alphabetized or in chronological order
* I used to play D&D
* I still read the dictionary for fun
I even get drunk dorkily: once in college, me and my friend Sez lined up shots of vodka and did one a minute (for the first 5 minutes, then I think a break then some sort of complex pattern that we decided wouldn't actually kill us), writing down observations of how we felt and our drunkenness level and a bunch of other parameters.
Videogames! I lurve them. Too much science knowledge. Want 1337 on my license plate. Like anime and cartoons in general. Still sleep with a teddy bear (Mr Bean's Teddy).
OMG mike, I usually test peoples dorkiness quotient out by making "bag of holding" jokes (it's surprising how often the opportunity arises) and seeing who laughs.
• I've played every final fantasy game up through 7 multiple times. Also, similar games like chrono-trigger. I had a perfect game of Final Fantasy Tactics until I sold all of my Playtstation stuff.
I used to be able to name every Doctor Who companion, by Doctor, in order, with the name of their first and last stories.
I have every extant episode of The Goon Show on my MP3 player. Also, the full soundtracks and commentary tracks from a few of Guy Maddin's movies.
I have completed the main quest in Morrowind four times.
I have DVDs of every episode, movie and OVA for Urusei Yatsura. However, I only have the "super hits" soundtrack album, not the boxed set of every single piece of music used on the show. The dorkiest part is that I'm slightly ashamed of this last part, cuz it means I'm not hardcore.
- I used to stay up and read all night under my covers with a flashlight.
- In 5th grade, I wanted to be a carpenter, so my dad made me business cards advertising my carpentry services.
- I subscribed to Glamour magazine when I was 11. I don't think I had a clue what most of the articles were about.
- The first cd I ever bought was Paula Abdul.
- I was on stage crew and colorguard in high school. I also managed the track team. The dork trifecta.
know html to a limited extent; read the Harry Potter and LTOR series' more times than I care to admit; beaten all of the Myst PC games; will beat games until I've done everything in the game, gotten everything etc.; will NOT buy/play WoW because it will ruin my life and I need to graduate.
heh. I don't even know. I don't really self-identify as a dork, but yeah, if reading the dictionary is wrong, I don't want to be right. If reading almost nonstop since I was wee bairn is dorkish, then I'm way dorkful. If playing games like Myst-thangs makes me a dorkling, I accept the mantle. If being aware of most internet memes means I'm goofy, then I better start fucking Minnie. wait...
Oh and I own the following series on DVD (some legal some not): FLCL (complete and legal), Hellsing (rips), InuYasha (rips), Kenshin (OVAs and series - all rips), Naruto (haven't watched it though), Invader Zim (legal and have the box with the GIR toy), Seasons 1-5 of the Simpsons and Volumes 1 and 2 of Family Guy.
An anecdote: there is this girl, who styles herself as a "dork" (or perhaps a geek...) - anime, web comics, star wars, harry potter, etc. YET, she has never seen "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan." I abuse her soundly and in the manner of The Comic Book Guy. Surely I am a greater dork than she...
• went to math camp in 6th grade
• was on science and fine arts academic teams
• almost got kicked out of Boy's State
• the slow kid on track and cross-country
• didn't have a girlfriend in high school
• went to band camp
If we're going back to high school:
- was in all the gifted programs
- was on the "It's Academic" team, and lettered in it
- was the valedictorian, without really trying
- played Magic during study hall. Also, canasta, and wrote a program on my TI-81 to keep track of our running score
- was the slow kid on track and XC (heh, sciurus, though my team was REALLY good - my best 5K time was 18:31 and I ran a 52 second quarter, but I was the slow guy)
Also, I read labels on the back of things. All the time.
Here in Scandinavia a lot of product labels are printed in Danish/Norwegian (most words are the same), Swedish and Finnish. I learned the rules for pronouncing Finnish and was able to piece a couple of sentences together in Finnish from what I remembered from product labels the last time I was in Finland. (Stuff like "Se on hyyviä vahvista kahvia" -- "it is a nice and strengthening coffee".)
Somebody who actually knows Finnish will probably come by and correct my grammar and spelling.
I sleep with a mouthguard so I don't grind the teeth out of my head.
I use a prescription toothpaste.
Toothpaste? Is that a joke I'm not getting? How does that even make sense? How would toothpaste keep me from chipping my teeth as I angst through the night?
As soon as anyone says they juggle, I'm so outta this thread.
-Knowledge of the origin of mefi user Kirth Gerson's nick
-Secret love for the "Paradise Kiss" anime
-Ability to hum the theme song from the TurboGrafx16 game "Order of the Griffon"
-A strange desire to append every sentence with "Ninja"
Toothpaste? Is that a joke I'm not getting? How does that even make sense? How would toothpaste keep me from chipping my teeth as I angst through the night?
It's for a separate problem (root exposure). Your mouthguard post just reminded me of it.
Numismatics? Oh c'mon, give me some credit.
No, the pennies I inherited from grandma and the proof set of U.S. coins I've got for every year since I was born don't count. Do they?
Whatever happened to the rumblings about doing some MetaChat CoC gaming? Who posted that thread?
*pours some on the ground for my fallen homie*
I failed the "bag of holding" test... but it's only an accident of time and situation. I forgot to add that I was the editor of the newspaper in high school, and co-editor of the literary magazine. In college, I was the co-editor of the newspaper, and editor of the literary magazine. Odd, but true.
I used to hang out doing illegal substances with my journalism teachers. But see, this is where I get confused; I did a lot of really mad, bad stuff in my wild, tempestuous youth. Lots. From age 16 to ... erm ... 36 or so... (maybe a bit more, *cough*) I was a wild child (but one who always had a book in her hand). So, I don't really know what I am. I might be dork, but I might be dork's opposite. I won a "Good Citizenship" medal once, but I was 12, and I thought it was hilarious. Dork? or No Dork?
Dork:
-I sing and dance in supermarkets.
-I snort when I laugh sometimes.
-I am also pretty clumsy and have been known to trip on my own damn shoes.
Geek:
-Most of my passwords have to deal with geek stuff or pop culture. Like, for example, my work password is from Transmetropolitan
-I have Con Staph (that is, I like staffing anime conventions)
-I read more b/w comics than I do four-color comics these days (but that's an indie comics geek deal, not a regular comics geek thing)
-I know (mostly) how to pronounce names in Japanese anime
-I wrote anime and comics fanfic
-I was a band groupie
All of my favorite clothes have elastic waistbands.
I only buy shoes that can accommodate those padded insoles that you get at the pharmacy.
I’m right on the verge of needing reading glasses, and I’m really excited about it because I like the way they look. (I am going to get one of those neck chains to hold them!)
Sounds like most of you are on the upswing, but I just get dorkier and dorkier with every passing year.
I couldn't even begin to contemplate the number of dorky and/or geeky things that have come and gone from my life, although very few are around for long.
As for those who have a Bag of Holding... I wonder if the old rules still apply, regarding the effect on the universe if you try to store a portable hole in there?
My night-before and early morning routine on the days I go into the office borders on OCD (clothes laid out in exact order I put them on, bag/keys/travelcard/office pass set out by the door, coffee in mug ready to add water, oats in bowl, water measured, microwave set, etc.).
I collect pine cones. I would rather pick up a pine cone in a park than buy a souvenir in any place I visit.
I am a Unix/Linux admin, while going to school for Physics. I fence foil, as well as play rugby, and I did track in high school. I was in two high school plays, did the video/audio production for our morning announcements. I heart PERL. I wrote my own blogging script. I DMed many campaigns of my own construction. I still play M:tG, as well as Axis and Allies and Settlers of Catan. I own a Dreamcast. I have a J-Pop collection as well as an anime collection. I've been to Anime Boston and Otakon on more than one occasion.
To answer the question asked: a "holding bag" is where you keep the leftovers after measuring out all the nickle and dime bags. Jebus! - You guys really are dorks.
* I was in photo club in high school, all four years
* I also took the varsity football team game movies for for years
* I didn't go to my junior or senior proms
I code in Notepad. Well, now that I have a Mac, I code in SubEthaEdit, but I use it just like I used Notepad. I'm a girl doing an undergrad in the Faculty of Arts, yet I know and care about W3C Standards.
I can (and will!) talk to you for way too long about linguistic syntax, and how it is beautiful. Beautiful like math.
I frequently want to make jokes with my offline friends that feature "plo chops" or "all your base" but have to stop myself because no one would understand.
tommasz, I spent the night of my high school junior prom eating chinese food in a graveyard in Vermont.
top that.
(of course, I also managed to get suspended from high school 4 times (drunkenness, arson & two fights) and get arrested for petty theft at 16, so I was some kind of badass/dork hybrid, I guess).
Once I was heckled by Harlan Ellison while waiting in line to have Neil Gaiman sign a copy of a J. Michael Straczynski Babylon 5 script which included Gaims.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder rocks my world (pretty good for a dead chick)
- School choir (2nd through 11th grade)
- I snort when I laugh
- I saw Up With People (and liked it!)
- I still own Legos (they're in storage)
- I stay up late reading
- I love RenFaires, Highland Games, etc.
- I have enough Coca-Cola ornaments to cover a Christmas tree
- I have a Coca-Cola (and red) themed kitchen (also in storage)
If I throw my bag of dork on the table, it'll probably break the table...
First some Level 42 geekiness:
On my desk are the following: a small rubber chicken on a keychain, a Tigger squeek toy and a Star Trek action figure of Lieutenant Barkley.
On my hard drive are almost every episode of the ANIMATED version of "The Tick" (two more weeks running on Toon Disney and I'll have 'em all!) and most of "The Angry Beavers".
My last CD purchase consisted of box sets of Rupert Holmes and Ken Nordine.
I like pineapple on pizza and the PT Cruiser, and THREE of my all-time favorite songs EVER are in the MetaCheese collection.
Dorky memories:
As you may know, Wendell is a pen/stage name I've used ever since college, because I thought my real name (Craig) was not cool, so I decided, if I was going to be uncool, I'd go ALL THE WAY.
Growing up, I wanted to be a disc jockey... not for a Rock or Top 40 station but for a "Middle-of-the-Road" station (and I briefly got my wish).
I was put into a 'cotillion' class in 6th grade, but never attended any dances in high school. I wanted to play saxophone in my high school band but was stuck with the clarinet while marching and the oboe in concert.
TWICE in my first ten years in the work force I quit a job without having anything else lined up or even planned. I tried to quit a THIRD time, but my boss considered me too valuable to let go, so I got a week off (with sick pay!), then went back and was laid off less than a year later.
The only book I ever stole from a library was "How to Lie With Statistics".
Then there are the "Sex Life of Schopenhauer" and "Stand-Up F-word" Stories that I've told before...
And the dork-positive but geek-negative tale of how I was one of the LAST to see the original Star Wars.
Full frontal dorky:
ALL my pants have at least some elastic in the wastebands, and ALL my shirts have pockets that I use to hold pens and my phone.
I drive a 1995 Ford Taurus STATIONWAGON (doesn't even have fake wood siding).
I save more than one-third on my grocery and household shopping by clipping coupons and going to the evil Ralphs/Kroger stores just because they're the only chain around here that doubles them.
I keep a "Tide to Go" pen in my desk and another in the car and need to use them both frequently.
I sleep with a 36-inch plush doggie (ever since the live doggie who crowded me in bed for 14 years passed away).
When it comes to Instantaneous Communications, I am a Luddite, not getting a cell phone until 2002 never using IM or text messaging and (as those of you in MeChaIRC know), I don't do Chat well..
I've done nothing to decorate the walls of my new apartment in 4 months, but I almost bought a "Buck the Animated Deer Head".
My opinion of smoking is mostly based on having had childhood athsma, and my opinion of anal sex is mostly based on having had painful hemorrhoids at the age of 18. I don't do recreational drugs or drinking because the only times I did, they made me MORE serious and quiet and boring. (Think about it: I AM MORE FUN SOBER. Nothing dorkier than that.)
I am currently taking presrciption anti-depressants, and they must be working well, because I've been able to write all this WITHOUT becoming suicidal. No wonder I don't get shoutouts from the MeetUps; I'm too dorky for the dorks.
*Imagines that last sentence to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy". Smiles*
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