For the record ....

[Foxee Browne]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

 

[Boxlicker101]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

So, what is a dweeb?

 

[cloudy]

So, what is a dweeb?

from the urban dictionary: Dweeb used to be a politically incorrect & rude term to refer to the mentally retarded, but now refers to any shmo who is a victim of circumstances, constantly embarrassing themselves in public with clumsiness, have terrible fashion sense, & often tend to have annoying voices. Dweebs never become geeks or nerds.

(This is actually an acronym for the phrase "dick with eyebrows")

 

[Boxlicker101]

from the urban dictionary: Dweeb used to be a politically incorrect & rude term to refer to the mentally retarded, but now refers to any shmo who is a victim of circumstances, constantly embarrassing themselves in public with clumsiness, have terrible fashion sense, & often tend to have annoying voices. Dweebs never become geeks or nerds.

(This is actually an acronym for the phrase "dick with eyebrows")

And a schmo, or schmoe, is an unlucky victim of circumstances, such as being the guy who slips on the banana peel or gets splashed by the passing car.

A schmoe can also be a geek or a nerd or a dork or a dweeb.

A schmoo, of course, is something entirely different.

 

[cloudy]

And a schmo, or schmoe, is an unlucky victim of circumstances, such as being the guy who slips on the banana peel or gets splashed by the passing car.

A schmoo, of course, is something entirely different.

...and "moo" in Ojibway means "shit."

 

[Boxlicker101]

...and "moo" in Ojibway means "shit."

Would that be cattle manure, or just shit in general? And how do the Ojibway imitate a cow?

 

[drksideofthemoon]

...and "moo" in Ojibway means "shit."

moo can mean shit on the ranch, if you are standing at the wrong end...

 

[TE999]

What if you have characteristics of both.

What's a cross between a Geek and a Nerd?

Neek?

Gerd?

And a Schmoo was an animal in the comic strip "Lil' Abner" drawn by Al Capp in the 50's.

A geek would know that. And did.

 

[JamesSD]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

Also for the record, Nerdy and Geeky chicks almost never have trouble attracting guys. Whether or not they're the sort of guys they WANT is a different story, naturally

Dorks, on the other hand, can be challenged, regardless of gender.

 

[Boxlicker101]

What if you have characteristics of both.

What's a cross between a Geek and a Nerd?

Neek?

Gerd?

And a Schmoo was an animal in the comic strip "Lil' Abner" drawn by Al Capp in the 50's.

A geek would know that. And did.

I knew it too, but that's because I'm old. They may have first appeared in the late forties, and the person who was usually around them was Washable Jones, the young, blonde cousin of Available Jones and Stupefyin' Jones and a number of other Joneses.

 

[Foxee Browne]

Also for the record, Nerdy and Geeky chicks almost never have trouble attracting guys. Whether or not they're the sort of guys they WANT is a different story, naturally

Dorks, on the other hand, can be challenged, regardless of gender.

James,

you are correct. We just do not want the dorks.

 

[cantdog]

I knew it too, but that's because I'm old. They may have first appeared in the late forties, and the person who was usually around them was Washable Jones, the young, blonde cousin of Available Jones and Stupefyin' Jones and a number of other Joneses.

Capp spelled it 'shmoo'. They were edible blobs; one should google 'em just to see.

 

[rgraham666]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

I'm all three.

And proud of it!

 

[gauchecritic]

James,

you are correct. We just do not want the dorks.

We'll take the niggers and the chinks, but no Irish.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Capp spelled it 'shmoo'. They were edible blobs; one should google 'em just to see.

He didn't approve of welfare.

 

[LadyCibelle]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

I'm 2 out of 3.....not bad, must mean I'm still salvageable.

 

[Liar]

I'm all three.

And proud of it!

A Gnork?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

We'll take the niggers and the chinks, but no Irish.

There is a traditional Irish rebel song that says something very close to that, actually. It's called "Irish Need Not Apply."

 

[deathlynx]

I certainly qualified as all three throughout school...come to think of it, even moreso now...Especially the "dork" part

 

[3113]

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

Geek. (That is, you're clearly passionate about definitions regarding this subculture)

 

[Trombonus]

I'm definitely geeky, but am completely not nerdy. I'm kinda dorky, although I've been getting better in recent years.

 

[Liar]

A Geek[/COLOR] is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

Or as we call it here on Lit: Kinky.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Geek. (That is, you're clearly passionate about definitions regarding this subculture)

Originally, a "geek" was a side show performer who did weird things, like biting off the heads of live chickens. That preceded the current definition. For a while, it was just a generally weird person. I don't know how it got its current definition. It has always been used as an insult or a put-down.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Originally, a "geek" was a side show performer who did weird things, like biting off the heads of live chickens. That preceded the current definition. For a while, it was just a generally weird person. I don't know how it got its current definition. It has always been used as an insult or a put-down.

It's been reclaimed, the internet culture created the new definition.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

Hi I'm Salvor, I am a Nerd, a Geek, and a Dork.


Yes I am passionate about learning. Learning is how we survive, how we over come. I crave the new frontiers, the unexplored sections of libraries and the little known pieces of knowledge that seem trivial and inconsequential, yet when I hold them, they are hard won gems.

Yes I am passionate about the obscure, the esoteric and the sublime. Albert Einstein once said "Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people." Knowing how to set up and configure a 24 station Beowulf cluster, or that the subtext of Taming of the Shrew shows a mind ahead of its time, regardless if a noble man or a glove maker's son wrote it. And when I talk about Machiavelli or Sun Tsu or Gracien, it is my way of revealing that I also know Ovid and Vatsyayana; thus weeding out those who have no capacity for greatness, and finding common grounds where in to engage in wicked wild wonderous communion as well as communication.

Yes I have difficulty with common social expectations/interactions, because they are just that, common. I realize that there are only 24 hours in a day, and each second of them is mine to use as I see fit. Having seen the greatest treasures of thousands of years, to sit and blather about whether one group of oddly dressed men can best the other in a game that will not effect the fate of the world one iota, are seconds I would rather spend on much more incredible pursuits. I'd rather approach the beautiful woman, and whisper to her how I can make her body tingle with just one finger tip than dig my elbows into another man's ribs.

Yes I am a nerd, a geek and a dork, and if you knew what those words meant, you would bow your head as you say them.