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#4274904 - 06/30/16 07:14 PM You might be a nerd if....  
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1. You remember stores like "Egghead" and "Babbages".


2. You know the difference between a vorlon, a vorvon and a vogon.


Please feel free to add more.


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#4274918 - 06/30/16 07:52 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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If you admired the people who went to the computer lab and printed things.


The issue is not p*ssy. The issue is monkey.
#4274919 - 06/30/16 07:52 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: letterboy1]  
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Seriously, I thought they were witches and wizards.


The issue is not p*ssy. The issue is monkey.
#4274930 - 06/30/16 08:30 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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... if you know about and/or celebrate any (or all) of these Days.

* Pi Day -- Mar 14th -- you know, the 3.14 thing...)

* May 4th -- "May the Fourth (sic) be with You!"

* Towel Day -- May 25th -- which marks you as a "Hoopy Frood" who really knows where your towel is...



Cheers,
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#4274933 - 06/30/16 08:39 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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or Programmer's day the FFth day of the year.

or you know that Jan 1 1980 was Tuesday.

Last edited by WileECoyote; 06/30/16 08:40 PM.

When you're feeling sad, just remember that somewhere in the world, there's someone pushing a door that says "pull".
#4274935 - 06/30/16 08:50 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I will take you to Jabba
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if you salivate at the thought of getting one of these as a gift.

http://www.ebay.com/gds/13-Gifts-Every-C...=.g5.creddit.ap

#4274940 - 06/30/16 09:01 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I don't know what nerds are anymore- they used to be the guys with the pocket protectors and Asperger's.
There was a time when a few mostly males knew how to operate home computers, now everyone knows their way around technology, and every other guy or gal I meet under 45 is a gamer geek or comic geek of some kind.

It was the same thing with being cool- it's difficult to do that now, it's all been done already, people started getting tattoos, then everyone has them, so they started cooking up absurd ways to be cool and being as absurd as possible to stand out before that started to eventually melt down as well. In sum: once a thing catches on and people migrate over to it, it can't be cool or nerdy anymore.

#4274943 - 06/30/16 09:09 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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May 4th will always be the day that Yauch died. Took the fun out of May 4th for me frown

No idea what a vogon is. I can shoe a horse.


What kind of car is that? What does it matter? When I drive it, I'm Steve McQueen
#4274989 - 07/01/16 12:41 AM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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i can plow with a mule...


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#4274995 - 07/01/16 01:10 AM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You know what the Julian date is.

#4275011 - 07/01/16 02:26 AM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You know where frak, frell, felgercarb, gorram and "I'll be in my bunk" came from, what they mean and can use them properly.


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#4275029 - 07/01/16 03:17 AM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You can explain how the hell the Daleks are a viable threat to the Galaxy....even one that includes stairs.


The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events.

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#4275119 - 07/01/16 01:50 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You remember having to jam a phone handset into a modem.


Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as "bad luck.”
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#4275219 - 07/01/16 07:43 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You give servers names like Thor, Loki, Odin, R2, 3PO, and BB8, M5, HAL9000, Nomad, Frodo, Gandalf...




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#4275223 - 07/01/16 07:47 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You might be a nerd if you know just how to arrange your autoexec.bat and config.sys to maximize your available memory... and know how to configure your DMA and IRQ's for your old soundblaster smile


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#4275234 - 07/01/16 08:24 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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IRQs! Those pesky bastards! It's been a while since I heard about them.


When you're feeling sad, just remember that somewhere in the world, there's someone pushing a door that says "pull".
#4275235 - 07/01/16 08:27 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: LB4LB]  
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Originally Posted By: LB4LB
You know what the Julian date is.



HAHAH! Or EBCDIC ....


Last edited by Bill_Grant; 07/01/16 08:28 PM. Reason: speeling

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#4275238 - 07/01/16 08:34 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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You wear your mobile phone on a belt clip.

#4275252 - 07/01/16 08:59 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: Vertigo1]  
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Originally Posted By: Talos_
You might be a nerd if you know just how to arrange your autoexec.bat and config.sys to maximize your available memory... and know how to configure your DMA and IRQ's for your old soundblaster smile


Not a nerd. Just....old. old_simmer smile


Why men throw their lives away attacking an armed Witcher... I'll never know. Something wrong with my face?
#4275257 - 07/01/16 09:07 PM Re: You might be a nerd if.... [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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If IRQ's and DMA are old, Julian dates and EBCDIC are ancient Egyptian sanskrit.

Last edited by LB4LB; 07/01/16 09:08 PM.
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