Are We Geeks?

Lord of the Rings Trilogy Forum

Hmmm....I'm pretty short too. That may have something to do with it

Um Peregr!n....they'd probably say: "Police and ma'am...we'd like to ask you never to come in here again!"

not throwing a rock...just saying that you should never ask a lady her age!

True...or weight of course!!!

very good idea. ask a lady her weight and all you will have gained is a stinging pain around the cheek area..........

Pippin are all you hobbits quite so violent????

True...slap a geek the home version!

The ones that actually tell you their weight usually knock off a few pounds first They may weigh 150 but they'll tell you that they weigh 125.

Rock throwin' ring stealin' ale drinkin' song singin' Hobbbitttesssssss!!!!

We always have fun! And we really are rock throwing! Bilbo throws rocks, Frodo throws rocks, Pippin and Merry throw rocks....

I'm having a blast in the lava...won't you join me?

They dont throw rocks at each other...just at nasty evil things like orcs and spiders and gollum! muahahahahahahaha!

wow! this thread has been buried for ages....time to rise the geeks up again!
Arise all Geeks! Your time has come!

Geeks rule! I missed this thread.

it was a really big thread in its time!

Wow! I just found something...Elijah said this in an interview...
"Geeks are generally the most interesting people."

see!

Yeah I read that, too. Geeks are interesting. We are much more intelligent than a non geek. We have more things to talk about, and people learn things from us. It's great being a geek. Why does the word "Geek" have such a negative connotation?

not to me!
when i get called a geek i reply either "Thank you!" or "i'm not a geek...im selectively cool!"
who was it that started the 'selectively cool' stuff?

I don't know..but I STILL AIN'T A GEEK!!!!!!!!

i am...and proud of it!

K, you are a geek! Admit it! It's okay. We all are.

Well...a little...not as much as that guy though..LOOK...*runs off*

I'm not a geek. I'm a strawberry flavored nerd

hahahaha...wait...Odie is from Garfield..what's a "Pooky"?

Yeah... whats a pooky?

Where'd you go Fuscia...??? WE WANNA KNOW WHAT A POOKY IS???

"Pooky" is Garfield's teddy bear.

Really? He had a teddy bear? I guess I don't remember all that much about him!!

Yeah, he had a little brown one. Kind of cute really. But he called it Pooky.

Then GARFIELD WAS A GEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here you go:

We are gonna get nailed for going WAYYYYY OFF TOPIC with this one...and FUSCIA YOU STARTED IT!!!!!!

Maybe someone should start a Garfield thread

Nope, just part of my geekiness.

THAT'S WHAT WE ALL ARE...IT'S INEVITABLE...WE ARE ALL DOOMED TO GEEKDOM!!!!

It has taken me along time to get around to this but;

It depends on your defination of 'geek'. Personally I believe that it is only a word and people can call me what they want.

I put it to you however if you were to meet (and my sister does this) someone that watches alot of sci-fi programmes like Doctor Who and tell them that you like to read Lord of the Rings alot and they call you geeks then they certainly dont get the meaning of the word.

Is someone obsessed with sports or music referred to as a geek?

To finish, Geekiness is in the eye of the beholder.

Well...if someone...was to...well...you know...put on a loincloth and start eating a raw fish while singing Gollum's song...WOULD THAT MAKE HIM A GEEK??? FINE!!! I'll put on more clothes!!!

Yes that would make him a geek Tear

Tear, sometimes I worry about you....

Yay!! This thread has been revived!!!

more geekiness!

Geeks geeks geeks geeks! They are everywhere!!

Yes indeed they are

Nah...I actually haven't done that since before I quit my job!!!!! So...now it's more of a hobby really than a way of life!!! hahahahahahhaahahaha

Whatever do you mean Shadow???? What??? Are you saying that there is somethin' NOT right about that???? hahahahaha

We are all basking in our Geekdom!

Some people are drowning in it

Pulse, are you a lotr geek?

I like the movies but I wouldn't say that I'm geeky over them.

I have entire sections of the movies memorized so I guess that makes me a geek.

Ahh, well...I guess I'm an HP geek then I can quote movies

I don't know much about HP. I might read it this summer.

I can quote not just LOTR, but the Matrix, Finding Nemo, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and tons of other movies. Basically any movie which I have watched more than two or three times. Sometimes my brain feels like a storehouse.

M.

I can quote Shrek too.

M.

I'm going to go see 'Shrek 2' tomorrow

Hey, there's people in chat. Why don't you come and join everyone?

What exactly is the definition of a geek anyway?

geek n. Slang

1.
a. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
b. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

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[Perhaps alteration of dialectal geck, fool, from Low German gek, from Middle Low German.]
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geeky adj.

Our Living Language Our word geek is now chiefly associated with student and computer slang; one probably thinks first of a computer geek. In origin, however, it is one of the words American English borrowed from the vocabulary of the circus, which was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th century than it is now. Large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various and sometimes unexpected ways. For example, Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. The circus sideshow is the source of the word geek, “a performer who engaged in bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.” We also owe the word ballyhoo to the circus; its ultimate origin is unknown, but in the late 1800s it referred to a flamboyant free musical performance conducted outside a circus with the goal of luring customers to buy tickets to the inside shows. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin.

Courtesy: www.dictionary.com

M.

Possibly the geekiest answer possible

Thanks Adi. I wouldn't consider myself socially inept, though.

I think we should ignore the socially inept part, for the sake of keeping the 'Are We Geeks' thread alive

I can quote Pirates of the Caribbean, and of course LOTR. Does that make us geeks?

Yeah, you're a geeky pirate who's no bigger than a hobbit

Why thank you Pulse...I'll talk that as a compliment

I think that our front door was put in upside down because the door knob is really low. I told my parents that they had gotten a door fit for a halfling. Or better yet, a thirdling

GEEKS!!!!!!!
hahahahahahahaha

*bows* Thank you

I think Tear's had too much candy again

I LIKE CANDY!!!! NO sugar for me though...not right now!!!

bump

Finally, an effectively utilised bump.

Bump.

M.

I don't think bump is a very geek thing to say however.

What should be our thing then? We need our own replacement for bump.

M.

my precioussssss!

Okay precious, precious it will be.

My preciousssss!!!

M.

Hey, one of my cat's names in "Precious"

Must...serve...the...master...of...the...precioussssssss...yesssss...the precious....

An even more geeky thing to say:

"Tig"

or "cup"

I didn't get what you two said.

My precioussssss....

M.

You can't tig on a tog

I have no idea what that means. Must be an American geek thing.

M.

NO it's a Billy Boyd/Dominic Monaghan geek thing

Oh cool. I must have missed that on the TV. Wait a minute, I don't have a TV.

My precioussss....

M.

Yes stuff for LOTR geeks Course I haven't watched all of them yet

Geeeeeeks.

yall got me lost this thread is WAY too long, so I'll just keep my mouth shut and leave