The Geek Hierarchy

[JarlWolf]

I've kept pretty well for my age, as digging through my old enlistment papers my height back then, and this was YEARS ago, decades, I was about 184 CM. I measured myself recently to compare... I am about 182.5 CM roughly.

So yes, were all about the same height.

[Doc Nebula]

If you don't read for pleasure, you're not a geek.  If you've seen a science fiction or fantasy movie/TV show that was adapted from a book or other source material before you actually read the source material, your geek cred is seriously questionable.

No, WALKING DEAD doesn't count, because Kirkmansucksthatzwhy. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I've never told you my Starlog story, have I?

[Doc Nebula]

Is it that one about you and the Russian hookers and all those moldy potatoes in the Czech granary?   Because that one was pretty gross.

[Buster's Uncle]

No, that one was pretty hot.  I showed them ladies a mighty good time, and you're just jealous, you prude.

...

Back in the 80s, my sister gave me a year's subscription to Starlog.  It was okay, I guess, but I really began noticing how it embodied the post-Star Wars trend of mass media geekdom - I'd gone into it sorta expecting a science fiction magazine, not a movie magazine.

So, the last issue in my subscription, they covered a con, and being Starlog, said coverage mostly consisted of pictures from the costume contest.  That was when I threw the mag across the room in a rage.

There was a picture of a toddler dressed as one of H. Beam Piper's fuzzies, complete with choppo-diggo; someone knew their [poop], and had gone to a lot of trouble.  It was a VERY well-done costume, and adorable.  -The caption beneath the shot?

"The littlest ewok."

[Doc Nebula]

Are we not allowed to swear and [poop] on this forum?  Because that will, like, [intercourse gerund] blow.

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah, sorry; if we allow that on the forum, the google spiders will classify us as 'adult', and that really cuts into hits.

[Doc Nebula]

Aggravating.

Okay, well, whatever.

That STARLOG story is, unfortunately, pretty typical.  In the Internet age, if you saw that on a site and posted a correction to the comment thread, you'd immediately be called a Cat Piss Man and a grognard by seventeen different drool-weebles. 

It's a sad ass world that won't let me run it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Sure.  Thing is, as I get older, I find myself less driven to set people straight, so I doubt I'd bother to post.

Everyone always being wrong about everything bothers me less than it used to.  -Which is a real relief to my nerves.


I hope the translations the swear filter provides at least compensate by being amusing...

[Doc Nebula]

I'll just make up my own vituperation.  It's more fun that way anyway.  Cogg gorkin swear filters my goozely ARSE.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh frell.

[Doc Nebula]

Fargzactly.

[Buster's Uncle]

I miss Farscape.

[Doc Nebula]

Put a scope on your phaser rifle.

[Buster's Uncle]

Why?

Those things have a ferocious area effect.