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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
So what do y'all think of their politically correct definitions?
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.
If that's the case, I'm 100% nerd and working toward adding more geekiness.
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Those weren't the definitions of those words when I was growing up...
I never even saw the definitions they were using... Why, those definitions come off as veritable badges of honor!
Obviously, nerds, geeks, and dorks... probably help with some dweebs... created the survey and the definitions. And they're probably still suffering from the fallout of the harassment inflicted upon them by the preps, jocks, cheerleaders, stoners, drama club, bandies, and socialites in high school...
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
In my high school in Utah there were the following categories:
Jocks,-- you know the definition there... both male and female, but the females in our school all seemed to like each other a bit too much.
Cheer & Drill team, -- you know, the school Barbies
Preppies,-- the Ken's
Mishies, "I Hope They Call Me On A Mission!"... ( I was a Ken who wanted to go on a misson.)
Stoners & Druggys... you know who they were
Cowboys, -- they wore their hats and SKs to school.
ZURs... Zion's Unruly Rebels. mostly Stoners & Druggies but it included a few of the others above, minus the Mishies.
Edders, -- these poor kids attended Special Education classes. At first they were call "Special Edders" and eventually just "Edders"... So if you did something stupid, you ended up getting called an Edder.
Most of our drama kids were either ZURs or preppies. Kids in Choir were mostly preppies.
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Ah gee, But ain't it great to have a gal, So large that when you hug her, You don't know where you're at;
You just take a piece of chalk in your hand, And then you start to chalking, So you know where you began
One day, when I was chalking and a huggin' Chalkin' and a huggin' a way. Well, I met a man With chalk in his hand, Chalkin' round the other way, O yeah, Chalkin' round the other way!
I used to sing this for talent night in the singles ward, many moons ago.
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I think it's neat I'm winning in ALL categories, though tied with Arbi in Geekiness... :) Hee hee... That just makes me feel so rockin' special... and Yes, I'm physically in bad condition but one dang good dancer... or so I think I am... :)
Wait... I'm sorry, Arbi, you beat me in the Dork department by 4% points... DANG IT!!
--Ray
-- Edited by rayb at 22:22, 2007-12-09
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
I always thought I was a nerd but I covet your geekiness. You can keep your dorkiness.
Come to think of it, with as many posts as you have, we could nickname you...
You know... when agreeing with you we'd say, "Why yes, Your Dorkiness"
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Nerd: 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. 2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!" (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled "ABC for SQUARES": "Nerda square, any explanation needed?" Many of the terms defined in this "ABC" are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss "square," the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: "Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a 'dud.'" Authorities disagree on whether the two nerdsDr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mailare the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd ("comically unpleasant creature") was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a "square." Geek:
A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.
Our Living Language: Our word geek is now chiefly associated with contemporary student and computer slang, as in computer geek. In fact, geek is first attested in 1876 with the meaning "fool," and it later also came to mean "a performer engaging in bizarre acts like biting the head off a live chicken." Perhaps the use of geek to describe a circus sideshow has contributed to its current popularity. The circus was a much more significant source of entertainment in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries than it is now, and large numbers of traveling circuses left a cultural legacy in various unexpected ways. Superman and other comic book superheroes owe much of their look to circus acrobats, who were similarly costumed in capes and tights. 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 shows inside. Other words and expressions with circus origins include bandwagon (coined by P.T. Barnum in 1855) and Siamese twin. Dork:
Slang A stupid, inept, or foolish person: "the stupid antics of America's favorite teen-age cartoon dorks"(Joshua Mooney).
Vulgar Slang The penis.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
yeah, that's about what I remembered the terms to mean when I was in junior and senior high... dork has become so ingrained as "normal" that I venture a lot of us (or those who knew before hand about definition 2) probably forgot the vulgarity it represented when the term was used a couple decades ago.
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
I sat down with the boys and checked out the lyrics to this song: in between myself, my hubby and my boys, we fit almost every single line of this song.
And I've noticed that "geek" isn't the slam that it used to be. Son1 refers to himself as a gamer geek, and Son2 says he's a soccer geek.
-- Edited by dianoia at 10:03, 2007-12-11
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They might not look it, but bunnies can really take care of themselves.
It is. There's another version of the song floating around YouTube with the green screen tape of Donny dancing the whole time. I assume it was filmed so they could pick the moment they wanted to edit him into the whole video.
Why, those definitions come off as veritable badges of honor!
