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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:10 AM
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Poll question: Poll Question: Who are the bigger nerds?
Harry Potter Nerds or Lord of the Rings Nerds?

Personally, I am both. The random facts I have in my head scare me sometimes. :P
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:13 AM
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1. Roleplaying Nerds. Or wargaming nerds.
Or tabletop roleplaying, wargaming, StarTrek loving, ASOIAF obsessed, Harry Potter nerds.

Not that I know any of those. :blush:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:15 AM
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3. LOL
:P
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:57 AM
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45. I think you're right there
But, having done a bit of tabletop roleplaying & wargaming in my time, I would have to say that wargamers can take it to another level.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:14 AM
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2. Star Trek nerds make us Harry Potter nerds blush.
For series!!111
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:17 AM
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5. What's about the LOTR nerds?
Elvish anyone? Oio naa elealla alasse'
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:23 AM
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12. I don't know. I don't think LOTR nerds go around saying...
'In Chapter 15 of Return of the King, you described the size of Gollum's gonads. You say they are the size of basketballs. In Chapter 12, you clearly state that Gollum's gonads are smaller than baseballs. Are we to believe these are MAGIC gonads, Mr. Tolkien? *snort* *snort* Oh, PUH-lease!'
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:15 AM
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4. Is it really fair to call Harry Potter fans "nerds"? I mean you're talking about kids...
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 12:16 AM by mitchum
aren't you? Aren't those children's books? Certainly adults don't read them, do they? :)
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:18 AM
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6. Lots of adults read them.
Or you have people like me, I started reading them when I was 12 and now I'm 21. :P
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:19 AM
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7. Trek nerds Rule!
a pox on the rest of you. A pox I say! :rofl:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:21 AM
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8. A pox... of Tribbles?



:P
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:28 AM
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16. Spocko sez...
'Fascinating!'
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:22 AM
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9. You forgot us Anime nerds
:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:24 AM
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13. I see the need for some editing..
:P


How have you been Az? I haven't seen you in forever! :D
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Az Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:48 AM
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44. Been ok.... more or less
Need a recharge after grinding in GD so going crazy in the lounge for a while.
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:23 AM
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10. i am also both
i have a vast wealth of useless crap, but that is part of what makes me hawt :P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:25 AM
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14. Really, that makes one hawt?
Dude! I must be smokin'!!!! :rofl:
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:29 AM
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17. it sure as hell is
nerdy girls are all the rage, dontcha know

high five from one smokin girl to another

:rofl:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:30 AM
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18. But since we're nerdy, won't we miss and end up smacking each
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 12:30 AM by Revolutionary_Acts04
other in the forehead? :P :rofl:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:37 AM
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22. Probably...
...since as nerds, our eye-hand coordination undoubtedly sucks. :rofl:
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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:43 AM
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26. no
cuz our nerdy awesomeness precludes our nerdiness

:rofl:
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:23 AM
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11. You left out a couple
Star Wars nerds (I have one boy who is a Star Wars and Harry Potter nerd).
Comic Book nerds (I have another boy who fits this category).
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:27 AM
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15. Yeah, I know.
I was trying to keep it between the books, and threw in Star Trek, because it's Stat Trek! :silly:


My bro is a Star Wars nerd. :D
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:33 AM
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19. i like pie
:D

sweet cherry pie

:rofl:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:35 AM
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20. Pie is good.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:37 AM
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21. yup, i'd love to "pop" a piece of that in my mouth
:9

yummy :D

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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:38 AM
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23. ....
You're going to get my thread locked! :spank:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:39 AM
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24. because i love to pop cherry pie in my mouth?
:shrug:


:rofl:
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:40 AM
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25. You know I know that you meant something naughty!
:P
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:43 AM
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27. shhhhhh!!!!
;)

it will be our little secret then :D

:P
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:45 AM
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28. Bad SPK! I won't let you any where near my cherry
pie.






























I think I'll get my own thread locked. :hide:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:47 AM
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30. ,,,
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:49 AM
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33. you know
I've always liked that song. :P



OK OK I'm going to bed now. Iz sleepy. :boring:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:51 AM
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34. good night dear...
I'll be up in a minute ;)
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:46 AM
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29. Perv...
...:eyes: :rofl: :evilgrin:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:47 AM
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31. and yer point is?
:evilgrin:

:rofl:
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TOhioLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:48 AM
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32. Birds of a feather?
:rofl::evilgrin::rofl:
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 12:52 AM
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35. absolutely :D
:D

:9


:evilgrin:
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LordJFT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 02:13 AM
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36. anime
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 06:48 AM
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37. Trek nerds taught all the other nerds how to nerd.
When we combined our powers with those of role-players, we reached heights of virginity unmatched by any other branch of fandom.
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 06:55 AM
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38. I know nerds in all three categories.
In my experience, Lord of the Rings nerds are just a notch above Star Trek nerds. I love Harry Potter and Star Trek, but Lord of the Rings nerds are pretty damn scary. :scared: :P
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 06:58 AM
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39. I like pie
And star trek, babylon 5,lotr, and Harry Potter though i never read any of the books.
I like _pie as well :D
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:37 AM
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41. Well, so do I. Cherry pie. Nyah nyah nah-nah nyah!
:P

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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:05 AM
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40. Fans of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, and Babylon 5... and the Commodore Amiga computer.
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 07:06 AM by HypnoToad
:P

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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:40 AM
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42. I really don't know what to choose because...
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 07:42 AM by turtlensue
I am a Harry Potter nerd (all the books and movies and have Book 7 on pre-order from Amazon)...I love the LOTR..seen all the movies multiple times and read the books as well..and I am a Trekkie who has been to her share of conventions. So what does that make me? The Uber nerd of course.......:)
I win!!:P
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philosophie_en_rose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 07:47 AM
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43. Behold the Mighty Flow Chart.



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Random_Australian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:17 PM
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46. WHAT! All those groups are geeks, not nerds! And I AM THE MOST NERDY!
I have been studying rather difficult math, physics and chem for nine hours a day!

I WIN!

(And I need to get back to study)
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Connonym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:18 PM
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47. computer nerds
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-24-07 05:23 PM
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48. Lord Of The Ring nerds. Harry Potter nerds are not nerds at all.
Edited on Sun Jun-24-07 05:43 PM by billyskank
No self respecting nerd would read a Harry Potter book.

On edit: I should qualify by saying that even I am not a Lord Of The Rings nerd. Even though I do love the books. Lord Of The Rings nerds can speak elvish.
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