You May Be a Dork If...

Scott Hardie | March 4, 2007
...you call out "Free Bird!" at concerts because you actually want to hear it.

...you're concerned about the recasting of Kirk and Spock in the next Star Trek movie.

...you love Italian cuisine, especially the Tour of Italy platter.

(Amy's idea.)

Tony Peters | March 4, 2007
My wife calls me a Dork because I have at least a dozen skateboards kicking around of those there are 6 of varying sizes from 30" to 60" sitting in my livingroom just waiting for me to go out...oh yeah and I'm 40 this year

Jackie Mason | March 5, 2007
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Erik Bates | March 5, 2007
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Amy Austin | March 5, 2007
I Hate "Free Bird". (So there, Kris...)

Amy Austin | March 5, 2007
(However, I did once use an eyelining pencil to draw a Chakotay tatt on my own face before a night out. That probably qualifies me.)

Amy Austin | March 5, 2007
(No, it wasn't Halloween.)

Lori Lancaster | March 5, 2007
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Amy Austin | March 5, 2007
No, I didn't use henna... just a standard eyeliner -- not so much of a dork that I would have worn it for more than one night out!

Tony Peters | March 6, 2007
henna face tattoo...now that would have been funny

Lori Lancaster | March 6, 2007
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Steve West | March 6, 2007
... your favorite band's next album goes STE (straight to elevators).

... you've actually thought about a cartoon character naked.

... you seriously wonder, "What would Kate and Ashley do?"

Tony Peters | March 6, 2007
yes come on there must be a photo

-so does collecting "scale" toy motorcycles count as a dork thing???

-the commercial for TMNT come on and you sing the theme song from the Saturday morning cartoon "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....hero's in a half shell"

Jackie Mason | March 6, 2007
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Amy Austin | March 6, 2007
Ulcchh... sorry, no Free Bird fondness here. (In fact, no Lynnrd Skynnrd goodness of any kind, really.)

Nope, sorry also to say that there aren't any pics of that tatt... which is really too bad, because I did a kick-ass job on it, if I do say so myself! ;-)

Kris Weberg | March 6, 2007
...you not only know that "John Dorian" is the Scrubs protagonist JD's real name, you wish your life was like his.

...you have any songs by the Minibosses or the Advantage on your iPod

...you hate Arctic Monkeys because you see them as the obstavle in the way of a Libertines revival

Lori Lancaster | March 6, 2007
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Aaron Shurtleff | March 6, 2007
...Turtle Power! :)

In that vein...

If you have ever gotten a TMNT design shaved into the back of your head, you might be a dork.

That wasn't me, by the way. It was..um..someone I know..from back home..yeah.

And, no, no pictures remain (thankfully!)

Scott Horowitz | March 8, 2007
You can identify every episode of the following shows within 3 minutes of the teaser: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, BH:90210

Tony Peters | March 8, 2007
I'm guilty with Buffy and Angel....

Kris Weberg | March 8, 2007
Ditto.

Lori Lancaster | March 8, 2007
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Michael Paul Cote | March 8, 2007
If you think David Hasselhoff out acted the car in Knight Rider, you might be a dork

Aaron Shurtleff | March 8, 2007
If you think the comic below is hilarious, you, like me, might be a dork!

Old style humor

If people half your age ask you to translate 1337, you are probably a dork!

Tony Peters | March 8, 2007
^^^^^if you know who acted KITT the car then you most certainly are a DORK

Kris Weberg | March 8, 2007
Something-or-other Daniels, wasn't it? He was also a doctor on St. Elsewhere and the teacher in Boy Meets World.

Scott Horowitz | March 8, 2007
William Daniels

Kris Weberg | March 8, 2007
And thus with just a dab of bait I manage to maneuver Scott Horowitz into outing his dorkitude for the second time in this thread.

Amy Austin | March 9, 2007
Heheh... I thought he was Magnum P.I.'s butler or something like that...

(Higgins. Played by John Hillerman, of the same TV era -- totally easy mistake.)

Scott Horowitz | March 11, 2007
Woah... Kris is an evil genius!!!!!

Tony Peters | March 11, 2007
if you use the term "Evil Genius" you are a dork...wife asked what is TMNT this afternoon forgetting the last time she asked...song followed...

Jackie Mason | March 12, 2007
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Scott Hardie | March 13, 2007
Guilty here, Jackie, more of dramas than sitcoms. I started watching The Sopranos on DVD before it had run its course, which forced me to A) wait long periods for the final episodes after rushing through the early seasons, and B) endure spoilers since I knew the characters. Right now I'm more or less immune to Lost and 24 spoilers because I'm waiting for each entire series to come out before I start. Now, the important question: Does the fact that I've reasoned all of this out, let alone explained it, make me a dork or a geek?

Tony Peters | March 13, 2007
GEEK a dork just is a geek explains

Jackie Mason | March 14, 2007
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Michael Paul Cote | March 14, 2007
Anyone catch the new Alltel commercial where Chad (the hero) asks his counterparts from the other wireless companies what level dungeon master they are, to which they derisively explain that DM's don't have levels. A true definition of dorkiness. Almost makes a gamer feel like the caveman from the Geico commercials.

Scott Horowitz | March 14, 2007
You understand all the problems with the PC on the new Mac commercials

Tony Peters | March 14, 2007
sadly Scott not only do I understand these issues but they are the reason I will be buying a Mac next time

Erik Bates | March 15, 2007
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Lori Lancaster | March 16, 2007
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Kris Weberg | March 16, 2007
I like my Mac a lot, but it's quickly getting to the point that there's no real difference except Apple's having infinitely better music software and hardware. I run Microsoft Office on my Mac, f'r instance.

EDIT: No real difference to casual users like me, that is. I'll wager several people at TC could describe job-related distnctions in great detail.

Jackie Mason | March 16, 2007
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Adrianne Rodgers | March 17, 2007
*hangs head in shame* I once had a teacher who said, as a joke, that he would give extra credit to anybody who tattooed the quadratic formula on themselves. Guess what I did....

Erik Bates | March 17, 2007
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Kris Weberg | March 19, 2007
But Adrianne, did you get the extra credit?

Scott Horowitz | March 19, 2007
Here's for all you mac users
One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't:

Tony Peters | March 19, 2007
SCOT'Ts A HATER

I tattoo'd a Maltese Cross on the inside of my right wrist for a pair of skateboard trucks. I probably would have done it anyway but since there was a free set of trucks on the line well.....

Kerry Odell | March 20, 2007
Funny....last night I was considering a personalized license plate and among the ideas I had was the following:

MAC H8R

Ironic :)

At any rate, my husband's also a Star Trek dork - attempting to speak Klingon, having several ship models that he paid way too much for from the Franklin Mint, and spending entire weekends watching the movies.

He is also able to accurately identify 95% of movies (not just ST) that come on TV within 3-5 secs of watching it. This includes when he's just channel surfing, so it can be any point during the movie.

My son and I are LOTR dorks, often quoting the movies in stereo. "It's my task, mine....MY OWN!" and "We ain't had nothin' but maggoty bread for three stinking days!" and "stupid fat hobbit" are among our favorites.

Scott Hardie | March 20, 2007
I think of Sam saying "PO-TA-TOES?" in my head once in a while when I'm eating them.

Politician seeks Klingon votes.

Kerry Odell | March 21, 2007
Ha!!! Scott...we do that too! There's just so many to choose from LOL :)

Lori Lancaster | March 21, 2007
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Michael Paul Cote | March 23, 2007
My brother sent this to me. It screams geekdom in so many ways.

The link below was included in the comments of Shamus Young's "Twenty Sided" Lord of the Rings online comic. If you haven't seen it before, it's a pretty funny read ... it's the story of Sauron and the One Ring as told through quotations from The Princess Bride. True geek humor and pretty funny if you have the time to read all the way through it, which I haven't (yet).

http://mollyringwraith.livejournal.com/44608.html

Lori Lancaster | April 2, 2007
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