Are You A Nerd? Prove It!

Alex

Becky at our pal mental_floss blog (awesome, btw, definitely check 'em out!) wrote this post challenging you to prove that you are a nerd:

Ira Glass raised this question recently; or, perhaps, not so much raised it as lamented the way in which people retroactively confer “nerd” status upon themselves. As in, “I was such a big nerd in high school.” His basic argument was: no you weren’t, or: prove it.

He surmised that most people filter their actual popularity, if not their seeded positions on Homecoming Court, through a sentimental lens of nerddom. “Nerds” experience pain, certainly, but just because one experienced pain in adolescence, does this make one a nerd?

So, are/were you a nerd? Link (Pic is Robert Carradine as the archetypal nerd in Revenge of the Nerds, from Wikipedia)


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Ah, I was hoping for a link to an interactive quiz or at least a points measuring system to determine your true level of nerditude.

of course, if i was a true nerd, i would be able to whip one up on the spot (minus points for lack of programming skills) but I'm more of a word geek.
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I can't show you pictures of how nerd I am ( Mostly because I have been de-nerdified by now ) but I can tell you this:

When I was in high school I was such a nerd that when my favorite magazine from the school library was taken ( French Role playing magazine called Casus Belli ) I was walking with the books for the next class in my hands endlessly inside the school. Just counting how many class rooms there was.

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This is a contradicting situation... if one is bold enough to actually show everyone his nerdiness then it means he is not nonsocial, thus not a nerd.

Nerds are like vampire. You can't bring them into daylight... ever.
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After all, what is the difference between the life that is in a cell, a chimp, a neanderthal or a modern homo sapiens? Do not come and vanishes in the same way, in one breath alone? Isn’t life a single indivisible movement, an information flow that stores and changes from a common ancestor? Or is there a unique quality in some place of the tree of life, a qualitative leap detached from all evolutionary processes and unrelated to the rest of life? If so, is it the same leap that the human language makes when differentiating between life itself and the rest of the universe? Also between human beings and the rest of animals, between food and eaters, health and disease, between life and death? Along these lines, there is a peculiar book, if you want there is a preview in http://goo.gl/rfVqw6 Just another suggestion, in order to free-think for a while.
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Don’t expect this “science” to sneak its way into the classrooms here in the South. Our Lord and Savior made it very clear there is no way we evolved from these savages. Tennessee has passed the Monkey Law legislation which ensures teachers can challenge these so-called scientists and their twisted research funded by the liberals in Washington. Read about how we’re keep Christ in the Classroom at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/04/pulpit-in-classroom-biblical-agenda-in.html
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Wow. Talk abut Neanderthals and suddenly the Wordy Wackologists bleed out of the woodwork in droves. I've seen comments like this on Amazon, usually involving mention of contrails and the Illuminati.

We are amused. Have you considered standup?
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