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RSSTop 1010 Clues that You’re at a Really Good Nerd Party
1010. There are pony tails, but not enough Choppers to justify them.
1001. There’s a lot of expensive equipment, a fire pit, a lot of drunk people, and nothing gets broken.
1000. There are more technical people present than work at a CompUSA, and all of them would agree that calling CompUSA workers technical people is arguable at best.
0111. There is a ten foot by ten foot professional outdoor movie screen, which is attached to a Playstation2 that is surrounded by a driving wheel and “Guitar Nerd“.
0110. The opening movie is still in theaters.
0101. A planned Double feature turns into a quadra feature, with The Big Lebowski and Aqua Teen Hunger Force featured and quoted relentlessly.
0100. “What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?” doesn’t go over many heads.
0011. Someone asks how you “boot up” the hot tub.
0010. On at least 2 occasions “KHAAAANNNN!!! is heard screamed for no reason.
and the number 1 clue that you’re at a really good nerd party:
0001. Someone drives home at 1 AM specifically to bring back a copy of the Star Trek 2: the Wrath of Khan. And gets cheered for it.
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July 11th, 2006 at 9:56 am
I’m still happily ensconsed in geek or dork territory and have not yet hit the level of nerd. Heck, I haven’t even seen Star Trek I, let alone 2!
July 11th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
11 points of nuance:
A geek would have, at minimum, seen Star Trek 1, 2, and 3. He or she may have seen 4, but they were pissed about those fucking whales. If they saw 5 and 6, it was purely out of a sense of duty.
A dork would accidentally admit to not seeing any of them while claiming to be a geek.
A nerd, on the other hand, never knows that they are a nerd. The bigger the nerd, the more that they deny it.
July 11th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Come on…there’s got to be a few nerds out there who despise Star Trek, just like there are metal-heads who hate Metallica and gangbangers who didn’t like…well, some gangbanger that everyone else liked (Tupac?).
I think I’m a late-bloomer. I didn’t see Star Wars until I was 30 and never picked up a comic book until my 20s. It gives me a greater appreciation for the finer points of dorkdom.
July 11th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Geeks are Technical.
Dorks are into fantasy and comic books.
and the Nerds hate the Jocks.
July 12th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Dammit, I want a label…give me a label Jon!
July 12th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
Labels are earned, aren’t they?
July 12th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Well, I suppose—but I’ve read comics for 15 years, I listen to cool music, I like my computer a lot more than I like most people, I have a couple pairs of nerdy-looking glasses….oh forget it! I’ll go ask my friends to give me a label I can love! WAHHHH
July 12th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Sounds like a triple threat…
July 25th, 2006 at 6:54 pm
I’ve seen all the Star Trek movies. But I blame my mom for making me a Trek geek from birth.
And that sounds like an awesome nerd party.
November 24th, 2007 at 11:20 am
To make it even more of a nerd party, you’d have the tesla coils playing mario and other game theme tunes…
November 24th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Jon, you have the definition of ‘Nerd’ wrong. The nerds are the technical ones who actually do something productive in society. A ‘geek’ is the group of Starwars fans who aren’t nerds. A dork isn’t even a part of either group, and is usually one who excels in one very unimportant area of life while sucking at the others (such as being an expert at D&D and tries to act cool but fails terribly at it.)
November 24th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
where is the party i must be there i have seen all star trek and my dad is to blame and i liked the 1010 numeration
November 24th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Binary? You know there’s gonna be a point when you out-geek yourself, right? Time will fracture – you’re walking a fine line, buddy.
Toria
p.s. How’s the beard?
November 25th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
There are way too many types of geeks/nerds/dorks to classify them as such. But basically geeks are the technical ones, nerds can be technical but they are generally nerds because they are into nerdy things like star trek and in their mind those things are the “cool” things to do. Besides, if nerds were the technical ones, wouldn’t Best Buy have the “nerd squad”? As for dorks, i thought all boys are called a dork by their sisters until they reach about 30, with a few exceptions. Dork is simply too generic to be a classification.
November 26th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Jon, I totally agree with your definition of a nerd/geek/dork!
That list was great – in addition of numbering the list was hilarious!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
This is the way I see it.
A geek is someone who has an obsession with something, along the lines of computer (or a more specific technical related subject), or automobile mechanics, etc. Geekdom does not effect social life, positively or negatively (not counting the side effects of the specific subject obsessed). Though obsessions may occasionally cause impairment.
A nerd is like a geek, except the obsession is with computers, math, science, etc, and usually takes it to a degree where social life is greatly impaired by the obsession.
A dork is what you are to your older sister, and that time traveler from the ’80s.
Well, that seemed a bit more easily defined in my head.
December 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Technically a geek is someone fantastically good at one thing…It comes from the geek shows in vaudeville/circuses…Today as we have seen definitions have become quite blurry.
Amongst my friends geek and nerd are honorable honorifics while dork is an insult:)
December 7th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Anni,
Well… On “Chuck” they have the “Nerd Herd” – so at the very least they are considered comparable in some circles…
(Just out of curiosity, am I a Nerd or a Geek – or maybe even just a dork – for liking and quoting Chuck in this discussion…?
December 7th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
“There’s a lot of expensive equipment, a fire pit, a lot of drunk people, and nothing gets broken.”
This one goes best for me and my friends.
P.S. I don’t like Star Trek, Star Wars on the other hand….
January 7th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
…nerd, dork, geek… Personally I pride myself on being a dweeb. I fit Jon’s definition of dorks and geeks, and I also have absolutely no sense of style to boot.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Yeah, this sounds like most of my parties. Esp, the expensive equipment part and the unreleased movies.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm
What’s the label for all who have argued the difference between dork/geek/nerd? Or those like me who are looking for the definitive answer?
January 31st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Geeks: anyone who enjoys more than four of the following, and is an expert in at least one;
Anime (any series), Starwars, Star Trek, D&D (or any TTRPG), video games, LOTR, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, fantasy in general, trivia (any subject except Harry Potter), reading, Legos, Robots (sci-fi), and comic books. (not comprehensive)
you may consider yourself a power-geek if you specialize in two or more.
Nerds: same rules as Geeks, except different list to select from;
Math, Science, Computer Hacking/building/repairing/scripting etc., engineering, Physics (I know it’s a science but it deserves special mention), writing, photography, History, and Robots… (real ones).
Dorks are simply lower level geeks or nerds that don’t know it. in fact, you are a higher level dork the more you refuse the title.
I personally am a Power Geek and a nerd, and not a dork. (I think.)
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 am
Ok, im nor a geek, nerd, dork, dweed but I am having a ‘Nerd Party’ of my own and i need to know what Nerds wear?! Is it pants up to belly botton, sort of thing?! Crap shoes, greasy hair, glasses, pocket protectors?!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Dork is a whale’s penis ! So I guess being called anything else is else is a step up !!!
August 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
It only counts if, the first time you saw Start Trek 2, when the Enterprise emerges unexpectedly from behind the planet you yelled “The plane boss, the plane!”
September 29th, 2008 at 2:09 am
nerd – someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
geek – someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
dork – someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
November 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
“d plane, d plane!” … U R lIk totally d8ing urself dude.
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Then there are snobs. It’s when you geek out over “sophisticated” or “more delicate” obsessions, like fine dining and Chopin and figure yourself to be superior to most others. You usually love sushi, listen to The Velvet Underground, and read Nietzsche. A subset of this would be record-store snobs, people who say, “The book was much better than the movie”, as well as many traveling chefs and ‘foodies’.
Really, I consider myself a snob which is in itself a category within geekdom. (I also have many punk and metal-head qualities, a profoundly cynical and misanthropic disposition, and I have a mohawk.) Geek–IMO–is simply obsession and extreme proficiency in one thing.
Does that mean jocks are also geeks?
December 24th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
point 1000 is spot on.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
@Mustachio
‘pedant’ or possibly ‘lexicographer’
November 12th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Nerd- delicious candy.
Geek- guy who bites the head off a chicken.
Dork- whale penis.
August 13th, 2011 at 9:12 am
0011 is probably my favourite as I’ve heard it being said before!