Comments on: Top 1010 Clues that You’re at a Really Good Nerd Party

By: DorkusGalorkus

DorkusGalorkus — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:29:34 +0000

Nerd- delicious candy.
Geek- guy who bites the head off a chicken.
Dork- whale penis.

By: pedant

pedant — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:19:28 +0000

@Mustachio

‘pedant’ or possibly ‘lexicographer’

By: matt

matt — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:22:40 +0000

point 1000 is spot on.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:39:30 +0000

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?

By: terry

terry — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:38:05 +0000

“d plane, d plane!” … U R lIk totally d8ing urself dude.

By: LE

LE — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:09:27 +0000

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.

By: David Schaffer

David Schaffer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:50:48 +0000

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!”

By: comraid

comraid — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:42:54 +0000

Dork is a whale’s penis ! So I guess being called anything else is else is a step up !!!

By: Courtney

Courtney — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:46:31 +0000

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?!

By: The Power-Geek

The Power-Geek — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:32:29 +0000

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.)

By: Mustachio

Mustachio — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:39:30 +0000

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?

By: George

George — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:52:46 +0000

Yeah, this sounds like most of my parties. Esp, the expensive equipment part and the unreleased movies.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:20:33 +0000

…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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:39:10 +0000

“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….

By: Don

Don — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:52:05 +0000

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…?

By: Tyr

Tyr — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:10:14 +0000

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:)

By: unassuming

unassuming — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:47:01 +0000

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.

By: Saman Sadeghi

Saman Sadeghi — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:26:48 +0000

Jon, I totally agree with your definition of a nerd/geek/dork!

That list was great – in addition of numbering the list was hilarious!

By: Anni

Anni — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:59:57 +0000

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.

By: Toria

Toria — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:00:43 +0000

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?

By: HiZaM

HiZaM — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:14:20 +0000

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

By: Havvy

Havvy — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:56:33 +0000

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.)

By: Other

Other — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:20:47 +0000

To make it even more of a nerd party, you’d have the tesla coils playing mario and other game theme tunes…

By: K

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:54:28 +0000

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.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:39:51 +0000

Sounds like a triple threat…