Looks like the cat's out of the bag

[TheCotMan]

...the problem is kids sometimes misinterpret the saying "be yourself" for "if you act like someone else because that person different then in turn you'll be different".

I've liked this quote for some people, "You are unique-- just like everyone else."

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So, what else is associated with geek? Is it possible for someone to have great looks and also be a geek? Are there any examples?

[bascule]

Is it possible for someone to have great looks and also be a geek? Are there any examples?

How about Brian Greene, string theory geek extraordinare, who looks somewhat like John Cusack:

[Gadsden]

Translation, nerds are suckers with fat wallets. Let 'em touch your goodies from time to time and the money will keep flowing.

That is the upside of being a cheap bastard... you thin that heard out VERY quickly..

[EvilMoFo]

Is it possible for someone to have great looks and also be a geek? Are there any examples?

a couple of the female geeks i know are great looking.... they are also taken

[Floydr47]

I've liked this quote for some people, "You are unique-- just like everyone else."

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So, what else is associated with geek? Is it possible for someone to have great looks and also be a geek? Are there any examples?

Cotman, I don't see how a "geek" (in the original sense of the word) could be considered good looking. The term "geek" originally was applied to those who worked in carnival sideshows, i.e. "The Amazing Turtle Boy", "The Elephant Man", "The Bearded Fat Lady", "The Human Pin Cushion" (he was the guy who drove nails into his head), etc. These people were true "geeks", meaning people who were strange and unusual looking. I think that the term "Nerd" is the correct one to apply to someone of high intelligence (which makes them stand apart from the crowd), and that is their way of being "stange and unusual. So I would say that there could be good looking nerds, but I doubt that there would be any good looking geeks. However, everybody to there own taste as the farmer said when he kissed his cow.

[TheCotMan]

Cotman, I don't see how a "geek" (in the original sense of the word) could be considered good looking. The term "geek" originally was applied to those who worked in carnival sideshows, i.e. "The Amazing Turtle Boy", "The Elephant Man", "The Bearded Fat Lady", "The Human Pin Cushion" (he was the guy who drove nails into his head), etc.

Not all circus geeks were given their title because of how they looked; some geeks were given their name because of their acts:
Sword swallowing, glass eating, bug/grub eating, chicken head biting, etc.

I think that the term "Nerd" is the correct one to apply to someone of high intelligence (which makes them stand apart from the crowd), and that is their way of being "stange and unusual. So I would say that there could be good looking nerds, but I doubt that there would be any good looking geeks.

Yeah. I prefer the description of nerd too. However, geek is one of those words that has been used so much in ways that it was not originally intended, that we have a tough time finding a modern dictionary that does not include the present meaning of a special techie.

Meanings of words change over time and "new words" take the place of the old:
gimp, crippled. handicapped, disabled, "special", differently abled
As the meaning of old words is associated with something different, a new word is used.

[Windblows User]

Nerds make better lovers because they're so naive and innocent in all their actions and what-not. Not because they know what they're doing, but because they're extremely nervous. Like, "The FBI is at my door" nervous.


I know thats true of me, anyway... not that I'm a nerd... But damn I need some hobbies...