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Old 08-12-2005, 12:31 AM   #1 (permalink)
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WAY OFF-TOPIC (Nice story...)

As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek - you
gotta problem with that? If so, don't read any further, or you'll be even
more disgusted...

Two really significant things happened today for me - one Twilight-Zonish,
and the other just plain sweet:

While I was waiting in the registration line, this guy walked past
me. I looked quizzically at him, he did likewise at me, then I
said, "You look *very* familiar to me." He said, "You look really
familiar to me too!" I asked him if he'd been to other cons here, he
said no. Then I asked if he had been in the military. Again, no.
Then *he* said, "I'm from New Hampshire, maybe you saw me there?"

He was one of the patients of that nutty doc I'm always talking about
in my emails! He was from Claremont, NH (Exactly where we lived),
and I remembered that he was a postman there!

WHAT are the odds of us even *noticing* each other among those
thousands of people!

He mentioned that he wondered where I'd gone, which is when I told
him why we left there (Hubby went back into the Air Force), but I'm still
stunned that I ran into him
there!

Later, we saw the guy who played wheelchair-bound Captain Pike in "The
Menagerie" (Actually the stunt double, since Jeff Hunter had died since the
ep was filmed). I told him about how Bob absolutely loves that episode
better than any other, and Bob had just returned from 'overseas' - I'm sure
he thought Bob had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I didn't say where Bob
went; I only told him that Bob had to skip the con, since he had only just
arrived at his new base. Not only did I get a personalized pic from him (I
paid for it, and he put a personalized msg on it), but Katie took a short
video msg on her digcam, where he said, "Hi Captain Bob, from Captain Pike -
thanks for serving our country so well!" Bob
will absolutely *love* that! I can't wait to give him those things, among
other fun I want to give him...

:-)

Natalie, Bob L. addict supreme

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Old 08-12-2005, 01:37 AM   #2 (permalink)
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"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek -
> you gotta problem with that? If so, don't read any further, or you'll be
> even more disgusted...
>
> Two really significant things happened today for me - one Twilight-Zonish,
> and the other just plain sweet:
>
> While I was waiting in the registration line, this guy walked past
> me. I looked quizzically at him, he did likewise at me, then I
> said, "You look *very* familiar to me." He said, "You look really
> familiar to me too!" I asked him if he'd been to other cons here, he
> said no. Then I asked if he had been in the military. Again, no.
> Then *he* said, "I'm from New Hampshire, maybe you saw me there?"
>
> He was one of the patients of that nutty doc I'm always talking about
> in my emails! He was from Claremont, NH (Exactly where we lived),
> and I remembered that he was a postman there!
>
> WHAT are the odds of us even *noticing* each other among those
> thousands of people!
>
> He mentioned that he wondered where I'd gone, which is when I told
> him why we left there (Hubby went back into the Air Force), but I'm still
> stunned that I ran into him
> there!
>
> Later, we saw the guy who played wheelchair-bound Captain Pike in "The
> Menagerie" (Actually the stunt double, since Jeff Hunter had died since
> the ep was filmed). I told him about how Bob absolutely loves that
> episode better than any other, and Bob had just returned from 'overseas' -
> I'm sure he thought Bob had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I didn't say
> where Bob went; I only told him that Bob had to skip the con, since he had
> only just arrived at his new base. Not only did I get a personalized pic
> from him (I paid for it, and he put a personalized msg on it), but Katie
> took a short video msg on her digcam, where he said, "Hi Captain Bob, from
> Captain Pike - thanks for serving our country so well!" Bob
> will absolutely *love* that! I can't wait to give him those things,
> among other fun I want to give him...
>
> :-)
>
> Natalie, Bob L. addict supreme[/color]

Star Trek rocks. Always has. Always will. Puts Star WARS to shame.
[color=blue]
>
> --
>
>
>
>
>
> [url]http://www.dwarfstar.net[/url] - the best internet relay chat network ever!
>
> "Wicked little doll, you are not human,
> Wicked little doll, you have no soul."
> (David Byrne, 1997)
>[/color]


 
Old 08-12-2005, 12:06 PM   #3 (permalink)
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"Sharx35" <sharx35@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:42fc2625$0$32394$626a14ce@news.free.fr...[color=green]
>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek -
>> you gotta problem with that? If so, don't read any further, or you'll be
>> even more disgusted...
>>
>> Two really significant things happened today for me - one Twilight-Zonish,
>> and the other just plain sweet:
>>
>> While I was waiting in the registration line, this guy walked past
>> me. I looked quizzically at him, he did likewise at me, then I
>> said, "You look *very* familiar to me." He said, "You look really
>> familiar to me too!" I asked him if he'd been to other cons here, he
>> said no. Then I asked if he had been in the military. Again, no.
>> Then *he* said, "I'm from New Hampshire, maybe you saw me there?"
>>
>> He was one of the patients of that nutty doc I'm always talking about
>> in my emails! He was from Claremont, NH (Exactly where we lived),
>> and I remembered that he was a postman there!
>>
>> WHAT are the odds of us even *noticing* each other among those
>> thousands of people!
>>
>> He mentioned that he wondered where I'd gone, which is when I told
>> him why we left there (Hubby went back into the Air Force), but I'm still
>> stunned that I ran into him
>> there!
>>
>> Later, we saw the guy who played wheelchair-bound Captain Pike in "The
>> Menagerie" (Actually the stunt double, since Jeff Hunter had died since
>> the ep was filmed). I told him about how Bob absolutely loves that
>> episode better than any other, and Bob had just returned from 'overseas' -
>> I'm sure he thought Bob had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I didn't say
>> where Bob went; I only told him that Bob had to skip the con, since he had
>> only just arrived at his new base. Not only did I get a personalized pic
>> from him (I paid for it, and he put a personalized msg on it), but Katie
>> took a short video msg on her digcam, where he said, "Hi Captain Bob, from
>> Captain Pike - thanks for serving our country so well!" Bob
>> will absolutely *love* that! I can't wait to give him those things,
>> among other fun I want to give him...
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Natalie, Bob L. addict supreme[/color]
>
> Star Trek rocks. Always has. Always will. Puts Star WARS to shame.
>[/color]

*high-five*

George Lucas himself said that without Trek there wouldn't be Star Wars. I
remember some fans arguing that ST:III (Search for Spock) ripped off the
alien bar scene in SW. Um, actually the intergalactic bar scene was in Trek
first - "The Trouble With Tribbles" where some Klingons provoked Scotty,
Chekov and others into a bar fight. Take THAT, Luke-heads!

;-)

Natalie


 
Old 08-12-2005, 12:55 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=blue]
> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]

no, you're a dork.

 
Old 08-12-2005, 12:58 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=blue]
> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]

no, you're a dork.

A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am

Natalie


 
Old 08-12-2005, 01:02 PM   #6 (permalink)
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"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=green]
>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>
> no, you're a dork.
>
> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am
>
> Natalie
>
>[/color]

I thought a shmuck was a penis?

Charles


 
Old 08-12-2005, 01:03 PM   #7 (permalink)
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"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=green]
>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>
> no, you're a dork.
>
> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am
>
> Natalie
>
>[/color]

BTW, you're not a pencil-neck geek are you? I hear Fred Blasie is still
looking for them.

Charles


 
Old 08-12-2005, 01:22 PM   #8 (permalink)
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OT Geek vs Dork


Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=blue]
> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=green]
> > As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> > weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>
> no, you're a dork.
>
> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am[/color]

I heard a dork was someone who sat in the bathtub and ate their fart
bubbles -- but my older brother told me that, and he lied to me a lot.

According to the GNU version of The Collaborative International
Dictionary of English, also referred to as GCIDE:

dork \dork\ (d[^o]rk), n.
1. a person who is stupid, socially inept, or ridiculous; --
always used disparagingly. [slang.]

Syn: nerd; jerk. [PJC]

2. the penis. [vulgar slang]
[PJC]


And according to WordNet 2.0 (Copyright 2003 by Princeton University):

dork
n : a dull stupid fatuous person [syn: jerk]

Meanwhile, for Geek we have:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]


geek \geek\ (g[=e]k), n.
1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man,
who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting
the head off a live chicken or snake.
[PJC]

2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an
eccentric. [WordNet sense 1]
[PJC]

3. Hence: A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his
class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a
dork. [Informal]
[PJC]

4. Hence: An intellectually inclined person, especially one
who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as,
a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; -- originally
a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's,
with the increase in popularity of computers and the
frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer
entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable
frequency by technically competent people to refer to
themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly. [Informal]
[PJC]



WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]


geek
n 1: a carnival performer who does disgusting acts
2: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric,
eccentric person, flake, oddball]



Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]


geek n. A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity;
one who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination,
not
mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of
neophilia. Most geeks are adept with computers and treat hacker as a
term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves - and some who
_are_
in fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they
(quite properly) regard `hacker' as a label that should be bestowed
by
others rather than self-assumed.

One description ([url]http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html[/url]) accurately
if a little breathlessly enumerates "gamers, ravers, science fiction
fans, punks, perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies.
These
are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would
be
offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to."

Originally, a `geek' was a carnival performer who bit the heads off
chickens. Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative.
Earlier versions of this lexicon defined a `computer geek' as one
who
eats (computer) bugs for a living - an asocial, malodorous,
pasty-faced
monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. This is
often
still the way geeks are regarded by non-geeks, but as the mainstream
culture becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill
mainstream attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect.
Correspondingly, there are now `geek pride' festivals (the implied
reference to `gay pride' is not accidental).

See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee,
terminal junkie, spod, weenie, geek code.

So, I suppose you are a geek, and not a dork.

 
Old 08-12-2005, 08:32 PM   #9 (permalink)
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"Charles @ Kankakee" <n5hsr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:42fcd529$0$17462$626a14ce@news.free.fr...[color=green]
>>
>> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>>
>> no, you're a dork.
>>
>> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am
>>
>> Natalie
>>
>>[/color]
>
> I thought a shmuck was a penis?
>
> Charles
>
>[/color]
Nope - that's schlong, I've heard

Natalie


 
Old 08-12-2005, 08:35 PM   #10 (permalink)
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"Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=blue]
> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=green]
> > As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> > weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>
> no, you're a dork.
>
> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am[/color]

I heard a dork was someone who sat in the bathtub and ate their fart
bubbles -- but my older brother told me that, and he lied to me a lot.

According to the GNU version of The Collaborative International
Dictionary of English, also referred to as GCIDE:

dork \dork\ (d[^o]rk), n.
1. a person who is stupid, socially inept, or ridiculous; --
always used disparagingly. [slang.]

Syn: nerd; jerk. [PJC]

2. the penis. [vulgar slang]
[PJC]


And according to WordNet 2.0 (Copyright 2003 by Princeton University):

dork
n : a dull stupid fatuous person [syn: jerk]

Meanwhile, for Geek we have:

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]


geek \geek\ (g[=e]k), n.
1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man,
who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting
the head off a live chicken or snake.
[PJC]

2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an
eccentric. [WordNet sense 1]
[PJC]

3. Hence: A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his
class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a
dork. [Informal]
[PJC]

4. Hence: An intellectually inclined person, especially one
who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as,
a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; -- originally
a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's,
with the increase in popularity of computers and the
frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer
entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable
frequency by technically competent people to refer to
themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly. [Informal]
[PJC]



WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]


geek
n 1: a carnival performer who does disgusting acts
2: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric,
eccentric person, flake, oddball]



Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]


geek n. A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity;
one who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination,
not
mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of
neophilia. Most geeks are adept with computers and treat hacker as a
term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves - and some who
_are_
in fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they
(quite properly) regard `hacker' as a label that should be bestowed
by
others rather than self-assumed.

One description ([url]http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html[/url]) accurately
if a little breathlessly enumerates "gamers, ravers, science fiction
fans, punks, perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies.
These
are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would
be
offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to."

Originally, a `geek' was a carnival performer who bit the heads off
chickens. Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative.
Earlier versions of this lexicon defined a `computer geek' as one
who
eats (computer) bugs for a living - an asocial, malodorous,
pasty-faced
monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. This is
often
still the way geeks are regarded by non-geeks, but as the mainstream
culture becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill
mainstream attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect.
Correspondingly, there are now `geek pride' festivals (the implied
reference to `gay pride' is not accidental).

See also propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee,
terminal junkie, spod, weenie, geek code.

So, I suppose you are a geek, and not a dork.

***Thanks for that validation, Dick

***Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one!

***You may fwap me now - by the way, there really is a practicing lawyer in
New Hampshire named "Richard Head" - there can be no more fitting name for a
lawyer than *that* one, IMO hehehe

:-)

Natalie


 
Old 08-12-2005, 08:42 PM   #11 (permalink)
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:31:31 -0700, Wickeddoll® wrote:
[color=blue]
> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek - you
> gotta problem with that? If so, don't read any further, or you'll be even
> more disgusted...[/color]

Whoooo, boy, and you tell ME about Geekiness!!! You got ME beat, sis!

[color=blue]
>
> Two really significant things happened today for me - one Twilight-Zonish,
> and the other just plain sweet:
>
> While I was waiting in the registration line, this guy walked past
> me. I looked quizzically at him, he did likewise at me, then I
> said, "You look *very* familiar to me." He said, "You look really
> familiar to me too!" I asked him if he'd been to other cons here, he
> said no. Then I asked if he had been in the military. Again, no.
> Then *he* said, "I'm from New Hampshire, maybe you saw me there?"
>
> He was one of the patients of that nutty doc I'm always talking about
> in my emails! He was from Claremont, NH (Exactly where we lived),
> and I remembered that he was a postman there![/color]

So, Bob's from Holyoke, you lived in Calremont, and I live just about
smack between the two!
[color=blue]
>
> WHAT are the odds of us even *noticing* each other among those
> thousands of people!
>
> He mentioned that he wondered where I'd gone, which is when I told
> him why we left there (Hubby went back into the Air Force), but I'm still
> stunned that I ran into him
> there!
>
> Later, we saw the guy who played wheelchair-bound Captain Pike in "The
> Menagerie" (Actually the stunt double, since Jeff Hunter had died since the
> ep was filmed). I told him about how Bob absolutely loves that episode
> better than any other, and Bob had just returned from 'overseas' - I'm sure
> he thought Bob had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I didn't say where Bob
> went; I only told him that Bob had to skip the con, since he had only just
> arrived at his new base. Not only did I get a personalized pic from him (I
> paid for it, and he put a personalized msg on it), but Katie took a short
> video msg on her digcam, where he said, "Hi Captain Bob, from Captain Pike -
> thanks for serving our country so well!" Bob[/color]

Geek or not, this is absolutely downright cool! I think he will like it a
lot. Can you transfer it to your PC and save it?

Or, better yet, POST it?

[color=blue]
> will absolutely *love* that! I can't wait to give him those things, among
> other fun I want to give him...
>
> :-)
>
> Natalie, Bob L. addict supreme[/color]

 
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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:55:35 -0700, Learning Richard wrote:
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>
> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=green]
>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>
> no, you're a dork.[/color]

RICHARD!!!!

Uncharitable Response. Does Not Play Well With Others...
 
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"Charles @ Kankakee" <n5hsr@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> Wickeddoll® wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek[/color]
>>
>> no, you're a dork.
>>
>> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am
>>
>> Natalie
>>
>>[/color]
>
> BTW, you're not a pencil-neck geek are you? I hear Fred Blasie is still
> looking for them.
>
> Charles
>[/color]
I don't think I have any pencil-shaped body parts. I have an hourglass
figure, though - will that do?

Natalie


 
Old 08-12-2005, 08:58 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Re: WAY OFF-TOPIC (Nice story...)


"HachiRoku" <Trueno@ae86.GTS> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:31:31 -0700, Wickeddoll® wrote:
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>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek -
>> you
>> gotta problem with that? If so, don't read any further, or you'll be even
>> more disgusted...[/color]
>
> Whoooo, boy, and you tell ME about Geekiness!!! You got ME beat, sis![/color]

But...but...I'm hopelessly terrible with science and math![color=blue]
>
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>>
>> Two really significant things happened today for me - one Twilight-Zonish,
>> and the other just plain sweet:
>>
>> While I was waiting in the registration line, this guy walked past
>> me. I looked quizzically at him, he did likewise at me, then I
>> said, "You look *very* familiar to me." He said, "You look really
>> familiar to me too!" I asked him if he'd been to other cons here, he
>> said no. Then I asked if he had been in the military. Again, no.
>> Then *he* said, "I'm from New Hampshire, maybe you saw me there?"
>>
>> He was one of the patients of that nutty doc I'm always talking about
>> in my emails! He was from Claremont, NH (Exactly where we lived),
>> and I remembered that he was a postman there![/color]
>
> So, Bob's from Holyoke, you lived in Calremont, and I live just about
> smack between the two![/color]

How scary is *that*? ;-)[color=blue]
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>>
>> WHAT are the odds of us even *noticing* each other among those
>> thousands of people!
>>
>> He mentioned that he wondered where I'd gone, which is when I told
>> him why we left there (Hubby went back into the Air Force), but I'm still
>> stunned that I ran into him
>> there!
>>
>> Later, we saw the guy who played wheelchair-bound Captain Pike in "The
>> Menagerie" (Actually the stunt double, since Jeff Hunter had died since
>> the
>> ep was filmed). I told him about how Bob absolutely loves that episode
>> better than any other, and Bob had just returned from 'overseas' - I'm
>> sure
>> he thought Bob had been in Iraq or Afghanistan, but I didn't say where Bob
>> went; I only told him that Bob had to skip the con, since he had only just
>> arrived at his new base. Not only did I get a personalized pic from him (I
>> paid for it, and he put a personalized msg on it), but Katie took a short
>> video msg on her digcam, where he said, "Hi Captain Bob, from Captain
>> Pike -
>> thanks for serving our country so well!"[/color]
>
> Geek or not, this is absolutely downright cool! I think he will like it a
> lot. Can you transfer it to your PC and save it?[/color]

Dude - I have a family web page, remember? But I won't be posting that until
after hubby sees it. Email me for the URL (Too many trolls here)[color=blue]
>
> Or, better yet, POST it?[/color]

See above...

Natalie, still in Sin City


 
Old 08-12-2005, 09:03 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Re: WAY OFF-TOPIC (Nice story...)


"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Charles @ Kankakee" <n5hsr@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:I9qdnabA5bglSGHfRVn-gg@comcast.com...[color=green]
>>
>> "Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958nofeckingspam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:42fcd529$0$17462$626a14ce@news.free.fr...[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> "Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1123865735.496847.103400@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> Wickeddoll® wrote:
>>>> As some of you know, I'm at the Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas this
>>>> weekend, and today was the first of the 4-day event. Yes, I'm a geek
>>>
>>> no, you're a dork.
>>>
>>> A dork is a penis - pretty sure that's not what I am
>>>
>>> Natalie
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>> BTW, you're not a pencil-neck geek are you? I hear Fred Blasie is still
>> looking for them.
>>
>> Charles
>>[/color]
> I don't think I have any pencil-shaped body parts. I have an hourglass
> figure, though - will that do?
>
> Natalie
>[/color]

Nah, he's still looking for Pencil Neck Geeks. You've never heard of Fred
Blasie?

Charles


 
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