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For some reason, I just remembered a supa-dorky moment from my childhood.
I was in 3rd grade, and it was show-and-tell day at school.
Kids get up, show some new toy they got. One kid showed a frog in a jar that he had caught. Etc., etc.
Anyways, it's my turn. I walk to the front of the class with a thick stack of accordion paper - a printout from my Apple //e.
I proudly proclaim "This is a computer game I wrote." And I grab the first page of the BASIC code listing and let the rest of the thick ream of paper unravel impressively onto the floor.
No-one laughed. The whole class just gave me that 'I don't get it, he's scaring me' stare.
Man, I was a dork.
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Well, you're a moron for using the word "teh" for any reason.
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The Lord said 'Peter, I can see your house from here.'
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And now you are in Geek Hell, otherwise known as MacNN
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Originally Posted by ReggieX
Well, you're a moron for using the word "teh" for any reason.
didn't you just use it?
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That's a great story. 
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Originally Posted by jcadam
I was in 3rd grade, and it was show-and-tell day at school.
That's wasn't a German school, right ?
I have never heard of German schools doing show-and-tell days. For sure, I have never had one in 13 years...
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Originally Posted by turtle777
That's wasn't a German school, right ?
I have never heard of German schools doing show-and-tell days. For sure, I have never had one in 13 years...
-t
They are trying to catch up. You will be sent a show-and-tell by mail packet any day now.
Please keep it tasteful or they will send a note to your parents.
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I burst out in song in public places, I am the geek.
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I confess: I used a roll of dimes to replace a faulty AA battery in a walkman. Bought me me 3 hours of listening...
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Ah teh Heidleburg Germany, fatherland to teh geeks. I know it well.
Welcome to the Club. Did you want to order your T-shirt now? or Later?
Welcome. <AOL>
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Originally Posted by rickey939
New Geekness!
New Rickey!
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Geek the whole lot of ya.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
That's wasn't a German school, right ?
I have never heard of German schools doing show-and-tell days. For sure, I have never had one in 13 years...
-t
No, I went to grade school in California. I'm American if you hadn't guessed it 
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Originally Posted by rickey939
New Geekness!
Did he reach another 10 000 posts?!?
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Originally Posted by ReggieX
Well, you're a moron for using the word "teh" for any reason.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
And now you are in Geek Hell, otherwise known as MacNN
The game story of the original poster is geeky indeed. Very cool man!
But what else?
We discuss Mac OS X box layouts and "powerbook or iBook - I cannot make a decision" problems. Thats as low level geeky as it can get, isn't it?
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I feel sorry for today's kids that are mere wanna-bes when it comes to geekdom. If your first computer came with a mouse and a harddrive, you ain't geek. If you've never punched holes in a 5.25" floppy to make it into a double-sided disk, you ain't geek. If you never waited 8 hours to download warez at 2400 baud, you ain't geek. If you've never used a monochrome display, you ain't geek. And OMG, if you've never used a CLI, you freaking ain't geek.
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< Used to program punch cards.
< Fortran
< 5.25" floppies... oh yeah.
< used a paper terminal only, no minitor once
< does the green tinted display count? Terminal at school... I remember printing out pages and pages on the impact printers in the lab. Boy was it LOUD in there...before they got the enclosures.
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My geek moment for today was meeting a girl with a T-shirt saying " Women are not like PC's, they wont accept a 3.5 inch floppy!" and telling her in the old days I had a 5.25 Inch floppy.
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Originally Posted by macrob1n
and telling her in the old days I had a 5.25 Inch floppy.
What happened ? Accident ?
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Originally Posted by macrob1n
My geek moment for today was meeting a girl with a T-shirt saying " Women are not like PC's, they wont accept a 3.5 inch floppy!" and telling her in the old days I had a 5.25 Inch floppy.
macrob1n
5.25 inches but still a floppy.
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Originally Posted by macrob1n
My geek moment for today was meeting a girl with a T-shirt saying " Women are not like PC's, they wont accept a 3.5 inch floppy!" and telling her in the old days I had a 5.25 Inch floppy.
macrob1n
I forgot to say: very nice story!
I remember when I did my master we used old ibm mainframe computers. These machines had very old 8 (!) inch disk drives (with a neglectable capacity of a few 100 KBytes). The floppys looked like ufos. If I remember correctly that were the first floppies ever sold.
(Last edited by I was David B.; Aug 11, 2005 at 10:12 AM.
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