I had a thot on Twitter I wanted to make it into a thread here: Geek cred throwdown. Here is the rule: You can mention one thing (not a list) that shows you have geek cred. No double posting, just throwdown and let someone try and top it.
I’ll begin:
I used to receive the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Newsletter…in the MAIL!
On our Honeymoon in Orlando.
That’s some geek cred right there, Mr. Talos.
My fifth birthday. Note the Spock shirt.
For ‘organizations’ on my High School application, I put Star Wars Fan Club.
I got waitlisted.
First computer game I played was called Wumpus. It was on a computer that didn’t have a screen, every line was printed out on scrolling paper.
ahem :rolleyes:
“Hunt the Wumpus” is the full title, IIRC.
Mine was Lunar Lander. I did have a screen, but it was a time-sharing terminal with no graphics. I got frustrated trying to figure out the math, and settled on making the biggest crater I could.
I took down a school bully when I was 9 in front of God and everyone using a fighting technique I learned from watching Star Trek. The famous Kirk maneuver: Kick em in the stomach and when they double over in pain you clobber them across the back of the head.:eek:
It worked like a charm, he fell unconscious at my feet just like on TV. Needless to say no one messed with me for months after that.
I didn’t double-post, there were several between my first post and this one. It is all about escalation baby!
We’ve all done that.
Haven’t we?
Well, I have…
Anyhoo, I went to see Attack of the Clones dressed like this:
Snicker**** Snicker*** SNORT
** cracks knuckles *** *** smiles a wicked grin ***
In 7th grade my friend and I sent away for Star Fleet uniform patterns and breast and cuff insignia for said uniforms. My friend took a sewing class and made his own uniform (blue (science section), lieutenant stripes. (We’re talking TOS of course…this was circa 1977).
I asked my mom to make my uniform. Mine was red (that’s right, I was a red shirt), engineering section, lieutenant stripes. I used to to think my mother loved me, but now I think “red shirt” :eek:
Hold on, it gets even better. We put on the uniforms, asked our parents to drive us into Boston and drop us off at the Boston Museum of Science. We bought tickets, walked around the museum—in character—pretending we were on a landing party mission from the Enterprise (they we’re called “Away Teams” back then BTW).
A forget whether we brought any props with us (plastic AMT model Phasers, tricorders etc.) But I do remember we had a big thick magic marker that looked a lot like Dr. McCoy’s hypospray. We took turns pretending to faint (whilst museum visitors gapped at us) and the other would revive the fainter pretending to do so with the “hypospray” (a litttle hissing sound to aid the affect).
At one point during this “mission” in the Museum of Science we actually snuck into the “No Admittance” area and exited the museum from the roof or something. Using our ticket stubs we then re-entered the museum at the front gate.
Judges can score me how they like for this, but I claim Lifetime Geek Cred for the above antics.
The GF and I are a couple.
How is that geek cred? Well, as a kid she took the patterns in the Franz Joseph Tech Manual, scaled them down, and made uniforms for her Barbies. (The nurse’s uni is apparently the tough one, FWIW.)
That is hardcore… I have never worn a costume outside of a convention center, well… except for Halloween. This is going to be tough to beat GWCers!
Remember, they were also Roleplaying!!!:eek:
A few months after I saw Empire Strikes Back, my mother took me shopping for a winter jacket. I chose one that resembled as close as possible to the one Han wore on Hoth. You know the one with the fur on the hood. That winter we had a blizzard. After the plows drove down my street, there were piles over 6 feet high.
I put on my jacket and found my gun and holster. The gun and holster were from a cowboy play set I got in the Fall. My lightsaber was my father’s utility flashlight.
I played out the whole Hoth sequence, everyday. Even though I was dressed like Han, I played the roles of all the characters…even Dack.
ETA: As an added bonus, I used the same gun and holster to play Starbuck and Apollo while flying around in my converted refrigerator box Viper.
You didn’t gut a neighbor’s dog and crawl inside, did you? :eek:
I invented Firefly in 1973 ----> http://forum.galacticwatercooler.com/showpost.php?p=273615&postcount=1
It would be pretty tough to gut a dog with his Father’s flashlight…
I remember going to a birthday party for a friend of my younger sister’s and seeing my first Atari. I told my Mother that I didn’t care that it was a girl’s party, I stayed and played that Atari for two hours by myself.