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Signs that you are a bona fide nerd. . .

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10: You would rather look something up on the internet than go to the library or use the phone book. You have even found pizza delivery this way (extra points if you ORDERED online -^.^-)

9: You actually LIKED school or some parts of it.

8: You are a member of more than 4 message boards or online communities. You also help out the newbies or even moderate.

7: You actually know the specifics on your computer.

6: You and someone else have actually opened up a computer and worked on it (Extra points if it actually still works after that or works better -^.^- )

5: You can plan a campaign or even an entire city in a strategy/simulation game, yet you cannot plan a dinner party.

4: You collect anime and/or manga. (extra points if you draw normal fanart or write normal fanfiction, even more points if you are writing your very own anime/manga. GRRRRRR :mad: and get some help if you write/draw hentai or lemon. Only sick, perverted creeps with no class or morals do that. :sick: :sick: :sick: )

3: You get a salary over $50,000 a year, and you are not an athlete, doctor, lawyer, politician, or career criminal.

2: Your family members give you books and papers on how to make friends.

and 

1: You are sitting here reading this rather than out talking to someone.  

 
 

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Would you believe 9/10 (although my attempt at being the 'shadetree techie' sent my 486 to the junkyard)?

:eek: LOL -^.^-

EDITED: I do not ever make that $50,000 or above. If I did I would not have fixed my 486 like that! LOL!
 
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10: You would rather look something up on the internet than go to the library or use the phone book. You have even found pizza delivery this way (extra points if you ORDERED online -^.^-)

Yes, and I have ordered. Pizza hut does the KC area :D

9: You actually LIKED school or some parts of it.

Yes

8: You are a member of more than 4 message boards or online communities. You also help out the newbies or even moderate.

Yes to the first two, but I don't moderate.

7: You actually know the specifics on your computer.

Know about it? I built it!

6: You and someone else have actually opened up a computer and worked on it (Extra points if it actually still works after that or works better -^.^- )

See response to #7

5: You can plan a campaign or even an entire city in a strategy/simulation game, yet you cannot plan a dinner party.

I haven't attempted dinner parties, so I guess I dont apply to this one.

4: You collect anime and/or manga. (extra points if you draw normal fanart or write normal fanfiction, even more points if you are writing your very own anime/manga. GRRRRRR :mad: and get some help if you write/draw hentai or lemon. Only sick, perverted creeps with no class or morals do that. :sick: :sick: :sick: )

I'm not interested in it, but I don't care what other people do in their free time assuming their actions do not hurt others. Couldn't hold back from preaching eh? :|

3: You get a salary over $50,000 a year, and you are not an athlete, doctor, lawyer, politician, or career criminal.

Hah! I wish!

2: Your family members give you books and papers on how to make friends.

Doing fine with RL friends.

1: You are sitting here reading this rather than out talking to someone.

Huh? Youre the one that started the thread, doesn't that count for something? :D
 
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7: You actually know the specifics on your computer.

Whoa! Wait a minute, everybody knows their own computer specs. Don't tell me you call Dell and say:

You: I need a PC
Operator: What configurations would you like Sir/Madam?
You: Uh, I don't know, I'm not a bona fide nerd. Just get me a working one. :D
Operator: .....

Jag
 
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I fly my nerd flag high....

Some serious nerd-sign:
I could go through the entire game of Zelda in less then 2 hours.
I have 4 computers networked together in my room... they all connect to the internet through a DSL modem.
I have a TV card in one of them, and DVD player on another.
I have a computer with a Lenux partition on it.
I have an old 486 with Win 3.1 on it.
I have a computer with Win 98 on it.
I have a computer with XP on it.
I (actually my wife) have a computer with ME on it.
I have a Apple 2... it is not hooked up.
I still have my old Commodore 64... and it works.
All four of my kids have jobs in computers, as do I and my wife.
I have a laptop that I use to find stars when we view the sky through my 6" reflector.
I spend more money on books than I do food.
I like Sienfeld.
I program in 6 languages... including COBOL.
We watch the space shuttle launch from our house on Fripp Island in SC... even tho it only shows up on the horizon as a line of smoke.
When the family gets together for holidays, 90% of the conversation revolves around geek stuff.

I guess this would qualify us as nerds...

 

 
 
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10: You would rather look something up on the internet than go to the library or use the phone book. You have even found pizza delivery this way (extra points if you ORDERED online -^.^-)

Guilty on all counts but no extra points.

9: You actually LIKED school or some parts of it.

Computer class and Electronics in high school was Okay I guess. Took some tech support and computer classes in college and it was great!

8: You are a member of more than 4 message boards or online communities. You also help out the newbies or even moderate.

Many message boards but I don't visit them all daily. And yes I did Super-admen a board for a year till recently.

7: You actually know the specifics on your computer.

Which one? I built them all except for my laptop. I have not bought a desktop computer in the last deckade and hav had a new one each year.

6: You and someone else have actually opened up a computer and worked on it (Extra points if it actually still works after that or works better -^.^- )

I've been on-site and talked someone through the operation so they could learn not to call me again. Oh and they always work.

5: You can plan a campaign or even an entire city in a strategy/simulation game, yet you cannot plan a dinner party.

c:\dinnerparty.exe

4: You collect anime and/or manga. (extra points if you draw normal fanart or write normal fanfiction, even more points if you are writing your very own anime/manga. GRRRRRR and get some help if you write/draw hentai or lemon. Only sick, perverted creeps with no class or morals do that. )

I need to search Gooooogle for what you exactly mean but I have emoticons on my FTP site if that is possibly the same... ???

3: You get a salary over $50,000 a year, and you are not an athlete, doctor, lawyer, politician, or career criminal.

Nah my clients pay me in peanuts. Want to buy an elephant?

2: Your family members give you books and papers on how to make friends.

heh how true!lol

and

1: You are sitting here reading this rather than out talking to someone.

Does Jesus count?

 

Peace
 
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Originally posted by KeepTheFaith15
i just came to this thread cause i love the word bonafide!

bo·na fide    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (bn fd, fd, bn)
adj.
Made or carried out in good faith; sincere: a bona fide offer.
Authentic; genuine: a bona fide Rembrandt. See Synonyms at authentic.


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[Latin bon fid : bon, feminine ablative of bonus, good + fid, ablative of fids, faith.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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bona fide

\Bo"na fi"de\ [L.] In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


bona fide

adj 1: undertaken in good faith; "a bona fide offer" 2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, unquestionable, veritable]


Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University


bona fide
 
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Nerd?!!!?! NERD?!!! Well...I would be the classic wannabe nerd in that I know of COBOL (and FORTRAN) but can't code in it. I bought a Commodore 64 for $4 and never turned it on...I've got a big hard drive and a crappy mouse, I use BSD but it happens to be Mac OS 10.2, I opened up my computer but only to put extra ram in (and it sure worked better!), and I've never taken my computer in to be repaired so now it has a mostly green screen:) which I haven't been able to fix yet.

Did I mention that I'm in love with Infocom?
 
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