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geek vs. nerd

Post 21

Dark Master - The end is now (2005/03/01) Officially Left

Having ben called both, It nice to know finnaly what the difference is.smiley - sadface

I would definitely prefer the smiley - geek however both terms are quite negatively used nowadays anyway.


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Post 22

logicus tracticus philosophicus

no for you i think the choice would be "gerd or neek " smiley - bigeyessmiley - run


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Post 23

Methos (one half of the HHH Management)

smiley - huh anorak? That word has defintely not reached my English vocabulary yet.

Methos smiley - peacedove


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Post 24

Johnny the horse <like sun burn in the evenin>

Geek or nerd really dosent matter I mean names are just a label it dosent matter


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Post 25

creachy

we are all numbers, i am U211544smiley - zen


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Post 26

IctoanAWEWawi

an anorak:
one who is obsessivly knowledgeable or interested in something completely spurious.
The classic example is a Train Spotter. You;ve heard of them, yes? People who hang round train stations and train shu7nting yards writing down the serial numbers of the trains and carriages that pass. Getting all excited when something 'special' comes down the track.
But it can be anyone who has an obsessive knowledge of a subject. I got accused of being an anorak about motorbikes because in the Mission impossible 2 film I was able to name the make and model of tyres on the bike as it was shown jumping over the camera.
The level of knowledge must include the most boring and unnecessary level of minute detail to qaulify as an anorak.


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Post 27

Johnny the horse <like sun burn in the evenin>

i am not a number I am a free man


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Post 28

IctoanAWEWawi

what's a neoploatin?


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Post 29

Johnny the horse <like sun burn in the evenin>

a badly spelt vanila strwberry and choclate ice cream


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Post 30

creachy

it's those three coloured icecreams, usually Brown, Yellow and White, each one a different flavour. they come in a rectangular blocksmiley - ok or a Tubsmiley - drool

i am a free man too, with a numbersmiley - biggrin


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Post 31

Johnny the horse <like sun burn in the evenin>

smiley - laugh


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Post 32

Methos (one half of the HHH Management)

Ah, now I got it. smiley - ok

My sister once met someone who was traveling all through Germany to take pictures of trains. smiley - weird


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Post 33

IctoanAWEWawi

creachy, no, that's a neapolitan smiley - winkeye I was being facetious smiley - smiley


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Post 34

IctoanAWEWawi

Methos, that sounds exactly the sort of person smiley - laugh
Glad they are not exclusively british. Or was this a brit on holiday in germany?


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Post 35

Johnny the horse <like sun burn in the evenin>

well thats just mean I spell the way its ment to be written it is just the oxford dictinary thats wrong


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Post 36

RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky

This, currently in Peer Review, seems relevant:

A2410435


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Post 37

IctoanAWEWawi

johnny, that's I how I tend to spell smiley - smiley No, I just wondered as it was in view in your tag if the misspelling was a deliberate reference to something and I was being thick by not picking up on it!


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