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Having a soundtrack collection doesn't peg you as a nerd. It just shows you have "bad taste in music" to the Normals. Anyway, to prove my Nerdom, I'd show her two things:
1) the three hanging Star Trek TOS uniform shirts in my closet (gold, blue and red, natch)
2) my basement TV room with 52 inch HDTV, and walls lined with SF DVDs, action figures, posters and scads of spaceship models. Plus a framed picture of me in a group shot with the surviving cast of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV series, with me wearing a Voyage T-shirt. And the mere fact that it's "the basement" for my mom's old house, making it "Mom's Basement."
Post script: to show that I am not a complete nerd, after my mom died, I bought out my sister for her half of the house and MOVED BACK IN, since I moved out when I got engaged 13 years ago. That's key to not being a total nerd: moving out, having sex, getting married (sorry, Mr. Jack).
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1) the three hanging Star Trek TOS uniform shirts in my closet (gold, blue and red, natch)
Don't wear the red one. You'll die in the first 15 minutes of the episode, Oldie.
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Having a soundtrack collection doesn't peg you as a nerd. It just shows you have "bad taste in music" to the Normals. Anyway, to prove my Nerdom, I'd show her two things:
1) the three hanging Star Trek TOS uniform shirts in my closet (gold, blue and red, natch)
I got that beat. I was wearing a homemade Star Trek shirt for Halloween in 1970.
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Don't wear the red one. You'll die in the first 15 minutes of the episode, Oldie.
My favorite red shirt death is the jackoff in Friday's Child (Grant).
Kirk brings this schmuck down who, seconds after beaming, sees a Klingon and draws his weapon. A Capellan whales a kligat (kleeyat) at the guy and he dies before the opening credits!
Grant: "A Klingon!"
Grant lunges forward with a look like he's gonna crap a loaf and draws his phaser.
Kirk: "Grant no!"
Whoo-sweew! THUD!
I got that beat. I was wearing a homemade Star Trek shirt for Halloween in 1970.
I have a picture of me as a 10 year old with my Official Star Trek shirt (by Donmoor) and my Mego Utility Belt that said STAR TREK in wacky lettering on the buckle. I have the phaser pointing at the camera and the communicator to my mouth.
Good times.
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I have a picture of me as a 10 year old with my Official Star Trek shirt (by Donmoor) and my Mego Utility Belt that said STAR TREK in wacky letter on the buckle. I have the phaser pointing at the camera and the communicator to my mouth.
Cash money I would pay for a copy of this.
Cash money.
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I have a picture of me as a 10 year old with my Official Star Trek shirt (by Donmoor) and my Mego Utility Belt that said STAR TREK in wacky lettering on the buckle. I have the phaser pointing at the camera and the communicator to my mouth.
Cash money I would pay for a copy of this.
Cash money.
LOL make me an offer.
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I got that beat. I was wearing a homemade Star Trek shirt for Halloween in 1970.
What was in your mouth?
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Cash money I would pay for a copy of this.
Cash money.
Seriously, this isn't me, but it's about the same sort of thing, except I was acting the part.
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I got that beat. I was wearing a homemade Star Trek shirt for Halloween in 1970.
I have a picture of me as a 10 year old with my Official Star Trek shirt (by Donmoor) and my Mego Utility Belt that said STAR TREK in wacky lettering on the buckle. I have the phaser pointing at the camera and the communicator to my mouth.
Good times.
The first year, my phaser was one of those "tracer guns" that they sold with the Star Trek name printed on it.
The next year, I managed to find some sort of toy gun that looked like a TOS phaser (with the handle in the middle), and then used a little metal clip to hook it to my belt so I could carry it without a holster, like they did on the series.
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My dad bought me the AMT Exploration Set model kit, put the stuff together and put a metal clip on the back of the communicator so I could wear it on my belt in the back where it belonged. Dad knew the deal. ;-)
Swear to God, he played with it more than I did.
"Bee-dee-beep. Kirk to Star Trek."
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Aren't the "fans" who attend football games nerds, too? The ones who paint themselves on each side with their team's colors?
No, they are considered "sports nuts" which is a notch or two more respectable than nerds.
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No, they are considered "sports nuts" which is a notch or two more respectable than nerds.
I'd say they are granted a fraction more respectability by the kinder press they get. I hear people look down on THEM with amusement. I think other nerds get looked down upon with more derision.
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