04 February 2009

You Might Be a Geek if...

- You can identify the number of Doctor Who episodes missing from the BBC archives and then recite the story names and episode numbers of such.

- See a background character in a Star Wars movie that has three seconds of screen-time and identify the full history of the character as laid out in a novel you read once a few years ago.

- See a vehicle, identify it's make and model and then start elaborating on the factory engine and how many horsepower it put out.

- Recite the win/loss record of your favorite sports team for a decade straight, even if that decade is not their golden era.

- Explain to others why they should read a seven book cycle of novels by summarizing it to them for over an hour.

- Dispute the chronology of a comic book character by reciting issue titles as if they were Scriptural chapter and verse.

- Be able to recite Scriptural chapter and verse out of your head.

- People don't want to play Trivial Pursuit with you anymore.

- You know the advantages and disadvantages of different types of wood when you're not a carpenter.

- Wednesday is new Comic Day!

- You rebuild your computer on a regular basis for the fun of it.

- You make lists explaining how people can tell if they're a Geek or not.

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