What's some dorky stuff about you??

herbinator45 · 10-21-2009, 07:59 PM

Come on yahooka. Let's stop the e-posturing and admit some dorky tidbits about ourselves.

I, for one, can play the glockenspiel.
Also, I could probably wreck anyone anywhere at Law & Order trivia.

Geeno · 10-21-2009, 08:05 PM

Posting here and my internet obsession is by far the dorkiest thing I do.

And I'm dorky irl, i say and do goofy things while appearing to take myself 100% seriously.

turmaline · 10-21-2009, 08:07 PM

I hate dorks.

but, I also love dorks as well.

my_scatterheart · 10-21-2009, 08:20 PM

While I watch the ball game, it's come to my attention that I'm kinda a nerdgirl about my baseball. But gramps was a halloffamer ump. I can't help it.
Hmm nerdy. Lessee.
Dorky. I read the Times, the Economist, Nat Geo, and some art mags nearly every week in the library.

Geeno · 10-21-2009, 08:24 PM

and i collect the shit out of coins.

Like pennies before 82 and all that

I PM foreign yahooka members trying to get them to trade coins or goods for coins.

turmaline · 10-21-2009, 08:27 PM

lol

is the third line true?

NorcalCarl · 10-21-2009, 08:53 PM

I got a very rare and valuable coin. Its copper plated with Abraham Lincoln on one side. Lets trade.
I play magic the gathering online.

myxomatosis · 10-21-2009, 09:26 PM

I have an alphabetized & chronological CD collection with way too many CD's. Same goes for DVDs.

I read a lot. Books, newspapers, magazines or internet shit, doesn't really matter.

I genuinely enjoy learning, about anything.

I have roughly 90 GB of music, all rather meticulously organized. Every album has the year it came out on both the folder and the mp3 tag. That's like 1300 albums give or take a few either way. Took me hours upon hours to do that. I suppose having that many albums is also rather dorky. I get good natured teasing about being kinda anal about how my music is organized, but I dunno, makes sense to me with so much music and it keeps it chronological which is how I want and like it and goddamn that is kinda dorky.

I also have a real good memory so I remember a lot of real dumb things from whenever I read about something and wind up getting teased about that as well.

Also I get genuinely happy just going into a record store and just flipping through records. When I get to go in there with my lady it gets even worse.

Speaking of such I'm admittedly a little sappy with regards to girlfriends. Not in a bad way though I don't think, at least no one has complained yet.

herbinator45 · 10-21-2009, 10:27 PM

^ i'm with you on those last two.

i'm big into kids movies and picture books too.

and geeno: what about your TLC doc obsession and all that lame iddish?

421 · 10-22-2009, 12:16 AM

i played the clarinet all through middle school and still play it on occasion. and i like to watch some nerdy shit on the history and science channels

Mafoo · 10-22-2009, 12:24 AM

i pimped out my myspace page
i geek out on technology and interesting information
i write emo poetry
i write stupid blogs ranting and blathering
etc

Grieves · 10-22-2009, 12:26 AM

I wrote/recorded an entire album on a 4 track recorder that no one will ever hear...

hijabihippie · 10-22-2009, 08:34 AM

I'm far too intelligent and educated for my own good.
I can play the tuba and the recorder (medieval music).
I'll read anything that isn't nailed down.

verklingen · 10-22-2009, 08:55 AM

i'm always cracking silly jokes
i keep my cuticles manicured because otherwise they crack painfully
i reread books an awful lot
i've been reading since i was 4 and read the hobbit in 1st grade
i'm a recovering j.r.r. tolkien fanatic (likely to return anytime)
i once set about teaching myself chinese and chinese calligraphy
i was such a good class clown i could successfully eat up at least half a class' time
my teachers still loved me
i've read 3 different translations of romance of the three kingdoms
i'm a published poet (ha, some gay high school thing)
in elementary school a friend and i made a little magazine with video game tips
i once wrote a few articles parodying game informer just for fun, and made a whole website parodying maddox
i take my bowling very seriously
i was the kid who would eat all your licorice jelly beans
i used to record video game music from the tv on a tape recorder, and recorded fake talk shows
i've listened to weird al since a young age
my favorite video game of all time (excluding rpg's [and having to say that is really dorky in itself]) is kirby's adventure

that's quite enough for now

herbinator45 · 10-22-2009, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Grieves

I wrote/recorded an entire album on a 4 track recorder that no one will ever hear...

you're not alone.

me and a couple buddies recorded some songs on a computer mic through FL once too. hahah

**SageTree** · 10-22-2009, 10:31 AM

It's mildly disturbing to think reading is considered dorky.

I'm glad to see this topic. This is often advice or expression that leaves my mouth. 'We're all dorks in someway about something.'

I think I'm a plant geek for sure. My family photo album is full of me touching a plant and talking about it. So I think that makes it bonefide. There is no place I am happy more centred and my best self as when I'm in the garden on my knees pulling or planting something.

what is dorkiness to you? To me it seems like something of little or no use to the general public.

I know too much about certain bands.
I like to read religious,spiritual texts more than any other books.
I fear I tread the line with cat person. Although none of them have clothes, or ever will.
Will risk being weird to be honest with people.

SageTree

verklingen · 10-22-2009, 11:13 AM

it's mildly disturbing to think being dorky is something not to be desired

Debaser · 10-22-2009, 11:52 AM

Hmm, let's see....

I love Star Trek in all it's forms (anxiously awaiting the new mmo Star Trek Online!)

I have 2 full sleeve tattoos comprising some 120+ seperate images...all of them except 2 are Dungeons and Dragons related, the other 2 are from comic books.

I collect foreign coins..i"m not rabid about it, but when I lived in Toronto I used to come across foreign money all the time so I just started hanging onto it.

I played the baritone horn all through junior high...haven't played in years but I could probably pick it back up in no time.

I can spell better than most people I know, maybe all of them.

I have an excellent memory when it comes to numbers, but I'm not so great at math, go figure.

I'm sure there's more than that, but it escapes me at the moment...I'll update as my memory fills me in :P

Grieves · 10-22-2009, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by herbinator45

you're not alone.

me and a couple buddies recorded some songs on a computer mic through FL once too. hahah

There was no computer involved, no mixing, just tracking on a 4 track cassette recorder...Just drums, guitar and bass...

BibleGuy · 10-22-2009, 12:33 PM

Hmm... I too am a Star Trek fan, I think Master Yoda is brilliant and I want The Gong Show brought back.