Post #22056 by suicide_sam on Wed, Feb 5, 2003 1:24 PM

Here go my two cents:

As far as school time coolnes, I was a nerd and a geek all the way through elementary school (for god's sake I used to hang out at the library and study greek mythology because I thought it was fun), junior high (got heavily into comics), and for the first half of high school (I was just a class clown, class clowns are funny but never cool). I didn't really become cool or whatever until like sophmore year (and that was only because I was very good at graphitti, anything illegal you're doing during high school makes you popular).

The mark of a nerd is excessive knowledge, the mark of a geek is excessive passion about trivial subjects. I have found that when I came across something that I really liked it always made me want to learn more about it, and made me want to start collecting, wether it was pin up art, tiki, classic cars, etc, etc...

Am I a geek and a nerd, yes, I believe I am. But when is a topic nerdy and when is it cool? I remember some of my cool friends used to mock me because I was really into the old Planet Of The Apes movies. Later on, I guess at some point they became cool and the same friends would come and try and tell me about those movies. When I pointed out to them that they used to give me a hard time for being into them one of them flat out denied it, the other did ancknowledge that fact but just didn't mention it again.

I think nerds and geeks are allot more interesting than cool people. If you go to someones house and their playing Christina Augilera does it make them cool just becasue she sells allot of CDs? If you go to someone else's house and their playing Arthur Lyman does it make them a geek because the general public doesn't even remember who Arthur Luman was?

I guess everyone has to make up their own mind, but while their thinking about it though I'll be rocking the most gorgeous Iolani Executive shirt I picked up on Ebay for $6 and having a tropical drink out of one of my geeky frined Holden's mugs, while looking through The Book Of Tiki, some guy that knew way to much about tiki wrote that.

That was way more than two cents, that was at least a buck fifty!!!