Hey, stop apologizing for being nerds/geeks!

[DerekG]

In light of all the LOTR threads surfacing at the Lounge, I'd like to tell my comrades to stop being so inhibited about their love of genre films, fantastical literature, and comic books.

Folks, this is the closest thing we have to modern mythology (the Greeks would back us up on this); if you ask me, placing an emotional investment in a game(!) involving a dozen uneducated neanderthals, throwing a ball around a court/diamond/grid-iron, is a hell of a lot more pathetic. Sports are for the f#$%ing birds!

Now log off and get into one of those Revenge of the Sith lines, stat--this one might actually be good!

[Ladyhawk]

1. Thanks!

I love the LOTR books AND movies. I also love Star Wars and Star Trek. I am a geek. I've always been a geek. I always will be a geek.

That is all. :D

[Zerex71]

2. Embrace your TRONDOM and dorkhood...

[Floogeldy]

3. Are you saying that I'm a nerd or a geek?

Asshole!!!!

B-)

[Borgnine]

4. Geeks are becoming more and more mainstream.

I think the Lord of the Rings films have done us geeks a huge favor.

[Neoma]

5. Pfft

I'm proud to be a nerd without your words! :P

[Floogeldy]

8. I think you have the makings of a song there!

I'm proud to be a nerd
Without your words
I'm surely not a turd
Falling from birds . . . .

B-)

[RagingInMiami]

6. Yes, but modern sports is the closet thing we have to the

Roman gladiator games, which is mythological in a sense.

[lenidog]

7. Nothing wrong with being a geek look at Bill Gates he is so rich

that he is only a monocle and a persian cat away from being a James Bond villain

[DerekG]

9. Did Blofeld have a monocle?

Heh, I am a geek. :)

[lenidog]

10. Telly Savalas didn't when he played Blofeld but the second one did

Im a geek to.

[DerekG]

11. Savalas was the second of three actors

Donald Pleasance appeared first, in "You Only Live Twice," then came Savalas in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," and finally Charles Gray, in that POS travesty, "Diamonds Are Forever." Maybe it was Gray.

:evilgrin:

[lenidog]

12. It was Gray

Its been SO long since I have seen any of the Bond flicks that I forgot that Savalas was the second one and Pleasence played Blofeld first. Its also scary what you can remember, I forgot about Pleasence but I can remember that one fo the minor Bond girls was originally a guy.