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aprilstarchildYay! Fun meme!
List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are!
1. When I was in junior/senior year, I was a huge Beatlemaniac. As Dave Barry once said, "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." If you think my LOTR and HP fandoms are interesting, they're not half as obsessive as my Beatles fannishness was. Good GODS. Some college kid had put gobs of scans of pictures of them online, and at the same time I was addicted to an HTML-based chat room (which, in retrospect, was basically a rolling guestbook). We were allowed to post pictures, both next to our name and in the text of our messages. I had half the URLs of the pictures memorized, both in thumbnail and full-sized versions. I had the dialogue to A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Yellow Submarine, pretty much memorized--I can still do the intro train scene of A Hard Day's Night.
Who's he?
That's my grandfather.
That's not your grandfather.
He is, you know.
But I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.
This is my other one.
How's that?
Well, everyone's entitled to two aren't they, and this is my other one.
.....
He's a nice old man isn't he?
He's very clean.
Oh, don't get me started, I'll start reciting random bits of all of'em ("It won't work you know. I'm allergic to penicillin and all them other wonder drugs." Just---don't ask.)
I bought the VHS 8-tape anthology on layaway with babysitting money and watched the whole thing (ten hours) in one sitting, not even stopping to rewind. Oy vey.
2!! ARRR! I'm a bonnie pirate on select weekends of the year. And come to think of it, very few of us pull that "arrr" crap, except jokingly.
3. I've read historical nonfiction for fun. About Puritans, no less. And it wasn't the kind meant to be entertaining, either.
4. Surely, knitting and spinning are slightly dorky, although less so all the time these days.
5. I asked Tyson, and his answer was, "If you didn't have to sleep or work you'd never leave your LiveJournal." So, so true. It's sad.
List 5 reasons why you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud about how big of a dork you are!
1. When I was in junior/senior year, I was a huge Beatlemaniac. As Dave Barry once said, "There is a fine line between hobby and mental illness." If you think my LOTR and HP fandoms are interesting, they're not half as obsessive as my Beatles fannishness was. Good GODS. Some college kid had put gobs of scans of pictures of them online, and at the same time I was addicted to an HTML-based chat room (which, in retrospect, was basically a rolling guestbook). We were allowed to post pictures, both next to our name and in the text of our messages. I had half the URLs of the pictures memorized, both in thumbnail and full-sized versions. I had the dialogue to A Hard Day's Night, Help!, and Yellow Submarine, pretty much memorized--I can still do the intro train scene of A Hard Day's Night.
Who's he?
That's my grandfather.
That's not your grandfather.
He is, you know.
But I've seen your grandfather, he lives in your house.
This is my other one.
How's that?
Well, everyone's entitled to two aren't they, and this is my other one.
.....
He's a nice old man isn't he?
He's very clean.
Oh, don't get me started, I'll start reciting random bits of all of'em ("It won't work you know. I'm allergic to penicillin and all them other wonder drugs." Just---don't ask.)
I bought the VHS 8-tape anthology on layaway with babysitting money and watched the whole thing (ten hours) in one sitting, not even stopping to rewind. Oy vey.
2!! ARRR! I'm a bonnie pirate on select weekends of the year. And come to think of it, very few of us pull that "arrr" crap, except jokingly.
3. I've read historical nonfiction for fun. About Puritans, no less. And it wasn't the kind meant to be entertaining, either.
4. Surely, knitting and spinning are slightly dorky, although less so all the time these days.
5. I asked Tyson, and his answer was, "If you didn't have to sleep or work you'd never leave your LiveJournal." So, so true. It's sad.
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Date: 2005-06-29 05:46 am (UTC)Gawd, I'm trying to remember the scene in A Hard Day's Night where they make fun of poor Ringo's nose.
Now, don't mock the afflicted.
Aw, I was just having a little fun.
But it's not his fault he's got a hideous gray hooser. And that poor little head tremblin' under the weight of it.
OMG, I'm so cracking up. Even though I know I have some of that bit wrong.
I used to be the Queen of Beatles Trivia.
When I got the cardboard thingie, the person at the store wanted me to tell him who the fifth beatle was. I said, "which one?!?" and he said, "any." I started listing: Stu Sutcliffe, Pete Best, George Martin, Brian Epstein, WHICH ONE!?! He laughed and let me have the display.