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  • #46
    Originally posted by Sir Ralph
    What is a SO?
    Significant Other.
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    "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
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    • #47
      Originally posted by Spiffor
      Significant Other.
      So it's something like when we straight people call our wives/gfs "our better halves"? (Which is, of course, BS, since I am the better half )

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Sir Ralph
        So it's something like when we straight people call our wives/gfs "our better halves"? (Which is, of course, BS, since I am the better half )
        I take it your wife isn't looking ?
        "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
        "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
        "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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        • #49
          Originally posted by JohnT
          Fvck you. Shots at the wife are pretty ****ty. Wanna come down here and say that, pretty boy?
          You don't wanna play ball, then don't start sh*t.
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          • #50
            Originally posted by Spiffor
            I take it your wife isn't looking ?
            She's phoning since two hours in the other room with a friend about ... ummm ... veeeeeeery important things (i.e. meaningless babble ), so I have what we call a "jester's license".

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            • #51
              BTW, here's a quick lithmus test to tell if you're a geek or not... your geekness is equal to how funny you find the following statement:

              :!emacs
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              • #52

                That's very naughty max.
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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Spiffor
                  IMHO, the main difference between geeks and non-geeks is that geeks think that tweaking, fixing, and understanding computers has a meaning by itself, which justifies they devote their life to it.
                  For the non-geek, a computer is a tool, which has better to work. For the geek, a computer is a center of attention, that must reflect the geek exactly.

                  I think geeks are simply obsessed with computers (I mean, the computers themselves, not some kind of actually useful or entertaining application). Much like some people are obsessed with their cars, with their house's decoration, with their pets etc.
                  Geekdom is a rich and wonderful world. There are scifi geeks, math geeks, science geeks, literary geeks, and, yes, even computer geeks.

                  Everything worth doing in the world is done by geeks.
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                  • #54
                    Everything worth doing in the world is done by geeks.


                    Except having sex, of course.
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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
                      BTW, here's a quick lithmus test to tell if you're a geek or not... your geekness is equal to how funny you find the following statement:

                      :!emacs
                      vi people are such comedians.:P
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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
                        Everything worth doing in the world is done by geeks.


                        Except having sex, of course.
                        Who do you think wrote the Kama Sutra, pal? Geeks -- that's who.
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                        • #57
                          Geeks make buttons for non-geeks to push so that they feel that they have some modicum of 'control.'

                          These buttons rarely affect anything of importance unless pushed in a specific sequence, thus notifying said geeks of a potential problem.

                          emacs is, and always will be, an inferior word processing program.
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                          • #58
                            Who do you think wrote the Kama Sutra, pal? Geeks -- that's who.


                            Actually, I think they were Indians.

                            Southasindians for the context-impaired.
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                            • #59
                              I know quite a few indian geeks of both genders.
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                              • #60
                                emacs pwns j00
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