Wednesday, January 12, 2005

"Not nerdy, but then again not all that cool either."

I protest. I think this tests measures the wrong kind of nerdiness. True, I don't know the perodic table. I did once, but more useless information has long overwritten those brain cells. But I can quote you movie lines from any number of geeky films, tell you that "t" is the most common letter in our language, that George Eliot was a woman, I can identify Jane Austen and Mark Twain by sight, and I can tell you why so many of Shakespeare's plays involved women characters dressing like men. Or, male characters dressing like women who then dressed like men. Did you get all of that? I also own a number of Star Trek novels. So there...

Maybe I'm a word nerd. Or, as someone has suggested, a book freak : ) Either way, I protest. This test is slanted against those of us who are not mathematically or computer-inclined. And to define the word "nerd" as only falling in those parameters is just plain discriminatory! : ) I had just as pathetic a social life as anyone in high school!

I am nerdier than 12% of all people. Are you nerdier? Click here to find out!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Stace,

My nerd score was 15. That can't be right...I've never even watched Star Trek!

Stac

Stacey said...

Okay, well, that settles it. No way are you, Stacy G., more of a nerd than I am. Especially with the whole Star Trek thing.Perhaps you have a fondness for the periodic table that I'm not aware of?

Anonymous said...

Hey Stace:

My score was 44.

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