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Title: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 12, 2008, 10:41:13 AM
I actually saw this link in the DUmp Lounge :uhsure:
Pretty good though, worth checking out the link.

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20. Fan Fiction
19. Second Life/MySpace/Facebook
18. Live Action Role Playing
17. CosPlay (dressing up as your favorite cartoon character)
16. Anime
15. Game-Show Tape trading
14. Frank Zappa
13. Doctor Who
12. The Simpsons
11. World of Warcraft
10. Magic: The Gathering
9.  Media Specific Role Playing
8.  Josh Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly)
7.  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6.  Battlestar Galactica
5.  Wikipedia
4.  Michael Jackson
3.  Fantasy Sports Leagues
2.  Renaissance Faires
1.  Star Trek
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_knights_who_say_nerd_20_pop/1 (http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/the_knights_who_say_nerd_20_pop/1)

Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 10:44:00 AM
Is "Charmed" covered in #8?
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 12, 2008, 10:48:55 AM
Is "Charmed" covered in #8?

It should be, and I have to see the end of it to get to Law & Order at 7pm.  That is the cheesiest crap ever.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 10:52:32 AM
Is "Charmed" covered in #8?

It should be, and I have to see the end of it to get to Law & Order at 7pm.  That is the cheesiest crap ever.

Which, Charmed or L&O?
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 12, 2008, 11:07:11 AM
Is "Charmed" covered in #8?

It should be, and I have to see the end of it to get to Law & Order at 7pm.  That is the cheesiest crap ever.

Which, Charmed or L&O?
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: dutch508 on February 12, 2008, 11:20:25 AM
hm...I like six of those.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: RedTail on February 12, 2008, 11:25:32 AM
#5 and number #3. . . dammit.

*TKay*
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 11:47:45 AM
Is "Charmed" covered in #8?

It should be, and I have to see the end of it to get to Law & Order at 7pm.  That is the cheesiest crap ever.

Which, Charmed or L&O?
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.
LOL -- agreed.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 12:39:40 PM
Well, at least Star Wars didn't make the list...guess I'm not the big geek I thought I was. Though I admit to loving the Simpsons and Rocky Horror. A bunch of us used to go to Rocky Horror every weekend. I used to dress up as Magenta.

Cindie
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: guest on February 12, 2008, 12:53:42 PM
I fit right in at #8.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly are my tv show obsessions  :-) 

However, I'm not quite as obsessed as I used to be, since those shows are now off the air.   I watch the dvds now and then.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Atomic Lib Smasher on February 12, 2008, 04:09:39 PM
Simpsons geeky????   :doh:
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 04:15:02 PM
Well, at least Star Wars didn't make the list...guess I'm not the big geek I thought I was. Though I admit to loving the Simpsons and Rocky Horror. A bunch of us used to go to Rocky Horror every weekend. I used to dress up as Magenta.

Cindie

with the nipple pop? ;)
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 12, 2008, 04:25:14 PM
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15. Game-Show Tape trading

I had no idea such a thing existed.  And tapes?  This list must be 20 years old.


BTW, the new D&D Dungeon Master's manual has been released.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: asdf2231 on February 12, 2008, 07:45:41 PM
7 out of 20.  :uhsure:
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: CactusCarlos on February 12, 2008, 08:40:09 PM
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.

Jack McCoy doesn't fill out a pair of jeans quite like Alyssa Milano.   :-)
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: jinxmchue on February 13, 2008, 01:50:28 AM
Well, at least Star Wars didn't make the list...guess I'm not the big geek I thought I was. Though I admit to loving the Simpsons and Rocky Horror. A bunch of us used to go to Rocky Horror every weekend. I used to dress up as Magenta.

Cindie

Star Wars isn't on the list because Lucas killed the franchise with those steaming piles of horse droppings he called "prequels."
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: SilverOrchid on February 13, 2008, 04:55:43 AM
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8.  Josh Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly)


I will admit, I am obessesed with all this Joss even though I will never forgive him for the way he ended Angel  :banghead:. I even had an advtar from Angel over at CU for a LONG while. Only one person know who she was. :-) Fan fiction is a new obession of mine.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 13, 2008, 08:23:42 AM
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.

Jack McCoy doesn't fill out a pair of jeans quite like Alyssa Milano.   :-)
True, but I learned a long time ago (Showgirls) that some things are SOOOO bad, even some T&A can't rescue it. :bawl:
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: SilverOrchid on February 13, 2008, 10:06:43 AM
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.

Jack McCoy doesn't fill out a pair of jeans quite like Alyssa Milano.   :-)
True, but I learned a long time ago (Showgirls) that some things are SOOOO bad, even some T&A can't rescue it. :bawl:

Showgirls cracks me up, it is so bad! LOL! You can make a drinking game out of it everytime you see tits or whatsherface stops out the room in outrage.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Rebel Yell on February 13, 2008, 10:19:48 AM
Charmed.  I'm a Jack McCoy fan.  Everybody belongs in jail.

Jack McCoy doesn't fill out a pair of jeans quite like Alyssa Milano.   :-)
True, but I learned a long time ago (Showgirls) that some things are SOOOO bad, even some T&A can't rescue it. :bawl:

Showgirls cracks me up, it is so bad! LOL! You can make a drinking game out of it everytime you see tits or whatsherface stops out the room in outrage.
That movie changed my life.  I was at my height of horny teenagerness, and the generation who watched Saved By The Bell.  I couldn't wait to see Jesse Spano naked, then Showgirls happened and showed me that some things are so horrible that you can't even watch just for the nudity.  As sad turn of events for young Sam Fisher. :bawl:
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 13, 2008, 12:18:05 PM
Well, at least Star Wars didn't make the list...guess I'm not the big geek I thought I was. Though I admit to loving the Simpsons and Rocky Horror. A bunch of us used to go to Rocky Horror every weekend. I used to dress up as Magenta.

Cindie

Star Wars isn't on the list because Lucas killed the franchise with those steaming piles of horse droppings he called "prequels."

Actually I like the whole story. I've loved Star Wars since I was a teenager but it has so much more depth for me now. ROTS is my favorite of the six, followed very, very closely by Empire. Can't beat the lightsaber battles in ROTS. Having been fascinated with Vader most of my adult life, I was thrilled Lucas showed how he got there and it makes the story of his redemption so much more poignant. Besides, I don't see how you can "ruin" your own story.

Cindie
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Splashdown on February 13, 2008, 12:48:33 PM


Actually I like the whole story. I've loved Star Wars since I was a teenager but it has so much more depth for me now. ROTS is my favorite of the six, followed very, very closely by Empire. Can't beat the lightsaber battles in ROTS. Having been fascinated with Vader most of my adult life, I was thrilled Lucas showed how he got there and it makes the story of his redemption so much more poignant. Besides, I don't see how you can "ruin" your own story.

Cindie

Two words: Jar Jar.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: asdf2231 on February 13, 2008, 02:07:53 PM


Actually I like the whole story. I've loved Star Wars since I was a teenager but it has so much more depth for me now. ROTS is my favorite of the six, followed very, very closely by Empire. Can't beat the lightsaber battles in ROTS. Having been fascinated with Vader most of my adult life, I was thrilled Lucas showed how he got there and it makes the story of his redemption so much more poignant. Besides, I don't see how you can "ruin" your own story.

Cindie

Two words: Jar Jar.

Two more:

****ing. Ewoks.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: SilverOrchid on February 13, 2008, 05:39:30 PM


Actually I like the whole story. I've loved Star Wars since I was a teenager but it has so much more depth for me now. ROTS is my favorite of the six, followed very, very closely by Empire. Can't beat the lightsaber battles in ROTS. Having been fascinated with Vader most of my adult life, I was thrilled Lucas showed how he got there and it makes the story of his redemption so much more poignant. Besides, I don't see how you can "ruin" your own story.

Cindie

Two words: Jar Jar.

Two more:

****ing. Ewoks.

Hey!! Leave the Ewoks alone. The Emporer would have never been stopped if it wasn't for the Ewoks. :p
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Servonaut on February 13, 2008, 05:54:59 PM
Sweet

MST3K didn't make the list.

I loved that show.  :-)
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: SilverOrchid on February 13, 2008, 06:00:05 PM
Sweet

MST3K didn't make the list.

I loved that show.  :-)

I used to watch that with my dad, one of my favorite childhood memories.
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Chris_ on February 13, 2008, 09:20:07 PM


Actually I like the whole story. I've loved Star Wars since I was a teenager but it has so much more depth for me now. ROTS is my favorite of the six, followed very, very closely by Empire. Can't beat the lightsaber battles in ROTS. Having been fascinated with Vader most of my adult life, I was thrilled Lucas showed how he got there and it makes the story of his redemption so much more poignant. Besides, I don't see how you can "ruin" your own story.

Cindie

Two words: Jar Jar.

Two more:

*******. Ewoks.


I'd rather have Jar Jar then Ewoks. Ever since they went and did their own special with those stupid, sticky-sweet little kids and the Evil-Lyn witchy wannabe I lost all respect for them (not that I had much to begin with). And they look like kids in furry PJ's. Nothing screams "I'm wearing a costume" quite like wrinkly suits.

Cindie
Title: Re: 20 Pop Cultural Obsessions even geekier than Monty Python
Post by: Atomic Lib Smasher on February 13, 2008, 09:21:16 PM
Sweet

MST3K didn't make the list.

I loved that show.  :-)


That was one of the best shows they ever had on Sci-Fi.