Best "geek" discussion you've heard/read

[wilee]

Any kind of geek- computer/comic book/literary/movie, etc.

I was checking a movie site and happened upon a discussion prior to the first Spiderman movie coming out where the posters were arguing over whether Spidey should have web-slinging abilities due to the spider bite or whether it should be through some gizmo he builds. I couldn't believe the venom that these guys were spitting at each other over a simple plot device in an action movie. Grab the popcorn and pull up a chair!

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[badorties]

the discussion held last night about mojo building a PC got me thinking, and build my own after the holidays ...

the comic book movies coming out next year ... i just started reading comics last month, and the watchmen discussion yesterday was really neat ...

i also have certian friends where i can get all geeked out over music, books and such ...


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[Mike Teacher]

the Rush thread.

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[Mike Teacher]

SOLDIER: What? Ridden on a horse?

ARTHUR: Yes!

SOLDIER: You're using coconuts!

ARTHUR: What?

SOLDIER: You've got two empty halves of coconuts and you're banging them together.

ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercea.

SOLDIER: Where did you get the coconuts?

ARTHUR: Through ... We found them.

SOLDIER: Found them? In Mercea. The coconut's tropical!

ARTHUR: What do you mean?

SOLDIER: Well, this is a temperate zone.

ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover seek warmer hot lands in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.

SOLDIER: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

ARTHUR: Not at all. They could be carried.

SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?

|ARTHUR: Why not?
|SOLDIER: I'll tell you why not ... because a swallow is about eight inches long and weighs five ounces, and you'd be lucky to find a coconut under a pound.

ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk ...

SOLDIER:It's not a question of where he grips it, It's a simple matter of weight - ratios ... A five-ounce bird could not hold a one pound coconut.

ARTHUR:Well, it doesn't matter. Go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here.

SOLDIER: Look! To maintain Velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings four hundred and ninety three times every second. Right?

ARTHUR: Please!

SOLDIER: Am I right?

ARTHUR: I'm not interested.

SECOND SOLDIER: It could be carried by an African swallow!

FIRST SOLDIER: Oh yes! An African swallow maybe ... but not a European swallow. That's my point.

SECOND SOLDIER: Oh yes, I agree there ...

ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join the Knights of Camelot?!

FIRST SOLDIER: But then of course African swallows are non-migratory.

SECOND SOLDIER: Oh yes.

FIRST SOLDIER: So they wouldn't be able to bring a coconut back anyway.

SECOND SOLDIER: Wait a minute! Suppose two swallows carried it together?

FIRST SOLDIER: No, they'd have to have it on a line.


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This message was edited by Mike Teacher on 8-19-04 @ 1:45 PM

[Furtherman]

Ahhh that killed me. I'm laughin' it up - Thanks Mike The Teacher!!

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[Hoojibs]

I read a discussion about Star Wars vs Star Trek and theywere actually going into the specifics of technologies of how a Star Trek torpedo/missle was stronger/better than a Star Wars torpedo/missle or which is faster the Milennium Falcon or the Enterprise.

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[jeffdwright2001]

I read a discussion about Star Wars vs Star Trek and theywere actually going into the specifics of technologies of how a Star Trek torpedo/missle was stronger/better than a Star Wars torpedo/missle or which is faster the Milennium Falcon or the Enterprise.

Not fair.

You didn't tell us which torpedo is better and which ship is faster.


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[jeffdwright2001]

SOLDIER: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?


The only thing hotter would be women talking about nuts and swallows.

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[Mike Teacher]

Ahhh that killed me. I'm laughin' it up - Thanks Mike The Teacher!!


It's too long even edited, so thanx Mods; I tried a single space format; it was unreadable. There's a site where someone has taken the trouble to write these all out. Gee, there's a shocker, someone who likes to remember Python bits.

But the scene just fucking rocks, and showed how the Brits have always had us beat on Absurdist Comedy, they see nothing with having this debate go on and on, or stopping the film again and again, etc. Cliched now, maybe, fucking genius back then I say. And reading a bit on it, The Holy Grail was seriously low budget, and I forget how much was written on the spot, or improvised. But...

Lorne Michaels was plain and to the Point about how he wanted SNL to flow: He wanted something like the Flying Circus, where a skit or monolouge might be stopped; ya know, the SNL opening monolouge person 'breaks character' and next thing he's up in the control room and arguing with Lorne...

Right out of Python a la 'this sketch is Too Silly I say!'

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[Doctor Manhattan]

...or which is faster the Milennium Falcon or the Enterprise.


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"She'll make point five past light speed"

"It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!"

Scotty didn't boast about the Enterprises speed, just how fast he could fix her. He also kept complaining that the engines couldn't take any more.

My vote is the Falcon. Plus it looks cooler!

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[JPMNICK]

i had a friend over for dinner a few weeks ago, and after a couple of beers we got into an hour long discussion about math, calculus and physics and whether or not our math invented or discovered. it got heated with both of us doing diffential equations and LaPlace transform. we were discussing string theory and math in multi dimensions. he is much better at math than I am, so once he started going nuts with double partial differential equations he started to lose me.

does anyone have an opinion on math being invented or discovered?

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[jeffdwright2001]

does anyone have an opinion on math being invented or discovered?

I think it has something to do with God, The Big Bang, and fossil imprints.

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[JPMNICK]

blogulations!!! I think you may have it right!

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[JerryTaker]

gah, I've had so many conversations, over multiplayer "Magic:the Gathering" games, with the computer club, in the student center of NJIT.

I'd say any word uttered under those circumstances would qualify for geekiest conversation of all time.

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[TheMojoPin]

The BEST geek fights are over things like the color of a character's hair in a comic book film.

I've honestly heard people who think "Daredevil" blew primarily due to the fact Affleck wasn't a redhead.

Madness.

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Decisions, decisions...

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[Freebird]

I gotta go with the Hulk vs whomever topic on this board. Was it Mojo who weighed in on the conversation and then said, "Now I have to go kick my own ass"??

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[TheMojoPin]

I gotta go with the Hulk vs whomever topic on this board. Was it Mojo who weighed in on the conversation and then said, "Now I have to go kick my own ass"??

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I'm about to turn it up a notch!

Yeah, that was me.

I also suggested we check our penises at the door, since we'll never need them again.

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[Furtherman]

This one has potential! (http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/viewmessages.cfm/Forum/80/Topic/40816/page/Superman_Batman)



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This message was edited by Furtherman on 8-20-04 @ 3:40 PM

[reeshy]

Whenever Mojo holds forth a discussion an Comic books...I am both enchanted and enthralled!!!!!

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[Freakshow]

"It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs!"

Any geek worth their salt would be able to tell you that parsecs is a measure of distance and not time!


The geekiest post i've ever seen on a message board was this
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[blakjeezis]

I also suggested we check our penises at the door, since we'll never need them again.

See man, that's why you got get on the Harry Potter geek bandwagon. Chicks eat that shit up. Man, you will see some fine ass bitches at a Harry Potter movie or book signing, and some of them are even of age! In fact I was sitting right next to one on the opening night of 'Prisoner of Azkaban'. Seriously, they love it. All you gotta do is start talking about Ron and Hermione, how much you miss Sirius, or how bad you feel for Harry now that he's all alone again, and they have to go change their draws. It's like Spanish Fly, but it's not a liquid and it has the desired effect. Actually, I guess it's absolutely nothing like Spanish Fly on second thought. You get the idea though.

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[TheMojoPin]

Oh, GOD.

I've witnessed midnight releases for the last two Harry Potter books, and let's just say I've never been in a public store that WASN'T selling porn that smelled THAT bad.

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[blakjeezis]

And you lived in Thailand, so that's saying something.

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[Jennitalia]

any conversation or post by Jon

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any conversation or post by Jon

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[blakjeezis]

See man, that's why you got get on the Harry Potter geek bandwagon.


Plus any other male in attendance is barely fucking masculine. So if you show any signs of manhood, I mena anything at all, if you have or can effect a deep voice, you're fucking in. Plus if you have your own car and are old enough to drive, the high school underclass chicks go nuts for that one.


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[jeffdwright2001]

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[alexc]

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[FMJeff]

my friend and i debated how an x wing fighter could fire a missle INTo an EXHAUST shaft of the Death Star and how the missle ARCHED off path down the exhaust shaft tube.

Huh? Explain that one.

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[TheMojoPin]

There was no "friend" involved in that, Jeff.

Admit it.

You were just screaming into the mirror.

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[FMJeff]

There was no "friend" involved in that, Jeff.

Admit it.

You were just screaming into the mirror.

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This message was edited by TheMojoPin on 11-8-04 @ 11:15 AM

Umm, yeah there was. My friend Hassan...we have that discussion all the time...

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[curtoid]

Damn - too many to friggin count.

I have recurring STAR WARS discussions with a friend of mine who really likes Episodes 1 &2, and man...the bizarro talks we get around and around on.

He's the same friend who insists on going to movies opening day/weekend (usually at the Uptown Theatre in DC where people line up in long lines to get in), and will instantly be disgusted by the "geeks" in front of us, because they are geekier than us - we may be the 6th & 7th people in line, but the first five - THEY are the real geeks!



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[KCfromDC]

Best geek discussion of all time is the one in Clerks where the guy talks about independent contractors dying on the Death Star.

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[fezident]

I'm with Curtoid on this one.
I've had some pretty heated talks aboot StarWars w/ my older Brother. We've torn that whole saga a new asshole.
With the new episode on the horizon...we've started the bickering all over again.
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[Tenbatsuzen]

I was a big believer in that the main reason the X-Women had gigantic breasts in the comics is that Homo Superior had it built into the genetic code that to propagate the race, the females had to look as comely as possible.

I dunno. I'm reaching.



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[sickminddead]

star trek vs. star wars

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