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What's the geekiest thing you've done.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I was a geek long before it was established to be cool. ( Circa marvel films). And I've done some geeky stuff I'm happy to admit to, D+D, LAN parties and such when I was younger.

Yesterday I searched out my Deed for the acre of moon that I bought, (you'll see, it's an investment) but what I'd forgot I had, was my certificate for sending my face into space. I sent a picture of myself to NASA they took that image into space for me on the very last shuttle launch.

So, I'm asking you guys what is the most geekiest thing you've done?

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By *dam1971Man
over a year ago

Bedford

I ran through a farmer's field of wheat when I was younger

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.

And she replied!!

Can't remember who it was now though.

The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playing the trombone in band.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.

And she replied!!

Can't remember who it was now though.

The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.

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I wonder if anyone these days receive actual fan mail. I remember when you would join a 'fan club' and get some pretty cool stuff as a kid.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I joined the young ornithologists club one year and a friend and I spent our summer holidays looking for birds to mark off in our big book of birds

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I joined the young ornithologists club one year and a friend and I spent our summer holidays looking for birds to mark off in our big book of birds "

I did a completely different type of bird watching when I was in my teens.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My entire life has been one big geekfest; it would take too long to catalogue (alphabetically and by genre of course) all of my geek adventures and working out a clear means of assessing superiority of geekiness for each of them would melt the large hadron collider.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had maps of the stars and almost every night would check what I could see. Way before apps which told you just by holding your phone!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I had maps of the stars and almost every night would check what I could see. Way before apps which told you just by holding your phone!

"

A planisphere. I still have them in my shelf. One is only dated to 1999 I think.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I had maps of the stars and almost every night would check what I could see. Way before apps which told you just by holding your phone!

A planisphere. I still have them in my shelf. One is only dated to 1999 I think. "

Yes that's it. It was semi rural so I had a great view of the sky. I'd sit on my window ledge and chart the sky.

In fact I still do occasionally

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff

Spent two weeks eating Kebabs and smashing plates at the end of dinner.

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By *ink Panther.Woman
over a year ago

Preston


"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.

And she replied!!

Can't remember who it was now though.

The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.

"

Do you mean Barry the St Bernard?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I joined MENSA when I was 12

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I joined MENSA when I was 12 "

Is that when they relaxed the conditions of membership?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Signed up to pottermore

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

I bought a Historic Scotland membership. And used it

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By *hav02Man
over a year ago

Glasgow/London

I think I'm still geeky

Computers, tech, futurism and astro-/quantum physics... To name a few....

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By * kiss like morphineMan
over a year ago

The gravelly bit next to the shed

Still a geek, go to comic cons, make films, cosplay, lifes good.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Massive geek here, video games, conventions, wargamming, comics etc

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By *educedWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

I used to write to a boy in my Geography class in Elvish.

My children (when younger) used to drift off to sleep to Jeff Wayne's War of the World's and they still hate me for it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Signed up to pottermore "

What was your Patronus?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Signed up to pottermore

What was your Patronus?"

I haven't done it yet I forgot my password

What was yours?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Personally it was being accepted to join Mensa, but passing on my love of geekiness I took the family to Kennedy space centre. We did the whole tour and sat in the control room where they did the moon landing. Went inside an actual space shuttle and saw lots of old rockets etc. Was a fantastic day. And then I signed my sons names up to go in the shuttle into space. Oh and we all got to touch a piece of moon rock. Sorry we're all space geeks x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once created a skin for Windows Media Player that made it into a cool pair of aviator sunglasses. I just edited an existing one but I managed to figure out all the bits I needed to replace without any programming experience.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Signed up to pottermore

What was your Patronus?

I haven't done it yet I forgot my password

What was yours? "

I think I came out with a dog - it was a while ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.

And she replied!!

Can't remember who it was now though.

The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.

"

I met a children's author whose character later went on to have his own show on cbeebies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i embrace my geekyness

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Personally it was being accepted to join Mensa, but passing on my love of geekiness I took the family to Kennedy space centre. We did the whole tour and sat in the control room where they did the moon landing. Went inside an actual space shuttle and saw lots of old rockets etc. Was a fantastic day. And then I signed my sons names up to go in the shuttle into space. Oh and we all got to touch a piece of moon rock. Sorry we're all space geeks x "

Space geeks are awesome

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
over a year ago

Den of Iniquity

I once applied to go on jimll fix it when I was a kid . thank fuck they said no

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Signed up to pottermore "

Oh wow, I didn't even consider that geeky when I did it, I'm now having to reset my whole Geek rating algorithm.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had some of my research published.

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown

Geekette and happy about it

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow


"I once applied to go on jimll fix it when I was a kid . thank fuck they said no "

My brother has a jimll fix tshirt

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Runescape...

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I used to write to a boy in my Geography class in Elvish.

My children (when younger) used to drift off to sleep to Jeff Wayne's War of the World's and they still hate me for it. "

I still can write in runes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was also reading about time dilation, theory of special and general relativity in class as I finished my work early

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Runescape..."

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By * kiss like morphineMan
over a year ago

The gravelly bit next to the shed

Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"My entire life has been one big geekfest; it would take too long to catalogue (alphabetically and by genre of course) all of my geek adventures and working out a clear means of assessing superiority of geekiness for each of them would melt the large hadron collider. "

Is it wrong this entire post gave me a hard on? So many people I know have said super hadron collider instead.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.

I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds.

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By *ucyfur77Woman
over a year ago

Pleasuretown


"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october? "

Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Set up an internet company...

Not as geeky as it sounds I hope

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?

Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer "

Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?

Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer

Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester? "

Yes yes!!!

The Brighton one is awesome but I can never find anyone mad enough to go with haha!!

You're certifiable aren't you Bee?

Peach x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once wrote into Sonic the Comic, a comic based on Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog game, but they spelled my name wrong when they published it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I once wrote to an author of a childrens book i'd read when young.

And she replied!!

Can't remember who it was now though.

The book was about a St Bernard dog that rescued people from Avalanches.

Do you mean Barry the St Bernard? "

OMG!! I've just checked the cover (Barry the bravest St Bernard) and you could have found the book for me!!!!!

I've been looking for it for my kids but always thought it was called Avalanche or something!

I could kiss you!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Anybody going to horrorcon in birmingham this october?

Argh, that sounds so good! If only it was nearer

Anyone fancy the Zombie run they do in Manchester?

Yes yes!!!

The Brighton one is awesome but I can never find anyone mad enough to go with haha!!

You're certifiable aren't you Bee?

Peach x"

Yes I am

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By *dinMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

I used to be a chess champion

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I red pilled an entire generation with one tweet.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.

I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds. "

Ooooh, hello!

I probably need a scale of geekiness to rank things; is geochemistry more or less geeky than programming or analysing the weight of water needed on wheat ears to bend the stem?

Favourite geeky thing was probably walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii.

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By *ornCouple
over a year ago

Sedgemoor

walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii.

That's not geeky, that's awesome! I only saw them from the helicopter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii.

That's not geeky, that's awesome! I only saw them from the helicopter"

It was fascinating, but also really quite scary.

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By *eesideMan
over a year ago

margate sumwear by the sea

I played a chess game agents the English grand master J.M and got a drow

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Proved what a swot I was in school by speaking German on fab

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff


"Spent two weeks eating Kebabs and smashing plates at the end of dinner."

Well I found it funny

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate


"Spent two weeks eating Kebabs and smashing plates at the end of dinner.

Well I found it funny "

I just got it, doh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


" walking out to the live lava flows in Hawaii.

That's not geeky, that's awesome! I only saw them from the helicopter"

I've done that

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By *G LanaTV/TS
over a year ago

Gosport

Got a degree in chemistry.

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By *uteLittleGeekWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere

Mr Bee as you know - my profession . Can't get more geeky then that

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I used to be a chess champion "

? How?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I once applied to go on jimll fix it when I was a kid . thank fuck they said no

My brother has a jimll fix tshirt "

Did he fix for him?

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Whenever I Go to a concert, I always like to go and see what gear they're using. Drums, guitars, amps, PA, lights... everything.

Cal x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Whenever I Go to a concert, I always like to go and see what gear they're using. Drums, guitars, amps, PA, lights... everything.

Cal x "

Do you remember when Slash used to tape up or take the name off the amps They were using. He sold out to sponsors.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was pen pals with Anne McCaffrey for a while. Still got the letters.

I also have letters between Oliver Rankine and Jeff Wayne exploring the viability of tripod machines in war of the worlds. "

Ohhhh Anne Mcaffery.. That's really cool, I collected all her books..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once got an article published in practical fishkeeping and won a prize.

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe


"

Do you remember when Slash used to tape up or take the name off the amps They were using. He sold out to sponsors. "

Yes, there was a lot of that going on at the time... Cymbals with their badges cleaned off and logos covered in gaffa tape. We always knew what they were though.

Cal

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By *orwegian BlueMan
over a year ago

Iceland, but Aldi is closer..

Apart from all the geeky stuff I have to for my job now..

Not content with a magnifying glass on a sunny day, I built a ruby laser when I was 14 and used to use it to set paper alight..eventually.

I should have known then that it was the beginning of the end for my sanity..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Work with networks and computers everyday

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