Watch out for me and my gang of nerds. One unpopular or socially inept person generally does little harm, but get a gaggle of us together and you might need to run for cover.
8.20.2006
Gang of Nerds
Since I seem to be in a rather loving mood lately (loving the woods, dancing in the kitchen, etc.) I'll just jot down something else I love, dictionaries. Definitions are highly entertaining. For instance, my rather cheap dictionary tells me a nerd is a noun, slang, meaning "an unpopular or socially inept person, esp. one regarded as excessively studious." There is nothing remarkable about this definition if given a cursory glance. I, however, take exception to the "excessively studious" bit. Are we now to be judged by the publishers of a $5.99 dictionary? Such is life.
Watch out for me and my gang of nerds. One unpopular or socially inept person generally does little harm, but get a gaggle of us together and you might need to run for cover.
Watch out for me and my gang of nerds. One unpopular or socially inept person generally does little harm, but get a gaggle of us together and you might need to run for cover.
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i always wondered what a group of nerds was called. a "gaggle," you think? i prefer a "murder," like crows. As in, "I was sitting at the reference desk and a murder of nerds stormed the library, rampaging our collection and making off with the newest edition of the Oxford Dictionary National Biography."
I think the kind of nerd would settle the gaggle versus murder of nerds question. For instance, a pack of history nerds would most definately be a gaggle, unless some Romanists were in the mix. A pack of chemistry nerds is an entirely different beast, as many chemists also moonlight as pyromaniacs.
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