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Newer page: version 4 Last edited on Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:38:57 pm by AristotlePagaltzis
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-Defined in the dictionary as <i>Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. </i> I don't think you really want to be one of these. 
+Defined [ in the jargonfile | JargonFile:nerd] as a <i>pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals</i>. I don't think you really want to be one of these. 
  
-The word itself is derived from Dr . Seuss 's 1950 book <i>If I Ran The Zoo</i>:  
+In pre-InterNet land, a [Nerd] and a [Geek] were roughly the same thing . Today, a [Geek] is someone with a passion for technical pursuits (usually, but not necessarily, computer-related), while a [Nerd] is the stereotypical RPG-playing social outcast who is so tied up in their passion they don 't see anything else, like making time for PersonalHygiene or stepping into the BigBlueRoom.  
  
- And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo %%%  
- And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, %%%  
- A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!  
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-In pre-InterNet land, a [Nerd ] and a [Geek] were roughly the same thing. Today, a [Geek] is someone with a passion for technical pursuits (usually computer-related), while a [Nerd] is the stereotypical RPG-playing, smelly, social outcast
+"The difference between a [Geek ] and a [Nerd] is that the geek can get chicks ."