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If you feel that a nerd is acting in a threatening or dangerous manner, just display this on your Droid or iPhone in their field of vision for one or two seconds:
The resulting cognitive dissonance and sheer volume of erroneous nerd knowledge will cause nerds to respond just as if they have been struck with over 10,000 volts of electricity and then curl up in a fetal position weeping as you make your escape.
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Awww, that’s just mean! Most nerds are harmless and just socially inept. With a little conversation, you can get them to open up and talk about things they like!
~Ink, seasoned and experienced nerd-whisperer
In the contrary, it will cause you to get stuck in a two hour long conversation e the need will deconstruct each error in minute detail ad nausem.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t read the words.
I was too busy looking at Patrick Stewart’s awesome handsomeness. He just gets better with age!
Mmm, I just watched PBS’s Great Performances airing of his Macbeth, and he is never not awesome.
Is my nose bleeding? MY NOSE IS BLEEDING!
Got out of bed at 5 am, drank some water, sat down at the computer, saw this picture. Now I can’t speak. Going back to bed until cognitive dissonance clears.
For you Patrick Stewart fans out there: See the ’70s series “I, Claudius”, my favorite British series. He played the Roman commander Sejanus. Also had a small part in another British series, LeCarre’s “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, with Alec Guiness. A non-speaking part, if you can believe it.
Guaranteed to immobilize not only nerds, but punctuation Nazis as well.
Alas– they’ll probably get exicted and say, “I see you read the Crossover Multi-Mirror Universe fanfiction of Melanie Witherspoons!”.
I don’t know what a mirror universe is. OK, I do. Something to do with Star Trek. I don’t even know how I know that.
If you are on Facebook, George Takei posts all kinds of funny stuff like this.
That made my head hurt. So I guess I’m just a little bit of a nerd.
I’m using this as my new Steam profile image, where it will do the most damage…erm…good for the most people.
But…but…but…they forgot the sonic screwdriver!
I bet I could Photoshop one in.
Actually, photoshopping in a sonic screwdriver (and placing Patrick Stewart in a B-5 t-shirt) would most likely violate the Geneva Convention.
Oh, he forgot a towel. I might need to add that too.
Michigan’s governor calls himself a nerd. He is not harmless.
Um, this is anti-nerdite…
if this is not a sign of Mark’s nerdophobia I don’t know what is!
Nah. Mark wears glasses and he has a mutual-admiration-society with SF/F writer John C. Wright. I read him back when he was still atheist and Wright’s work can pretty outre in some ways. He even did a story in the “Universe” of “The Nightlands” by nineteenth c. born British author William Hope Hodgson. (I hope I got the name right)
That picture must be how people felt when Captain Kirk killed Lukes father in Battlestar Galactica.