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    You Know Youre A Nerd When.....

    You carry your USB with you everywhere you go

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    You can rattle off all of Newton's Laws without consulting any notes but become completely baffled when attempting to order food from a menu.

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    You live in a city where the outdoor life is one of beaches, sun, night life and retirement yet one opts to spend all their time on internet Forums.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RobDog888 View Post
    You live in a city where the outdoor life is one of beaches, sun, night life and retirement yet one opts to spend all their time on internet Forums.
    Heeeeey I represent that .....besides retirement. More like unemployment

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    LOL well either way your living the leisure life just hope you dont wear one of those leisure suits with a white belt and white shoes lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by RobDog888 View Post
    just hope you dont wear one of those leisure suits with a white belt and white shoes lol
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    Leisure Suit Larry was my hero.


    now there's an acid trip down memory lane.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    now there's an acid trip down memory lane


    This was back when video games were video games. The basic premise was to see if you could get a little whoop-da - now everybody is shooting everybody else whilst blowing everything up. Borrrrrrrrrrring.
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    Heeeeey I represent that .....besides retirement. More like unemployment
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    You know you're a nerd when you hear "white" and you visualize RGB(255,255,255)
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaVolpe View Post
    You know you're a nerd when you hear "white" and you visualize RGB(255,255,255)
    or when you have 2 choices, yes or no... and you visualize true or false.

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    Or, asking to come here...

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    You know you're a nerd when you have been http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&ob=av3e
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    You know you are a nerd when you can't spell.
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    You know you're a nerd when you speak a programming language more fluently than your native language.
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.

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    Code:
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    You know you're a nerd when you speak a programming language more fluently than your native language.
    Or speak more programming languages than traditional languages...


    You know you're a nerd if you impress people by claiming to know multiple languages... but fail to mention it's programming languages...

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    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    You know you're a nerd if you impress people by claiming to know multiple languages... but fail to mention it's programming languages...

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    You know you're a nerd when solving a very hard programming problem gives you an orgasm

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    You know you are a nerd when you can't spell.
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    You know you're a nerd when you solve basic algebraic equations using advanced calculus.

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    You know you're a nerd when you give your avatars a 3D perpective with animation and used VB6 and DirectX combined with photoshop to do it all under less than an hour

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    I think Jacob Roman is actually Jeff Foxworthy.

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    I think Jacob Roman is actually Jeff Foxworthy.
    The implication being that he's smarter than a 5th grader?

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    Only because he has the cue cards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spoo View Post
    The implication being that he's smarter than a 5th grader?
    I'm not smarter than a 5th grader

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    This was back when video games were video games. The basic premise was to see if you could get a little whoop-da - now everybody is shooting everybody else whilst blowing everything up..
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    Quote Originally Posted by moonman239 View Post
    Or catapulting angry birds at green pigs or concrete walls.

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    when you can count in binary(which is quite useful since you can count to 1023 using both hands).

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    You know you're a nerd when you play Elder Scrolls. You're a cooler nerd when you play WoW

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlindSniper View Post
    when you can count in binary(which is quite useful since you can count to 1023 using both hands).
    Or alternately you can count from -511 to 511 using two's complement.
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.

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    .......you write a mobile phone app that pinpoints the different sections in a supermarket using GPS so that you can find them again and then stores all of the items you have bought from each section in a bar code array whilst subsequently searching for better prices from other supermarkets.

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    But, can whip it up, easily!

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    .. when you can't use proper punctuation in a thread heading.

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    .. when you put a semi-colon after every sentence.
    Delete it. They just clutter threads anyway.

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    ...when you use speech recognition to talk on the forums.

    You know what's BS....speech recognition

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    You know you're a nerd when your pet is a robotic dog controlled by an iPad2

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