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Beartooth <vze2r8s9@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> In article <uha4usgnq11812@corp.supernews.com>,
> "istartedi" <comments@vrml3d.com> spake unto the
> electronic multitude, saying :
>
>
> > As you
> > mill about, you will have no trouble telling the
> > nerds from the geeks.  Introduce yourself to the
> > geeks, and the rest will sort itself out.
[snip]
>
> Suppose, for instance, I were to arrange with three
> or four other old farts to go to such a meeting -- a
> retired professor of ancient history, a retired
> financier, a politician, a fiction writer, and a
> curator from an art museum, for
> instance, or some similarly variegated group. (We
> might all have been classmates somewhere, forty or
> fifty years back.) Would we be able to tell one group
> from the other, and agree which was which?

Well, they're all "geezers" so that overshadows everything else. :)

Seriously though, categorization, like beauty, is in the eye of the
beholder.  Arguing over whether the guy in the next cube is a "geek" a
"nerd" a "grit" a "jock" or whatever is all part of the conversational
grist.

--$teve
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