The Geeks Are Invading!

[KungFuMaster]

A buddy of mine stopped by on his way home from taking his ten year old son out for dinner and a movie. Why? To show me the fortune he got from his cookie at the local Chinese buffet place.

"Fortune Not Found
Retry, Abort, Fail?"

That's right, his fortune had a load/read error printed on it. After I got done laughing my ass off, it got me to thinking, that we, as gamers, nerds, geeks, etc, tend to eschew the mainstream, as it were, in favor of our chosen distraction, but every once in a while, some enterprising young ninja out there gets one for all of us. What I'm wondering is, gamer, geek, nerd, HOWEVER you choose to identify yourself, what is your favorite instance of our beloved subculture sneaking a toe into the mainstream?

 

[Datalord]

The zombie-nazi sign that was is Austin

 

[[Gavo]]

The zombie-nazi sign that was is Austin

That was funny

 

[Shade Jackrabbit]

I walked into drama class one day and someone had written XKCD with a stickman in the upper-left corner of the chalk board. Never found out who did it.

 

[Finnboghi]

I'm a com sci undergrad, so I'm surrounded by geekiness.

But the best example of our kind at my university is a giant election sign that says "Anon says you should all consider wasting less paper on your face for your campaign", since an entire wall of one building is covered in campaign posters saying "Vote for me" with a picture of the person's face.

I think my friend did it, since I told him it would be funny and ironic.

 

[zen5887]

I die a little inside when I see internet jokes in real life =(

 

[barryween]

I die a little inside when I see internet jokes in real life =(

I know. What happens on the web, should stay on the web.

 

[Archereus]

probably the best randome accurance that involved some sort of geekiness/ nerdiness was the graduation t-shirt my school made foor we graduates, it yelled out nerd, i was so happy

 

[Epifols]

In English we had a seminar about a book, and someone asked "If he was stabbed through the chest, and then burnt alive for a while, how can he just continue on his journey"
And someone replied
"Maybe his health regenerates after each injury, like in COD"

EVERYONE, even the teacher laughed their ass off.

 

[matrix3509]

Hehe, last fall my roomate and I (we were both Mechanical Engineering majors at the time) were doing some experimenting in our dorm. We had a copper pipe, a neodymium magnet, a tub of dry ice, and a can of compressed air. We were demonstrating Faraday's Law, and we were wondering if the temperature of the pipe affected the speed at which the magnet dropped through the pipe. So we first took the can of compressed air, turned it upside down and sprayed the pipe with it (yes we had the area well ventilated). It was at this time we had people coming out of their rooms to wonder what we were doing. We tried to time it but the speed didn't seem to change much. So we put the pipe into the tub of dry ice and covered it up. We waited about 3 minutes then tried it again. The difference in magnet speed was barely discernable. It was pretty funny because we had a crowd of non-science people around us by this time. They were pretty amazed because of Faraday's Law the magnet seemed to defy physics. We didn't have access to the labs in the ME building so there was no way we could test the pipe at supercool temperatures. It was a bummer.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Enough said.

 

[Colodomoko]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU&hl=en-GB&v=EIorfPZ2N7U
This is pretty much fucking epic.
Also I swear I thought this read: "The Greeks Are Invading!"
I was all, "Oh noes what will we do." Thankfully that is not the case.
I guess.

EDIT: No, I don't know if it was real. But if it was...

My god, if that was real I would so atempt it myself regardless if I were to be jailed the next day.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

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Enough said.

My mate has this shirt: http://www.threadless.com/product/8/Ctrl_Z#top . Pure awesome.

I wrote a spell list for DnD on a piece of paper at school and put it in my desk or something. When I got back someone had added another spell to it and it looked like a girl's handwriting. I never found out who did that.

In seventh grade my friend had his Warhammer 40k Chaos Codex with him in class. We had been given "free-time" so he began to read, talking tactics to another close friend. The teacher saw the cover and FREAKED out probably thinking is was some dominatrix/ gruesome graphic novel, was booted out of the class room and given a detention. We later had to explain to her what it was but her reaction at the time was GOLD.

 

[Berethond]

Epic Shirt Thread!

 

[Sewblon]

If you want to label yourself leave me out of it. Those Space invaders made out of people videos are great.

 

[Sewblon]

Enough said.

wear can I get that shirt?

 

[JRCB]

Someone screamed all your base are belong to us during a game of capture the flag at school, Since he was the only person at their base.

 

[KungFuMaster]

I love you all for sharing, it makes my heart smile in a big soul shiny way (and other silly Katamari-style sentences).

Before I start, MaxTheReaper, you seem like a cool dood, but NEVER shoot through your defenses until you have to.

Okay, on topic, Berethond reminded me of a Nerv shirt I used to have, and Michael McCloud (of the Clan Macleod? I certainly hope so) reminded me of something that was a +10 to awesome for (hopefully) all of us...

I was sitting a bar one afternoon with some of my closer friends having a pint or three and a man walked in off of the street wearing a shirt that read:

"My Name Is Steve Motherfucking Polychronopolous."

All of us, having been teenagers in the 90's, were absolutely in awe of said man, and each of the three of us begged him, in our own way, to tell us where he had procured such a shirt, but his only response was a variation of the phrase "I don't want to tell, otherwise everyone would have one and that would cheapen it for me."

All we could do was smile and nod, as if Yahweh had just whisper'd us the secret of life, the universe, and everything...it was oddly affirming.

Sorry about the blatant reference, but Douglas Adams is my G-d and I make no bones about it...so much so, that my daughters birthday is May 25th and after we blow out the candles, with my wife's premission, I grab my Egyptian cotton towel before I head out to celebrate her birthday in my own special way...Ten flying intarnetz to whoever can tell me why.

EDIT: May 25th, 2006, for anyone who thinks I'm faking the funk.

 

[Fenring]

In my English class a freshmen from the English a period before mine left a list of New Year's Resolutions on the teacher's desk. It read:
#1 Never gonna give you up.
#2 Never gonna let you down.
#3 Never gonna run around and desert you.

The teacher never didn't get the joke but he ended up hanging the list outside his door.

 

[KungFuMaster]

In my English class a freshmen from the English a period before mine left a list of New Year's Resolutions on the teacher's desk. It read:
#1 Never gonna give you up.
#2 Never gonna let you down.
#3 Never gonna run around and desert you.

The teacher never didn't get the joke but he ended up hanging the list outside his door.

Ho-lee shit...*Falls over dead*

EDIT: You meant "did", right? (Not trying to be the Grammar Nazi or anything, I'm just a little drunk.)