dorky things you've said around others

Adamantium

www.marveldirectory.com/misc/a...ium.htm


Not to be confused with :


Adamantine

www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc...112.htm

qb

Well I can't think of anything recently but "I carried a watermelon" is my favorite dorky line in Dirty Dancing.

Recently, I reffered to Issac Azimov stating the fact "Issac Azimov gets me hot" luckly for me the person I was speaking with also is a big fan. Go Dorks!

Oh I have used scifi cursing... such as Frell, or Frack :))) What the Frell??? People are like WTF? and there of course will be the occassional BG fan or Farscape fan that gets it... but most are like what the hell are you talking about.???

A friend took me to a toy store to shop for her daughter's birthday present.

At this particular store there was a display of historical "action" figures from various time periods and eras.

So I picked up the "Roman Centurion" and "Greek Senator" figure and played out the "do you prefer oysters or snails" scene from Spartacus.

My companion wanted to drag me out by my ear.

A group of friends and I were sitting around in a pub one recent evening translating Catullus merely because we're all overly fond of Latin. In the particular poem at which we were then looking, the word 'formosa' held quite a prominent place in a line. Commonly, 'formosa' is loosely put into English as 'beautiful', but quite a few Latin language dorks have an issue with that (myself included, as the word is actually far more connected to 'well-proportioned' or 'well-formed/made'), so we were tossing around other translations. Someone offered 'comely', which prompted agreement from another who liked its 'rustic, farm sense, like a Hardy girl with rosy cheeks'. One of our group looked up and said, 'Like Jude's first girlfriend' to which I replied, 'Isn't that a bit Obscure?'.

Later on that night, we were laughing about how easily Latin can be mistranslated due to a number of factors, and the running joke became 'I spent twenty-five years forgoing love, entertainment, family, *life* only to realize that the first three words were in the wrong order!'

None of the other patrons at the pub even walked near our table that night.