I completely don't understand your poll. What about references? What TV show? What movie? You forgot about circuses.
Have you poked around on http://geek.org ? 15-18 years ago,there was a very active geek community in Santa Cruz, that went by "b-geeks". It did lead to some amusing situations when someone would think they recognize someone from a party and ask "aren't you a geek?", and the person wasn't.
My poll is examining one facet, not the entire word. The question is: if a person makes a reference to a very popular show or movie, is the person then considered more geeky for having done so, less geeky for having done so, or neither?
Knowledge of something in popular culture is orthagonal to geekiness, knowledge of something obscure boosts your geek score.
I probably get geek points for total ignorance of any shows on TV, I have to rack my brains to come up with even the name of a current show, but if someone quotes "Lost" in conversation, that's not geeky. If they make a "6" with their fingers, look through the hole and say "be seeing you", that's geeky.
On the other hand, if someone quotes some fact that is trivial minutiae about some current popular TV show, that is geeky.
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Have you poked around on http://geek.org ?
15-18 years ago,there was a very active geek community in Santa Cruz, that went by "b-geeks". It did lead to some amusing situations when someone would think they recognize someone from a party and ask "aren't you a geek?", and the person wasn't.
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I probably get geek points for total ignorance of any shows on TV, I have to rack my brains to come up with even the name of a current show, but if someone quotes "Lost" in conversation, that's not geeky. If they make a "6" with their fingers, look through the hole and say "be seeing you", that's geeky.
On the other hand, if someone quotes some fact that is trivial minutiae about some current popular TV show, that is geeky.