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What's in a name?

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[personal profile] cjsmith
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 08:39 am
I'm trying to tease out a curious change (since, oh, ten years ago) in the meaning of the word geek.

[Poll #1167798]
  • Current Mood: curious
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[identity profile] plymouth.livejournal.com
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 05:43 pm (UTC)
Last night on CSI:Miami the model-hot female CSI referred to herself as a geek. I was amused. In context though it made sense - she was being totally geeky about lab equipment. So, yeah.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 05:50 pm (UTC)
Now that turns my question on its head: geeks IN television and movies! :-)

KBZ!

[identity profile] psi-star-psi.livejournal.com
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 06:50 pm (UTC)
And that brings me to The X-Files episode "Humbug (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751139/)", scoring a trifecta:

Refering to popular TV
Geeks in TV
Old-school "geek" definition

Along with triple-word score and the fact that it's a Tuesday, my next stop is Mornington Crescent. I score Aleph-0.

Dang, I thought I'd do better.
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