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What's in a name?

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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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.