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I had a little old man call the office today to ask if we still had copies of a book the newspaper had published several years ago. It went something like this:

“Yes, we still have those, they cost X apiece.”

“Do you still have the three volumes?”

“Well, there was just one volume. We have quite a few copies left.”

“No, I got three different ones, I just want some more copies if you have them.”

“Oh, no, see, there was just one volume, but they had variant covers.”

“What?”

“Huh? Oh, sorry, I mean it’s the same book but some have different pictures on the cover.”

Jeeeez, the thing is I didn’t even realized I’d channeled the inner dork on him until after I hung up and wondered why he didn’t know what a variant cover was.
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Is that just a comic book thing? Because I'm particular about the covers of the books that I buy. I'd never buy the movie versions of books I like and when I bought the Narnia Chronicles for my cousin last christmas I had to look all over for the varient cover I liked (not that they'd necc. care, but I did)

I know I'm a comix dork because I read a brand-name like Wolverine or walk my dog down the sidewalks with manhole covers labeled Storm and I immediately think x-men characters. There's a Polaris marina in my area too - so yeah - first thing that occurs to me when I read that. I guess that's pretty bad.
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I think what I do more is channel my inner seamstress/costume geek on people.

I can't think of a specific example right now, but I know I regularly say things like, "He's a stylish dresser, see how his lapels are double faced and lap stitched..." and have people look at me like I'm from Mars. But clothing details are important. Even in comic books with variant covers. :nodyes

The weirder one is that all my old snowboarder speak seems to slip out the most when I'm appraising rosaries so that I regularly have to restrain myself from saying things like "dude. This is a bitchin' rosary; the way the maker's tag is still attached and has 5 full decades. It fucking rocks!"

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I know my friend and I are major comic dorks because we go berzerk when a comic gets a slight fold/crumple/tear etc. due to the carelessness of a hyper-active cat.
Also because we call my father Lex just cause he's bald... :oops:
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Ditto here! Can't stand folds, crumples, tears ect! :angry
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I, ahem, umm, I have actually read up on all marvel characters on wikipedia, through the weekend. My eyes hurt now, but I feel this inner glow. Is that good, or is it just the radiation poisoning from my screen?
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You know you're a comic dork when ...

While watching Superman Returns, you're thinking your Mutants & Masterminds character could beat him up, easy.
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YKYACDW...

You're the only white girl perusing the manga stacks...and ask in (faulty) Japanese if they have the title you're looking for.
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Does anyone here know what dork means?
(I do):doh!
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Originally posted by wsg
Does anyone here know what dork means?
(I do):doh!
You mean its reference to a certain body part?

Original meanings for many words have gone out the window...like the term used for a homosexual that used to refer to a bundle of sticks use for starting a fire...
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Originally posted by Saint Kurt
The weirder one is that all my old snowboarder speak seems to slip out the most when I'm appraising rosaries so that I regularly have to restrain myself from saying things like "dude. This is a bitchin' rosary; the way the maker's tag is still attached and has 5 full decades. It fucking rocks!"
I find it hilarious that you stuck a semi-colon in the middle of all your wicked slang.

And dork also means WHALE PENIS. Yaaaaaay!

I know I'm a comic dork when I come here and argue with great conviction and sincerity about the viability of pairing up fictional characters.
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Seconded on the semi-colon.
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Originally posted by The Drastic Spastic


And dork also means WHALE PENIS. Yaaaaaay!
Huh? I actually looked that up but couldn't find. Were'd you find it???

YOu made me curious because I read the Christopher Moore book "Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings" And it sounded like something Moore would have used in the book (though he didn't)
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I think I've slipped the term 'arc' into conversations referring to a story.. I think I was talking about Spider-Man though, so it's okay:LOL

I have to agree with many of the the people above me with a few things.. one being that any slight wrinkle on my comics makes me really upset (I read them with such care, but every once in a while they'll be that faulty bag or I'll fall asleep midway through them and will end up wrinkling a page:().. I also call any completely bald person Lex, but luckilly everybody understands that reference, so I'm not completely alone..

My true geek came out the other day when I corrected my friend on the correct spelling of Storm's first name. She thought it was Aurora, but I had to not only break it down for her (O-R-O-R-O), but I had to add that it meant Beauty in African:shifty
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Originally posted by Blue_Demon94

but I had to add that it meant Beauty in African:shifty
No such language.

YKYAACDW:

I explained to someone that Bruce on Finding Nemo shared the same name as the robot in Jaws.

While at work, myself and two other co-workes had a serious debate on reenacting, historical movies, and the lee-way you should or shouldn't give.

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Originally posted by BAMFCentral
Originally posted by The Drastic Spastic


And dork also means WHALE PENIS. Yaaaaaay!
Huh? I actually looked that up but couldn't find. Were'd you find it???
I got that from a Gary Larson book. He was explaining that his editor wouldn't allow him to publish a comic with dork in it because it meant "whale penis". He went on to say he looked dork up in a slang dictionary and sure enough, it said "whale penis". I just looked it up and found various websites claiming that it doesn't mean whale penis at all. So who knows.

Edit: This is the book. The Prehistory of the Far Side.

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