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fiction and reality  Are you calling me a geek? Why, *thank you*
… a music geek with an awesome vinyl collection… It was edgy and
over-the-top, with enough random cinematic references to keep
even the most knowledgeable film geek happy.  Nerds have
undergone a similar change of image, but to a lesser extent,
with some negative terms such as boring and pathetic still
commonly attached to the word, as these examples (again from the
wonderful Oxford English Corpus) show:  The surprising thing is
that he is not a boring nerd; he’s got a wonderful sense of
humor and he loves to dance.  So while those poor nerds still
have to languish in relative ignobility, the geeks of the world
can bask happily in their geekiness (and in the soft glow of
their computer screens on their faces) …