May 15 2009Be Proud: Geek Pride Day Is May 25th
That's right folks, Geek Pride Day 2009 is rapidly approaching. We must make plans. I'm thinking beer and ticker tape. With maybe some comics and video games thrown in for good measure.
Nerd Pride Day, or Geek Pride Day, is an initiative which claims the right of every person to be a nerd or a geek. Of Spanish origin ("día del orgullo friki" in Spain), it is celebrated nowadays among Spanish frikis (an equivalent of geeks and nerds).This day is celebrated on May 25 since 2006, celebrating the premiere of the first Star Wars movie in 1977.
So, what do you all want to do? Parade? If so, I want to be on a float -- I've never gotten to do that before. Anybody good with paper papier-mâché? I'm thinking me riding a dinosaur crushing a robot. Also, if the dinosaur could have realistic orifices that would be, you know, the only reason I suggested this project in the first place.
Thanks to matty, who stands proudly as a geek. Also, a little hunchbacked from sitting in front of the computer all day and night.
Reader Comments
1. Poopy - May 15, 2009 1:33 PM
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2. Delgo - May 15, 2009 1:38 PM
Is it Wednesday yet?
3. Oh no - May 15, 2009 1:41 PM
Oh fook no. No the hell the 25th is now!
May 25th is Towel Day fother muckers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
Long live Adams!
4. Daisy - May 15, 2009 1:42 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where max put on old spice and walked down the street whistling. He thought Baja would go crazy for him but he only appealed to homos and dinosaur lovers.
5. naas - May 15, 2009 1:42 PM
I was unconscious for 18 hrs thanks to alcohol. Refreshed & ready for more, what can I bring to the geek party (besides weed, doesn't need requesting) that somebody hasn't planned yet?
6. Heather - May 15, 2009 1:43 PM
Totally breaking out my Geek Squad shirt. And making it into a micro-mini toga!!
7. naas - May 15, 2009 1:44 PM
Nerd pride & geek pride are 2 very different things, WTF organizes this without making that difference!?
8. ahha - May 15, 2009 1:46 PM
Is it just a coincidence that Geek day spelled backwards is Yad Keeg. I think not.
Why, when you are being attacked by lions, does no one ever throw you a goat?
9. Heath Buckmaster - May 15, 2009 1:47 PM
This warms my heart. I recently built a computer and posted about it, and was amazed at the number of friends who said "I didn't realize you were such a geek"... I definitely took it as a compliment to be called a geek...but it begs the question, am I really hiding it that well?
I don't mind being thought of as a nerd/geek, and wear it proudly on my sleeve. Cheers for geeks! ;-)
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 1:48 PM
@naas
N2O and hamburgers
Do we get free comics on this day?
11. Daisy - May 15, 2009 1:54 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max asked his doctor to sign a medical note for school. The doctor pulled a rectal thermometer out of his shirt pocket and said - This is my thermometer, now where did I leave my pen?
12. bethy - May 15, 2009 1:55 PM
Two days before my birthday too!!! YAYYYYY
13. gizmoduck - May 15, 2009 1:55 PM
non of you clown shoes are real.
everyday is a celebration of being a geek/nerd/dork/awesome
posers
14. Adam - May 15, 2009 1:55 PM
@6, Heather is a girls name. Geek girls are hot. Togas are hot. Geek girls in togas are really hot. I believe that pictures will be needed.
Also, while I normally find any kind of pride parade (gay, irish, white, black, midget, whatever) I could probably enjoy one that includes dinosaurs and robots.
15. naas - May 15, 2009 2:00 PM
Mtn dew & hamburgers Shum, the processed sugar makes for a speedier recovery☺
16. Roofie - May 15, 2009 2:04 PM
I just discovered the facebook group for it. 41 people attending? Weak.
http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=66456246101
17. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 2:08 PM
@naas
The buzz is short enough as it is. I don't want to recover quicker. And if you can, get the blue tank. Several. We're gonna party like it's 1874! I'll bring the vodka.
18. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 2:09 PM
Great, on the same day as Memorial Day this year... 2 reasons to party!!
19. naas - May 15, 2009 2:13 PM
The buzz was twice as long as the recovery, but yes I went with the blue tank also
20. Tux - May 15, 2009 2:19 PM
Our day has finally come!
21. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 2:20 PM
A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Nerd Pride Day which included the following list of basic rights and responsibilities of nerds.[1]
Rights:
The right to be even nerdier.
The right to not leave your house.
The right to not have a significant other and to be a virgin.
The right to not like football or any other sport.
The right to associate with other nerds.
The right to have few friends (or none at all).
The right to have all the nerdy friends that you want.
The right to not be "in-style."
The right to be overweight and have poor eyesight.
The right to show off your nerdiness.
The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
Be a nerd, no matter what.
Try and be nerdier than anyone else.
If there is a discussion about something nerdy, you must give your opinion.
Save any and all nerdy things you have.
Do everything you can to show off your nerdy stuff as though it were a "museum of nerdiness."
Don't be a generalized nerd. You must specialize in something.
Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every nerdy book before anyone else.
Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related t-shirt, all the better.
Don't waste your time on anything not related to nerddom.
Try to take over the world!
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I hereby renouce my support. This is NERD DAY - Geek Day would be a bit more up my alley.
22. turtoise - May 15, 2009 2:22 PM
you forgot to say .. spend ur day playing brute game !!
fight me nerds !!!!
http://the-turtle-balls.mybrute.com
23. Moose Knuckle - May 15, 2009 2:25 PM
I'm down with Gizmoduck on this one
Everyday is nerd day for me
"Crap, that means nerd day falls on my unbirthday except for once a year... oh well, just means more presents!"
24. naas - May 15, 2009 2:39 PM
I can't do the nerdy thing, I'm too much of a geek without the nerdyness
25. Pew³ - May 15, 2009 2:47 PM
@23. Yeah, but even the fags spend one day a year throwing a parade. And they are gay everyday.
26. Moose Knuckle - May 15, 2009 2:57 PM
Heeeey, isn't there already a hedonistic, nerdgasmic soiree held annually in San Diego, July 23-26?
Mebbe?
27. Leonidas - May 15, 2009 3:09 PM
I'm probably going to get flamed for this, but WHY DOES EVERY DAMN POST HAVE TO CONTAIN A REFERENCE TO HAVING SEX WITH DINOSAURS?!
28. naas - May 15, 2009 3:11 PM
@27 hasn't been with us long enough obviously, no need for fire
29. Leonidas - May 15, 2009 3:25 PM
I've been here long enough to remember when the GW was kind of like a refugee from an STD clinic, making racy comments about anything that could be classified as humanoid and female. But these days, I just don't know. I bet princess Zelda could walk by in a thong, without eliciting so much as a raised eyebrow.
30. Mikass - May 15, 2009 3:51 PM
my favor day.......
plumbing fail
http://www.epiclosers.com/load/8-1-0-358
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31. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 3:52 PM
Not so fast! You've been DOUCHED!
32. Angel Mass - May 15, 2009 3:55 PM
You people are a bunch of frikis
33. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 3:58 PM
Dinosaur white boy Rap!!!!! (if you guys haven't youtube "whitest kids you know" i reccomend it almost as much as keeping a zombie toxin in your wallet...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23TGMeYrgw&feature=related
34. JFreezy - May 15, 2009 4:01 PM
*Polishes Lightsaber* I am ready!
35. ahha - May 15, 2009 4:06 PM
@ 34 - Polishing it Han Solo style, in assume.
36. ahha - May 15, 2009 4:07 PM
Ooops, "I" assume
37. Watch-303 - May 15, 2009 4:30 PM
awesome!
38. The thompson - May 15, 2009 11:47 PM
My plans for that day:
Beer
Work
Beer/Video games
40k
sleep
Beer...
39. Thundergirl - May 17, 2009 3:41 AM
Awesome - this is on my birthday. It's like i was destined to be a geek.
40. Jaded Icon - May 17, 2009 8:32 AM
@ 29 - If she was riding a dinosaur she would.
A geek day is sweet, I hope it catchs on.
41. Matty - May 17, 2009 12:51 PM
allright people.. we doin this?? i totally helped make a homecoming float in high school.. i was completely embarrassed i was on that committee until now.. for it was destiny.. dinosaur float!!! coming right up!
42. Adri Cowan - May 22, 2009 2:10 PM
If there's a parade I nominate myself as Miss Nerd Pride, and I will sit on a float and wave, wearing a cape and cowl. And a sash, obvs.