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Top Ten Geek Girls

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the holiday-weekend-is-starting-early dept.

TurboPatrol writes "CNET have published a list of the Top Ten Girl Geeks throughout history. The winners include the elegant Ada Byron (the world's first computer programmer), Grace Hopper (invented the compiler) and Lisa Simpson (invented the perpetual motion machine — well, in the world of cartoons). Some of the entries are fascinating, for example Marie Curie apparently used to carry plutonium in her jacket pockets. Have they missed anyone out?" At least two entries on the list are stupid. I guess someone thought they were funny.

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  1. Re:Real geeks only please by pigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, inside she's mostly zero's..

  2. Re:Real geeks only please by diersing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a hunch where the 1 gets inserted

  3. Grace Hopper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A woman invented COBOL? This does not surprise me. *ducks*

  4. Paris Hilton should be on every list by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paris Hilton is the loveable hateable icon of absurdity. She should be on every list. Sexiest woman (#47 Paris Hilton), best actress in a foreign film (#23 Paris Hilton), world's strongest man (#97 Paris Hilton), most downloaded interent video star (#3 Paris Hilton), most likely running mate for Barak Obama (#2 Paris Hilton), and people who remind you of the Olsen Twins (#1 Paris Hilton).

    We laugh today... but I wouldn't be surprised if Paris isn't the first female US president... and most likely will be the first president to put electrolytes in the water supply.

  5. Re:Plutonium? Unlikely by hal2814 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well she had to get plutonium back to herself somehow. I'm sure in 1985 you can get plutonium at your local conrer store but in the 1930's it's a bit harder to come by.

  6. Re:Real geeks only please by clacke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even Hillary Clinton is more geeky than Paris Hilton, just for being married to a guy who used to work with the guy who invented the Internet, and then moved on to make a world-renowned powerpoint presentation about the weather.

  7. Re:The list is an insult to women by MS-06FZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, Paris Hilton was an early adopter of the rapidly growing field of celebrity online cocksucking - though I have to say the article's omission of Pamela Anderson (a pioneer in the field) is pretty disappointing.

    And also interesting is the fact that there's no mention of how much cock any of the others sucked. Quite shoddy standards, if you ask me.

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  8. Re:Leah? by NoTheory · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great. 'Cause being hot is the quality we should be concerned with when identifying the best geeks.

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