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In Defense of the Fanboy

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the alt-dot-nerd-dot-obsessive dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ran across a great article over at TV Squad regarding obsessive internet fanboys. It's funny and pretty dead on about how we all benefit from the monomania of the typical fanboy." Where would my own useless mental database of knowledge about Green Lantern and Mobile Suit Gundam be without fanboys? Probably out on a date, but for now, thank a fanboy!

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  1. Ummm... by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where would my own useless mental database of knowledge about Green Lantern and Mobile Suit Gundam be without fanboys?

    I think you can stop talking about them in the third person.

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.

  2. So....are you saying I'm OK now? by thomasdz · · Score: 5, Funny

    My obsession with PDP-11 computers (well, actually, all things DEC) and Valerie Bertinelli is OK now?
    So I can actually speak in public about my pilgrimages to Maynard Massachusetts, 31736 Broadbeach Road, Malibu, and 3361 Coldwater Canyon, Beverly Hills California?
    ummm...not that I know those addresses by heart or anything... :-)

    TDz.
    1) hmmmm...I wonder...should I hit the "Post Anonymously" button?
    2) yes, my wife does know about my obsessions
    3) how many Slashdotters can guess my age from this post?

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    Karma: Excellent. 15 moderator points expire sometime.
    1. Re:So....are you saying I'm OK now? by beakerMeep · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was going to moderate your comment but I couldn't find the "+1 creepy" option.

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      meep
  3. Well. by ari+wins · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd imagine that the /. fanboi's are going to tear TFA apart.

    Of course, I haven't read it, so I could be wrong.

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    Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
  4. Re:Male obsessions by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny
    It is typical of the male to concentrate on things that most females don't understand.
    Um... boobs?
  5. Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    Attention all planets of the Solar Federation!!
    Attention all planets of the Solar Federation!!!
    We have assumed control.
    We have assumed control.
    We have assumed control.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  6. Additionally by Guaranteed · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a great method of birth control

  7. Fanboy goes meta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A fanboy fanboy !

  8. Re:hey! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here we have an example of a fanboy vs whiner "debate".