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John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?"
Hugh Pickens writes "Watch a video of comedian John Hodgman speak after Barack Obama at the recent Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in DC and discuss the central question of our age: "how we can heal the great and shameful division that has plagued our nation for so long — the age old conflict between jocks and nerds" and ask Obama: Are you now, or have you ever been, a nerd?"
They go over this in the clip. He's not Jesus Christ, he's the Quizatz Haderach.
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Jesus had prodigious beard, an unkempt mane of hair, walked around in sandals in all weather, and saw himself as a man with divine powers who was put on the earth to show people "the way".
Jesus was clearly, clearly, a nerd.
Dude, you're confusing nerds with stoners and homeless guys.
And you, in turn, are confusing stoners & homeless guys as Richard Stallman
(My apologies to RMS ... when the humor is just there, right in front of you ... what can you do?)
Now i know why the price of a barrel of spice is so high
Test me and I will chronicle your pain - The Archivist (Diablo 3)
Wow, what a nerd!
if Obamas a nerd were gonna be ok. All we need is a catchy music montage, a wise crackin sidekick (Joe Biden = YES), maybe a panty raid or two, and we can fix the world economy in no time.
Test me and I will chronicle your pain - The Archivist (Diablo 3)
Thomas Jefferson was a bit nerdy, true, but he was disqualified from being the first nerd president because it's a well-known fact that he ran his own fantasy football league. And we all know that fantasy football is the territory of jocks, not nerds.
Well we have the actual video. What John actually says is "the First Nerd President of the Modern Era", but I guess you're too much of a jock to fact-check rather than jump to conclusions.
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Mark Twain 1881
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"