My friends and I (all shorter people) went to the release of HP: Deathly Hallows part 2 dressed as Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. It was awesome, we were bad mouthing HP (even though I'm a fan I like LOTR better) and later we got in an argument with some twilight fans, Sam and I (Frodo) pulled our swords out on them, you should have seen their faces. Priceless.

I had a fifteen minute conversation with a four-year-old on who was the best engine on Thomas the Tank Engine. I was dropping old-school names and episodes on the kid, and in the end I actually got him to change his opinion.

A couple years ago I took part in a charity superhero pub crawl (to raise awareness of a particular charity) where I dressed up as Dr Manhattan.  We started off at the cinema and then moved through the town going to various bars where we were well received until we got to the final night club we were playing on going to.  The bouncers ignored the blue skin and asked me if I had any concealed weapons to which I replied: "No, but I can take apart a tank with my mind."  After a consultation they let me in.

The fun part of the evening for me was all the women saying how cool the blue skin was and then freaking out when they saw my white eyes.  A couple of them could only talk to me by not looking at my face.

I bought a Boba Fett helmet at Star Tours 1.0, Disney Hollywood Studios and wore it on the bus back to my resort, through the resort gift shop and restaurant and back to my room.  My kids refused to walk with me.

The time was 1995 and I was a freshmen in high school. At the time I was really into Star Trek: TNG so I was happy as hell when I found out that there would be a convention in my area in a few weeks and that Marina Sertis would be there. Spare me the the Troi jokes, okay. It was someone who was actually from Trek and since nerdy event are rare where I grew up I was all over that.

There was going to be a costume contest for some cool stuff so I decided that I might as well give it a shot. Since my favorite Trek character is Data I got some black pants, a long sleeve gold shirt and made a Starfleet badge out of the base of a Data action figure. It looked as homemade as it was but I figured what the hell.

The problem was I needed a ride from my grandma to the con and she was looking after by four year old cousin that day. So we had to bring him along. As it turned out the con was on the day as a parade so parking EVERYWHERE was taken and the road to the convention center blocked off. My grandma eventually found a place a few blocks away but now I had to walk there through a couple thousand parade goers in a homemade Star Trek outfit. I tired to keep the shame to a minimum but I was trying to walk so as not to outpace my grandma (she had to see how to get to the center parking lot for when she picked me up) and my cousin who was SCREAMING his head off for us to stop so he could watch the parade.

Eventually we made it to the street where the convention was but the damn parade was going by at the time. The only way I could get to the convention center was to literally run across the street in the middle of a parade in my Star Trek outfit in front of a couple hundred people. Which I did.

The only saving grace was that the con people had entered a float in the parade that looked like a shuttle craft and it happend to be passing as I made my mad dash. So I could at least comfort myself with the idea that most people would at think I had something to do with them rather than being some random, insane nerd trying to wreck a parade solo.

Anyway, despite all that I had a blast at the con. I didn't get anything in the costume contest but I didn't care. And to top it all off when I was waiting outside the con after it was over for my grandma to pick me up I saw a little down the street a local TV reporter was doing a story about the convention. Despite my earlier public humiliation I saw the chance to be on TV so I "casually" strolled her way without doing anything to mess up her report. She finished up, turned around and so me just hanging out on the street in my outfit. I quickly found myself being interviewed about the con and why I liked Star Trek and later got to see myself on the local news.

Of course, a few kids from school ALSO saw me on the news so I got riffed on for a few days after.

God no, a buddy of mine and I attended Tom Savini's Q&A at one of the cons down here in Florida. It was like, we were the only ones there that knew his movies or at least were brave enough to ask him questions. He kind of got this look on his face after a while and when it was done, he came over to us. "Do I know you guys? Or are you stalking me?" he asked. We both kind of lost it and laughed, but he seemed kind of semi-serious. "No, Mr. Savini, we've just watched all your films and are big fans." And we showed him stuff we'd brought to sign. He was relieved after that and we saw him later in the autograph line. We too were relieved., he's been weight-training over the years and even though I'm a big guy, he might put a hurtin' on me! And besides, he's the one and only Sex Machine!

I push carts at a Walmart. During one of my shifts, I was wearing a hoodie, shorts, my stupid safety vest, and the required "Walmart" hat. After moving a load of carts, I paused and stared at the ground (which I do frequently because I get bored) and I noticed that my shadow looked familiar. My shorts made my shadow look like I had really tall boots and my hoodie and vest made my shadow look pointed in the shoulders and puffy in the sleeves. All of this reminded me of the costume that General Zod wears in the Superman movies. Without thinking, I shouted "KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!". I later had to explain the cause of the disturbance to my supervisor after a concerned Walmart customer complained.

I once wrote a paper that attempted to explain the logic of a pokeball

As a grad student, I go to Starbucks a lot. Actually, I go to whatever cafe is currently closest; I'm not picky about my caffeine as long as it's caffeine. When you order a drink that takes prep time, they ask for your name to write on the cup. Being a Star Trek fanatic, I like to give them names such as Janice Rand, Christine Chapel, Amanda Grayson, etc. I've worked through all the minor female characters of TOS, TNG, and am nearly through Deep Space Nine. I guess I just get a kick out of hearing the names shouted out in the cafe and the occasional double-takes or laughter that it earns.

I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

We afixed a giant cardboard bat head to the hood of our Renault Encore and put "Sons of Batman" facepaint on to see Batman's premiere. We were mocked not only while waitng in line and in the theatre, but in traffic all the way home. Not just for having a Renault Encore.

For a good decade, any display for Smurfs in my city had my name and phone number on the back so the store would know who to call instead of throwing it away. (There weren't many smurf displays around back in them nineties and double-aughts.) If you wanted to track down the biggest smurf geek in the city, there it was on the back. I got some calls.

But really, it's my sub-conscious that got me my shinng moment of nerdery. Summer camp was my chance to be cool and popular each summer, so long as I became someone else for a few weeks. When I was in my final year at camp, around fifteen years old, I sang the theme song to G. I. Joe in my sleep the very first night. As the mockery began the next morning, one other mentioned how it was the recent version of the song, which he knew because of his little brother watching the show. I blamed my knowledge on my little brother too, so I had to have a fictional little brother for the next two weeks.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die, and he lived. I'm not sure who was more embarrassed, him or me. (The worst part is I made the "tchew tchoom" Star Wars blaster sound as I did it.)

I paid $22.85 for an iPhone 4-32GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $674 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, CentHub.com

lol, My buddy and I ended up doing the same thing for Star Trek Nemesis with Data..

My wife and I went to the World of Warcraft Wrath of the lich king release at midnight, well we showed up at 10 pm for a midnight release, but what made it truly nerdy, we brought our cat, and told everyone that it was a gnome druid in cat form.   Needless to say our cat won the costume contest at the gamestop.    

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So, a little background on my story...

When book 3 of the Harry Potter series came out I decided to see what all the fuss was about and decided to pick up the first book. I was hooked instantaneously. I sped read my way up to Prisoner of Azkaban and was thrilled to have read it (In fact, it's still my favorite book of the series). Finally, there were characters that I wanted and needed to know all about (Sure, Harry and crew were cool, but I didn't want to read anymore about whiny teenagers, I was a whiny teenager myself). For whatever reason, my then 13 year old mind had decided then and there that Severus Snape was the coolest and hottest character ever. Remember that this was before we knew Snape was the hero of the whole story, he was the pissed off asshole of a teacher that basically still wanted to kill Sirius, Harry's one shot at having a real family, over a school boy grudge. I LOVED him as only a bookish, nerdy, 13 year old girl could. In my sophomore year of high school, the movies started coming out, and finding out that Alan Rickman would be playing Snape only made him all the more enticing for me. (Yeah, I know. Creepy doesn't even begin to describe it, the man's older than my father.)

So this brings me to my story. 

I went to a private, Catholic high school that was located in the city within walking distance of the local mall. One day after school, my friends and I decide to kill some time. Being the nerd that I am, and seeing as how Sorcerer's Stone had just come out in theaters, I managed to convince my friends to let me check out all the toys. And that's when I saw it. The holy grail of toys to this completely obsessed fangirl:

I could get my very own Severus Snape action figure.

Picture a 13 year old girl in a prep uniform screaming like she was at an N*Sync concert. Only it's in the middle of a crowded toy store surrounded by a very confused group of other 13 year old girls in prep uniforms wondering why the hell they're friend was freaking out over the toy of a character who was routinely described as ugly, sallow, and greasy. 

Once I realized what I was doing, and noticing the reactions of everyone around me, I was mortified. My friends completely booked it out of the store, leaving me alone. Blushing harder than I think I ever have in my life, I picked up the toy, went to the counter and bought it. The guy behind the register couldn't keep a straight face throughout the transaction and kept sniggering about how much of a fan I was of the series. 

My friends were pretty annoyed with me and didn't talk to me for the rest of the day. I think it had to do with the fact that I kept trying to justify my love for Snape....while clutching tightly to the plastic miniature version of him...

So my friend was a huge Last Avatar: The Last Airbender fanand he begged us to go see the movie with him. He also wanted us to dress up.So me and another friend agreed to go. So because my one friend was dressing upas Aang, We thought we would make a two person Appa costume. We had less than24 hours to make this costume… mind you me and my friend making this costumewere not that biggest of fans. We stayed up all day and night to make a 10 footlong, 6 foot tall Appa costume out of cardboard, fabric, and paint. We loadedit up and drove through town with people staring and pointing at it. We get thisdamn huge thing to the movie theater and jammed it through the front doors. Wethought we weren’t gonna fit too. Paid the ticket person from under the costume,and then had to be led to the theater from there because we weren’t smart enoughto make a viewing hole through Appa’s Head. He finally got into a pretty fulltheater and sat in the front row. We took the costume off and everyone wasgiving us the weirdest looks, but we didn’t care. The funniest part was afterwe had spent over 24 hours making the costume, we fell asleep for most of themovie. As we left the manger stopped us to see what our costume was and took apicture with us.

I'm not sure what qualifies as nerdy I've done some nerdy or mildly offensive stuff in public. I mean there was the one time at Spencer's where I put on a giant penis costume, walked out of the store with it on, and got wrangeled back in by mall security. Nope, I'll stick with something much more recent.

My buddy and his long-time girlfriend/fiance just recently separated after being together for about 5-6 years. She had three kids and he had none, but they were little and he's practically been their Dad for the last five years they've been living together. So he called me on Tuesday, in tears, and was devasted and down in the dumps that he was alone and that the kids were no longer there. I suggested he come up to get away from it for a while.

Well our plan was to have a nerd weekend. Go to Hooters, checkout the local comic & games store, see a nerdy movie, and go to Kennedy Space Center to see the Summer of Sci-fi Star Trek Exhibit.

To make his Friday we decided to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I decided it would be funnier to show my nerdy love for Ape movies by dressing up as one. Well let the pictures speak for themselves:

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Needless to say the box office and concession stand employees got a kick out of it, some of the patrons gave me weird looks or snickered and pointed at me, but it was the suits (i.e. managers) who threatened to throw me out, told me to take off the mask, and not wear it again that made it less fun than I thought it would be. Of course we would not be defeated, during the movie we made monkey and ape noises that made a few patrons laugh. In the end the movie was great, the weekend was a success, and I think he left back home today a little more upbeat.

The nerdiest thing I ever did happened this past July. I should preface this by saying I am a HUGE Harry Potter fan: read the books several times, seen all the movies, been to 5 midnight shows. My mom and aunt are also fans. So, being that all three of us are hardcore fans, of course we had to go to the midnight show of Deathly Hallows Part 2. Luckily, our local theater was showing both Part 1 and Part 2 in a double feature. So yes, we went to both movies AND got the special 3-d Harry Potter glasses. While this is nerdy enough, this isn't even the nerdiest part.

Our local newspaper was before they showed Deathly Hallows Part 1, talking to everyone about the magic of Harry Potter, getting pictures of cute kids in the 3d glasses, and such. They made their way to the three of us and asked us all sorts of questions about how we felt about the movies, had we gone to another show before, etc. My mom and aunt said a few things; I talked their ears off, because that's what I do when people mention Harry Potter. I talked so much, that they quoted me in the local paper, along with mentioning that it was my 4th midnight show (even though it was my 5th, but whatever). So that is my nerdiest moment in public, as it has been forever set in ink. :)

I was at the mall movie theater for the second Lord of the Rings movie. I was never allowed to go to midnight premieres in high school (lame!), so this was in the early evening while the whole mall was still open. That didn't stop me from getting the most out of it, though. I wore an "I [heart] Frodo" t-shirt and elf ears, and was damn proud of it even though no one else was dressed up for the movie. We got there early to get a good spot in line, so we had a lot of time to kill before it started. I realized I still needed to find a good Christmas present for a friend, so I went out into the mall while my friends were still in line. You know how doing something weird in public is automatically 10x weirder if you're doing it alone? There I was, by myself, walking into all kinds of non-nerdy stores and past the food court dressed like that. The ears got a lot of stares and double-takes, and I even ended up buying something. Back in line at the movies, the theater had become really crowded, and I got even more stares, including one guy who tapped his girlfriend and pointed at me. Like I said, I was the ONLY person there dressed in any kind of nerdy movie-oriented gear. I wasn't ashamed, though, I had a lot of fun!

My worst geek moment was before the start of Star Trek II, Wrath of Con. We were at the opening show in a small South Dakota town. My friend and I decided to yuck it up and pretended we had seen it in Minneapolis at a sneek preview the night before. Not having any knowldge of what was about to occur, we kept going on and on about how sad it is that Spock dies at the end. People told us to shut up and not ruin the show so we knocked it off. You cannot imagine how stupid we felt when SPOCK ACTUALLY DIES. Ugh. Talk about your walk of shame after the show. Oh well, we ended up having a good laugh at it afterwords.

In the dark years before the internet and CGI and cosplay, Ralph Bakshi did a version of Lord of the Rings. To "celebrate" the opening, I made a Gandalph the Grey costume and my friend did a Lord of the Nazgul (with a crown made of tin, but we didn't know to file the snipped edges so it kept cutting whoever would put in on his head). and wore them to the opening. People kept wondering if we were a craptastic version of Obi Kenobi and Darth Vader. Sigh. Oh well, the manager liked it enough to give us free tickets and we came back for every showing for a week.

A friend and I dressed up as Joel Robinson and Mike Nelson, built (admittedly shoddy) models of Crow and Tom Servo, and did MST3K style commentary at the midnight showing of the second Twilight movie.

So many pissed off housewives...

I went to the beach and forgot my sunglasses, but the sun was wickedly hardcore super bright as the sun tends to be. So i went to my car and searched to find something to cut down the glare. I come across One of my Darth Vader masks (the full helmet and mask type with the voice box)... Tinted lenses... Awesome.. problem solved. So yes i went onto the beach in my swimming suit, my flip flops, and my Darth Vader mask. Picture if you will, a 6'5, blindingly white, count my ribs skinny man wearing light blue Hawaiian print bathing suit and a full Darth Vader mask. My non nerd friends, which is all that i went to the beach with that day, just started laying into me for the rest of the day as did every single person that walked by me. My favorite taunt was from a group of frat boys who told me to "Go back to Charlotte" and threw beer cans at me. My friends almost got in a fight because of that one. I just ignored them and read my Brandon Sanderson novel until it was time to go and i was a bright toasty lobster red, except on my face.

When I saw the final Harry Potter I was in a theater full of normal, average people. So, Wearing my hufflepuff shirt i'm sitting there trying to keep my confused mom quiet, not bawling and  stuff. As a Quidditch Player,  Seeing them burn the field almost made me cry and some lady looked over at me with the most confused look on her face. But the kicker is when I started to squee and jump up and down in my seat for the  "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH" line which caused a bunch of people to stare and my mom to smack me in the shoulder.

Also doesn't help that I squeed for the fact the Lion King was gonna be in theaters in front of a bunch of people too.

I was at Stake 'n Shake with a couple friends (most of whom are non-nerds) a few weeks ago, arguing with one of them about Crisis on Infinite Reboots, and I referenced an article from here. Since mere explanation could not do it justice, one of my friends with a fancy phone offered to look it up to share with the group.

"What's the site called?" he asked.

"Topless Robot!" I said cheerfully, forgetting for the moment that I am the group prude.

There was a stunned silence, then laughter. "Whoa, how'd you find THAT site?"

"My sister showed it to me!" I squawked, nobly throwing her under the bus.

"How did SHE find it?"

It did help that the article in question was about Jason Todd and DC's Penis Conspiracy.

One night at work, when I was running a call center and had about 15 callers in, I was talking to one of the callers about nothing in particular, and somehow the topic of Lord of the Rings came up. For reasons I still can't figure out, I recited the entire verse about the One ring, starting with the "Three rings..." and when I finished, all of my callers just looked at me speechless. I sat in my office with the door closed for the rest of the night.

This, in a pantsuit, with my headphones in, outside my company president's office, in front of coworkers vying for the same project: http://youtu.be/hiplnDBFXxc. I got the project.

I spent 10 minutes discussing with some non-bronies at a Sbarro why it would be so awesome to have a Super articulated line of Ponies based on MLP:FIM I even used various MLP:FIM clips vs pics of the actual toys to support my stance. I guess somepony else must want a Super Articulated Pinkie Pie!

for about a year i worked in a very busy take out restaurant that served scone sandwiches to very cranky, judgemental, suit wearing business-men-types.  one day during a particularly busy lunch rush a woman ordered a flavor of scone we happened to be out of.  i stopped furiously writing take out orders and looked up at the woman and her small horde of business suit wearing comrades glaring at me impatiently.  wanting nothing more than to not be yelled at for being sold out of what she wanted my first instinct, which i followed without stopping to think about how terrible an idea it was, was to wave my hand in front of her and state plainly,

"those are not the scones you're looking for."

she was not amused.

apparently the force was not with me. 

Years ago I was assisting my friend flipping houses. This meant lots of lunches that became extended pub stays. We were eating at one bar when a short hairy man walked in. I said "look at the hobbit" and my friend said "you're such a fucking nerd" for this reference. I defend myself and go off on a tirade that LOTR made a billion dollars and thus "hobbit" is no longer a geeky reference. I go on to cite other short hairy geeky options like Ewoks and Wolverine. Never once realizing my volume increasing. The bartender starts to get quiet, then the patrons, then that moment where the two of us come aware. Everyone's vision is split between myself and the "hobbit" giving me the greatest death stare ever seen.Thus concluded the evening.

In my school their was a platform in the middle of the lunchroom. I got up on top and started reciting Cyrus's speech from the park scene. No one had any idea what i was quoting. Overall it was a depressing experience to find out no one had seen the warriors in my entire school of about 1000.

I got a full portrait tattoo of Macho Man Randy Savage on the outside of my right calf. I'm not ashamed of it.

Dude, great speech. If I get drunk enough and someone says "give the Independence Day speech", I can launch into it anywhere. And have. Sigh. Memories.

When The Dark Knight came out, I went out with a few friends drinking. Two girls that happened to be with us had seen it together at the theater, meanwhile my friend and I had seen it rather drunkenly at a friends house. So somehow, the movie comes up, and we're in a bar, and these two girls (one of which was a major hottie that I was hooking up with) start talking about it and laughing at The Joker (the character in general, not just the one in the movie) and how he's "so silly and funny". Now it may have been the alcohol in my system (I had killed a huge bottle of vodka/Kahlua that day making White Russians by myself) but I flipped the f*ck out. I then started berating them and explaining to them The Joker's back story and history. To which they kept interrupting me and saying things they "had heard about him" or completely made up BS to try and justify what they had been saying. Thus proving to me they had no actual knowledge on the subject at hand. Which further enraged me and thus launched me into a further drunken fueled rant that ended up with me standing up, at a bar (I should clarify it was a bar/grill and a very relaxed setting), and screaming "I f*cking hate people like you guys. You don't know sh*t about the comics, then you see the goddamn movies and suddenly you're f*cking experts. Meanwhile, if I go with you, you won't stfu and keep asking questions killing the movie for me with your stupid distractions, just watch the f*cking movie and you'll get answers. God I f*cking hate people like you. Which is the reason I hate comic movies, because people who don't know sh*t go to them and act just like you are, then have the audacity to try and correct me about things I have more knowledge of than you. You're idiots!" (There may have been more to the rant, but that's the gist of it.) At which point my now "you're not gonna touch me for a week" hottie friend and her other friend are staring at me completely put in their place with hurt looks on their faces (yeah, that won't work on me when I'm drunk) and I'm fuming but calming down. My drinking buddy taps me and goes "Dude chill out, people are staring." I look around and realize that everyone in the restaurant is looking at me, standing and fuming over a character in a comic movie. I sat down and went back to drinking and hating the world in peace.

Too many words it seems, so maybe I should summarize: I got drunk, flipped out in a bar and essentially told everyone everything about The Joker, and managed to make the hottie who dug me decide on the spot that I wasn't going to touch her for awhile, all over a comic movie.

My sister asked me to drive here and 3 friends to a club. Two of them where guys and one of them was wearing a Star Wars T-shirt.That guy asked me if i could drive a bit faster, because they where quite late. I replied with "Sure kid, i did the kessel run in less then 12 parsecs!"

I got nothing but a blank stare from him, turned out he knew nothing about Star Wars and just bought the T-Shirt because "the vintage effect and it looked cool"...

I drew this task from a hat, I was so excited I got this one!!

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My love of the Klingon culture is one of my deepest loves and has caused me to be outed as a nerd many times but none so harshly as what happened to me one time when I went out to eat with friends.  We were at this Chinese buffet and this kid about 16 got in line behind me and was wearing a t-shirt with the emblem of the Klingon Empire on his shirt.  Well I greeted him in Klingon then proceeded to ask him which incarnation of the Empire he felt the most connection to , be it Original Series TNG, DS9 or...Voyager.  I didn't even give him time to answer before I brought up Worf and how with Gowron gone the Empire could now move forward.  Yeah...the kid looked scared and my friends were mortified, especially when the kid said that he just liked the shirt and had only seen a couple of episodes of TNG.  I was ushered to another line in the buffet and told in no uncertain terms that I was now Queen Nerd and not to be proud of it.  On a positive note, before the kid left he came to our table and asked me for recommendations of which episodes to watch if he wanted the full "Klingon experience".  I believe I converted another to the Empire that day.

Can't really say I have one public nerd moment because I tend to drop Star Wars and Princess Bride quotes everywhere I go. The sad part is when the younger generation doesn't get the Princess Bride quotes.Do they not know great cinema???

I Manage a BK, and there is this amazingly hot 18 y.o. girl that comes in always wearing some sort of Transformers clothing. On several occasions, we have devolved into detailed discussions about the various forms of TF media and the merits of them. We also discuss which toys we have, and she is often amazed at that I have several mint condition series 1 toys including a complete Optimus.

My staff and the customers always look at us askew, whether it because the subject or the fact that the sexy geek girl is not really a myth, I don't know.

BTW, she has a Gen 1 hoodie, several Autobot logo shirts, a Beast Wars shirt and several character shirts. I believe she saw TF3 six times the first weekend it was out and came in to get all of the supporting toys.