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[hatman]

I was thinking about the Dark Side having Dark cookies. Then I looked in the bread drawer and saw that we had a new package of Oreos. Then I went to sleep. When I woke up, I found I had a sudden desire to make a TIE fighter out of Oreos.

Then I figured that there are a billion other people on the Internet, and they've had plenty of time. Someone else has to have done it by now. So I did a Google search and a Google Images search. I found some neat Star Wars cakes and some even neater Star Wars cupcakes and even a Death Star cookie jar (hey, that rhymes!)... but no sign of a TIE fighter built out of Oreos. Sure, they're round instead of hexagonal, but they'd still make fairly good panels. Not sure what you'd do about the cockpit, though. Unless you scaled the whole thing up... Hmm...

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[doranwen.livejournal.com]

*giggles* You don't get *geek* cred from having a lab coat--that's nerd cred! Nerds are the ones with the academic knowledge and brilliance. Which you have. :) You also are a bit of a geek per the Superman stuff. Geek cred gets built through specialized knowledge of specific fandoms and specialties. It also can't really have much to do with school stuff. That's saved for nerdity. *g*

When it comes to Star Wars, I must concede that is one of the classic geek things to experience just so you can get all the references and such. I've seen all six--once. That was only in the last year, thanks to my ex-fiancé, who was determined that I should see them. It's helpful in that I get a lot of inside jokes and references now. On the other hand, I didn't think they were THAT great of movies, and don't plan on re-watching ever. Really not my thing at all. (Probably doesn't help that I don't *like* alien creatures. Humans and animals only, here.)

As for Princess Bride, I actually think that movie isn't nearly as important as Paul does. You can be a perfectly fine geek without EVER watching it. It's merely making fun of a bunch of other movies--and it's not even that amusing to watch, at least to me. I thought it was the dumbest movie I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot. At least with Grizzy Mountain (a stupid kids' movie that was atrociously done), one could sit and critique the moviemakers' mistakes in directing, the bad acting, etc. In Princess Bride, the acting is just good enough that you can't even criticize it--yet the story is so dumb, and the things they say so stupid, that I didn't even find it amusing at all. I am quite glad now that I don't remember much of the movie, and will not be at all sorry if I forget nearly all of it! Not worth storing in any of my brain cells, is my final word on that one. ;)