I think there are baseball geeks even though it's mainstream. Not that I'm a fan of baseball, but I think in any sport if you have someone who knows all the stastics and gets into detailed discussions of the history of the sport that counts as sports geekry. Or someone who is into obscure statistics.

Gudanov would you exclude movies like PotC from being considered blockbuster, even though the triolgy was mainstream people got fairly geeky over it, but it is a fantasy movie. I'd throw James Bond into the realm of blockbusters that people get geeky over. Anytime there are threats to boycott a movie because of casting changes that's an automatic buy into geekdom.

Thinks back to the year he ran a comparison tabulation of points, penalty minutes, and +/- statistics for 47 hockey players to make a written recommendation to management about rehiring two of them.

I'd say yes.

Oh, that. But that's not craps! You don't shoot craps with three dice! Just two.

Well, yeah, OK. Is there anything with three dice?

Maybe the MTA really wanted to say, "Subways aren't for pooping!", but the sign designer misunderstood them.

The MTA SHOULD say that.

And then there are Furries.

No there aren't.

There are no Furries.

I once tried to explain to a rabid hockey fan that being a Buffistas was just like his hobby but with a different inspiration. I cited instant bonding with strangers, fascination with minutae, and odd clothing among my other examples. He just kept staring at me like I was insane.

Gudanov would you exclude movies like PotC from being considered blockbuster, even though the triolgy was mainstream people got fairly geeky over it, but it is a fantasy movie.

Hmmm.... That is a problem. I mean it was a blockbuster movie and talking about what happened in it wouldn't really be geeky, but if there was an Internet PotC board get together where everyone dressed as pirates (excluding Halloween) that would be hard to not classify as geeky. Good point that.

"This is such a first world fetish!"

Hmm. Does the third world even have time for fetishes? I smell a project for my sister.

I don't know if there is one exclusive PotC board, but I know it's a fairly active, albeit small, fandom. There are people who write fanfic, make vids, debate minutia about the movies, dissect the relationships, etc.

Iman (who is a super host and kind of scary) totally ripped them a new one for using goth as the trashy look. She was all like "Goth is a legitimate look!!"

See! Iman validates my subculture. And you know she has fantastic taste, because hello, MARRIED TO DAVID BOWIE.

ita, make your sister write a book so I can read it! Oh! I wonder if there are any studies about sexual fetishes and the class system! Why do I have to be at work when I want to be Googling this shit!

Hmm. Does the third world even have time for fetishes? I smell a project for my sister.

Bringing kink to the underprivliged?