Comments on: MARK HASTY: GEEK, METROSEXUAL, OR . . .?

by: Dave

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I’d say you’re something like a gk5/met1/xrb2, but I’d have to consult my Player’s Handbook.

by: kenny

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The formula I will use is as follows: the number of presenting symptoms as you’ve identified them will weigh evenly against one another. The highest scoring category is picked in a winner-take-all format.

Geek:
One-three are checks in that category. As would four, if only it weren’t the annotated. You’re slipping man! Five and six also rate. Your qualifier in number seven prevents it from adding to the category score of: Five.

Metrosexual:
One is a no. Two a yes, as are three and four. Number five is not, simply because many men had back issues of said publication before we knew of this categorizing word. Most of them, today, would likely be considered Metro, but they are grandfathered *out*. Six yes. Seven … no. This should also cancel out a point from the Geek section. Just think, all those nice solid colors, that should sing to the Metro! Pastel unis in the early series, cool earth tones on the set of TNG, though it tends to get darker after that. Enterprise now in a regimented blue … All of these things would, however, show up on that new show What Not to Wear. Number eight, yes. Final score five.

Confused Exurbanite:
One no (on purpose being the key), two through four yes (with number three’s “never lived by them being the straw…). Five yes, six no. Seven -through nine are nos. However they should each detract a point from the Metro category. Final: 4

Revised finals after cross effect (new data analysis method I just invented): Geek - four. Metro - two. Confused exurbanite - Four.

You’re a confused geek living in exurbia.

By your same evidence I would be a … 2/1/3. Phew! Though if we subbed in the toys of my youth for yours, I’d be a geek straight away. Too young for much of Battlestar, too poor for the C-64 … such is life.

by: Zygote

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

You’re a geek. Roll 1d20 for a saving throw.

by: The Wife

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I do not remember calling you a geek. I’m not saying I didn’t call you a geek or that you aren’t a geek; I just don’t remember doing so. Besides, what are you if you marry a geek??? All of this would be much clearer if you spoke of how you “whoo” me.:)

by: Mark Hasty

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

What have these people done to deserve that, hon?

by: Archie Leach

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

“What have I, what have I, what have I done to deserve this??”

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Metrosexuals in 2004 = “preppies” in 1984.

Izod, collars up.

You have to -look- like a preppy (physically) to be able to pass as a Metrosexual.

Corollary: there aren’t too many offensive linemen (past or present) who will be confused with the David Beckham-style “metrosexual”-athlete.