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Re: Geekshelf Question - Vehicle Question
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:50:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Loch writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Scott E. Sanburn writes:
> Are the vehicles geeky or are they just pictures of random cars? Does
> the picture provide some expression of the geek lifestyle or is it just
> a picture of a car? Try using folder names and descriptions to clarify
> the significance of ordinary looking things (I'm not saying your cars
> are ordinary, since I don't remember the specific folder in question).
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> Are cars ok? Sure, as long as they are geek-related.
I think that what Scott was trying to express is that to some people, cars
are inherently geeky; in North America especially. There's lots and lots of
people who obsess and geek out about cars, but it's not often refered to
that way because cars are an "acceptable" subject of geekery to the general
culture.
$0.02
James
(who finds vehicles a foreign and mystical subject, at best)
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| (...) Well put. I think cars can be geeky even if you haven't done unusual things to them. (like some of the tricked out Audis on that one page are) I once had 8 cars under my control (7 that I had title to and one that I just had custody of) but (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) It's not as simple as Brickshelf where it either has LEGO related content or it doesn't. (...) Are the vehicles geeky or are they just pictures of random cars? Does the picture provide some expression of the geek lifestyle or is it just a (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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