The great ILX nerd poll

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Yes I have probably left your favourite out, but I'm just going for the biggies. I considered including Twin Peaks and 2000 AD, but decided they were not quite geeky enough.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Buffy/Angel	18
What a bunch of fucking nerds, I'm going down the pub to talk about birds and football	16
Doctor Who	11
Star Trek	10
The X-Files	9
The Lord of the Rings	8
Star Wars	8
The Marvel Universe	6
Some kind of hyperactive and deeply confusing manga thingy	5
The DC Universe	4
Babylon 5	3

― chap, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

voted "Star Wars talk at pub"

― kingfish, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Classic Dr Who and Nu Doctor Who should be separate categories.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, same universe innit. By that logic I'd have to create a separate option for each incarnation of Star Trek.

― chap, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

you're missing "ILX"

― félix pié, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

LOCK THREAD.

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Buffy all the way. Early X-Files is the only other thing on that list worth watching/reading.

― milo z, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

LOTR movies I like enough; books less so.

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

had to vote Star Wars because Doctor Who has frustrated me more over a longer period of time!

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

Ouch it hurts. Star Wars/LOTR? My sis would disown me if I voted Star Wars so LOTR it must be.

― Hard like armour, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

awesome i don't like any of these things.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

You are teh anti-nerd

― Hard like armour, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

No, he just hates everything.

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

braininajar.jpg

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

i like 'entourage'. i was just watching it.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh this was easy, Bab5 for me. Tho if you'd have put Firefly in there I would have had a harder time of deciding.

― Trayce, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was torn between Buffy and DC Comics, but I figure the latter needs my vote less (really the diference in size between the various universes listed here makes the question rather grossly unfair.)

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Um hello FIREFLY?!?! How could you not include FIREFLY!!!

― Stevie D, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'd vote for Firefly, too... but I enjoy an alarming variety of the ones listed.

― Sara R-C, Monday, 30 April 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

I don't much like any of these, I've never even seen Buffy or Babylon 5. I suppose I like Marvel and some manga, as long as it's arty.

― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

I guess the fact that I think LotR is out of place here qualifies me as a huge nerd.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Buffy/~~Angel~~

or Firefly

― Bill in Chicago, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Marvel Universe -- a no-brainer for me. But I'm specifying from FF#1 until the Day the Music Died (when Shooter was made editor-in-chief).

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

This is not nearly nerdy enough a poll for me. The correct answer is Fanboygraphix (Jim, Hate, Eightball, etc.)

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to pretend the absence of Farscape and Battlestar Gallactica (nu) means they are not nerdy, which i believe is true until the end of tiiiiiiiiime

i voted dr. who

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

There is no way "Hate" or "Eightball" are geekier than Doctor Who!! Yeah you have to be more "into" certain geeky sub-cultures to know about 'em, but it's way easier to explain their appeal to non-geeks than that of superhero comics or sci-fi soap.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

This is surely a geek list rather than a nerd list?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

well now it's a nerd list

― félix pié, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost yes def.

― Stevie D, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

where the fuck is Tintin

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://tintintribute.com/logos/tintin1.jpg

― max, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

> There is no way "Hate" or "Eightball" are geekier than Doctor Who!! Yeah you have to be more "into" certain geeky sub-cultures to know about 'em, but it's way easier to explain their appeal to non-geeks than that of superhero comics or sci-fi soap.

I notice you left Jim out of that judgement.

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

sweeet nectah.
http://static.flickr.com/96/270791041_bd6ea1af62.jpg?v=0

― Drooone, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

[X] Hate all of the above, including birds & football.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

Not that I hate birds or birding, but football can surely die a flaming hot death, both American and European sorts.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

No L O S T or Heroes :-/

(they, and nu-who, are my only concessions to geekdom. Can I go down the pub to talk about football without having to talk about birds?)

― ailsa, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

You don't like the sparraows and the goss hawks?

― Ed, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

Heroes are nerds?

― Hard like armour, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 06:53 (eighteen years ago)

No Prisoner, no cred.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

No Battlestar Galactica, no credibility.

Nonetheless, I voted for the Marvel Universe, which I've been geeking out on since 1974.

Do ten year olds count as nerds?

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

There is no "None of the above" ?

If you'd put "Twin Peaks" then I'd have clicked.

As is is, in a Dunc Bal sense, "I'm Out"

― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:20 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get this nerd/geek celebration thing really. You like science fiction, get over it!

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

In the real Duncan Bannatyne sense: "ahm oot."

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 09:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get this poptimist celebration thing really. You like chartpop, get over it!

I notice you left Jim out of that judgement.

I've never read/heard of Jim.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://jimwoodring.com

http://jimwoodring.blogspot.com

― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I mean I don't see why in 2007 you have to qualify 'I love these TV shows/films' with 'lol I'm such a geek' really. It's all pretty mainstream.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

Poptimism is such a big thing now that the music "writer" for London Lite made out in yesterday's edition that he'd just thought the term up.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, he's the dude that did "Frank"! Total non-geek cred, recent collected book has a foreword by Francis Ford Coppola! You can defend that to non-geeks in much the same way you'd defend any sort of experimental art.

blueski, all depends on how far into it you get. Watching the new season of "Doctor Who" is mainstream; owning like twenty DVDs of it, not so much. Of course obsessive fandom exists everywhere but with stereotypically geeky things there's a special sort of baggage, I think.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! I thought I was going to be the lone Bab 5 geek.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

when does the poll end?

― Alan, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

source code says May 6th

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

Tintin: While it would possibly get my tick in a 'best thing there's ever been ever' poll, it's not really that nerdy, is it? Maybe it is in the states, I dunno.

Battlestar and Firefly haven't really been around long enough for inclusion.

Daniel gets it about right; you can like any of these things without being nerdy about it. For example, I wouldn't call myself a Star Wars nerd - I love the original trilogy, obviously, but have no more than a casual interest in anything beyond that. Doctor Who, on the other hand - I spend hours watching old episodes on YouTube, which definately puts me in nerd territory ('nerd' simply being a convienient and universally understood term for this kind of semi-obssesion).

Having said that, just vote for the one that gives you the most pleasure, no matter how deep your interest in it runs.

― chap, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm one of the biggest nerds I know and I can't get behind any of this :(:(:(:(

― Will M., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I like almost everything in this poll except "Babylon 5" (which I enjoyed as a teenager, but rewatching the first season good lord stfu with yer self-congratulatory humans are great bullshit) and anime.

What *can* you get behind, Will?

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I only know about three of these things in relative depth (Star Wars, X-Files, Who). I didn't read classic Marvel or DC (nor LOTR) tho wish I had.

Clearly you (I) can still adhere to aspects of nerd/geek stereotypes despite this.

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Have at various times in my life been hugely and obsessively into Dr Who, LOTR, Marvel and DC.

Have no interest in the rest and actually quite contemptuous of people who do, which is enormously hypocritical.

― Groke, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

NO "RED DWARF," NO CRED.

― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Marvel Universe, Star Wars, Star Trek.

Rest I'm not that fussed, Dr Who is a diverting TV show.

― jel --, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Who was a very close second. Star Trek a dark horse third, LOTR then Buffy somewhere behind. Star Wars for nostalgia, X-Files jumped the shark and spoiled my love and the rest don't even register.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Daniel, I can get behind things like, uhh... let's see. Dungeons and Dragons. Shadowrun. Square/Soft/Enix. Farscape. Anything with dice, really. Or video games.

― Will M., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Have no interest in the rest and actually quite contemptuous of people who do, which is enormously hypocritical.

ha ha, but oh so (stereo)typical

― blueski, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Do JLU and Teen Titans fall under DCU?

― Leee, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

my brother just dropped off a limited edition Buffy lithograph his chain got for selling X copies of the new Buffy comic. Signed by Joss Whedon and some funny-book artist I don't know.

King of the nerds, I am.

http://www.cosmiccomix.com/auctions/0426/buffylitho.jpg

― milo z, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

(that's not mine, that's someone who saved me the trouble of taking a picture of it)

― milo z, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

mAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU

tHERE i SAID IT.

― Drooone, Friday, 4 May 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

LOL, I just got that email.

― Hard like armour, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe all the Babylon 5 love here, wtf.

― Abbott, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I'm qualified as a genuine nerd, I've had some interest in most of the things listed here, but never had the time or the energy to devote myself to any of them. So I guess I'll have to vote for the "pub and birds" option, because it's the closest to me.

― Tuomas, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

Battlestar and Firefly haven't really been around long enough for inclusion.

Nonsense.

I can't vote in this poll because I can't make the Sophie's Choice between Buffy and Star Trek. I've never liked Angel, though, and I always hate it when people assume I should like both. Angel's boring.

― accentmonkey, Friday, 4 May 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

60s star trek & dc universe

― and what, Friday, 4 May 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

def def star trek - marvel is 2nd

― 69, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

No H.P. Lovecraft, no cred. Fuck this poll.

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

We have results. X-Files did a lot better than I expected.

― chap, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

haha rrrobyn u have watched Farscape too.

― nickalicious, Monday, 7 May 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2010/03/25/the-most-badass-alphabet-ever/

― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

cant remember voting in this but would have been torn btwn 'wtf u nerds' and LOTR

― l∞l (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:25 (fifteen years ago)

^ yep

― interk3llar overdrive (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

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