{"id":343,"date":"2005-03-11T11:25:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T16:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=343"},"modified":"2005-03-11T11:25:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T16:25:13","slug":"on-the-trekkie-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"On the Trekkie Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we get to the meat of the post, I heard on NPR this morning that the North Carolina legislature is considering a new custom license plate. We have them for colleges, for nature, for history. Now they want to produce a plate that bears the message, “I would rather be shagging.”<\/p>\n

In North Carolina, that’s a completely innocent message. The Shag is the state dance, so they said in the report. But to our English cousins, a shag is something completely<\/i> different. And no, it’s not a cut of pipe tobacco.<\/p>\n

Now for the real reason for posting. I saw this on Bill Leisner<\/a>‘s LiveJournal. You know the saying, “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”? Well, have at it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Trekkie Nerd<\/b><\/font>
Congratulations! You scored 83%! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Congratulations – your designation as a Trekkie Nerd means that you are statistically more likely to be a virgin, socially inept, live at home in your mother’s basement and have no chance of scoring a chick like Seven. Still, if knowledge of temporal paradoxes, the repercussions of the Janeway effect and an intimate knowledge of Klingon history made big bucks, you’d be a millionaire. Ah, tis the sweet irony of life. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender<\/i>:<\/p>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\nYou scored higher than 90%<\/b> on Trekkies<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Link: The Trekkie Test<\/a> written by MadameBoffin<\/a> on Ok Cupid<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Oh, sodding bloody hell. No one who has done work for Pocket Books should be allowed to take this test…. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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