Originally posted by: SKot
As far as the term "Star Wars geek" is concerned, I don't buy that being used back then either. That's something I never heard people say. There were "Trekkies" back then, but there was no term for people who just liked Star Wars, because that was nearly everybody. Sure, you had generic "nerds", and "geeks" a bit later on, but whether or not they liked Star Wars was irrelevant. It wasn't until the 90s Star Wars revival that tons of people started commonly collecting anything with the Star Wars name on it, dressing in Star Wars costumes, and waiting in big lines for the movies that there started to emerge a common perception of the "Star Wars geek".
I am willing to admit that it's possible things were a little different in your particular region, but I really think you're totally retconning here (to use a fanboy/geek term) and trying to change history, kind of like Uncle George likes to do.
--SKot
As far as the term "Star Wars geek" is concerned, I don't buy that being used back then either. That's something I never heard people say. There were "Trekkies" back then, but there was no term for people who just liked Star Wars, because that was nearly everybody. Sure, you had generic "nerds", and "geeks" a bit later on, but whether or not they liked Star Wars was irrelevant. It wasn't until the 90s Star Wars revival that tons of people started commonly collecting anything with the Star Wars name on it, dressing in Star Wars costumes, and waiting in big lines for the movies that there started to emerge a common perception of the "Star Wars geek".
I am willing to admit that it's possible things were a little different in your particular region, but I really think you're totally retconning here (to use a fanboy/geek term) and trying to change history, kind of like Uncle George likes to do.
--SKot
Good call, SKot.
Using the word geek as a suffix to describe someone wasn't common until the 90s. Prior to that, they would have just been called a geek, with no association to anything specific. More often, nerd was used. Even then, not as a suffix to a specific thing.
Gomer forgot which board he was trolling. This forum has people who were actually around in the 70s. Notice how he tried to amend the statement after you called him on it.
First he says maybe you never heard it, but he did. He then follows it with a statement that might generate a few more replys and take the focus off of his mistake - "I remember the old saying that the difference between...". He goes one step further and comments on his own statement (complete with smilies) to try and steer the conversation even further away from his original statement.
Again, good catch SKot.