The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” has Jean-Luc Picard stranded on a planet with Dathon, an alien captain of another ship. Dathon is a member of a race called “The Children of Tamar”, and they communicate with each other through metaphors and references to historical occurrances. The most famous of this is Dathon’s continual reference to “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra”, a situation where two heroes in Tamarian legend come together to trust each other to defeat a common foe. Picard and Dathon are set upon by an invisible enemy and have to come together to defeat it.
XKCD is a rather geeky webcomic that I’ve mentioned before. It appears to have some degree of popularity amongst geek circles, with people making reference to specific comics through phrases and innuendo.
Why not mix the two? Each XKCD comic is numbered and can be got to via http://xkcd.com/<number>, so they’re easy to uniquely reference. Suppose you were at a Chinese restaurant and got your fortune cookies. If you’re with a bunch of geeks and nerds you’d say “four twenty-five” and everybody would snicker. Or you could say you “four twenty-oned” for breakfast. And I know of way too many people who have two fourteened, myself included.
So, huge nerd or hugest nerd ever?
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