Re: Pain Isn't Pretty (was: hot babes, etc.)

From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Aug 12 1998 - 15:01:30 MDT

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One other note I'd like to make re: the word nerd. It seems
to have been taken over lately by the preferred term "geek".
Wired and other culture-type mags are legitimizing this
term as a "good thing", whereas nerd isn't as nice to call
oneself imho.

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