Are you a Dork?

You know what I'm talking about: Any GRM Dorks here? Soon you'll get to show your pride--and save some green in the process.

I have already said too much.

Sorry sir. No dorks here.

Dork

Word Story The history of dork is a short one. It’s been around only since the 1950s or 60s, originally as a slang term for “penis.” Most likely dork was just an alternative form of dick, a word that started out as a nickname for Richard—a name meaning “fellow”—but which by the late 1800s, had taken on the additional meaning of “penis” (which is certainly part of a fellow) in British army slang. By the late 60s, American college students had extended the meaning of dork to refer to a socially awkward person. While at first this sense of dork carried pejorative connotations, the term has since been “taken back” by the people it once so cruelly described, and now can even be given as a compliment. If a girl calls a guy “adorkable” (the combination of “dork” and “adorable”), she means to say he is cute in a socially awkward, yet endearing way. Geeks and nerds, while still dorky, are generally considered more intelligent than dorks. Next time you call someone a dork think about its short history in the English language, and reflect upon what a word nerd you are.

Years ago, before the website redo, I was indeed a Dork. Then I floated away for a while, and whe I returned, I was a new reader.

Ah well. This too shall pass.

108 posts short (ooh, 107 now!). Damn.

When do you become a dork?

When you are ready.

I am not yet a GRM Dork...

I'm a dork and I'm OK, I sleep all night and I post all day...

I grind down valves, I eat some dust, I go to the e36 m3. On Wednesdays I go racing and have checkered flags for tea.

I barely became literate.

I may indeed be a dork, I own a Yugo after all

Yes

I prefer Geek, but will gladly accept Dork. Too bad I don't get on here as often as I used to :(

Still dorkin' it up.

I am a half dork yet my wife doesn't mind.

Some day, when I grow up, I wanna be a dork.

I'm postwhoring my way up the dork ladder!

In reply to David S. Wallens: So ,I've waited two hours for the other shoe to drop and you haven't enlightened us yet. We had a word in high school for girls that behaved like you are.

So dorky here that I'm a perpetual SuperDork. I have proof, too. Check out the leaderboard. I should be a PowerDork, but you guys have frozen my status at Superdork. I bet it is because you all know how super I am.

Dorkless last time I looked.

On the contrary...it says you've gotten UberDork over they years.

Lesley's job is so cool that it erases all her dorkiness

JoeyM wrote: Lesley's job is so cool that it erases all her dorkiness

I just get to peep on people all day.

N Sperlo wrote:

JoeyM wrote: Lesley's job is so cool that it erases all her dorkiness

I just get to peep on people all day.

...and birds.

rallymodeller wrote: Years ago, before the website redo, I was indeed a Dork. Then I floated away for a while, and whe I returned, I was a new reader. Ah well. This too shall pass.

Me too. I was a dork before then I lost it all with the new site, started over and now I am a dork again.