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geek humor

topic posted Wed, November 9, 2005 - 8:44 AM by 
I'm involved in helping out with the 11th Annual Pac Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric -- www.pacrimalaska.org --

during one of the meetings a few weeks ago, when we were talking about planning basic logistics--who would do what, etc.--I don't recall HOW we got started, but this year's Grad-student-in-charge Chris started goin' a bit crazy with the planning of who should do what and the orchestratin' and such, and he started getting this gleam of power-lust in his eye ... so we started teasing him ... then joining in ... when someone came up with a grand idea: that we should get t-shirts to proclaim our positions of power that say on them: Hegemony Rocks

which we ALL thought was hilarious ... and we laughed and laughed and ... what? You're not laughing???

Guess you had to be there.
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    Re: geek humor

    Wed, November 9, 2005 - 3:13 PM
    Best I could do was a hegemony snicker.
    (Was that too far away to be paronomasia?
    Does the R sound at the end disqualify it?)
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    • Re: geek humor

      Wed, November 9, 2005 - 4:01 PM
      Yep, that IS geek humor.

      So... do you guys emphasize the first or second syllable? I have yet to commit to a pronunciation because I usually do that word in writing.
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    • Re: geek humor

      Wed, November 9, 2005 - 9:04 PM
      >>>>Was that too far away to be paronomasia?<<<

      I dunno --- lemme get my dictionary out and I'll letcha know ---
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