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- From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- Subject: test yourself!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.221403.19536W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
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- Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15 1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:13:58 GMT
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-
- I found this floating around on a site. Enjoy, or dont...
-
-
- It's striking more and more people! Like a plague it sweeps the nation!
- It knows no bounds - black, white, tall, short, thin, fat, that dweeb
- sitting next to you - maybe every your family members! Computer
- Geekdom!
-
- Are you worried about yourself? Do you feel drawn towards computer
- displays? In shopping malls do you slow down by money machines? Do you
- drop computer buzzwords like "Disk" and "Mega" in conversation? Do you
- own a Car-Computer?
-
- If you've answered yes to one of the above, it may already be too late.
- Do this test now, and see if your future holds fun, fortune and
- adventure, or 3 Meg floppies and a guest appearance on "The Worst of
- Oprah", a 467 part repeat series..
-
- Try and be honest - remember, you're only cheating yourself.
-
- 1. A friend opens a magazine full of scantily-clad members of your
- preferred sex. Do you:
-
- A. Openly Ogle
- B. Act Non-Chalant
- C. Comment "Gee, that's got to be at least 400 dpi, colour!"
- D. Slip the hand down the pants for a bit of good, old-fashioned
- executive relief.
-
- 2. You're at a party. Someone comes over and asks you your star sign.
- You:
- A. Tell them to bugger off
- B. Lay them one in the groin, then tell them to bugger off.
- C. I don't go to parties.
- D. I don't get invited to parties.
-
- 3. You're at the head of a large queue in front of a cash-register in a
- large department store. The register gives a >beep< and stops dead.
- You:
- A. Wait patiently
- B. Plant all the stuff you were going to buy in a nearby baby
- carriage and call the store detective (to while away the time)
- C. Break out your ever-present C64 notebook and try to debug the
- thing
- D. I don't know
-
- 4. You're shopping for some personal hygiene equipment when the chemist
- runs up saying the prescription database on his 386 is corrupt.
- You:
- A. What's a prescription database?
- B. What's a 386?
- C. What's personal hygenie?
- D. What was the question again?
-
- 5. A friend wants to borrow a record off you. You
- A. Lend it out, and tell them it's a boomerang.
- B. Tell them to go buy it.
- C. Consult the database to see that status of the record concerned
- D. Sell it to them for a beer.
-
- 6. You'd most like to meet:
- A. The person who wrote "Gulag Acapeligo"
- B. The person who wrote "War and Peace"
- C. The person who wrote MSDOS
- D. A person who can write
-
- 7. You win a "Grocery-Grab" at a local supermarket. You've got one
- minute to pack a cart with as much stuff as you can. You start:
- A. In the Liquor Section
- B. In the Confectionary Lane
- C. At the Pencil Bar
- D. At the cash register
-
- 8. You've been hit by a car and your life flashes before your eyes.
- The thing you remember most vividly is:
- A. Your Mother's voice as a child
- B. Your first Love
- C. The Ascii table.
- D. The tire pressure was maybe a little too high
-
- 9. You get to compete on blind date. You have one statement to change
- the choosers mind about you. You say:
- A. I've got a 12 inch tounge
- B. I can go all night
- C. I'VE GOT A 386SX with 64K Ram Cache
- D. I've killed 5 people
-
- 10. You feel naked without your:
- A. Electric Guitar
- B. Wallet
- C. VT100 reference guide
- D. Axe
-
- 11. You see someone standing on a ledge, about to jump. You can save
- them if you say the right thing. You say:
- A. I know things are bad, but do you want to talk about it?
- B. I feel you just need someone to talk to
- C. Want to come and play on my C64?
- D. I bet you haven't got the guts.... . . . Oh, I see you did...
-
- 12. You told your best friend the first time you:
- A. Had Sex
- B. Had Oral Sex
- C. Got a Ram expansion
- D. Killed a cat.
-
- 13. No-one understands you like:
- A. Your Mother
- B. Your Father
- C. Your PC
- D. Your Parole Officer
-
- 14. For your 18th birthday you wanted:
- A. A Car
- B. A Shaver
- C. A C64 Cassette Drive
- D. Some Piano Wire, and the Neigbours Cat
-
- Mostly A's:
-
- You're normal. Boring Boring Boring. You're the sort of person who'll
- justy fritter their way thru life enjoying themselves and having a good
- time. Shame on you!
-
- Mostly B's:
-
- You're mostly normal. Nothing a little ECT can't clear away in any
- case. You mostly come into the "Mostly A's" above.
-
- Mostly C's:
-
- Geek Alert! Break out the pocket protector! With a set of horn rims
- and a pocket calculator, you're ready for Revenge Part #72. You can be
- the person that gets beat up all the time.
-
- Mostly D's:
-
- So you're a socipath; But that doesn't mean you're a bad person. Just
- keep taking the Lithium and everything'll be fine
-
- Are you STILL a computer geek?
-
- Ok, so you lucked out last time - you were about as socially adjusted as
- a onion and jelly sandwhich, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE CHANGED! You may not be
- a computer geek any more! It's possible!!! (Not probable, but
- possible) Test yourself now!
-
- 1. It's a stag party for one of your friends. You and the rest of your
- friends all put money in for:
- a. A set of driving mirrors
- b. A stripper
- c. A stripper with a set of driving mirrors
- d. A VGA screen so he can check out alt.sex.pictures.of.girlies
-
- 2. You want to improve your social life. You
- a. Ask people to go out with you.
- b. Join a club to meet new people
- c. Drink yourself unconcious and forget about it.
- d. What's a social life?
-
- 3. You ideal partner would have:
- a. Looks
- b. Intelligence
- c. Money
- d. A 1.2 Gig Hard Drive, Twin floppies + SVGA screen, and 5 Meg
- Memory
-
- 4. You have the most horrific nightmare of your life. It involves:
- a. You driving off a cliff
- b. You showing up somewhere with no clothes on
- c. A hungry alsation, your private parts and some tomato sauce.
- d. A tax on pocket protectors and thick glasses
-
- 5. You're on blind date. The question you would ask is:
- a. "Name the weirdest place you ever kissed someone"
- b. "Name the weirdest place you ever made love"
- c. "Name the weirdest place you ever played soggy biscuit"
- d. "Name the weirdest place you ever booted MSDOS 4"
-
- 6. Your role model is:
- a. Rudolf Steiner
- b. Mother Theresa
- c. Charlie Manson
- d. R2D2
-
- 7. Your favourite fashion accessory is:
- a. Winklepickers
- b. Collar Studs
- c. An axe
- d. What's fashion?
-
- 8. If you had your life to live again, would you:
- a. Make no changes
- b. Make a few changes
- c. Make a lot of changes
- d. Upgrade to SVGA
-
- 9. Your favourite pickup line is:
- a. "I've just won the lottery"
- b. "Has anyone seen the keys to my Porsche?"
- c. "$hit, I'm pissed"
- d. "I'm superuser at work.."
-
- 10. During sexual climax, you think of:
- a. Your partner
- b. Your partner's body
- c. Yourself
- d. The 487 co-processor at 52 Meg
-
- Scoring
- -------
- You don't really need the score card do you? Mostly A's or B's means
- you're the normal run-of-the-mill, 90212 (the house next door) walk
- alike, talk alike that gives us real jerks a bad name; C's mean you're
- a.. Well, frankly, I don't know what you are, but it's probably
- treatable with large amounts of voltage, and D's of course means that
- you've got a fantastic career stretched out in front of you as far as
- your nose can see. Happy camping.
-
-
- --
- Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
-
- Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.
-