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DaughterofLaketown
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Mar 23 2014, 4:19pm
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What are you in your family?
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Which of these stereotypes best fits you? Which role in your family do you play?
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malickfan
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Mar 23 2014, 4:31pm
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But mostly weird geek with a bit of 'joker' thrown in.
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DaughterofLaketown
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Mar 23 2014, 4:56pm
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With a dash of rebel.  . I think geeks have to harbor a little rebelliousness because they like so many things against the norm.
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malickfan
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Mar 23 2014, 5:00pm
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Well, some might say being a member of TORn is weird geekery in itself
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Not that I consider that a bad thing!
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Ataahua
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Mar 23 2014, 5:37pm
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DaughterofLaketown, we allow a board member to have up to five active posts on a discussion board so that one person doesn't dominate discussions. This poll makes five started by you on the first page, so you'll need to wait until your oldest poll has dropped to page two before posting a new poll.
Cheers.
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Patty
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Mar 23 2014, 6:23pm
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You know, DaughterofLakeTown...
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I've been here many a year and I'm still finding out things I didn't know too. We can find them out together.
And in addition to having been here for many a year I see that you have already started two discussions of things that I don't believe we have mulled over yet. It's so good to get new folks like yourself who are constantly breathing new life and viewpoints into our fandom and our community-off topic.
I'm the middle-child, so I think that makes me the peacemaker. Ans, you didn't have this as a choice per se, but I'm the family historian .
Cheers.
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Ataahua
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Mar 23 2014, 7:09pm
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Except for the last bit - I'm the youngest and the family geek.
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Rembrethil
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Mar 23 2014, 7:42pm
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More like loner/general factotum
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I'm what I need to be. I love helping people so I try to be what they need. Sometimes it's a hug and sometimes it's a good kick in the pants  !!
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Meneldor
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Mar 23 2014, 7:56pm
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geek, joker, and weird one.
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DaughterofLaketown
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Mar 23 2014, 10:02pm
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I've been here many a year and I'm still finding out things I didn't know too. We can find them out together. And in addition to having been here for many a year I see that you have already started two discussions of things that I don't believe we have mulled over yet. It's so good to get new folks like yourself who are constantly breathing new life and viewpoints into our fandom and our community-off topic. I'm the middle-child, so I think that makes me the peacemaker. Ans, you didn't have this as a choice per se, but I'm the family historian . Cheers.
Thank you for these kind words.
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Escapist
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Mar 23 2014, 10:19pm
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Really, I'm more like a surrogate mom
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but sometimes I display the listed tendencies:
geek: I move between hobbies so I may get known as this or that kind of geek for a period of time but it doesn't tend to stick the same way that "mom number 2" does. However, I have fixed many technology issues - but I am still not considered the "techno expert". I am not as communicative about my fandoms in mixed company as some others so I think this nerfs the geek-factor as well.
nerd: Among those who pride themselves on their social graces, I have no doubt that I am taken as a nerd - but the longer they have known me, in general, the less I am known for this (it mostly applies to in-laws' opinions of me)
weird one: No - many are strange in my family and display much more strangeness than I do - I am not "the weird one", but I am weirder than anyone thinks  Maybe if I were in a different family I would get noted for this - but not in my family!
joker: similar to weird one, I am known for making people crack up outside my family and often do make my family members crack up, but there are funnier people in my family who play more jokes so the ID doesn't stick. We are all quite silly, to be honest.
rebel: In fact, I am actually one of the most cooperative and flexible people in my family - I get ordered around and stretched quite a bit without complaining - and am known as such - but there is a line and a small category of issues that I won't budge on and for the most part, my family respects this since I keep these things few and far between (and I feel they are reasonable and within my rights without infringing on anyone else unfairly).
"Mom number 2" applies as follows: worrying about others, babysitting, helping with many chores when visiting, being the oldest amongst all siblings and cousins, taking a leadership role in taking care of things when my dad was dying and mom was having trouble handling it, driving lessons, tutoring ... you name it ...
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 23 2014, 10:50pm
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And my entire family has always been great at enabling me ;)
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Ethel Duath
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Mar 23 2014, 10:57pm
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my entire family. And we enjoy every minute of it.
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Annael
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Mar 23 2014, 11:31pm
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I am in recovery from being the super-responsible perfect over-achieving oldest daughter. Except I just got a PhD & have a book being published so maybe I'm not . . .
My younger sister got to be the rebel, my older brother is the joker, and I can't claim the title of geek as the youngest brother has me way, way beat on that regard.
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silneldor
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Mar 23 2014, 11:44pm
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to the Boo box*
* From the movie 'Hook'
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Mar 24 2014, 3:51am
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Most of us are math teachers, scientists or engineers, and the rest are historians, some of whom are fluent in Turkish and can read Ottoman Turkish in Arabic script. My sister got a PhD in history with a thesis titled "Witches, Whores and Scolds", and then became a dream-reader.
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grammaboodawg
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Mar 24 2014, 9:23am
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I didn't know about the 5 either! So Hang In There, Daughter! *high five*
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Patty
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Mar 24 2014, 1:32pm
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Yeah, I know you must have broken that 5 rule before
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You reached I M M O R T A L I T Y !!
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Ethel Duath
Half-elven
Mar 24 2014, 8:48pm
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I could've met your kids at our Mini-moot. My brother is the only person I know who can count (not sure how far--at least to 20, I'm guessing) in Sumerian. They could compare notes in ancient scripts while the rest of us take notes in Angerthas and Tengwar.
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RangerLady23
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Mar 25 2014, 6:16pm
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Majorly. Hugely. Most certainly the geek!
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imin
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Apr 5 2014, 5:07pm
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Geek and because i am a geek - the weird one
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This is for my mothers side who i grew up with. Not a great deal of interest in education etc, where as from as far back as i can remember i have loved learning.
My dads side are much more enthusiastic about learning and education in general and so i am considered average on that side.
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