How nerdy are your parents?

[Shorty]

My dad is a sci-fi and film geek. Strangely enough, though, we weren't raised on Star Trek or anything. He took me and my cousin to see a re-release of A New Hope when we were really little - I couldn't have been more than five. He had boxes and boxes and boxes of sci-fi books and magazines and a ton of sci-fi stories he'd written on his computer (I've found a couple online that were published in magazines and books; I love stumbling across my father's writing). One book in particular that always stood out to me was Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials. (I tried to look for a copy of my own years ago, only to find it was discontinued, but thanks to Amazon I was able to obtain one!) He also had a lot of Isaac Asimov books. A lot. I definitely get my sci-fi and film love from him, and thank god for that. I don't remember him ever really playing video games with us, but he would get us games he thought we would like.

My mom is not geeky or nerdy in any sense of either of the words. She was a pristine home-making, interior decorating, furniture re-upholstering wife who grew intensely irritated with her children if we spent longer than thirty minutes playing video games. She also wanted to take away all my Goosebumps books because she didn't like what they were about.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

My dad watched DBZ with me as a kid. Also, both my parents are into Merlin and stuff. My dad more than my mom enjoys the fantasy and sci-fi stuff. Need to force them to watch Game of Thrones...

[NorthernChaosGod]

My parents don't really do any nerdy things anymore.

When I was younger I used to play NES games with my a lot. And he used to draw a lot of DBZ characters, so I assume he watched at some point.

[Sephex]

Please forgive the quality of the pictures. There is no good source of light where these were taken and the best camera I have is on my cell phone. This is a fraction of what is all over my parent's house. My dad enjoys to collect things occasionally. Also, yes, he needs to dust once in awhile. Spoiler tag for size and the amount of pics.

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[Jinx]

Sephex's dad wins this thread.

[Calliope]

Sephex, I feel a vague urge to cry and call whoever makes that Hoarders TV show.

[marrylessey1694]

100 % nerds is me.

[Teek]

My mom is not geeky or nerdy in any sense of either of the words. She was a pristine home-making, interior decorating, furniture re-upholstering wife who grew intensely irritated with her children if we spent longer than thirty minutes playing video games. She also wanted to take away all my Goosebumps books because she didn't like what they were about.

Your dad must be extremely attractive; I wonder how their marriage works out.

(Or their, you know, being together).

[Araciel]

My mom read like every Piers Anthony and Anne McCaffrey book ever, tested the NES before getting us one for christ-mass and played the trout out of Final Fantasy, thus being responsible for my being on this site right now.

My dad watched Star Trek TNG with me every week when I was a baby James and it was epic - he also loved Star Wars, all comic book movies and tv shows - watched x men and spider man cartoons with us. He told me once he was way into archaeology when he was a kid and loved Greek mythology and whatnot, so when he saw my D&D stuff, he didn't understand most of it but could name like every sick monster and its history/powers.

[Shorty]

My mom is not geeky or nerdy in any sense of either of the words. She was a pristine home-making, interior decorating, furniture re-upholstering wife who grew intensely irritated with her children if we spent longer than thirty minutes playing video games. She also wanted to take away all my Goosebumps books because she didn't like what they were about.

Your dad must be extremely attractive; I wonder how their marriage works out.

(Or their, you know, being together).

They've been divorced for twelve years.

[Pheesh]

:tumble2:

[escobert]

I recently found this picture of my dad at about the same age I am now. Maybe a couple years younger. He's to the right and my aunt and uncle to the left.

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