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It means you are very good at something very important in society, and I don't think that geek can be exclusive to anyone, says Dave Ehlke, another geek who faced Best Buy's legal department in 2004 when the retailer sought to stop his Massachusetts repair business from using the name Geek Housecalls.
Now That Everyone Wants to Be a Geek, Lawyers Have Been Called Miguel Bustillo 2011
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It means you are very good at something very important in society, and I don't think that geek can be exclusive to anyone, says Dave Ehlke, another geek who faced Best Buy's legal department in 2004 when the retailer sought to stop his Massachusetts repair business from using the name Geek Housecalls.
Now That Everyone Wants to Be a Geek, Lawyers Have Been Called Miguel Bustillo 2011
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_____ For the record, Robert, I resent the term Geek to designate one skilled in Technology, almost as much as the implication that Ph.D. means one knows anything more than how to find classrooms.
Ted Samson's blog 2009
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_____ For the record, Robert, I resent the term Geek to designate one skilled in Technology, almost as much as the implication that Ph.D. means one knows anything more than how to find classrooms.
Open Sources's blog 2009
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Ultimately, Just a Geek is a journal of lessons learned about growing up and being a parent.
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The header tells us that Once Upon a Geek is a “a blog for the Irredeemable Shag.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Site Plug: Once Upon A Geek 2009
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Wrong place I know but the Geek is a little public.
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Newegg responded with a legal missive of its own asserting that "Best Buy neither owns nor has exclusive rights to the word 'Geek'."
Now That Everyone Wants to Be a Geek, Lawyers Have Been Called Miguel Bustillo 2011
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Newegg responded with a legal missive of its own asserting that "Best Buy neither owns nor has exclusive rights to the word 'Geek'."
Now That Everyone Wants to Be a Geek, Lawyers Have Been Called Miguel Bustillo 2011
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(An aside - the root of the word "Geek" comes from the Old English/Dutch/German word Geck, or fool)
broadstuff 2010
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