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My name's James, and I'm a geek.  

This is my 28th consecutive year of geekdom.  I've worn glasses all my life, I've sneered at people who play sports, I read comic books.  I like lists, I post on internet messageboards, and I've alphabetized my bookshelves.  I think it's cool that I know "floccinacinihilipilifilication" is the longest word in the English language.  I'm a geek.

Your turn, brother or sister!  Are you a nerd, a spod, a geek or a freak?  Why?

I'm enough of a geek to point out that you mis-spelled "floccinaucinihilipilification" ;)

I'm a nerd. I own a mug with the periodic table of elements on it.

Well that's annoying.  Do you know how long it took me to remember "Antidisestablishmentarianism"?  And now I find that it's only the second longest word- what will I talk about at parties now?  There's no way I can remember this new fangled word of yours...

Pffft!

Well, floccinaucinihilipilifilicationary reflections aside, there's also supercalifragilisticexpialidicious and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis to think about - I don't count them as one's just a joke and the other was made up just to show off.

Ah, but the key question do you know what floccinaucinihilipilification *means* (note spelling, *tsk*)?  If so, you are definitely a nerd, not a geek.  

I myself am a geek, but I know the address for dictionary.com...

My name's Max, and I'm a Freak.

This is my 16th consecutive year of Freakdom. I'm meant to wear glasses, but I don't. I love playing sports. I read comic books. I post on internet messageboards. I've tried to organise my bookshelves, but i gave up. I think it's cool that I know all of you. I'm a freak.

:P

Strangley I believe I sit somewhere in between, Im definatley more geeky than my so called "normal" freinds but less geeky than nearly everyone on here.  

So in essence Im confused about my identity, please help?!!?  :)

Slips

My name is Dave and I have been a geek for as long as I can remember. My bookshelves would be alphabetical if my non-geek son would leave them alone long enough for me to organise.

I post on internet message boards and produce fan-art for a comic website.

I even use a pseudo- droid name to sound more geek-like.

Bolt-01

In other words.....



VAPE 'EM V. C.'s!!!

Bolt-01

Hah! Call yourself a geek?

"Floccinaucinihilipilification" is NOT the longest word in the English language!

Yours,
Mike C, thankfully not suffering from
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Um, read ALL the posts above and I think you'll find you've been comprehensively outgeeked!

Although if you really want to get competitive, the longest "real" word is "Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglu-
taminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyl-
tryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucyl-
asparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylaspa-
raginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylg-
lutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylgluta-
minylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyll-
ysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylar-
ginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvaly-
ltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartyl-
prolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreo-
nylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginyliso-
leucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylgl-
utaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamylthreonyl-
leucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspa-
rtylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylas-
paraginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamyll-
eucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparagi-
nylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylseryl-
methionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalan-
ylprolylalanylserine"

It means the realisation that something is worthless, doesn't it?

I have a cxompulsion to watch anything, literally anything, with spaceships robots or vampires in it - even though I associate with people with good taste in movies and should know better.

Oh, and I just bought a Firefly box set. I'll probably end up watching it on my laptop. Geekcore!

I'm yet another David, and yet another geek, 33 years and counting.

Apart from all those comics (although there are fewer these days), I'm also science geek of sorts, and spend my days in the lab fiddling with bits of DNA (this is work, mind, not a hobby).

One of the favourite geeky pastimes of my other half and myself, however, is watching old kung-fu flicks (Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, etc.) and spotting all the extras and figuring out what other films we've seen them in ("oh - him at the back!  He was the bus driver in Winners and Sinners!" etc.).  Actually she's much better than me...she's a real geek.

One of the favourite geeky pastimes of my other half and myself, however, is watching old kung-fu flicks (Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, etc.) and spotting all the extras and figuring out what other films we've seen them in ("oh - him at the back! He was the bus driver in Winners and Sinners!" etc.). Actually she's much better than me...she's a real geek.

Jesus, it's not just me then... I do that with Jackie Chan movies.

Erm, I've just posted a request on a comics-related messageboard looking for fellow geeks to play an online roleplaying game with. That combines at least 3 different types of geekery in one go...

I can name the characters standing about in the background in the Star Wars movies.

Lightweight. I used to be able to recite Greedo's "Going somewhere, Solo?" speech in its entirety in Rodian...

NERD!

I've since used alcohol therapy to erase most of the lines from my memory, rendering me slightly less spod-like (although admittedly, I am still planning trips to more than one comic convention this year...)

Which is the geekier?

Remixing a Underworld tune using samples from Star Wars or remixing an Chemical Brothers tune using sampes from Monty Python?

I've done both, mind.

I think the first is geeky oddboy, the second offkilter and kinda cool (the idea- don't know what the end result sounds like , so...)

My name's Lara and i've been a combined nerd/ freak for... a very long time.

I met my boyfriend on an internet message board.
I have a star wars tattoo and a judge dredd tattoo, which i'm planning on expanding if i ever meet the right artist/ tattooist.
I too can recite Greedo's 'going somewhere...' speech and can also play most of the star wars score on lots of different instruments.
I know every Final Fantasy game inside out,back to front, and wouldn't mind a job writing the strategy guides
I have 2 ring tones on my phone, the cantina band tune, and the FF chocobo tune

I could go on...

I sometime pretend my mobile phone is a phaser.

I sometimes pretend my phaser is a mobile phone...

My name's Iain and I thought I was geeky untill i read this thread

Slips wrote:

"Strangley I believe I sit somewhere in between..."

It sounds like you are in denial, mate.  Take the first step and admit your geekery.  You won't be travelling down the road alone.

"I sometimes pretend my phaser is a mobile phone"

Isn't that a bit dangerous?  You don't have it on level 16 do you?  You could end up vapourising yourself (as well as those around you) when you pretend to answer it...

"We come in peace (shoot to kill)"

No, it's alright - it's only set to stun...

I have booked off May 19th, and was annoyed and suprised in equal measue when someone asked me why.

Hi, my name is Darryl.

I own a shed - not full of gardening tools, but roleplaying books, comics, and old toys.

I Paint wargames minatures.

I play computer games.

I post on many Internet message boards.

I like rock music.

I obsessivly hunt down Nine Inch Nails memorabiliato the extent of buying anything with a mention of them in (which at the moment is bloody expensive I tell ya!)

I know too much trivia about Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Spaced than is healthy.

IM A GEEK AND PROUD OF IT!

I stand accused m'lud

I'm called Chris
I'm 21
I'm a student
I have been wearing classes since the age of 7
I have suffered from acne that required medical attention.
I know how to programme
I don't run Windows
I use Linux
I am a scientist
I was consistantly top of my year at school
I was offered a place at Oxford University
I study chemistry
I know and understand brittish politics
I know and understand the structure and ritual of the Catholic church
I know this histroy of wester christianity from the reformation
I know post-1871 - 1945 German history.
I know 1900-1945 Russian history
I understand the political theories of Fascism, socialism, communism, anarchy and 'New' Labour
I know endless useless facts about music, in particular the late 70s - early 90s German music scene.I own a number of CDs and DVDs that are not avaliable to buy in this country.
I have been using the 2000AD message board for over 4 years
I still live with my parents

I'm sure there's more nerdy/geeky stuff I could say but that should be enough.


Oh one last thing! I am a male with long hair.

::I know how to programme

You know how to program.

My name's Linton and I've just proved that I'm a nerd and a smartarse.

"TK421, why aren't you at your post?"

I can't spell, I'm sure that counts for some geek-points somewhere.

I remember a strip in Roy of the Rovers called "The Wheelchair Wonder".

M@

I'd like to nominate myself as the King Geek...

My name's Mike.
I'm 39.
I wear glasses, and I'm going bald.
At any given time I own an average of nine computers.
I can build a PC from the ground up, but I have trouble changing the oil in my car.
My main computer has fourteen different devices attached to it, but my car doesn't even have a working radio.
I spend at least twelve hours a day in a room that contains about five hundred CDs, two thousand science fiction novels, about fifteen hundred comics and graphic novels, and three different sets of multi-volume encyclopaedias. However, I keep the majority of my CDs, books, comics and encyclopaedias in other parts of the house.
I've read every book in the house, including the encyclopaedias.
I have a huge collection of comic-based superhero movies and TV shows.
I can recite the Vogon poem from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I have original comic artwork on the walls of my sitting-room.
I have never watched nor participated in a game of soccer, or any other team sport.
I own eighteen different editions of the first Stainless Steel Rat novel.
According to the average scores I've received on various on-line tests, my I.Q. is 189.
I don't have any work colleagues, so you guys on this message board are among my closest friends.

There! Beat that, if you can!

Mike

I want *his* life.

My name is Mike.
I'm almost 27.
I have a full-time job that involves sitting at a computer all day.
When I return home I then spend my entire evening - usually into the wee small hours - sitting at a computer.
Funnily enough, I wear glasses.
I met my previous two girlfriends on the internet.
I met all but four of my current friends on the internet.
I get more than a little giddy when my girlfriend bids for a She-Ra costume on Ebay.
I go more than a little funny when my girlfriend wears my 2000AD fan logo t-shirt to bed.
On a nearby chest of drawers is a trumpet I've played three times. 'Climbing' that trumpet is a Spiderman soft toy.
I buy my 1-year-old nephew comic book toys and videos in the hope I'll be his 'cool uncle' when he grows up.
Next to my monitor is a photo of me, aged 4, dressed as a cowboy and cleary loving every minute of it.
Also next to my monitor are a double-ended light sabre, a bottle of Monty Python's Holy (Gr)ail, a copy of Dredd vs Death, the DVD of the Space Odyssey BBC series, and a replica Psi Judge badge I bought on Ebay ... which I occasionally pin to my jacket ...
I now have more graphic novels than books about philosophy.
I own every Terry Pratchett novel ... even the shit ones.
I cannot get to my wardrobe because of the comics in front of it.
I get upset when other people touch my comics.
When my housemates, disgusted by the state of my room, cleaned up for me, I was heard to say "but you've ruined my filing system!"
I still own the same Superman duvet set I had as a child. And I miss the Superman wallpaper I had as a child.
To my left is a Lara Croft: Tomb Raider film poster.
To my right are an Episode I poster and an Episode II poster ... both framed.
I am preparing a fanzine about the end of the world because one of my internet friends suggested  it.
I know all the words to all the Monty Python songs. I sing my nephew to sleep with them. This brings me enormous joy ...
I go to the pub with two of my internet friends and talk about comics.
I know more useless information than is healthy. And I am only too happy to impart it.

I don't have any work colleagues, so you guys on this message board are among my closest friends.

You know, I don't think anybody is going to be  beating that.

My name is Will.
I am a uni student and I am 18 years old.
I read comics.
I correct people's grammar.
I watch Doctor Who, and I love Sylvester McCoy's Doctor.
I have been reading/posting on the 2000AD board since day 1.  I read the board instead of study.
I make lists of comics and cult TV DVDs I need to buy.
My comics are immaculately filed in my wardrobe by year.
I have alphabetised my CD collection.
I get tetchy when people touch my comics, and upset when the postman folds my progs.
I can recite large bulks of dialogue from many Doctor Who episodes, Red Dwarf episodes, and most of Hitch-Hiker's Guide.
I can remember what is in most 2000AD progs for the last 7-8 years.
I know 1900-1945 Russian history.
I know the entire history of Doctor Who.
I know ridiculous amounts of music trivia.
I am a wealth of other useless knowledge, but have found it difficult to pass a Maths or Science exam since grade 8.
I have a wall covered in old prog covers printed from this site.
I have been reading 2000AD since 1996ish and have collected issues dating back to 1985.
I am currently typing on a computer with two monitors and listening to the Return of the Jedi soundtrack.
I enjoy browsing comic shops and second hand book shops.

My Name is Dan
I am a almost 30 and have only worn glasses for the last 9 months.
My memory is crap, apart from for trivia.
Much of what has been said before can apply to me.

However, I have a Spectrum emulator for my phone.  And am trying to decide if it really is feasible to play elite on 10 keys.

Thank you for listening.

Conex - it was "Block Rockin' Beats [Dead Parrot Mix]" - and IMO it is brilliant.

Reading a bit more, I should probably confess that I own official replicas of the Ranger and Psi Corp badges from Babylon 5, and also one of the set posters.

Dan

I used to have a double-bladed lightsabre...
sometime I might show you all the photos from a 'Heroes & Villians' party I had once, where you can see me dressed as Darth Maul in battle against a white witch on a bouncy castle.

I met my boyfriend on an internet message board.
I have a star wars tattoo and a judge dredd tattoo, which i'm planning on expanding if i ever meet the right artist/ tattooist.
I too can recite Greedo's 'going somewhere...' speech and can also play most of the star wars score on lots of different instruments.
I know every Final Fantasy game inside out,back to front, and wouldn't mind a job writing the strategy guides
I have 2 ring tones on my phone, the cantina band tune, and the FF chocobo tune

Thats pretty much Me except of course the tattoos and the girlfriend part

Call yerselves spods?  Not one of you has yet admitted to a fondness for weak lemon drinks.

I'm not a spod.  

I know nothing about computers, referring to them mainly as "magic boxes".  
I have non-geek friends.
I haven't watched Episode II, and switched Episode I off halfway through.

Geek in denial, there.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a geek alright.  

I just don't have the dedication to become either a nerd or a spod.  Nor do I have the funky haircut, tattoo & bassplaying abilities of the natural freak.

humm I?m Jamie and I have just found out I?m a not a nerd or a geek but sit slap bang in the middle  freakdom (nods at Max, Lara (Tankie), Dan (Dankell) and David Page whom seem to inhabit the same strange nether world (I?m not alone thank god THANK GOD!!))
I read comic books and have 3 times my own hight in them (I?m 5' 8") but can't be arsed with all that plastic cover bollox because they are getting burnt with my body when I die (ROTJ styl-e ahh yeah)
I also have a compulsion to watch anything, literally anything, with spaceships robots or vampires in it.  Oh and anything animated (even to my shame the care bares) and bought a copy of firefly not just for me but also for my best mate too
I met my girlfriend on the net but I can't recite Greedo's 'going somewhere...' speech but that?s because I have a totally shite whas'name you know, thing
I am ex raver I play the didgeridoo (but not enough as bloody people seem to want to sleep when I need to) I collect records and am a bedroom DJ I LOVE my Technic 1210's (and yes I do mean LOVE! all night long if I was allowed) and am on record as saying I was now beyond the need for a girl friend when I got them (sods law as soon as I said that I met my girl friend but hey I?m not complaining)
I also used to have a double-bladed light sabre (in fact I think I still do some where) and am slightly awed buy Oddboys remixing "choones"
I do not have the need for glasses
I like watching cricket and extreme sports
I collect badges and post cards in a vague half arsed way I may do something with them one day
I have a computer which I use mostly to play games on but now I have a MP3 player I am thinking of hooking the thing up to my Technics and dusting off the copy of reason I have some where QBert watch out (I wish..)
I went to my first Comic convention last year for my birthday, it was Dredd con V and I loved it I got a bit drunk bimbled around met and talked cod shite and comics with artists for ages stood next to Max and didn?t know it said hi to Queen Bou and possibly confused her said hi to King Trout who also seemed confused saw Oddboy return from the main hall with the picture he now has as an icon (he could be described as "made up" or "chuffed" with the picture) but didn?t say hello as I was by that point at a mental age of about 12 years old and was a bit pissed as well and was resisting the urge to run from room to room with my coat hooked on my head pretending it was a "Battle of the Planets" style cape and doing forward rolls whilst humming the theme tune (oh come on you?ve all done it) and had to go out side for a bit of a calming smoke and a think in the rain with my mate John and a but I?m going again and I?m bloody well getting in the picture this time
so yeah I'm a Freak but in a nice way, so I'm told by... come to think of it every one i know or meet

I collect badges and post cards in a vague half arsed way I may do something with them one day

Like what?!

i donno possibly a collarge or something
it is a half arsed thing after all so i may just have them kicking round my room like i have the last 15 years or so with the occasonal losing loads when ever i move Meh!

 I'm a crypto geek, try desperately to hide it but then have some kind of spasm and quote dialogue from Superman 2, or start twitching in HMV when i see the doug mclure box set, or worst of all when the inevtible pub conversation about old tv shows comes around find myself defending blakes 7.  Surely one day science will find a cure.

Jim - "Not God, Zod"

so the pecking order is what?
Spod
Nerd
Geek
Freak
"Normal" Human
is that right?

While I don't know Greedo's 'going somewhere' speech, I used to know Ackbar's one from ROTJ, and still know maybe 90% of Yoda's 'Judge me by my size do you?' speech from TESB.
Oh and I refer to movie titles by acronyms.

" met my girlfriend on the net "

Hah! NERD!!






















Waitaminute....

Rrrrright, if we're going to get competitive about this geekery business...

Me and the good woman flew all the way to New Yoik to see Star Wars Episode I on its opening day AND enjoyed it (sigh) AND got the train down to Florida to go to a Xena convention (oh yes) AND visit Cape Canaveral.  

And I've just spent my last few quid on a Clone Trooper with Removable Helmet.  

And I can recite ALL the dialogue from Star Wars in orde (try me), and the opening five minutes and major speeches of the other four (to date).  

The  problem the rest of you wannabes have is that you get distracted by your "friends" and "sunshine" and "physical activity".  You're just not bloody trying.

Ok so from reading all this I guess I'm a 2000AD (and related!) collecting NERD.

Don't think there is much that I don't have at least one out of the set.... I'd be more than happy for people to see what they have that I haven't and then steal into their rooms in the dead of night with a very large heavy sharp metal object to make sure I get it...hahahahahha

"And I can recite ALL the dialogue from Star Wars in orde (try me), and the opening five minutes and major speeches of the other four (to date)."

Possibly with all the the passion and flamboyancy of Dustin Hoffman in Rainman...
... And what about the Star Wars Christmas Special? hum? humm? Didn?t think so.
~(;o)

I collect badges and post cards in a vague half arsed way I may do something with them one day

I do that too. I don't even know why. But it's not like I get many so meh.

I keep my progs in slip covers in ring binders (two assalts to a binder). It's just that i am a collector. I buy any limeted ed model  by GW.

I do however love participating in team sport and working out at the gym. I'm a jock with geekish tendancies. (I was just adding to my earlier list.)

"Possibly with all the the passion and flamboyancy of Dustin Hoffman in Rainman..."

 Are you stalking me? (ROTFLMAO)

"And what about the Star Wars Christmas Special? hum? humm? Didn?t think so. "

As it happens I just got a pressie of a bootleg of the selfsame Christmas Special for my birthday.  It is here my geekishness fails me, and I won't be memorising this one - it is TERRIBLE (no worse than that), a slow-motion car-crash of awfulness so bad it actually goes beyond funny and back to bad...

...BUT the DVD came with literally DOZENS of American Kenner toy commercials from the 70's and early 80's, which were bloody marvellous and a few very nice documentary pieces and inetrviews.  

watch it Max you may start to slip from Freakdom to Geekdom then its a slippery slide to Nerdishness
BTW has any one here done a Nerd battle each asking the other to correctly quoat stuff or give trivier on geekish things? (i seem to remember a strip in a deadline or summit drawn by the guy who did milk n cheese that had one)

"(i seem to remember a strip in a deadline or summit drawn by the guy who did milk n cheese that had one)"

Call yoursef a geek!  That's from the sainted Evan Dorkin's "Eltingville"  strips, any real nerd knows that.  The pure distilled genius of that man never fails to amaze.

Gah! Damn my curious Google tendencies - It all comes rushing back! The alcohol therapy was all for nought!



Noisybast reaches for another bottle...

Link: Greedo teaches Rodian

God, I really am hanging out with nerds, aren't I?

I'm leaving.  Forever!

Guess who's back?  Did you all miss me?  You know you did.

Shooshi moo!  Have I got a script for YOU!  Where are my meds?

Mummy?  Why are you unglugging my compu

JEB, you're avoiding the topic.

I don't fit into any of the categories mentioned on this thread.

I'm unique.

Unique, or just a non-conformist?

Definitely unique. :)

Those of you that have admitted to having romantic long-term relationships have all disqualified yourselves from being a nerd.

You may still be a freak, a geek or a spod if you like (although you must be paid a wage to be a geek, and it must be employment that promotes your geekery).

I don't actually fit into any of those catagories. I fit most comfortably on this board, I'm a Squaxx.

critter

Just think, there was once a time when  non-conformist meant something other than "disagreeable idiot who should sit down and shut up".

"Call yoursef a geek! That's from the sainted Evan Dorkin's "Eltingville" strips, any real nerd knows that. The pure distilled genius of that man never fails to amaze."

hey i never said i was a geek im a freak and proud

My anal retention has disallowed me catogorizing myself alongside others in a comparitive and competitive nature.

I like comics.

Must... Resist... Obvious joke...

Filthy Swine!

i don't think I 've ever been committed enough to be anything really.
 

hahaa I beat you all with my three pound video of Judge Dredd!

Six quid for the dvd.  And three quid for the American Godzilla movie, purely for a sense of morbid completion.

Yeah, but *video* Bear, video.
VCR

Only thing that beats it is Betamax.
Or maybe the original spool.

American Godzilla trumps *anything*, though - regardless of format.
They remake a movie about an atomic-fire-breathing 80-metre tall lizard that kicks buildings over as a two-hour movie featuring Ferris Bueller explaining asexual reproduction to a Frenchman who looks as bored as a corpse.  How it didn't set the box office alight I'll never know.














And 'asexual' is just a fancy science way of saying 'gay'.
That says it all, really.

"You may still be a freak, a geek or a spod if you like (although you must be paid a wage to be a geek, and it must be employment that promotes your geekery)."


Bollocks. Employment status has nothing to do with geek levels.

My name's Sam, and I've been a geek since 1985. I've worn glasses since I was five; I read comics so extensively that I was once unable to pay my rent 'cos I'd spent it already on big piles of Hellblazer trades; I'm the guy everyone comes to when they need their computers fixing; almost all of my t-shirts have some geek message or joke which most people need explaining and still don't get it; I'm an expert in Russian, French, English and Post-Colonial African literature; I have silky smooth long man-hair (all thanks to Herbal Essences.... mmm-mmm) and I refuse to have dealings with anyone who can't use the English language to an acceptable standard.

'asexual' means Not sexual; without sex or sexuality; (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of gametes.

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Excerpted from Oxford Talking Dictionary
Copyright ? 1998 The Learning Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


And asexual people have no sexual urges at all. So that rules out all priests ;P

Sigh, i lack women.

18 years of being a geek now ...

I was proudly sitting at home thinkingt to myself that I'm not really a ggek and am nothing like the rest of you when all of a sudden, it dawned on me that, though GREEDO is a RODIAN, he is actually speaking Huttese in the "Going somewhere, Solo?" speech that you are all harping on about.

Ben Burtt, the language and sound guy from STAR WARS seems to thinks so too (or so he says on the DVD commentary).

So I guess I am so kind of geek after all.

And 'asexual' is just a fancy science way of saying 'gay'.


Thats the quote from the film isn't it?
ISN'T IT?

tell me now,I murst know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well to a lot of people I'd be a nerd, I suppose, because I know more about Dr Who and much more about Judge Dredd/2000 AD than most people.  
  on the other hand, my bookshelves are a mess.  

To my horror I've just remembered as a nipper writing to Jim'll Fix It asking to meet the bloke who did the special effects for Doctor Who...

You're OK, my mum's still got the letter in which I begged to meet both Patrick Moore and Popeye because, obviously, they go together.