# My Fellow Geeks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-fellow-geeks/72692>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [October 18, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-fellow-geeks/72692 "2006-10-18T10:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bbazzarrakk)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-fellow-geeks/72692/1 "2006-10-18T10:41:01Z")

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My wife pointed me at FoxTrot this morning:

> **[FoxTrot by Bill Amend for October 13, 2006 | GoComics.com](https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2006/10/13/)**
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> Andy: Sweetie, what's wrong? Jason: A bunch of kids at school called me a geek during recess. Andy: I'm sorry. Kids can be pretty insensitive sometimes. Would a hug help? You're not a geek to me. Jason: (sniff) I try so hard to be an uber-geek!

Seems pretty timely with RubyConf on the horizon.

Just thought I would share. 😉

James Edward G. II

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**Author:** ![bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@bbazzarrakk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bbazzarrakk)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/my-fellow-geeks/72692/2 "2006-10-18T10:44:01Z")

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On 10/13/06, James Edward G. II [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> My wife pointed me at FoxTrot this morning:

What’s probably going through a lot of minds of those of us who are  
parents  
is “I wish that was my kid!”

/Nick