Geek

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

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

_____ 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.

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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.

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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.”

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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

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

(An aside - the root of the word "Geek" comes from the Old English/Dutch/German word Geck, or fool)

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