The Rewards of being a Nerd
Sep. 23rd, 2005 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosToday my company loaded all 1,000+ employees at our corporate headquarters onto buses and whisked us off to the local convention center for a corporate pep assembly.
Each bus was staffed with a "camp counselor" (my choice of title) whose job was to keep everyone amused during the trip -- and a good thing too, because what should have been a twenty minute trip took almost 45 minutes because of unusually horrible traffic. Josh, our assigned Cheer Monger, had a bunch of trivia questions and a bag of prizes: candy bars, Starbucks cards, Barnes & Noble cards, and movie passes.
By the end of the trip, I was acknowledged as the official movie geek on board. Does everyone else know which Disney movie was the first have flatulence in it?
The Lion King
It helps to have a child under the age of ten. I won a Starbucks card for that one, which was a disappointment because I don't drink coffee, and none of the things I would buy at S-bucks are on my diet plan.
A later question was about a shark from Finding Nemo, which I have to confess I have not seen. Someone else won that question by correctly identifying "Bruce."
I was sitting by Josh, so I said, "But how many people realize that Bruce was named after the mechanical shark in Jaws?"
I have no idea if this is actually true or not -- but it seemed likely. Assuming I'm remembering my movie trivia correctly and that was indeed the name they gave to the cantankerous mechanical shark. Josh looked at me funny, then said, "The sheer nerdiness of that deserves a card," and handed me a second Starbucks card.
I was also one of the very few who could correctly name the least-known Bond actor, George Lazenby.
I offered to trade two Starbucks cards for a Barnes and Noble card. No takers. But then a woman sitting behind me got a pair of movie passes, and traded me. So I came out ahead.
Each bus was staffed with a "camp counselor" (my choice of title) whose job was to keep everyone amused during the trip -- and a good thing too, because what should have been a twenty minute trip took almost 45 minutes because of unusually horrible traffic. Josh, our assigned Cheer Monger, had a bunch of trivia questions and a bag of prizes: candy bars, Starbucks cards, Barnes & Noble cards, and movie passes.
By the end of the trip, I was acknowledged as the official movie geek on board. Does everyone else know which Disney movie was the first have flatulence in it?
The Lion King
It helps to have a child under the age of ten. I won a Starbucks card for that one, which was a disappointment because I don't drink coffee, and none of the things I would buy at S-bucks are on my diet plan.
A later question was about a shark from Finding Nemo, which I have to confess I have not seen. Someone else won that question by correctly identifying "Bruce."
I was sitting by Josh, so I said, "But how many people realize that Bruce was named after the mechanical shark in Jaws?"
I have no idea if this is actually true or not -- but it seemed likely. Assuming I'm remembering my movie trivia correctly and that was indeed the name they gave to the cantankerous mechanical shark. Josh looked at me funny, then said, "The sheer nerdiness of that deserves a card," and handed me a second Starbucks card.
I was also one of the very few who could correctly name the least-known Bond actor, George Lazenby.
I offered to trade two Starbucks cards for a Barnes and Noble card. No takers. But then a woman sitting behind me got a pair of movie passes, and traded me. So I came out ahead.
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Date: 2005-09-25 12:46 am (UTC)I ADORE the new Branagh userpic!!!
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Date: 2005-09-25 04:01 am (UTC)As was David Niven, Ursula Andress, Peter Sellers, and Dahlia Lavi, all in the same film.