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Contest Winner: The Geekiest Gift Ever Received Is…
By Great White Snark | January 5, 2010
Wow. This was a tough one. Forty-six of you submitted entries describing inarguably-geeky gifts, and I had to sort through all of them and pick a winner. For which I kind of resent you. But I guess I understand, since you were vying for such a delicious prize.
There were many standouts among the entries, and I highlighted some of my favorites, below. The winner is listed at the end of the post.
Most Nerdy, via “batty”:
during my freshman year of engineering school, i received a pocket protector for christmas.
Most Awkwardly Charming, via “Dg”:
the geekiest gift I ever received was an accordion. so I was 10 with matching sweatsuits and glasses on a string and an accordion. how fabulous.
Most Japanese Super Power Batshit Crazy GO!!!, via “Eels”:
I was recently gifted 40 mangas. It’s more otaku than geek, but they’re close to the same category, no?
Most Unfortunate, via Silvia:
I received the collection of Harry Potter and the Twilight Saga for Christmas Eve.
Most Zombie-rific, via Darren:
This christmas I received a garden zombie. Yup you heard me right, Garden Zombie. It’s the head, shoulders, and arms of a zombie coming up out of the ground and you put it in your garden to scare people.
Most Esoteric, via Henry:
I got into yo-yoing about two years ago. I know, who really YO-YO’s these days? My best friend decided that she’d gift me a yo-yo. For Christmas two years ago, I got a yo-yo made by the German company, “Henry’s Yo-Yo”. She said it was perfect, cause it had my name all over it XD.
Most Old School, via Topher:
…friend of mine was cleaning up while moving and realized he hadn’t thrown away his laser discs and the laser disc player along with it. He offered the player and his library of discs to me and I JUMPED at it. Inaugural disc to play in Laser Disc player now that it’s in my possession? Star Wars? Empire? Nope. Return of the Jedi, because one can’t get enough Slave Leia and there isn’t the Ewoks “yub yub” song in the Special Editions!
Superlative Parenting Award, via Shane:
This year, for Christmas, I got Transformers pajamas…matching Transformer pajamas to my 3 year old son’s.
Most Consistent Quality + Quantity, via Victoria:
Well, just this past Christmas, all in one package I got Yoda Santa, a handpainted portrait of a zombie, blood energy drink, super hero magnet set, an X-Files book, and a PCB board from an Atari Centipede game. All wrapped in Spiderman wrapping paper.
Most GWS-Appropriate, via Scott:
I have a couple: for my birthday this year my wife duplicated the battlestar galactica cake you featured a while back. (in Sept)
Most Sycophantic, via Chuck:
My wife added me to the ‘Great White Snark’ e-mail list…
The actual winner of the Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side DVD is Athene, for her hilarious/utterly-geeky entry:
Last year I got the full Star Wars Princess Leia Slave outfit- From my mom. With a note. “I need more grandchildren.” Geeky, yes. Weird, yes. But if we have another girl we agreed to name her Leia!
And it doesn’t hurt that I can relate to wanting to impregnate someone wearing a Slave Leia costume.
Other people: just because you didn’t win or I didn’t call you out doesn’t mean you didn’t have a solid entry or aren’t actually a geek. You are a geek. Just not the sort of one winning anything from me today, aside from appreciation. I enjoyed reading every single one of your entries* and thank you for submitting them.
* Except maybe for the one that just said “a Dell Latitude.” Which made me a little sad.
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