Name: Still A Nerd
Duration: P00H02M57S
Description: It's all Rob Balder's fault, really. His Jonathan Coulton parody "Still Annoyed" made my brain form the phrase "Still A Nerd". That's pretty much it. Except that JoCo liked the lyrics when I sent them to him. Many thanks, big guy.

Still A Nerd

from More Than FuMP: Songs of The FuMP, Vol. 2 by Tom Smith

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It's all Rob Balder's fault, really. His Jonathan Coulton parody "Still Annoyed" made my brain form the phrase "Still A Nerd". That's pretty much it. Except that JoCo liked the lyrics when I sent them to him. Many thanks, big guy.

lyrics

I have six bowties.
None of my pants cuffs reach my shoes,
And I sort my underwear by thread count.

Majored in physics,
Minored in getting beaten up.
Wore a kick-me sign until
I had that jacket dry-cleaned.

Lifting weights, I hurt myself with only three curls,
And I've never had a conversation with girls.
But I built a droid myself using parts from off the shelf --
You can see that I'm still a nerd.

Not that I'm bragging...
George Lucas texts me when he's stuck.
I can quote the Matrix films in Klingon.

Chess is too simple --
I'd rather frag a bunch of n00bz.
I'm a god until I have
To be in Meatspace again.

'Cause my nasal laughter makes folks think I'm a dope,
And someday I ought to get familiar with soap.
But my bosses aren't saps, 'cause their network would collapse
If I wasn't still a nerd.

Jonathan Coulton,
Maybe Weird Al, oh yeah, Tom Lehrer...
Someday I should pay them for their albums.

Downloading's easy,
Downloading comedy is hard.
I can crack this DRM,
But then I wrote it myself.

A fine meal, a sunset or such similar joys
Seem a waste of time when I've got all of my toys,
I'm an outcast socially, but I've bought your company --
It's just fine that I'm still a nerd.

Steven Hawking says I'm still a nerd.
There's no reason I should have matured.
I can hack your whole life with a word,
And you'll never know what just occurred,
So be nice to me, I'm still a nerd.
Still a nerd,
Still a nerd.

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from More Than FuMP: Songs of The FuMP, Vol. 2, released May 20, 2009
Music: "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton

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Weird Al with more books, JoCo with more jokes, Carlin with more Cthulhu. Since 1985, Tom Smith has been breaking hearts, minds, and laws of propriety and physics with his insane blend of sf/fantasy, Life With Computers, pop culture, politics, and puns. More than twenty albums later, he maintains the best is yet to come. ... more

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