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So, yeah. Marriages in the U.S. are on decline, except maybe among geeks — who are pairing up faster than penguins being narrated by Morgan Freeman, if these ongoing "viral marriage proposals" mean anything.
They don't. But here's some anecdotal evidence anyway! Now add to that collection of "adorkable marriage propsoals," this dude "doctorpappa," as he's known on YouTube, wearing a paper mache mask in the visage of surly robot Bender "Bending Unit" Rodriquez," and spitting binary code in an obvious reference to the 2007 direct-to-video feature "Bender's Big Score," based on the then-cancelled series "Futurama." (Comedy Central aired it in multiple parts, but anyway ...)
Rather than opening a portal to the past however, (as in "Bender's Big Score,"), this code allegedly maps out a link to some chick's future: A marriage proposal. Here's what the lucky lady (who had to decode this mess) told Geekologie:
My boyfriend told me I had to close my laptop for a couple minutes, then when I logged back on this was posted to my facebookwall. He sat across the room as I transcribed and then decoded it. After about a half hour I found out it says, "Rachel, you are awesome. Will you marry me?" I said yes, of course :B
Truly, it's a tribute to this woman's attention span and/or love that she made it through the entire 3:12 minutes to decode this mess, which proves, above all, that just because something's cute, doesn't mean it's cute for 3:12 minutes.
Plus, why have a menacing RC shark floating in the background if it's not going to attack? Talk about anti-climatic. Then again, why have a pile of laundry in the background (right) if you're asking someone to share your life?
With this latest geek marriage proposal to go viral, it is now apparent to even the most naive of Internet saps that these dorks are engaged in fierce competition, cranking out increasingly meta matrimonial inquiries in an effort to pwn (that's elder nerd speak for "summarily beat into submission in a humiliating fashion") all viral proposals that came before.
Let's just hope this latest hu-mon pair bonding doesn't end like this. (Scan the QR code with your smartphone to learn the answer, nerds!)
Gizmodo via Geekologie
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- Are your deleted photos still on Facebook?
Helen A.S. Popkingoes blah blah blah about privacy and then asks her to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+. Because that's how she rolls.
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The words "geek", "dork", and "nerd" show up twice each in this short blurb...I think it correlates to the number of zeros after the 1 that will become his annual income. Besides the greater likelyhood that a nerk, geek, or dork will have a larger income, we also are better mates, as we are generally more attentive to our partner's needs...And, that whole attention to detail thing... ;-)
Love this response. My sweet husband works for a large software company that will go nameless.....every single time I go to one of his work functions I am truly shocked how hot the wives are! I know its shallow to even notice ----but these women are gorgeous! They are madly in love with their nerdy, dorky, geeky husbands. I have become friends with a few of the women and they all say the same thing: if you can tear their husbands away from their computers---- they are the most sensitive, wonderful providers ( and they make over six figure salaries which isn't too bad either) It also doesn't hurt that most of them didn't have sex until after college and now they are VERY THANKFUL--nothing makes a woman happier than a grateful faithful husband :)
@Kallie it sounds like nothing really has changed. all those women you mention sound like trophy wives who are madly in love with their rich, geeky husbands because they are the new Wall Street types. Most likely all those trophy wives are madly in love with the money their geeks bring home. You also mention those rich geeks didn't have sex until after college...well, news flash...during college, those trophy wives were probably banging the hot jocks because that was what was fun at the time, meanwhile those geeks were sitting around playing D and D. Just an observation.
sooooo, can someone tell us geeks that arent lucky enuff to have a smartphone what the QR code is?
"Let's get divorced.", seriously.
lol, serioously? too funny.
The answer should be obvious even without a QR code reader...it's at a 50% rate in the US...
It's a text function that says: "Let's get divorced."
why is this article so cynical? the fact that Rachel made it thru the whole video and decoding of the message is a testament to her devotion to this guy. and a hint that she'll stick with him thru the boring, non-binary times. maybe if it were a little harder to get married, only the persistent would get married. all glory to the Hypnotoad!
Actually, his middle name is just "Bending". Also, Hynotoad is the dumbest character on the... All hail Hynotoad!
Quick turn off the TV before Hypno.....All Glory to Hypnotoad
The Geeks shall inherit the earth... Heh
Ah! Parity Binding. That most interesting of human procedures.
Did I hear a 2 ? Surely not, there's no such thing as 2.
10110110110101101011110001011000101011011010100001000101011010101101101010000101110110110101011010110101000010001 - LOL
010101000110100001101001011100110010000001100001011100100111010001101001011000110110110001100101001000000110100101110011001000000110011001110101011011100110111001111001 = This article is funny
01001001001000000110000101101101001000000111001101110101011000110110100000100000011000010010000001100111011001010110010101101011 = I am such a Geek
There is a shark in the background because I just bought it for Christmas, and there is laundry in a pile because I left it there :B Not too calculated because he never expected anybody outside of our circle of friends to see it!