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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Geek chic

It’s the revenge of the nerds: now they're hot hunks!

By JACOB E. OSTERHOUT

Good news, losers: It's cool to be uncool. With the upcoming releases of two new movies, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Baxter," and the recent success of "Napoleon Dynamite," Hollywood has gleefully embraced dorkdom.

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"Women find sex appeal in male geek movie characters," notes Gitesh Pandya, editor of www.boxofficeguru.com. "Geeks have charm in their awkwardness. The personality of a geek makes him sexy, partially because he can be pitied and partially because they are good-natured people."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/goss...p-288485c.html

Jacob E. Osterhout and Gitesh Pandya are clearly geeks.