Dork Bell

The Dork Bell has tolled for me.

The inner geek test hit my office yesterday and everyone was finding out their score. All the cool people were pretty close to me (but I was the highest, bwahaahaahaa) and we started talking old D&D and dice. Then we decided that all of our decisions in the office should be decided with rolls. Do I need to proof this page or is it fine as it is? Roll a d20. Should I update this page? 2d6.
And cast a spell for “Go to lunch” (that is one I really need and we used about half an hour later).

The Dork Bell idea came from phoebek. I originaly had a link to the post describing it but since it was a restricted post, I got her permission to repost it. I really liked how she put it so, here is her description of the Dork Bell verbatum.

“Have you ever used a gaming term to describe your life (ie, “Hey, I just leveled up at work!” or “Oops, I botched English grammar and syntax… let me try to explain what the hell I meant.”) If you did, then at that moment a lovely chiming bell rang on your behalf (DING!), audible only to others of your ilk who knew what you were talking about. Humming the Star Wars theme in the shower. Footnoting your speech. Naming your house. Creating an Excel spreadsheet with your friends’ schedules. Designing yourself as a White Wolf vampire. There are as many ways to ring the dorkbell as ways to be a dork.

Remember, even if you have not done any of these things, lately, you are not immune. If you can hear it, you need not as whom the dork bell tolls. It tolls for thee. We’re all in this together; no dork gets out alive.”

{edited to remove link and replace with quoted comment.}

3 thoughts on “Dork Bell

    1. Re: :-(

      Permission has been received and post has been edited to include the comment referred to. Now everyone can share in the joy that is understanding the Dork Bell.

      ~Ding~

  1. With apologies to E.A. Poe, who is assuredly rolling over in his grave.

    Hear the tolling of the bells, dorky bells.
    What a lot of geekiness their melody foretells…

    Alas, the dork bell is constantly ringing in my personal soundtrack. Or maybe not alas. I seem to be involved with people who think that geeks are dead sexy.

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