You know, you're a nerd, when...

[Trenchfriend]

...when you know about Andreas Feininger, not only Lionel.

..when you know about Margaret Bourke White and that she WAS in and around your smalltown in 1945, photographing places, you also photographed 70 years later, including bombed fuel depot at the railway.

... when you're focused on your beloved Seersucker ("Sairsugger") bedclothing.

...when you know, why old-fashioned Linen shirts are a precious thing.

and so on...

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you're downloading historical aerial imagery from the 40s, available from your Federal State Authority's Geo-Data-Download archiv to do research about specific places...

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you own THE standard book about your smalltowns 18 kilometer secondary railway and you know nearly everthing about it.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you're riding omnibus first row...

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you read german thread about Scharnhorst Class vs. Dunkerque Class, until you think "What I'm doing here??".

 

[Tiki Tom]

When you read german thread about Scharnhorst Class vs. Dunkerque Class, until you think "What I'm doing here??".

Throw us a link!

 

[Tiki Tom]

You know you’re a nerd when you scroll through the Fedora Lounge message board daily.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Throw us a link!

Dunkerque im Vergleich zur Scharnhorst Klasse

Dunkerque im Vergleich zur Scharnhorst Klasse

forum-marinearchiv.de

 

[Bushman]

When you're asked to say something unique about yourself, and you claim you're probably the biggest Jurassic Park fan they'll ever meet - complete with co-managing an encyclopedia about it and being a member of a Jurassic Park archival group.

When you do a blog about vintage horror movies.

When you're the one your family calls to help install new electronics.

When you realize you've accidentally begun collecting books about Chicago architecture.

When you know Hedy Lamarr more for her contributions to science than her acting career.

When you know why Marie Currie and all her possessions were buried in a lead lined coffin when she died.

When you own t-shirts from your local NPR station.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When you use your Sunday morning to think and read about hypothetical match between Tirpitz and (faster completed) HMS Vanguard in 1944/45...

 

[Trenchfriend]

If someone asks you, how you do. And you're answering:
"Less boats out, intensified defence, very bad month. The Tommies learned. The "Aces", not much left. Prien, Schepke, Kretschmer, all gone on convoys. All drowned, excluding Kretschmer..."