I was sent an email joke, Friends and Greek friends. I was reading it and thought, what about Geek friends? Well, I did a bit of typing and here’s the result, let me know what you think!

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR NORMAL FRIENDS, A GREEK FRIEND, AND A GEEK FRIEND!!!

FRIENDS: Never ask for food
GREEK FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.
GEEK FRIENDS: Will reduce you to a diet of microwave noodles, chinese food, coffee and pizza.

FRIENDS: Will say “hello”
GREEK FRIENDS: Will give you a big hug and a kiss.
GEEK FRIENDS: Will IM you to say 43110. (non-geek: Will IM you to say Hello.)

FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.
GREEK FRIENDS: Call your parents Theo and Thea (auntie and uncle)
GEEK FRIENDS: Consider your parents to be those primitive people who can’t use a keyboard.

FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.
GREEK FRIENDS: Cry with you.
GEEK FRIENDS: Will fire up a webcam session and watch you cry via remote.

FRIENDS: Will eat at your dinner table and leave
GREEK FRIENDS: Will spend hours there, talking, laughing and just being together
GEEK FRIENDS: Will spend hours hunched over a keyboard eating while they type to you in MSN Messenger.

FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.
GREEK FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it’s yours.
GEEK FRIENDS: Download your stuff off Bittorrent.

FRIENDS: know a few things about you.
GREEK FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.
GEEK FRIENDS: Have bookmarked the links to your MySpace page and blog.

FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that’s what the crowd is doing.
GREEK FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds’ ass that left you.
GEEK FRIENDS: Will criticise the crowd on forums and their blog, unless the crowd has way cooler gadgets.

FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.
GREEK FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, “I’m home!”
GEEK FRIENDS: Will send you an IM and then read Slashdot till you get back to your PC.

FRIENDS: Are for a while.
GREEK FRIENDS: Are for life!
GEEK FRIENDS: Are always there on Instant Messenger.

FRIENDS: Go out for a drink with you out.
GREEK FRIENDS: Are the reason your liver is sitting next to you having a coffee saying “You’re an asshole!”
GEEK FRIENDS: Get drunk while talking with you on MSN Messenger

16th February 2007