{"id":203,"date":"2005-11-16T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/11\/16\/adorkable\/"},"modified":"2005-11-16T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T14:38:45","slug":"adorkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/11\/16\/adorkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorkable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, being a public school principal, Mike (the person I’ve gone on dates* with lately) does this word-of-the-day thing for his students. Today’s word was going to be focus. But while he was fiddling away on his laptop, this other pseudo-word came up:<\/P>
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adorkable**<\/P>
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Apparently, and rather obviously, this means that a person has the characteristics of being a dork, while simultaneously coming off as adorable.<\/P>
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Then he said I was adorkable.<\/P>
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I’m not sure what I think about that. I mean, I’ve always liked the whole geek\/chic look (hence my nerd glasses). But I’ve always found it an appealing quality in OTHER people…not necessarily in myself. Still, I’ve been called worse things.<\/P>
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*Do people still date? What exactly constitutes a date? In my mind, I see an old black-and-white 1950’s scene with a guy taking somebody to dinner and a movie, then walking the date to the front door, administering a quick kiss good night on the front steps, then returning home with a big smile. Does that happen nowadays? Did it ever happen? Or were those sitcoms just showing the wholesome portions of the date…and what wasn’t displayed on screen consisted of anal beads and crisco?<\/P>
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**Don’t go running to Webster’s for this one. Like fugly (which I’m glad didn’t come up on his computer as he might have called me that instead), this is one of those new-fangled words created by the young whipper-snappers of today.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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