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September 30, 2009

Spin it

srikanth @ 9:30 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1254346250 ) Play

Connect to  a “symbol” in the geek gestalt. Also, identify (1) and (2).

Cracked, more or less, by everyone.

Answer:

  1. Sci Fi Author Ray Nelson who turned the propellor beanie into the symbol of sci-fi fan-ish-ness.
  2. UK band The Propeller-heads
  3. A propeller head.

The symbol: Propeller head/propeller beanie.

I love saying propeller. Propeller propeller propeller.

5 Responses to “Spin it”

  1. Dibyo Says:

    The connection is a ‘Propeller Head’

    1 is Radell Faraday Nelson, who might have coined the term, and 2 is the band with the same name, and 3 is well, a propeller (head?)

    Dibyo

  2. shrik Says:

    1. Sci-fi author Ray Nelson
    2. Propellerheads
    3. A propellor?

    Connect being the propeller beanie, which Ray ‘invented’..

    shrik

  3. Raghuvansh Says:

    1. Ray Nelson, inventor of the propeller beanie which is one possible origin of the term “propellerheads” for nerds.

    2. UK electronic band Propellerheads

    3. Propeller head. Literally.


  4. Rogi Says:

    Propeller head

    1 – Radell *Ray* Faraday Nelson
    2 – Propellerheads
    3 – A propeller head


  5. udupendra Says:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wi.....helice.jpg

    Ray Nelson, Propellerheads

    udupendra

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