Nerd Love

I've heard numerous songs with this title, but the one that I found most pleasing was by a band called Dude Offline. It harkens back to The Ramones style of no bullshit rock and roll. The thing is, I'm not a music critic, I'm just like a sad imitiation of Jerry Seinfeld, making what I consider to be humerous comments on typical subjects. I like Dude Offline's tune but what I really want to talk about is...NERDS. When I was in high school,  nerds were the people who were NOT cool. That's it! It had nothing to do with IQ. I knew lots of smart people who were cool and lots of dumb ones who weren't.  In the mid 1980's there was a movie called " Revenge Of The Nerds". It was a pretty successful film ( I have no idea why), so much so, that it sparked a bunch of sequels. But in this first travesty, the nerds who were groupled into packs, unlike the nerds of my day ( I even spelled it differently, NURDS was the version I learned. It was Theodore Geisel a.k.a Dr Seuss who coined the term and spelled it the less offensive way)  who seemed to be loners or groups of two or three at the most. In this tale, the head nerd who is in a college fraternity of other nerds ( Yeah, like that's really gonna happen!) calls the group together and makes a speech where he says,
 " People don't like us because we're smart..."  Luckily I was watching this on HBO and it didn't cause head-turning when I yelled back, " No! People don't like you because you're NERDS!". Nerds are people who are unpopular, at least they used to be, but some goofball discovered that there's money in Nerdiness, and now there are hordes of people who actually think that there are people like the cast of
" The Big Bang Theory" who hang out and act like retards together. One of the cable channels is having a reality show to find out who is the Top Nerd.  Why is it so hard to understand that Nerds are people who are disliked simply because they are social outcasts. It is like having an honor to find the person with the worst B.O.  Nerds are people who are NOT popular! That is it. I'm betting that there was some geek who had writing ability who after graduating college, got a gig writing in Hollywood and he dreamed up the whole cute cudly nerd scenario and sucessfully pitched it and now there's  nerd mania sweeping the country.  There's no accounting for taste, and seeing the nerds on TV is not my cup of tea. I see tons of them in daily life, along with candidates for the worst B.O. as well!