OK, we are not that pathetic.
A quick test of patheticness - (At one point I could answer many of these in the affirmative, so don't hate)
How many of you are LARPS? How many know what a LARP is?
How many of you belonged to the SCA? Do you know what the SCA is?
Is there a Merlin, Dumbledore, or other wizard costume in a hermetically sealed garment bag in your closet? Do you take it out for a spin on days other than Halloween?
Do you have more than four cats? Do you dress them up on a regular basis? Do you forgo outside engagements to hold a complete birthday party for your cat? (Invitations, cake and ice cream required for this one)
Have you even forsaken TV for a "quick" reread of A Midsummer Nights Dream? How about secreting yourself somewhere quiet on a holiday to read through the Bard's sonnets?
Do you have a jacket that proclaims that "History is not boring"? Do you where it on a regular basis?
Can you sing the entire SPAM song from Monty Python? Do you own the entire song book? How about the closing theme to Meaning of Life?
Did you ever give an unabridged copy of a French novel (1500 pages) to your true love?
Do you own more books than bookshelf space? Do you have every wall covered by the bookshelves that are full?
Have you ever gone to an history museum at the first moment that it opened and continued to wander until they threw you out at closing?
Have you ever written computer programs in FORTRAN, COBALT, or PLATO?
Can you speak four or more languages and never left North America?
Do you have dinner conversations about the chemical reactions in the brain that cause learning disabilities and perception issues?
Have you ever discussed the bonding agents in a jelly bean with an eleven year old? Did he have a complete understanding of the concept? Did he go get the wrapper to see what ingredient or combination of ingredients could be that agent?
Do your students need to sit with a dictionary at their seat because there is chance that you will use words that they have never encountered and might never hear again?
Are you spending your entire spring break reading adolescent literature?
These are just a few things that might be considered pathetic.
OMG, I guess I am pathetic

. Oh well, I have resigned myself to a life of complete geekdom anyway.