My Scott and Jean: The Master List

My Scott and Jean: The Master List

Mar 30

It all started with a simple phrase: “That’s my Scott and Jean.”

Said phrase was uttered by friend-of-Alert-Nerd Dan Faust on that bastion of 140-character social networking, Twitter. And said phrase means, essentially, “That is my geek sacred cow, the one topic I cannot discuss rationally because it makes me too insane/angry/scary-eyed.”

We had a thought: why not challenge a bunch of nerdbloggers to reveal their Scott and Jeans/geek sacred cows for all the world to see? It will either be incredibly fun or result in a bunch of smashed laptops!

Why Scott and Jean as the term’s namesake? Well, given the history and drama behind their coupling, they seem to provoke a good degree of, ahem, passion in a lot of people. Including Sarah.

This post will serve as a master list of all the “What’s Your Scott and Jean?” posts appearing across the web — check back, as it will be updated throughout the day. And if you have a link to share, email sarah AT alertnerd DOT com.

Scotts and Jeans:

Alert Nerd: Our Scott and Jeans
Phoning It In: “Trust Me!”
Geeked: My Scott and Jean
The Book Smugglers: That’s Our Scott and Jean
Fantastic Fangirls: Q & A 22 – What is your “Scott and Jean”?
Faust’s Fantastically Fantasmagoric Forum: My “Scott & Jean”: You Can’t Spell “Dark Knight Detective” Without “Dark” and “Detective”
Love Dat Joker: Mad Love: My Scott and Jean
Bill Wendel: My Scott and Jean: Stan Lee
The ISS: My “Scott and Jean”: Waid and Wieringo’s Magic Dr. Doom
Confessions of a Retconned Fangirl: My Scott & Jean: Or Leave My Hawks Alone!
The Discriminating Fangirl: What’s Your Geek Sacred Cow?
Ashley Awesome: newsflash: you are an idiot
david brothers @ 4thletter!: My Scott & Jean: Knowing When To Let Go
Jeff Lester @ The Savage Critics: My Scott, Your Jean: Jeff Takes A Quick Look at His Sacred Cows.
Written World: Sir Gawain: Great Knight, or Greatest Knight? Those are your only choices.
The Fount of Useless Information: Geek Apologetics: “My Scott and Jean”
Nothing Challenging or Specific: Are you f*@$ing kidding me, Brett Ratner? My geek sacred cow…
Suicide Aint’ a Viable Career Option: The Geek Sacred Cow aka my Scott and Jean aka Incoherent Ramblings
Reporting on Marvels and Legends: My Scott and Jean
The Secret of the Wednesday’s Haul: I’ll stick with you baby for a thousand years
Comic Overload: Barry Allen is F’ING DEAD – DEAL WITH IT
Clay Harrison: My Scott and Jean
Comic By Comic: No Scott & Jean for me
Gaming Angels: Made of Awesome: Dr. Strange
Thunderdog: My “Scott and Jean” Issue: Magneto’s Un-Death
The Nut and the Feisty Weasel: My Scott & Jean: Wasted Story Potential, Part 1
The Nut and the Feisty Weasel: My Scott & Jean: Wasted Story Potential, Part 2
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources (Brian Cronin): My Scott and Jean
Once Upon a Geek: What’s Your Geek Sacred Cow
But Before I Kill You: My Scott and Jean: Aquaman Is Awesome Whether You Like It Or Not
Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources (Greg Hatcher): Friday with Scott and Jean and other sacred cows
Club Parnassus: Rant the Second: My “Scott and Jean”
Shea Koshan: My Scott and Jean: Please Fire Mr. Way

Related Rants:

Ampersand Comics: Peter and Mary Jane (Or How I Came To Hate Joe Quesada)

1,812 comments

  1. Ours is up too! Thanks for such a cool idea.

  2. While not exactly written for this, I have blogged about this in the past. I have boycotted Amazing Spider-Man since they undid the marriage, and here’s my entry about it

    http://ampersandcomics.blogspot.com/2009/02/peter-and-mary-jane-or-how-i-came-to.html

  3. Please to put mine on your shiny, awesome list?

    http://tinyurl.com/c35d4p

  4. Sarah

    Thanks to everyone for alerting us to the various links as they’ve been happening!

  5. My “Scott & Jean” post is up!

    http://onceuponageek.com/2009/04/02/whats-your-geek-sacred-cow/

    The Irredeemable Shag

  6. Stefan

    I might be too late for this, but I’m going to try anyway. Here’s mine.

    http://butbeforeikillyou.blogspot.com/2009/04/my-scott-and-jean-aquaman-is-awesome.html

  7. Shea

    Okay, I’m definitely too late for this, but it was fun anyway.

    http://sheakoshan.net/post.php?post=311

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