!!FAITH IN NERDOM RESTORED!!

Today was a momentous day for Nerds and Pokefans everywhere. In my small town of jocks, preps and farmers I have won a battle that has been going on for a few days now. Our school has its own 'news channel' which is more spoof news and sattire commercials than anything. This is my first (and regretably last due to my immpending graduation) year in this class and i'm trying to add my own likes and influences into these videos. Needless to say not everyone at this school is like me and thusly they have VERY different opinions than me.

I am a fond lover of Pokemon and it is my latest nerd outlet at the moment if you couldn't tell by my previous posts. A lot of the other people in Mass Media are also Pokefans and we decided we wanted to do a video on what life would be like if pokemon were real. Things like having your Dodrio wake you up in the morning, flying your pidgey to school because a snorlax is causing a traffic jam, etc. The thing is, there are about three people in our class who absolutely REFUSED this idea tried to convince the teacher to not let us do this. We were basically defeated before we even started until at the end of the period our teacher told us we needed to get the opinions of the people in our school.

With new found energy and passion in my heart I set out at lunch time to get the opinion of the people. I may have started out slightly biased by asking the people who I knew would say yes, but that only got me about 15 votes for yes and a few surprising votes for no. So I had to broaden my focus group to include the people who I were unsure of. So I headed to the most daunting place I could find in the lunch room.... THE JOCKS TABLE!

I slowly approached the table with my paper in hand and looked at them all trying to get their attention. After they started to give me their attention I asked this question 'If you were watching CKTV and a video came on that involved references to Pokemon, would you watch it, not watch it or watch it and not care about it?' The results surprised me. Only five out of the thirty-some jocks I asked said no or they didn't care. The others then took the time to tell me their favorite Pokemon from their favorite games. Sometimes I truly forget the impact that a game and a TV series had on this nation.

The final numbers were our of 142 people 85 said yes they would love it, 29 said no and 28 would watch it but not really care for the video. Needless to say upon approaching the teacher with the numbers, she had no choice but to allow us the chance to prove ourselves. It came with the stipulation that we would get ONE video at first, and judging the reaction of the video she would choose if we could make more. This news was enough to get me excited along with my friends. This is a huge step forward for our group and we hope that everyone in our school will back us up with these videos.

-!BATBOY OUT!-