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I think Billy Connoly's definition of a "Wally" best describes what "rivet counter" means to me. "A wally is a nerd, is a geek, a Cedric, A Pilchard... or whatever" "soneone who's narrowed their intrests down to just one wee thing" " They'll come up to you when you're trying to take a picture with your camera and ask - is that a G-15? I think you'll find it's a G-15, it's there, see? stamped on the botton. you see there was a G-14 but it wasn't as successful, you see where you put the film in there was a wee cam there but the G-15 didn't have that it had..." SHUT UP!!!! <br /> <br />You see a riet counter will always go over the top wether they know what they're talking about or not. Like IRONROOSTER was saying, they become obsessed with detail and have forgotten how to have any fun. Another good description for a rivet counter would be "Anal-Retentive". <br /> <br />I like having someone around who can help me with the minor (yes MINOR - they don't matter so much when theyre small) details on my model but when they go on and on for ages on end about things like rivets they bore me to tears. Many's the time I've wanted to use gaffa tape on a flapping mouth.
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