How nerdy are you?This week Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, died. A whole generation of pasty dice-obsessed nerds owes him big time. Me included.
So, in his honour, how nerdy were you? Are you still sunlight-averse? What are the sad little things you do that nobody else understands?
As an example, a B3ta regular who shall remain nameless told us, "I spent an entire school summer holiday getting my BBC Model B computer to produce filthy stories from an extensive database of names, nouns, adjectives, stock phrases and deviant sexual practices. It revolutionised the porn magazine dirty letter writing industry for ever.
Revel in your own nerdiness.
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chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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DictionaryI bought a big fat dictionary from WHSmiths and when I flicked through it, I noticed that at the top of each page, paired together were the first and last entry on that page.
revisory - rheumatic, spaghetti - spare...
you get the idea.
Anyway, I spent a good couple of hours going through many of them as a lot of them could be double entendres and may result in a 'vicar'. (http://www.owstwick.org/owbase/ow.asp?Vicar).
Favourites include:
strumpet - stuffing
squat - squirt
off-putting - oily
nerd - neurosis (one for the QOTW)
fuck off - full moon (one for the werewolves).
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 12:58,
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Brilliant!That is sooooo up my street!
My belly is wobbling as I giggle...
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Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 13:22,
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bestwank - warlord
masturbate - mathematics.
Have they compiled the dictionary for them to fall in the right places for this sort of thing?
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 13:45,
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I once was looking something upwhen I noticed an entry in my dictionary that said, "Thou Sand Headed Kale". I was stunned to see an archaic insult included in there, until I realized that it really said "thousand-headed".
I was very tired at the time.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 14:01,
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I've done thatbut then I also spent many happy childhood hours reading the Thesaurus for fun.....
...pick a random word...look up one of the listed synonyms.....look up a listed synonym of that word....look up a listed synonym of that word........
I had a hard time stopping myself
I also obsessively spell-check everything...even when I know it is correct.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 18:27,
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PleaseYou have to tell us which dictionary this is - we desperately need a new one. The last BIG JUICY ONE that caught my eye had so many different ways to use the word "fuck" - most of which were new even to me!
I think that might've been Chambers - mate of mine has it and we spent a whole evening chortling at the ingenuity of swearing :o)
I like swearing because it is rude and funny.
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Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 19:28,
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My HeroI'll be adding the dictionary to the toilet-reading stack then...
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Mon 10 Mar 2008, 7:54,
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