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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define nerdinessI've never read Tolkein; I've never played Dungeons or Warhammer; I've never played a computer game other than Space Invaders; I know nothing about computers or programs; I don't wear glasses or white socks; I don't use Lynx deodorant or wear a digital watch; I never liked Red Dwarf or science fiction; I'm shit at maths and sciences...
But god help you if you misuse a semi-colon or mix up your clauses in a sentence. That makes you a blithering moron in my eyes.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:55, 15 replies)
LOLZU; iz propa funneh!!!!!
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what?
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:04,
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I concurThis is going to be a fascinating QOTW for the computer illiterate amongst us.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:17,
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Peason!Shouldn't `god' in your opening sentence be capitalised? ;-)
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@AudaxNaaah. It's figurative in this context, not a proper noun: a carolingian miniscule is fine.
*revels in phrase "carolingian miniscule"*
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:32,
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ITYM TolkienAlthough Tolkein is an acceptable ethnic variant.
/martin-prince
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@Audax...Frank's reference to god (or God) isn't in the opening sentence, it's at the start of the second to last sentence.
*puts pedant hat on slant*
*prepares for ridicule*
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 11:53,
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Well then...You lot must think I'm a right dumbass.
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girlinthehole, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 12:27,
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christWhat a bunch of pedantic nerds.
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Katie Kettle calling Polly PotYou started a sentence with "but" - a conjunction! You did that deliberately, didn't you?
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@frankActually it's `peduntic' :rolleyes:
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To be honestI think the question is a little flawed, which is where run into the seemingly petty semantics of 'nerd' and 'geek'.
You sir, are a nerd, and a pretty nerdy nerd at that (I use it as a form of praise...or description, depending on your self esteem). Most of the B3tans are more maths/SciFi/computing oriented, and are therefore geeks. I really think there should be a distinction, not so much because I'm anal but because we have different words because they're useful and have subtly different connotations which help us define the world around us!
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Hampster Squared has stuff at www.tilla.co.uk, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 15:07,
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^ARF!!!you said 'Anal'!
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@EnzymePah! I laugh at your carolingian miniscule - Roman cursive...that's the boy!
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ButAs with most grammar rules, there are various authorities on what can and can't be done. And the exception to rules is that breaking the rules can be done for literary or emphatic purposes.
This doesn't mean you can be illiterate and claim you were being literary.
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