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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shamemy thoroughly decent grammar school dropped Latin the year before I started, so how it had the nerve to call itself a grammar school, I don't know... My knowledge of the Latin language is therefore based on my understanding of the languages derived from it.
I do, however, both comprehend and smile at the following joke. It is said to work in any language but no one laughed when I told it in French:
Julius Caesar walks into a bar and says "I'll have a martinus".
"Don't you mean a martini?" asks the barman.
"No," replies Caesar, "if I wanted a double I'd have asked for it."
(*awaits correction if wrong*)
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:16,
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