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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choo choooooooooo!!Back when I was a wee lad I used to be fascinated by trains. I used to go to the train station (Barnt Green, where the Birmingham to South West and the Redditch-Lichfield cross city lines meet) for ages getting the numbers of the trains. On rare occasions I used to go to places like Old Oak Common, Birmingham New Street, Crewe or Bescot for a hard-core spotting session. I had a little dictaphone where I could rapidly take the numbers down. Getting all the numbers of a particular class of train (or "classing") was a great achievement. I didn't have thick rimmed glasses or a Pot Noodle so I guess I wasn't too bad.
20 years on and although I grew out of it long ago, I still love travelling by train and sometimes will sub-consiously note the number of that 47 that just went past. I also feel a pang of disappointment when the train that arrives is a DMU rather than a loco-hauled service.
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 16:33,
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ahemBack in the Eighties, when I did the same, I 'classed':
73
159
319
442
455
456
489
I'm not proud. Well I sort of am. Because I've now managed 444, 450 and 458 without really trying to. Sigh.
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haha I can't say I'm that bad actuallyThe only thing I classed was the class 59s (when there was only 8 of them, and classed all of them at once at Westbury)
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 19:12,
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Pah!The only thing I ever classed was DBSO's :(
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Amos E Wolfe makes vinyl signs and things like that, Sat 8 Mar 2008, 1:12,
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