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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Oh dear god...Where do I start..?
I am a self confessed Doctor Who fanatic. If I had the money I would have every bit of merchandise ever produced. I have about 100 DVDs and VHS recordings. I went to the Nebula convention in Liverpool in 1990 and drooled over Nicola Bryant in front of my ex-wife. I had a Louis Marx toy Dalek, which if I hadn't been a scrotty little 5 year old with no concept of value would have been worth a few quid by now...
A few years ago, I bought myself a full size replica Dalek with some money I'd been left (a Genesis of the Daleks model, if anyone's interested). It sits proudly at the bottom of the stairs (and we've NEVER been burgaled, so what does that tell you)?. At this very moment, I'm wearing Dalek cufflinks...
But that isn't geeky at all.
Oh no.
You see, a few years ago, a magazine called Loaded hit the shelves. It's basically soft core porn for people who are too pant-shittingly scared to buy Razzle, or Mayfair (so I'm told). It's marketed as a 'bloke's' magazine and has stuff in it about beer, and fast cars, and stuff.
Oh, and women.
Scantily clad women. In their underkeks. Sometimes, they're not even WEARING A BRA!!!
It'll never catch on, if you ask me.
However, one day I found myself buying a copy. Not because of the articles about beer, or fast cars. Not because of the report of a man who got bitten by a shark and lived to sell his story to a glossy, UK based lads mag that finds it's way to the continent 2 months later than its publish date. Not even because there was a particularly attractive woman on the cover who was spilling out of her bra, and who would have almost certainly been flashing her nipples inside the covers...
No. Oh no.
I bought it on the basis that, as part of their profiles on 'Greatest Living Englishmen' they had a 1-page article on Tom Baker...
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:38,
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*clicks*fellow whovian here, so jealous; still saving up for my full size Dalek. the wife will go absolutley mental when I get it though, haha ;-)
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Adolf Jitler is editor of Practical Shoelace Collector, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:17,
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yepand made me smile
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Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 1:56,
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Tom Baker ROCKS!I can't say as you qualify for nerdy. Sounds like you have your priorities well in order!
Does your full size Dalek hook to the the doorbell and yell "Exterminate! Exterminate!" when people come to the door? Be great for salesmen and jehova's witnesses.
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Tom is, indeed, a GodHis autobiography is one of the funniest things ever written.
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:06,
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