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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Sometimes I memorise things for no good reasonI once memorised the name and capital city of every country in the world. This is mostly forgotten now. And I gained no pussy from it.
Also, I once memorised the entire name of Johann Gambolputty [...] of Ulm, of Monty Python fame. Also, no pussy there.
At another time I memorised the lyrics of "99 Luftballons", partly because I wanted to figure out what the song was about in the first place (balloons, obviously). Coincidentally, this came in handy on a backpacking trip a few years later, where some German was trying to recall the lyrics. There was also some Slovenian bird present who was very impressed by my knowledge.
One out of three is not a bad statistic.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:27, 6 replies)
it isit's only 33%
(anyone geeky enough to guess what I'm badly misquoting?)
edit: I would add digits after a decimal point to please the pedant, but I'm not going to because it would ruin the sanctity of my quote
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:29,
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ummactually, it isn't ONLY 33%
but no i didn't get the reference
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 12:46, closed)
It's about a near nuclear strike during the cold warBut you probably already know that. And that fact that I know that you know but still had to tell you makes me an info-nerd.
I weep.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:20, closed)
ViprosI want to say Terry Pratchett.
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 13:31, closed)
'soul music'"it's about sex and drugs and music with rocks in".
"you've never done any drugs..."
"in fact, come to think of it, I don't you've ever had any-"
"1 out of 3 ain't bad!"
"yes it is, it's only 33–"
"shut up.." etc etc
not quite verbatim because I felt like trying to prove my geek credentials by not looking it up. now *that's* nerdy
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I didn't think it would be too trickyfor the denizens of b3ta
take any prize from the middle shelf
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:13,
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