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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I'm so nerdy I have a simple test to find fellow nerds.Early Christians would draw a fish in the sand to secretly confirm their faith to other Christians. To determine if you are in the company of a fellow nerd, tell this joke:
"If Book was in intelligence before he found God, does that make him a Sheppard spy?"
If the subject laughs you are safe to discuss computers and Blake's 7. If the subject furrows their brow and asks for an explanation, run to the nearest Forbidden Planet and seek sanctuary.
I have actually tested this out on a packed train to Cardiff. First, I decided to tell a universally funny "Control" joke to my travelling companion to ensure that all subjects were responsive to external stimuli; "Why are pirates called pirates?...Because they arrrghh!" This resulted in laughs/groans up and down the carriage. Then I told the "Test" joke. This caused absolutely no reaction to the subjects apart from one passenger half way up the carriage who was laughing uncontrollably. I had found my fellow nerd.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:48,
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I don't get itbut I do love all the crazy little nerds out there.
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Rainbored78 is being a bit cheeky., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 14:59,
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I get it...But I did have to read it out loud, to get the pun clear in my head.
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Cawl, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:21,
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Aaaaaaahhhh!!!Shepherd's Pie!!!
I don't get it.
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Rainbored78 is being a bit cheeky., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 15:28,
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??Can someone please enlighten a non/semi/slight/not-at-all/total/possible nerd?
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whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:13,
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To understand the joke you need to have seen "Firefly"an excellent sci-fi series from Joss Whedon that was cancelled by Fox after a few episodes because he fell out with the exec's, so you have to go out of your way to see it on DVD. No non-nerd is going to go out of their way to watch sci-fi.
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 16:25,
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Oh!now I get it.
Damn, i didn't think I was a nerd.
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ohI thought it was just a play on words. I didn't realize it was based on a show.
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flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sat 8 Mar 2008, 2:57,
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I got it!I'm ever so pround, particularly as I'm still half asleep...
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