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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What goes around...Already mentioned that I'm a massive Doctor Who fanatic (in that I like it a lot, not that I'm some sort of corpulent stereotype that can't get a shag). The coming of the new series was a huge event for me, and I'm not one of the anti New-Who brigade who chastise the new version of the series because it's got decent production values and the sets don't wobble. Oh no, not me, I love it.
Being a fan in the mid to late 80's, when it was largely considered to be (a) waning in popularity and (b) shit, could be a bit disheartening. People would twig that you were a fan and either mercilessly take the piss, or try to engage you in conversation about the show, by recalling the time that Jon Pertwee fought the Daleks and the Cybermen in the same adventure. Meanwhile, I'd be trying desperately to stop myself from mumbling 'actually the Daleks and Cybermen never appeared together in the same episode, not counting The War Games part 10 in flashback, and anyway, Jon Pertwee never met the Cybermen until the Five Doctors in 1983'. So I'd shuffle awkwardly, and try to switch the conversation to whether they thought I had any hope in hell of getting off with Judy Gill. Which I didn't, incidentally.
And so this continued for a good few years. The Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy years came and went. CB was, in my opinion, a brilliant Doctor saddled with mediocre scripts and a costume that really shouldn't have seen daylight. The show started to regain a little modicum of niche credibility in the last couple of years, before being cancelled, resurfacing briefly in 1996 for a one off movie with a crap script, and then finally returning a few years later to audiences of around 8 - 9 million a week. Pretty impressive in this climate of multiple channels.
So now my Dalek gets curry delivery men foaming at the mouth and adding their own special sauce into the bag. My collection of remote control Daleks greets you as you enter the house and people want to 'have a go'. My DVD and video collection is regularly admired (I don't have them all, but do have over 100 - I tend to buy the DVDs sporadically and mainly for the special features if I'm honest, slimming down the VHS collection as I go). I took a few old 80's annuals to a car boot sale last year and they were snapped up with an excited cry that bordered on orgasm (we just didn't have the space for them).
So, from being considered a nerd during the 80's, am I now officially the coolest bloke on the planet? At least until the viewing figures start dropping like a stone, at which point I'll become a social pariah again?
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 20:45,
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Worse stillThe full size Dalek has a name.......
"Declan"
Had I known that before he moved in....
*shakes head, skulks off to pour another glass of wine*
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Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 21:01,
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HehOne of my friends is, like yourself, a massive Dr Who fan. Going to the extreme of writing a show about it and touring the country with it :D
www.mothsate.com/
*plug*
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Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 15:21,
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