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 don't know...which stylebook you're using, but it's absurd. A mistake is in the eye of the (pedantic) beholder. The ``apostrophe-s'' is quite acceptable in the gay cousin example (by most stylebooks). I consider myself quite careful when it comes to punctuation (as what you Brits would call a sub-editor, that's what I'm paid to do), but that ``non-living beings'' exception is really beyond the pale. Might I ask which styleguide you got that ``rule'' from, so I may head to the nearest bookshop to demand they take all copies off the shelves?
--Tuqueboy
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