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This is a question 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.

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 10:32)
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I'm a nerd for books
Seriously. English major in University and everything.

How nerdy, you ask?

I got excited when we read "A Modest Proposal" in Lit class. In fact, I get giddy for most classical works.

I read Animal Farm. For fun.

I boycotted the film Beowulf because it bastardized the poem, which I didn't even like.

I find Shakespeare crude.

I will create crazy-complex sentences in an effort to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.
(I bape rabies Let's go get Chick-fi-A!, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 6:12, 7 replies)
Prepositions
There's nothing wrong with using a preposition to end a sentence with. In fact, it's sometimes very difficult to get out of. It's a rule that grammarians dreamed up to make English look more like Latin, but no one seriously follows it today. Ask David Crystal.
(lolwhites, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 7:22, closed)
it's not nerdy to read
and that's how i justify eschewing the use of capitals when using my name or addressing myself as 'i'.

And the award for most obscure homage-to-a-poet goes to...
(Schumann makes awesome quiches., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 8:25, closed)
I read Animal Farm for fun too
as well as a few others

And I have a theory about Beowulf. I think Grendel is actually a person with Marfan syndrome.
(I helped save b3ta! flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 9 Mar 2008, 20:58, closed)
I wanted to give our daughter two names, each beginning with E :)
What's wrong with reading Animal Farm for pleasure? George Orwell is the greatest English writer eva in my opinion. Technically, Aesthetically, pretty much perfect.
(Cryptoprocta has abandoned the username of Voodoo Mary, Sun 9 Mar 2008, 21:03, closed)
"crazy-complex"
You'll go to extreme lengths to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition - but to no lengths whatsoever to avoid the use of cringe-inducing gibberish like 'crazy-complex'?

You have priority issues, I fear.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 10 Mar 2008, 14:23, closed)
zOMG!
Reading books for fun!
Fancy that!
(I helped save b3ta! scoshi pretending to diet since, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:46, closed)
What! Reading for FUN!
My word!

I once read John Osborne's play Luther for fun - it's actually very dull, all about the Diet of Worms.

In my opinion *all* reading is for fun..yes, even the J-PS!
(I helped save b3ta! chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:22, closed)

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