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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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My Star Wars name...

Is Leymi Broco
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 9:05, 17 replies)
How do you know?
What's the formula?
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:25, closed)
^^
Ditto!
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:27, closed)
Call yourselves nerds - google it!
www.insectdissection.com/save-curtis/swname/
(frankspencer, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:50, closed)
Frankspencer
I'm a book nerd, not a geek. That strategy never occurred to me.


There is hope...
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 10:52, closed)
^^
What Enzyme said.
(I helped save b3ta! girlinthehole, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 11:01, closed)
The formula I used was similar...

But different.

Last 3 letters from Surname = first 3 letters of SW first name
First 2 letters from first name = next 2 letters
First 3 letters of mother's maiden name = First 3 letters of SW Surname
First 2 letters from town / city of birth = Last 2 letters
(I helped save b3ta! Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 11:58, closed)
Hmmm
That makes me "Tonia Hazst". And Tonia Hazst is - I feel sure of this - a Hungarian prostitute.

I'm not sure I want to be a Hungarian prostitute.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:12, closed)
Unpronounceable but somehow appropriate
Mine is Hbyja Beery!

Kudos to anyone who can give me a pointer as to how the first name should be pronounced!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:23, closed)
using Pooflake's method
Linad Boybe?

First, that makes me sound masculine. Second, it makes me sound like a football player for some random second division team.
(I helped save b3ta! crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:25, closed)
@CP
hE'BEEjah. I reckon the "H" is an "eta"... with which the b3ta font can't cope. The one that looks like an "n" with an extented right vertical stroke, anyway.

Changed my mind. It's "kH'BEEjah", with a "khi". Gutteral and somehow alien.
(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:26, closed)
@Captain Placid
Hybja -
a gutturally aspirated h (like the arabic), the y is an "ee" sound, the j is a "ya".

Thus, HHeeb-ya.

I don't speak the International Phonetic Alphabet unfortunately, otherwise I'd give you that.
(I helped save b3ta! crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:31, closed)
Hbyth Harhi
It seems to me that Captain Placid might have the same name as/be my brother....
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:35, closed)
Lenpa Relno
guff I tells ye.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:37, closed)
Kergu Bided
Great.

A first name not unlike the bad guy in Highlander, and a surname resembling a bathroom fixture. Doesn't matter how you pronounce it, I'm a barbarian bidet.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 14:37, closed)
Star wars Name
Jamro Moche

Not to bad !
(AdmiralPellaeon, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 17:33, closed)
Morbe Wilma
Wilma. Hmm. Not too sure about that.
(theweapon never ever bloody anything ever, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 22:05, closed)
Mine is
Leyto Speow...

First Name is ok, but the last name is the kind of sound a retarded kitten would make.

I knew being born in Harlow would come back to haunt me.
(I helped save b3ta! Cawl, Wed 12 Mar 2008, 16:55, closed)

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