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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Maybe not so much nerdy as analI have a thing about grammar. In particular, the misuse of an apostrophe pisses me off like you wouldn't believe. If it's plural, dont put one in; if the item belongs to someone or you've missed letters out, then by all means go ahead. It's not that fucking hard.
So I attended a conference a while back in one of the older universities north of the border and went for a customary post-lunch dump. Scrawled up the side of the cubicle was your generic racist slur - I can't remember what it was exactly but I remember it was along the lines of "****'s go home".
I corrected the grammar, and included a short explanation as to the correct usage of an apostrophe. I left feeling quite pleased with myself, but this dissipated rapidly as I realised the depths of grammar nazism to which I'd sunk.
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...I assume that the apostrophic error you make in this post is for comic effect, then...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 12:48,
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You never knowthey might be his ******'s.
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Enzyme..I suspect the strength of his fury made his grammar a bit wobbly.
*Note* yesterday evening I was so bored I went back through my old posts and replies and corrected the spelling.
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girlinthehole, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:00,
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Ha!Fixed (unless i fucked up somewhere else)! One of the joys of being a pedant is that because you're always convinved you're right, you never need to check to make sure.
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Ummmm...I hate* to point this out, but I can still see the error I noticed to begin with...
*Actually untrue. I do it gleefully...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 13:17,
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I had a look for an errorin standard counter-predant pedantry.
I couldn't see one.
Enzyme, care to enlighten me (via Gaz if you want)?
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Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:06,
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Universitiessomething to do with that word would be my guess...
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MadAdamUk was last alive on, Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:29,
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So what is the correct way to write 'Romanes eunt domus'?(
idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Tue 11 Mar 2008, 15:41,
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I guess you......do see it or you do not...
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