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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@TourettesCuckoo's Nest: a tricky one I think. Both excellent but so, so different - I saw the film first which is probably the best way with something like that - but the book is so much better. Seeing the story from Chief Bromden's viewpoint turns the whole thing on its head and inside out. I do agree though that it would have been impossible (probably) to do it better. That film/book has given me several phrases that I like to use, knowing they will go totally unnoticed by everyone else - my favourite being "Well I TRIED dammit!" or "Juicyfruit".
Che (considering changing his signature to : Bull Goose B3tan)
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