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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I know PiUp to 3.1415926536
I am almost certain that plenty of people on here will be able to beat that without googling it.
Go!
Edit: Also, 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3
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3.1415926535898 from memory - go me!
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Weetobix is selling these fine leather jackets, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:06,
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9.869604403is the square. From memory.
I also used to do 69 (ooh er) factorial on my calculator so I could see it "thinking" for seconds...an old Casio...I'm so sad
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69!was the standard test of how fast a calculator was when I were a lad.
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K2k6 is haemorrhaging money on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:23,
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Well that's easy to remember!But what was wrong with old way. What's so hard about remembering 911?
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Joe Scaramanga Faster. More Intense., Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:28,
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0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3Isn't that the phone number for Saturday Superstore?
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It could beIt's also the new number for the fire brigade according to The IT Crowd.
I was just demonstrating my memory for utterly useless numbers.
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Quite impressed i still remember this...Whether I'm right will be another story
3.141592653589793238
Year 9 (13/14 years old) , written on the wall at the front of the class!
I'm now 19 :-)
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Agnostic Antichrist Pictures Now In Profile, Click Them!, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 11:24,
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I learnt a poemSir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic verse and magic spelling
Celestial spirits elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
the letters in each word correspond to the next number. Pretty useful if you want to impress maths nerds. There are more verses but I always reckoned 20 digits was enough.
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At IdonthaveafunnynicknameI remember the 'excitement' when they added 1 after the first 0, so an extra upbeat had to be added to the chant. I felt it quite changed the mood.
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