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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I got married on IRC.I met this great girl online called Ange. We decided to get married. We weren't about to have any cheap ass wedding. We went all out. No expenses spared.
We found a guy with the nick "Priest^" and he invited us into #church for a look around.. It was a lovely little place, secluded and private from the rest of the IRC network. We made sure all the guests had herecomesthebride.wav and other church music organ wavs in their sound folders.
The big day arrived. At 13:00GMT the guests started to arrive in #church . The organ player guy was constantly sending out /sound organ1.wav in order to keep us entertained whilst we awaited on the bride. I was stood at the front of the channel feeling all nervous.
The place filled up pretty quickly with about 30 users and just the 1 op in #church (which was of course was Priest^) We also had the security guy (Chanserv) on standby in case anyone decided to flood or spam the occasion.
So we were there milling around, when suddenly I started hearing herecomesthebride.wav . Ive never enjoyed such a CTCP request as that!
Everyone went quiet as
Priest^ sets channel mode changed to +m
Then the best thing ever
Ange' has joined #church
Priest^ sets mode +v to Ange'
ahhh She looked so great there with the + next to her name. She had really dressed for the occasion with the '. I dont know who helped her pick that, but it suited her down to the bone. I was mesmorized by her beauty as she walked down the aisle. I was overjoyed with happiness. She joined me at the top of the userlist. When herecomesthebride.wav finished. It all started.
Priest^: We are joined here today in holy matronmy between Miggyman and Ange.
Ahh the service was wonderful. Priest^ did such a wonderful job. Eventually:
Priest^: If anyone here present has any reason as to why these should not be married, please speak now or forever hold your peace.
-- Priest^ sets channel #church mode to -m
Silence..
Priest^: no one? OK good
-- Priest^ sets channel #church mode to +m
Priest^ With the powers vested to me by Operserv I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride.
- Ange' is now known as MrsMiggyMan
ahh that was the best feeling ever. I gave her a very big bold
/me kisses MrsMiggyMan! LOTS!
Channel moderation went off again and everyone had a mill around, congratulating me and everything. Priest^ sent me marriagecertificate.jpg which I signed and sent to MrsMiggyMan who signed it and DCC sent it back to Priest^
We hung around whilst the video guys made sure they saved the channel logs for us all to read back later.
We all headed off to a lovely place called #TheWaterFront for our reception do. Where we had a lovely meal, lots of wine. The best man gave some great speeches. I think the best line was:
MiggyDude: Well I've been to many weddings, but not one quite like this. I remember when MiggyMan first joined the Internet. He didnt even have a firewall. And was still just using mIRC! He had no scripts, no wavs. And was only on a 28.8K modem!
The guests laughed. I felt a tad embarassed. He continued.
However he met the lovely Ange. Who soon found out his favourite DCC port!! And sent him many files. He was a changed man after that. Coming in to #tavern flitting around his new talents. I remember their first date. We booked them a table in #CyberCafe. They agreed to meet up at 3 O'clock. But miggyman forgot that Ange is 5 hours behind. He kept /msg 'ing me saying "shes not here yet, shes not here yet!" But I tell you one thing. He stayed online the whole time waiting for you Ange!! He loved you from the beginning! Despite it costing 1p a minute and his mum needing the phone.. He stayed online for you Ange!!"
It was such a lovely occasion. I danced with MrsMiggyMan until we headed off #Honeymoonsuite . MiggyDude had left a bottle of champagne and a condom in there!! Naughty naughty!
But it was good. We soon had the channel set to +i and +s and engaged in a 3 hour cybersex session. Its the best we ever had.
The next day we headed off on holiday to #Hawaii and spent 2 weeks there. We certinately had some stories to tell the guys in #Tavern what it was like over there.
Life was good. It couldnt be any better. It was a joy to be alive!
But tradgedy struck some months later. When MrsMiggyMan got a virus. The guys in #hospital said it was called Blaster.
I stayed online with her at her bedside whilst they tried to talk her through removal instructions. But alas it was too late. I will never forget the day when she went all quiet and then:
MrsMiggyMan ([email protected]) has signed off. Ping Timeout
She never made it back online again. We went back to #church and #graveyard for the funeral. But thats another story for another QOTW. It was the first time in my life I had hoped to see a ghost online. But alas she was gone. I remember spending some time in #depressed and spoke to a great guy called TheShrink. I soon picked myself up and ventured back into #singles to find new cyber love.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:25, 9 replies)
oh sweet lord...*click* many times.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:27,
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That.......is splendid. *click*
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Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 17:43,
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speechless at the geekeryyou win.
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oh dear god.........*click*
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 18:48,
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click click clicki wept.. very good, very very good
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ThatTakes me back. Waaaay back.
I used to use a terminal version of IRC back when I first started on the net.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 23:05,
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i missed itI was supposed to be +BestMan, but you didnt know me then. But alas, AmIRC soon sorted us out, where we could both troll #singles together.
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