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 sickened myself with my automotive nerdynessAnd I did this unintentionaly
Recently walking through a car park and ahead in one of the bays was a nice shiny S-Class Mercedes. Now I have a particular interest in Mercs, having had dealings with some nice classic ones and more recent models , anyway as I got closer I heard the familiar sound of a Mercedes diesel engine thrum into life (told you I was a nerd), and I though, oh it’s a diesel, which is quite unusual here in Australia.
But the car did not move and as I got closer I saw that it had not started up and in fact it was some large 4X4, I felt disappointed and relived at the same time that my nerdyness had failed me.
However,
As the 4X4 came towards me I notice it was one of those ugly SsangYong’s and they are powered by a re-engineered Mercedes Diesel engine.....AARRGHHH!!
(, Fri 7 Mar 2008, 0:50, Reply)
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