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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Couple of years agoto impress my nephews , step daughter and assorted small children, I always used to pretend to open the automatic doors at supermarkets by using my mind and accompanying hand gesture (Obi Wan style)
for a brief period I was a god among adults in their eyes
(I told them that I'd taught them this power too by special mind transfer)
the nerdy part is I still do it even when I'm on my own - most recently going in and out of the local library on Monday night
:)
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YeahI done that. Don't think it's nerdy I just think it's a necessary use of psychic power.
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Someone else too!Now I feel slightly more normal (if 2 from 60m people in the UK is normal)
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When automatic doors aren't workingand they don't open for you, do you - like me - feel like it's your fault and you've failed in some way?
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Novander doesn't like you as much as you think, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:02,
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never!It's merely proof a Sith lord is nearby and trying to stop you returning your library books
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^ make that 3I do it on my own too, or sometimes in the company of my 12-yr-old son, who cringes with embarrassment.
Worse still, at the age of 39 I still wave at tractors and construction vehicles - skip-lorries and concrete mixers are my favouites.
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Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:05,
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me tooi do exactly the same thing, its second nature know. I did it on a date once and the look i got from her was priceless!
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SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 13:55,
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Surely everyone has done it,I still do it now and again, when I was younger and approaching said doors, I used to say "Open Sesame" which soon gave way to "Open Says me". I did it a few months ago when I was with the missus and she looked at me as if I was mad. Did I feel stupid?? Not a bit.
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Stu71 ....bad money dies, I love the scene, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 14:40,
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I do it as a geek test/age screen.I approach the doors and intone, "Sim sim salabim!"
You can tell a lot about a person if they laugh.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 7 Mar 2008, 20:30,
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