Role Playing
So we learn of the sad demise this week of Dungeons & Dragons co-founder Gary Gygax who sheds this life with zero life points. That’s a little D&D joke for you there.
One of the reasons this made the news so much is because kids of the 80s who were geeks played the role-playing game grew up with computers and grew to love the internet as it did them and they turned into bigger geeks who remember the people who influenced their own childhood.
I was into D&D, but not in a big way, but I was friends with guys who were. I was more into sports and joking around, but the D&D guys weren’t the typical geeks you might imagine played the game.
True, they were as a group exclusively male, while the girls were into guys but only the ones they’d never meet, like John Travolta, Simon leBon and Matt Dillon.
But the D&D guys were usually bigger than me, into karate, jumping off high walls, climbing trees, burning stuff, carrying penknives with which to sharpen sticks for throwing at each other. In short, these were regular boys with a healthy interest in fiction and the outdoor life.
I was more into playing music and team sports, so I knew more girls. But the D&D guys were more sociable, although despite what they said, girls didn’t go for sociable guys.
But I had the funny and the sport down, and that carried me some way into an adjusted adulthood.
Wow – a proper blog post today. I didn’t think that was going to happen because I’m still waiting for a laptop at work. I ordered it today because the ‘puter I’ve got now I’m pretty sure was taken from the Tomorrow’s World prop cupboard.
I keep seeing famous people and staring at them as I try and place them as old friends, until they stare back and then I realise it’s them off the telly, so I look away before I say “It’s you off the telly.”
What I should of course say is: “Yep. Cliff Jones. This is this. How you doing, OK?”
You’ve been great this week. Thanks for the support. I haven’t been posting as much but still you’re here, so thanks. As well as no laptop, I have very dodgy internet access at home, but all will be fixed. I don’t know if the weekend song is going to happen due to technical difficulties, but we’ll see.
Have a great weekend either way.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Across the world, D&D players will be holding 1D4+1 minutes silence for the Creator.
Another D&D joke, there.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:28 am
A horse walked up to the bar, and the barman said “why the long face?”
A little D&D joke, there.
Um yes. Dog & Duck.
Anyway. Nice weekend to you as well, Cliff. Well done on the first week.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
None whatsoever.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Angry - You love it
Thanks Scary -
A polar bear walks into a bar and says “I’ll have a pint of bitter -
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… and a packet of crisps.”
Bartender says: “Why the big paws?”
March 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
A man walks into a bar. ‘Ouch’, he says.
Or! Or!
A man goes into a bar and asks the barmaid for a Double Entendre, so she gives him one.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Suddenly everybody’s Shecky Green.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Sam, that Double Entendre joke is my favourite joke ever. Thank you for reminding me.
Or! Or!
Why do giraffes have such long necks?
Because their heads are so far away from their bodies.
or to turn it into a pub joke so that it’s vaguely on the new topic…
A giraffe walks into a bar. The barman says, “why the long neck?”. The giraffe says, “because my head is so far away from my body”.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
A barbarian walks into a bar and orders 10 pints of ale. After he’s finished those, he orders 9. Some time later he order 8. Later 7 more, then 6, then 5, then 4.
By the time he has just ordered 3 pints, one of the other patrons steps up to him and asks: “why do you order your drinks like this?”
The barbarians answers: “Haven’t you noticed: the less I drink, the more drunk I get!”
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Congrats on making it through your first week unscathed, Cliff!
March 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Oh, I think he’s scathed, all right, he’s just a real man and takes it well.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
You told the bear joke.
Which is utterly my favourite joke.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
There’s a sign outside a bar that says, ‘No Strings!’ This didn’t sit well with one string, who promptly tied a knot in one end of himself and unwove the short end of himself, then walked in.
‘BARKEEP! Gimme a DRINK!’
‘Hey- aren’t you a string?’ asks teh bartender.
String points to his knotted end and says, ‘Nope. “Fraid Not!’
March 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Or Wendy - a man takes his giraffe into the pub and orders it a drink. After two pints it collapses and the man starts to leave. The barman says “Oi! You can’t leave that lying there!” To which the man replies “It’s not a lion, it’s a giraffe.”
Hehe.
A packet of Walkers goes into a bar, the barman says “Sorry mate, we don’t serve crisps”.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Sam. You just made me nostalgic, damn you. All I want to do RIGHT NOW is go to the pub with my family (not my family as a grown-up, my as-a-child family) and sit in a beer garden (white ornate metal tables and chairs) eating a packet of salt ‘n’ vinegar, drinking fizzy Vimto and enjoying the smell of beer.
March 10th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Now you’ve made me nostalgic for sitting in a German biergarten with a tall coke and the smell of the Black Forest.
Sigh - yesterday is as far away as anything will ever be.