Building a Gary Gygax Memorial 136
An anonymous reader writes "It looks like approval to build a memorial to E. Gary Gygax has been granted in Lake Geneva City, Wisconsin. The Gygax Memorial Fund is still taking donations for the memorial that may begin construction as early as later this year. I (like many on Slashdot) spent many years of my youth using Gygax inspired creations as an excuse to socialize, roll dice, and eat chips at impromptu gatherings before computers intruded on the RPG realms."
Detailed map? (Score:5, Funny)
It damn well better... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who is Gary Gygax? (Score:5, Funny)
Would it have been so hard to use the summary to reveal who Gary Gygax is? It's not like he's a famous geek like John Bardeen.
I'm sorry, but I'll have to ask you to turn in your geek card. You... (rolls dice) ...disgust me.
Re:Perhaps a museum or a statue, but not a memoria (Score:4, Funny)
I'd endorse and support memorials for all 3.
Gary Gygax: For giving geeks and nerds something to do while all the popular kids were out drinking and having sex.
John Wayne: For not taking shit from anybody (his bronze statue needs to be electrified so he doesn't even take crap from pigeons).
You know, forget the memorial.... We just need to clone the Duke.
Madonna: For the "Like a Virgin" years....when she was still hot....I want to remember the hot Madonna.
Re:Who is Gary Gygax? (Score:5, Funny)
I was out having sex AND playing D&D - you loser
Sounds fun! I put on my robe and wizard hat.
In an inner chamber of the memorial... (Score:4, Funny)
...exhume his skull, embed gems into it, and put it on a table. That would really screw with those in the know.
Re:Perhaps a museum or a statue, but not a memoria (Score:4, Funny)
John Fucking Wayne. Our family would build our own memorial to that man.
Every family reunion for as long as I can remember... there would be a fight over John Wayne. The rest of us had bettintg pools over him.
One relative was a real Macho tough SOB. The Duke? You don't insult the Duke and walk away.. you crawl away.
One relative was a flaming gay man. With conspiracy theories.
I won the pot one year by guessing how many glasses of wine and at what time the Duke would be accused of being gay and part of the grand homosexual conspiracy in Hollywood and how many minutes it would take for us to have to hold the first relative back from killing the latter relative.
We had first aid kits handy :)
Ahhh.... the memories. Thank you Duke.
Re:Hall of Fame (Score:0, Funny)
All these years later I realize that that evening with Gary, Larry, and Tracy and the other players was like our generation's equivalent of hanging out with Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg at the height of the Beat era.
Uhhh...no.