[FoRK] Re: OB_DORK: RIP Gary Gygax, and jokes you'd better not make...

[Jeff Bone]

BTW, the OB_DORK is OBLIGATORY_DORK (i.e., me, for being moved enough  
to post this) not OBIT_DORK...  no dis to the DM, yo.

jb

On Mar 4, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:

> 	
> D&D co-creator Gary Gygax has passed away.
>
>  http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/03/04/1750206.shtml
>
> Jokes you'd better not make where the Woot can hear you:
>
>  http://www.woot.com/Blog/BlogEntry.aspx?BlogEntryId=4118
>
> 	• “Quick! Someone cast Raise Dead!”
> 	• “Don’t worry – he’s just playtesting the Astral Plane for the  
> next edition.”
> 	• “He’s gone the way of Star Frontiers.”
> 	• “Analysts warn of a free-fall in Mountain Dew futures.”
> 	• “In the next town, you meet a stranger named Barry Bygax.”
> 	• “Now who will lead our young people to Satan?”
> 	• “With his last breath, he cursed the name of Marlon Wayans.”
> 	• “I wonder how they’ll divide up his XP.”
> 	• “Pallbearers, make a Bend Bars/Lift Gates roll.”
> 	• "At least he didn't live to see Disney's Greyhawk On Ice."
> 	• “Lorraine Williams is behind this somehow, I just know it.”
> 	• “The worlds of adventure gaming, fantasy fandom, and van painting  
> will never be the same.”
> 	• “When I heard, I cried 2d10 tears.”
> 	• “Is there anything in the will about electrum?”
> 	• “Heart condition? Wow, I always thought it’d be owlbears that got  
> him.”
> 	• “Suddenly, nobody in Heaven wants to hang out with Marilyn Monroe  
> on Friday night.”
>
> --
>
> jb
>
>