TSR Q&A with Gary Gygax

This is the multi-year Q&A sessions held by D&D co-creator Gary Gygax here at EN World, beginning in 2002 and running up until his sad pasing in 2008. Gary's username in the thread below is Col_Pladoh, and his first post in this long thread is Post #39.

 

[Tuzenbach]

I surmise that old farts must like to use ejaculations such as "hooray!" and "yippee" and "by the Great Horn Spoon!"

Cheerio,
Gary

Erm.......did Gary Gygax just use the word "ejaculations"?????

 

[Jdvn1]

Erm.......did Gary Gygax just use the word "ejaculations"?????

... No! Nothing to see here, move along.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Erm.......did Gary Gygax just use the word "ejaculations"?????

Heh...

Yes, Beavis, and you got me.

I was thinking "expostulations" when I entered that word...

Ah, the shame of it :\

Cheers,
Gary

 

[Henry]

Ah, the shame of it :\

Bah, bunkum, I say!

Since "ejaculations" may also validly pertain to "emphatic exclamations expressing emotion", I profess that I perceive no pernciousness in your preference. Honi soit qui mal y pense!

 

[Gentlegamer]

Bah, bunkum, I say!

Since "ejaculations" may also validly pertain to "emphatic exclamations expressing emotion", I profess that I perceive no pernciousness in your preference. Honi soit qui mal y pense!

I read the word in this way, as well.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

Bah, bunkum, I say!

Since "ejaculations" may also validly pertain to "emphatic exclamations expressing emotion", I profess that I perceive no pernciousness in your preference. Honi soit qui mal y pense!

Ah but...

Note the reference to "Beavis." In that vein I am culpable.


Gary

 

[palleomortis]

"Well Son," he noted paternally,

I am surely old enough to be your father, seeing as how I have six kinder ranging in age from the 40s down to a stripling of 18 tender years

I surmise that old farts must like to use ejaculations such as "hooray!" and "yippee" and "by the Great Horn Spoon!"

Cheerio,
Gary

But poppa', What does "ejaculations" mean? (sorry, couldn't help it.)


So what do you think of all the "young hudlums"(or whatever you...er..."kind elders of the community", call us) playing one of your creations?

 

[Col_Pladoh]

But poppa', What does "ejaculations" mean? (sorry, couldn't help it.)

As Henry was so ind as to post this definition of the term, a quiote should suffice

"ejaculations" "emphatic exclamations expressing emotion"

So what do you think of all the "young hudlums"(or whatever you...er..."kind elders of the community", call us) playing one of your creations?

To quote what the father of a friend of mine, one Joe Ragont of Chicago said c. 1954 to him regarding, amongst others, none other than me: "So you stand around-a on the corner with your no-good-a hoodlum friends smokin' cigarettes, eh?" (Joe's father was from Naples, so read that with an Italian accent.)

Of course we wore brown leather jackets with the collar turned up, had our greased-back hair in duck-tail, and sported pegged pants, long key chains, and blue suede shoes.

Now who's a hood?


Gary

 

[Henry]

Of course we wore brown leather jackets with the collar turned up, had our greased-back hair in duck-tail, and sported pegged pants, long key chains, and blue suede shoes.

Now who's a hood?


Gary

I know it's the right age and all, and the place and period, but I suffer a complete mental disconnect picturing Gary as a Greaser. -- It's like picturing your parents as teenagers.

 

[Col_Pladoh]

I know it's the right age and all, and the place and period, but I suffer a complete mental disconnect picturing Gary as a Greaser. -- It's like picturing your parents as teenagers.

Well Dude!

What was every old fart once but a young and likely foolish teen?

As I have a good memory, I can relate well to young people today, even though their idea of being cool is pretty different from that I reveled in in the 1950s... And indeed Big Mamma Thornton cut Elvis Presley's rendition of You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog as cold as Carl Perkins cut him doing Blue Suede Shoes

You would have loved me in my silver-gray with blue splash weave one-button roll suit

Cheers,
Gary