I was sitting in college last semester pretending to read a book when the usual happened; I drifted off to sleep. I was dozing for a few golden minutes when I was awoken by an argument close by. It went something like this:

“Oh PLEASE that idea has been done a MILLION times. What about 1982? What about brave new world? It’s just a re-vamped version. The Gun Fu is pretty cool though.”

My inner monologue went something like this:
“Shut the fuck up, fucking nerds. What the fuck is gun fu. Where the fuck am I”.

It was my own fault. I had sat in the middle of the booth where game soc meet. Game soc is a society for those who appreciate games such as dungeons and dragons and what not. Also, there is some thing with goblins on cards. I have tried to figure it out walking by. In the few moments that I had been asleep, seven or eight game soc members had congregated AROUND me. I have put AROUND in capital letters because it was quite literally AROUND me. What I mean is, the gentleman on my left, dressed up as Indiana Jones was leaning over me to tell the gentleman on my right, dressed as a medieval man all about gun fu. I was quite irritated. There had been one other normal guy sitting across from me in the booth when I was drifting off to sleep. He was still there, sitting directly opposite me. He looked at me the way you look at a fellow countryman you happen to meet abroad. He looked at me the way you look at a fellow soldier when he is thrown in to a Vietnam tiger cage with you. Without speaking, we both knew we had to get out of there. He only lasted five short minutes. I on the other hand was locked in a one sided Mexican stand off. “Fuck this, I was here first”. I thought. It turns out Gun Fu is a real thing and it’s out of that movie Equilibrium. I think Christian Bale was in it. Anyway, they succeeded in driving me away in the end.

I am notoriously grumpy when woken up. Hell, some would say I’m just notoriously grumpy. After a while however, after some thought, I began to respect these nerdlingers. As I said, there is one guy who comes to college every goddamn day dressed as an explorer. He introduced himself to a girl in class in first year as, “The gentleman explorer”. Of course I started calling him the (male) Genital explorer. I have searched Googlemachine’s imagepot and finally found what he resembles. He looks very close to this.

The medieval chap looks something like this.

He has quite a nice cape, it has to be said. My point is, what brave little tykes. I know you have to be a little…what’s the word…..eccentric, to show up to college in such attire, but you have to have balls also. A lot of us have lost our childhood wonder. Many of us would be embarrassed to stroll down the halls with a skull cane and a top hat on, but not these guys. So in the spirit of being different, I applaud these guys. They have the courage to do their own thing 100% of the time. How many of us can say that?

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