Re:A 'nerd' shoots for the stars, and NASA comes knocking
by zandorg on Friday May 08, 2009 @03:17PM
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Vaguely, but not quite the same level of glory, but I basically dropped out of high school when I was 15, but they gave us a quiz to do in the holidays around that time, with a £25 prize.
Me and a friend won the quiz (there was no Web in those days!).
I became briefly popular when they announced the quiz results in assembly [a gathering of students and the headteacher], except I was absent (ironically). I got girls asking me to buy everyone a drink.
Ah, such glory!
I even bought a Spectrum +3 with some of the money.
[postscript: The kid in my class who later went to Cambridge came second in the quiz, something I feel proud of, even if it's a hollow victory]
Me and a friend won the quiz (there was no Web in those days!).
I became briefly popular when they announced the quiz results in assembly [a gathering of students and the headteacher], except I was absent (ironically). I got girls asking me to buy everyone a drink.
Ah, such glory!
I even bought a Spectrum +3 with some of the money.
[postscript: The kid in my class who later went to Cambridge came second in the quiz, something I feel proud of, even if it's a hollow victory]