Re: [GZG] [OT] Re: Ginger

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2010 at 3:23 AM, Phillip Atcliffe <atcliffe@ntlworld.com>wrote:

> Not according to sites like Wikipedia, it isn't. James Davis Nicoll of
the
> "cribhouse whore" quote fame used to run a games shop. Dunno if it was
> Imperiums To Order, but is it likely that there'd be 2 James Nicolls
running
> RPG shops so close by?
>
>
Wow, that is way cool!

And, no, if there had been another game store, I would have known about
it.
The only two in Kitchener were Imperiums to Order and Carry-On Comics,
across the street. (There was also an Atari computer dealer below
Imperiums
for a number of years, which I also would visit in the days when I still
used my Atari 800 XL.)

James is a cool guy. I bought many, many games from him over the years.
I
think a good chunk of my student loans went to him. :-)

For some reason, the quote I remember from him was when he and a friend
saw
two movies back to back. He said, "We saw 'Loose Cannons', which proved
--
once and for all -- that Dan Aykroyd can't act. Then we went to see
'Driving
Miss Daisy', which proved -- once and for all -- that Dan Aykroyd can
act!"

I don't know why that always stuck in my head...

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