Re: [GZG] [OT] Re: Ginger

We once took pity on each other(sort of).  He gave me 20% off to give
me the last push needed to make me pull AH's Longest Day off of his
shelves.  I dropped a serious amount of money to buy Ah's Advanced
Squad Leader and ADB's Doomsday edition of Starfleet Battles.

We were both in the same amatuer theater company.

A less famous quote of his was "It is lonely being a moderate
activist, marching down the street by yourself, carrying a placard
that reads 'Reasonable, informed discussion of the issues as soon as
is feasible.'".

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Allan Goodall <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 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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