On the Niggly Bits games discussion forum (a Yahoo Groups discussion group), Nick Danger began the following thread which was added to by several other participants on that forum. I found it quite humorous. Nick gave his permission to print it in the Strategist.

How many of these fidgeters do you recognize?

Matt the Stacker: Matt is a builder at heart. Put some bits in front of him and he'll immediately begin constructing some monument, housing project, or complex observation platform. Matt has been known, while playing Manhattan, to borrow other players stock building bits to fashion an elevated water tower capped off with his bottle of Diet Coke. Manhattan, to borrow other players stock building bits to fashion an elevated water tower capped off with his bottle of Diet Coke.

Donna the Dentist: Donna will inevitably get a snack morsel stuck in the cavernous gaps between her teeth and then use a card, chip, or in the case of the stubborn crumb a pewter Darth Maul to dislodge the culprit.

Shuffler Schmitty: Schmitty likes to keep his cards fresh and will continuously rotate his stock like a good shopkeeper should. Back to front, front to back, flip-flip-flip, always keeping those cards in motion. When he finally plays one of these the edges look similar to the frayed edges on the multitude of car flags people are sporting these days.

Tina the Tapper: Tina taps. Tina taps often. Tina taps uncontrollably. You'd like tap Tina one time with a 2x4 across the head. Tina will grab the nearest bit by her and begin tapping it on the table top. You're never quite Tina one time with a 2x4 across the head. Tina will grab the nearest bit by her and begin tapping it on the table top. You're never quite sure if it's just a nervous habit, or maybe she's secretly trying to contact her dead Uncle Milton via morse code.

Absent Al: Al can't sit still. In fact, Al just plain can't sit. Whether it's a personality trait or a result of the 3 pots of coffee a day he consumes no one knows for sure, but the one thing you can count on is when it's Al's turn he will not be in his chair. The thing that brings Al close to death is the question that follows his return to the table each and every time - "So, what did I miss?"

Vincent the Vibrator: Vince's idea of a funny thing to do is to bang on the table to slowly cause pieces to slide around on the board. Vince grew up playing Tudor football. Vince thinks his antics are hilarious. Vince is alone in this assumption.

Tossin' Tom: Tom tosses. Tom tosses everything. He tosses more stuff into the air than Circus jugglers. His favorite thing to toss into the air and attempt to catch is dice. If a game has a bunch of dice, they will be flying non-stop throughout the game. Sadly, Tom doesn't catch very well, so by mid-game you are scrounging the floors attempting to alleviate the sudden dice shortage. Worse is the occasional wayward die which crashes across the board with more vengeance and destruction than the Germans crossing the French border. Beware, however, if dice are not available, as Tom will toss just about anything. Take extreme care to scrounge the floors for game pieces once the game concludes.

Bonnie the Babbler: Bonnie likes to talk. Talk talk talk talk talk. Doesn't really as she could surely place a temple tile there, and then her King will reign supreme over the entire world, woohoo, but it might cause her some problems later on but hey what the heck she'll do it anyway and so on and so on and so on...