- He would come to work at Bletchley Park in his pajamas and sometimes used a tie as a belt
- He chained his tea mug to the radiator next to his desk because he was convinced someone would steal it due to the lack of cutlery in wartime England
- He briefly brewed ale in Hut 8, the same room in which he decrypted Nazi codes, before someone higher up made him stop
- He broke the chain on his bicycle and instead of fixing it or getting a new one he calculated exactly how many times he could peddle from point A to B before the whole thing fell apart.
- He also refused to share this number so nobody else could use his bike.
- He joined Home Guard (which was kind of like the army reserves) during World War II as a hobby because he wanted to learn how to shoot a gun, and once he learned that he straight up stopped going.
- They told him if he didn’t continue with his shifts he’d be persecuted under military law, and he told them he wouldn’t be, because he had just written “NO” on the terms and conditions sheet when signing up.
- He was sent to codebreak in America for awhile and he was overwhelmed by Americans being friendly and chit-chatty so he ended up talking loudly about how he’d been propositioned by a (fellow) gay man at his hotel so everyone would be weirded out and leave him be.
- He had a teddy bear named Porgy he would practice his speeches to.
- Honestly so much of his life was amazing and tragic but he was also just a weirdo nerd and I love him so much
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