* you live on #twilight_zone for months praying for an
O: line * you end up with 7 O: lines
* to get revenge on someone you know in RL, you mail bomb them..through
the US postal service, that is
* you have met over 100 ircers
* you /umode +s because you dont feel right without it
* you dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's first name
* your boyfriend/girlfriend in RL gets on IRC coz its the only way to
reach you
* you know which servers are major hubs..in *.tw
* you call your S.O (boyfriend/girlfriend is too long to type) a HNG
* you use words like 'leet' and 'lame' in RL
* you find yourself wishing that that bitch on your hall were on irc so
you could flood her
* you read operlist
* you tell your rfiends you have plans already on saturday night when
you dont
* your .ircrc is over 80k
* you feel a need to talk in all caps to certain people in RL
* your desk is the only part of your room you ever use (screw the bed ;)
* you have ever put a smiley in a paper for school
From homie@cyberhighway.net:
the JehovA's Witnesses knock on the
door, and all you can think of doing
is flood them with PINGs.
You get a call from a
telemarketer, and
instead of hanging up on them,
you set down the phone, and set their mode to -v
You call up your friend Nick, and
/invite $nick to #watch_TV
You offer the babysitter OPS when you
go out for the night
You refer to rush hour traffic as
LAGGED... or to avoid traffic, you tell
your passenger you need to quit for a second to switch servers
The word I is now replaced in your
vocabulary with /me.
You raise your hand in class, and say
"BRB"
You have more than 3 private MSG
windows going simultaneously
You won't subscribe to a certain
internet provider because they don't
offer unlimited time per month
Instead of taking a disk home from
work, you set up your BOT to serve it
to you later that night
You no longer have to stop and
explain
to your friends what "RE ALL"
means
You begin to say hehehehehehehehe
instead of laughing
You don't sleep at night because you
are too stay up late thinking of a
new NICK
You know and use
regularly, more than
10 different ways to smile in
ascii text
From William Estep (wbestep@whidbey.net):
...You cry when you see more than 3 quit messages with two servers listed as
the reason.
..when someone says "what did you say?" you reply "scroll up!"
..you find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the
might when your spouse is asleep to get more irc time in!
..you turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know
that you are on irc again!
..you know more about your irc "friends" daily routines than you do your
own spouses!
..when someone in a channel says "where is today, and you know
exactly where that person is and why they are not logged on.
..you find yourself lieing to others about your irc time. When they
complain your phone is busy, you claim it was off the hook!
..you have an identity crisis if someone else is using your nick.
..you would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too
much instead of the truth (up all night on irc!)
..you change nicks so much that you have to type /me to see who you are!
..you put on special mood music while talking to certain people in
private chats!
..your friends on irc were above your RL friends on your Christmas card
list!
..you find yourself involved in channel politics on irc!
..you ever turned down real hugs for {{hugs}} from your irc friends.
..you have actually kept up with 10 converstions at one time! <---this
one shows either great skill or that you are too far gone!
..you postpone your college graduation date so you can keep your free
.edu account!
From Eponine:
..you have ever written a
pen-and-paper letter to someone and found it
_impossible_ to do without smilies
From Rampie:
...you don't even bother answering the phone anymore...
... If you're broke and your modem burns out and
you go out on to the streeets to sell your body to get a
new one..
...If you are willing to risk a divorce because your
husband doesn't like all the time you are spending on the
computer
...If you are willing to sell a kidney to get to the
next #anne-Rice channel meet
...If you are risking your job by staying on
#anne-rice in the afternoon
From Antha:
...If you open up your home to 15 strangers for a
week merely because they have computers and cute
nicknames
... if you consider getting an THIRD phone line so your
S.O. can get online on a diff acct
...If you yell at ppl cause they aww using more than 2
w's and are messing up your URL list
...if your kids are
standing at your side going "mommy, please come cook
dinner" and you'd rather type another "LOL!"
From Gabrielle:
...If the first thing you say after coming out of a
movie is, "Hey. Remember that funny line? It would make
a perfect info line!"
From: Scullycj
...you Marry your cyberboyfriend RT and you both sit at your own computers
and
chat to each other every night from across the room! (Hehehe I did...do
this:)
From: Lonny
...you have ever had netsex with a bot.
From:Stephen/meridian
your first thought when your nick is taken is "VERSION"
From:Scruples
You might be addicted to irc if...both you and your wife
has thier own computer, server, and e-mail address.
You might be addicted to irc if...Your S.O.'s friends and
family (all in the same geographical area, most computer
illiterate, none addicted to IRC) refer to you by your nick,
because for months that's the only name they heard.
From:Q-bert_2
... You came here when the channel you were on was less than
20 people
From:duck
...if you find it RIGHT..........right
From:Scruples
You might be addicted to irc if...both you and your wife
has thier own computer, server, and e-mail address.
...If your sitting sitting at work with NO IRC Clients and you can't find
any; Anywhere, You get
sidetracked into reading webs about IRC.
From: DaPackFan
...you have to replace your / and # keys every few weeks.
From:cr0w
You might be addicted to irc if you are telling someone
about all your friends and it turns out they are all
on IRC...
From:Libby
You might be addicted to irc if..are doing things more and more that you
swore you would never,
ever do when you first found chat!
YOU MAY BE ADDICTED TO IRC IF:
You type faster than you think
You can read the cast names that scroll on your TV at the end of a movie
You dream only in "text" format
Nothing's happening, but you don't want to leave for fear you'd miss something
You spend at least 30 minutes saying goodbye to everyone on line
You stop speaking in full sentences, or use short choppy ones
You have a vanity car tag with your nick on it
Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL"
In the real world your first thought upon seeing a pretty girl is to "msg" her
You go up to people you're attracted to at parties and ask them for their GIF
You become insanely jealous of anyone hitting on your cyber-love
You prefer watching TV with the closed captioning turned on
When someone says, "What did you say ?" you reply, "Scroll up !"
You know more about your on-line friends' routines than you do your family's
You have an identity crisis if someone is using a nick close to your own
You change your nick so much that you have to look to see who you are
You can type messages while you are on the phone and carry on two conversations
Your dog leaves you
You sign on & get 10 msgs from people who have you on their notify list
You wish you had an ignore button that would work in real life
You bring a bag lunch & a cooler to the computer
Your S.O. kisses your neck while you're on-line & you think, "cyber-perv"
Your notify list contains over 100 people
You have to inject no-doze into your butt to keep it awake
You have no idea what time it is
Your relationship online has gone farther than any real one you ever had
You don't even notice anymore when someone has a typo
You're seeking an on line psychiatrist to treat your IRC addiction
Someone online says they gotta pee, you ask them to go for you, & think they can
You've yet to see anything funny at all in this list