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Subject: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/04/03 at 10:31 a.m.

You know you are addicted to the message board when...

-You are reading the morning paper or e-mails and thinking, "this is something I should post."

-You lie awake at night thinking, "I should post ...." (that's what I did last night with this.  ;))

-You find it perfectly normal for people to have names like Hairspray or AStringofpoloponies (or even Catwoman  ;)). (Please don't get mad at me you two and forgive me for using your names as examples.)

-You find yourself getting in a petty argument with someone you don't even know. (Sorry had to put this one down)

-You close your eyes at night and see avitars.

-You find yourself wanting to use smiley faces on all written form of communication.

-You talk about a thread and the word "needle" is not used in the same sentence.

-You have the message board as your home page. (This one I actually do NOT do.)



That is all I can think of. Any more?


Cat

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Hairspray on 07/04/03 at 10:45 a.m.


Quoting:
You know you are addicted to the message board when...

-You have the message board as your home page.

Cat
End Quote



I admit it. I do.  ;D

Let's see...

You know you are addicted to the message board when...

-Every chance you get a break, you automatically check in.

-When the message boards become your morning news routine.

-When you hang out here more than you do with your friends in the real world. (This does happen to some people. Not me, of course. ;D)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/04/03 at 11:45 a.m.

You check every half hour to see if there's a new lyrics quiz posted.  

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Don_Carlos on 07/04/03 at 02:31 p.m.

When I refer to my fiancee as Cat instead of her real name - which she asked me not to reveal, but in the local liqour store? ;D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 07/04/03 at 06:15 p.m.

Come to think of it...I actually do write "LOL" on written correspondence !  :-/

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: boris66au on 07/04/03 at 06:45 p.m.

When you actually say Lol instead of laughing during a conversation...i'll admit to doing that once and only once.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 07/04/03 at 07:12 p.m.


Quoting:
When you actually say Lol instead of laughing during a conversation...i'll admit to doing that once and only once.
End Quote



Now, THAT's funny !  ;D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: boris66au on 07/04/03 at 07:15 p.m.


Quoting:


Now, THAT's funny !  ;D
End Quote



It wasn't at the time!! I was so embarrassed....I wasn't even talking to someone who used the net so they had NO clue what it meant.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: AstringOfPoloponies on 07/04/03 at 07:23 p.m.

http://crimeandjustice.i8.com//images/happydance.gif

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: boris66au on 07/04/03 at 07:26 p.m.


Quoting:
http://crimeandjustice.i8.com//images/happydance.gif
End Quote



Lol...you just wait til it happens to you...and it will...you can't stop it!

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/04/03 at 09:22 p.m.

When you read books or newspapers or anything else, you think to yourself, "should I reply to this?"

If youre eating dinner, and you want to tell your brother something, the first thing that comes to mind is to pm him

You try to apply smilys into your speach while talking

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/04/03 at 09:23 p.m.

Quoting:
When you actually say Lol instead of laughing during a conversation...i'll admit to doing that once and only once.
End Quote



lol  

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Stompgal on 07/05/03 at 06:51 a.m.

You keep browsing for interesting topics you may wanna reply to. Some Internet games can also be additictive.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Bobo on 07/05/03 at 07:00 a.m.

That's true.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Don_Carlos on 07/05/03 at 05:30 p.m.

I know Cat is addicted because I can hardly ever get on the computer.  ;D  ;D  ;D

Just kidding, I'm on a lot as well.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/05/03 at 05:43 p.m.

....When you start logging in to your house. ;D

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: DaChazman on 07/05/03 at 05:47 p.m.

I AM Addicted to this site!!!!!!!! I try to go on whenever I can because maybe there would be a good post coming up.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/06/03 at 01:21 p.m.

- when you have dreams about the people at this board and they look like their avatars.  (except don carlos's che avatar had short hair and glasses...) ::) :D

- or when you pass an internet café on the way to the beach, you wonder if anyone else at the boards is as sunburned as you are.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Don_Carlos on 07/06/03 at 02:38 p.m.


Quoting:
- when you have dreams about the people at this board and they look like their avatars.  (except don carlos's che avatar had short hair and glasses...) ::) :D

End Quote



HUH?  Does this mean that in your dream I had short hair and glasses or that Che did  ???

Actually I have thinning hair and DO wear glasses sometimes (see photo link in 2000s, one of the last pages).  ;D Che also wore them, but never got old enough to lose his hair. :'(

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/06/03 at 05:18 p.m.


Quoting:


HUH?  Does this mean that in your dream I had short hair and glasses or that Che did  ???

Actually I have thinning hair and DO wear glasses sometimes (see photo link in 2000s, one of the last pages).  ;D Che also wore them, but never got old enough to lose his hair. :'(
End Quote



in my dream, everyone looked like their avatars, so you looked like che, except with shorter hair and glasses.  people who don't have people as their avatars just looked like random people.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/06/03 at 05:20 p.m.


Quoting:


in my dream, everyone looked like their avatars, so you looked like che, except with shorter hair and glasses.  people who don't have people as their avatars just looked like random people.
End Quote



That is pretty scary when you dream about these people. I must admit that I have had one or two of those dreams myself.  ;)


Cat

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/06/03 at 07:23 p.m.

What do I look like in all of you people's dreams?  ;D  :P  ::)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/06/03 at 11:21 p.m.

Quoting:
What do I look like in all of you people's dreams?  ;D  :P  ::)
End Quote



Harry Potter... ::)

anyway, yes, yes I do picture most people to look like their avatars...but I highly doubt that my bro looks like Avril to you guys...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: TripsMom on 07/07/03 at 09:26 a.m.

...you don't take a newspaper because you can "just read the 2000's thread".

And yes, Lebeiw is Harry Potter in my mind too, only blonde.

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/07/03 at 09:45 a.m.


Quoting:
but I highly doubt that my bro looks like Avril to you guys...
End Quote


No, he looks more like a Backstreet Boy  ;)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/07/03 at 10:17 a.m.


Quoting:




but I highly doubt that my bro looks like Avril to you guys...
End Quote


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hey!  I was just about to post that! lol

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/07/03 at 10:17 a.m.


Quoting:

No, he looks more like a Backstreet Boy  ;)
End Quote



lol.....I wish, lol

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/07/03 at 10:36 a.m.


Quoting:
What do I look like in all of you people's dreams?  ;D  :P  ::)
End Quote



kind of like a hispanic harry potter...

and billy didn't look like avril. :D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/07/03 at 10:40 a.m.

I'm not Hispanic... haha  ;D

I'm not gonna comment on Crazy Don and his "Babe of the Day" avatars

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/07/03 at 01:32 p.m.


Quoting:

I'm not gonna comment on Crazy Don and his "Babe of the Day" avatars
End Quote



Lol...

but in the current pics thread in the 2000s board, me and my bro both got our real pics...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Marian on 07/09/03 at 01:31 p.m.


Quoting:


in my dream, everyone looked like their avatars, so you looked like che, except with shorter hair and glasses.  people who don't have people as their avatars just looked like random people.
End Quote

:D :D :DWell,I really do look like Lisa simpson--I wish i knew how to post pics1Cheers!

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: theRealJimA on 07/09/03 at 02:11 p.m.

You know you are addicted when... you know what the answers people will give to this question are

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/09/03 at 06:28 p.m.

....when you say to your Mother and Father "You've Got Mail"!

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/09/03 at 06:38 p.m.

When you come home and the first thing you ask your partner, "What is happening on the board?" (Do that all the time.  ;)) NOT "Hi, honey, how was your day?" lol



Cat

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Indy Gent on 07/09/03 at 10:11 p.m.

"When you have a bedpan next to your computer."
"When you call you mom "Zella" and your friend "Don Carlos".
"When you miss the Super Bowl, The World Series, and Armageddon during posting."
"When you sign your checks "They're real, and they're spectacular."

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/10/03 at 12:29 a.m.


Quoting:

"When you sign your checks "They're real, and they're spectacular."
End Quote




Or when yo sign your checks CatwomanofV


Cat

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/10/03 at 03:19 p.m.


Quoting:



Or when yo sign your checks CatwomanofV


Cat
End Quote



or when you're talking to yourself, you don't refer to yourself as your real name, you use your alias... (i do that a lot.)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/10/03 at 03:22 p.m.

When you go into a store and you are looking at CDs, and suddenly recognize a cover of a CD of a band you've never listened to--because it was in someone's avatar.  (I do this a lot.)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/10/03 at 08:29 p.m.

Quoting:


or when you're talking to yourself, you don't refer to yourself as your real name, you use your alias... (i do that a lot.)
End Quote



yep, happons all the time when I talk to myself  ;D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/10/03 at 10:48 p.m.


Quoting:
When you go into a store and you are looking at CDs, and suddenly recognize a cover of a CD of a band you've never listened to--because it was in someone's avatar.  (I do this a lot.)
End Quote



like what?

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/10/03 at 11:04 p.m.


Quoting:


like what?
End Quote


Well, more like a disc I've never listened to--oh, like Kenny and Junior have CD covers as their avatars for example, and I'll go into a store and while I'm looking through CDs I'll say "I've seen that before."

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Davester on 07/10/03 at 11:40 p.m.


Quoting:


yep, happons all the time when I talk to myself  ;D
End Quote



  Talk to yourself, but when I hear you answer yourself, I'm calling the gentlemen from your local giggling academy with the nice, white, canvas jackets that buckle in the back...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Don_Carlos on 07/11/03 at 02:34 p.m.


Quoting:
When you come home and the first thing you ask your partner, "What is happening on the board?" (Do that all the time.  ;)) NOT "Hi, honey, how was your day?" lol



Cat
End Quote



Although I think she is, this has not been a symptom.  But after sitting and reading for a few hours while she has been "on", I ask her that occasionally.  I guess I'm addicted (too)  ;D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/12/03 at 07:17 p.m.


Quoting:

Well, more like a disc I've never listened to--oh, like Kenny and Junior have CD covers as their avatars for example, and I'll go into a store and while I'm looking through CDs I'll say "I've seen that before."
End Quote



none of the ones Ive used?  :'(

but then again, if you see Beck Bogert and Appice in a store, shake the owners hand lol

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: lebeiw15 on 07/12/03 at 08:46 p.m.


Quoting:


none of the ones Ive used?  :'(

End Quote


Probably... it's been awhile since you've used album covers so I didn't think of you ;D Unless your avatar right now is "Best of Libraries Vol. 1"

Oh yeah, I've seen an Elvis Costello album you had once in a store... I can't remember any others though...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Ripp on 07/13/03 at 07:13 a.m.

- you post every 5 seconds because you haven't seen updates (I admit it, I do this. Don't be shocked that every time you log back onto here, there are more and more posts off me.)

What do I look like to you lot?

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Ripp on 07/13/03 at 07:14 a.m.


Quoting:
- you post every 5 seconds because you haven't seen updates (I admit it, I do this. Don't be shocked that every time you log back onto here, there are more and more posts off me.)

What do I look like to you lot?
End Quote

Well, its true!

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Davester on 07/13/03 at 08:39 a.m.

  You silly... :P

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/13/03 at 03:34 p.m.

you answer your Parents with a "LMAO". ;D

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/13/03 at 08:21 p.m.


Quoting:
you answer your Parents with a "LMAO". ;D

Howard
End Quote



I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/13/03 at 09:15 p.m.

Quoting:


I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......
End Quote



been there...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/14/03 at 07:28 p.m.


Quoting:


I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......
End Quote



serves you right! ;D

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/14/03 at 08:47 p.m.


Quoting:


I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......
End Quote



my friends and i do that.  we automatically say "jay kay jay kay" at the end of sentences.  (which is pretty scary, considering i don't even use that abbriviation!)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Ice Princess 86 on 07/15/03 at 00:49 a.m.

Quoting:-You lie awake at night thinking, "I should post ...." (that's what I did last night with this.  ;))
---
-You find yourself getting in a petty argument with someone you don't even know. (Sorry had to put this one down)
--
-You talk about a thread and the word "needle" is not used in the same sentence.End Quote


Does this mean I'm addicted?

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/15/03 at 06:06 p.m.

when you start emoticoning yourself. ;D

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/15/03 at 10:54 p.m.

Quoting:


I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......
End Quote



today, I was talking to someone online and I actually typed out "laugh out loud"...first time Ive ever done that...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: philbo_baggins on 07/16/03 at 10:13 a.m.

Quoting:


I once said LOL to my friend...and he punched me......
End Quote


I worked with a chap a few years ago whose initials were LOL.. when he told me, I must admit I laughed out loud ;-)

Phil

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Mike_Florio on 07/16/03 at 08:36 p.m.

Quoting:

I worked with a chap a few years ago whose initials were LOL.. when he told me, I must admit I laughed out loud ;-)

Phil
End Quote



lol....thats like something my dad would say...

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Fred on 07/16/03 at 09:12 p.m.

Sometimes when I read a post, I think about it later on and talk to myself about it the next day.  :)

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Gis on 07/17/03 at 02:23 a.m.



Quoting:

Probably... it's been awhile since you've used album covers so I didn't think of you ;D Unless your avatar right now is "Best of Libraries Vol. 1"


End Quote

To go off subject slightly "Best of libraries" !?! ARGHHH,as a library worker that brings horrible images to mind........

Anyway,when you go cold turkey if you go away for a few days to somewhere with no internet access,get home and log on before you've even unpacked !

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: oddxsocks on 07/18/03 at 10:17 a.m.


Quoting:
Anyway,when you go cold turkey if you go away for a few days to somewhere with no internet access,get home and log on before you've even unpacked !
End Quote



*raises hand*  i've done that! ;D  a few weeks ago, i finally finished unpacking from a trip to florida i took in july...2001. :o :-[

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/18/03 at 06:57 p.m.

when you think the people on the internet are real.

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/19/03 at 03:53 p.m.


Quoting:
when you think the people on the internet are real.

Howard
End Quote



You mean I am not real?


Cat

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Billy_Florio on 07/19/03 at 11:46 p.m.


Quoting:


You mean I am not real?


Cat
End Quote



Im a wooden boy

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Hairspray on 07/20/03 at 12:51 a.m.

Howard means the "personas" or characters we portray on-line. Many of us go by pseudo names, remember. ;)

So, technically, many of us are not "real", but virtual. ;D

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: Howard on 07/20/03 at 02:02 p.m.


Quoting:


You mean I am not real?


Cat
End Quote



Of course you're real.We eat drink,sleep all the time.
hey,I'm all man. (;D)

Howard

Subject: Re: You know you are addicted when...

Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/20/03 at 02:15 p.m.


Quoting:


Of course you're real.We eat drink,sleep all the time.
hey,I'm all man. (;D)

Howard
End Quote




That's good to know. You had me worried there for a minute. I wouldn't know what to do if I discovered that I wasn't real.  ;)



Cat