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Posted 07 May 2006 - 04:28 PM

1. You kiss your girlfriend's home page.
2. Your bookmark takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
3. Your eyeglasses have a web site burned in on them.
4. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
5. You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines .
6. You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular
modem and a laptop.
7. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap?and
your child in the overhead compartment.
8. All your daydreaming is preoccupied with getting a faster connection
to the net: 28.8?ISDN?cable modem?T1?T3.
9. And even your night dreams are in HTML.
10. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word
processor.com.
11. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
12. Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a
new WWW site address in print or on TV, even though you've never had
heart problems before.
13. You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved
and you don't have a clue when it happened.
14. You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if
new e?mail arrives.
15. Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what
she looks like.
16. All of your friends have an @ in their names.
17. When looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice all of
them are already highlighted in purple.
18. Your dog has its own home page.
19. You've already visited all the links at Yahoo and you're halfway
through Lycos.
20. You can't call your mother?she doesn't have a modem.
21. You realize there is not a sound in the house and you have no idea
where your children are.
22. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it
again.
23. You refer to your age as 3.x.
24. You have commandeered your teenager's phone line for the net and
even his friends know not to call on his line anymore.
25. Your phone bill comes to your doorstep in a box.
26. Even though you died last week, you've managed to retain OPS on your
favorite IRC channel.
27. You code your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.
28. You don't know the sex of three of your closest friends, because
they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.
29. Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.
30. You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest games
from Apogee.
31. You start looking for hot HTML addresses in public rest rooms.
32. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you
landscape.
33. You tell the cab driver you live at
http://123.elm.stree...e/bluetrim.html
34. You actually just now tried that 123.elm.street address.
35. You tell the kids they can't use the computer because "Daddy's got
work to do" and you don't even have a job.
36. Your friends no longer send you e?mail?they just log on to your IRC
channel.
37. You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built?in keyboard and mouse.
38. Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer cannot come to bed."
39. You are so familiar with the WWW that you find the search engines
useless.
40. You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 1.1
or higher."
41. You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your
ISP?because you never log off.
42. You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in
front of your computer with a toilet.
43. You forget what year it is.
44. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
45. You ask your doctor to implant 1GB in your brain.
46. You leave the modem speaker on after connecting because you think it
sounds like the ocean wind?the perfect soundtrack for "surfing the net".
47. You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to
call 200 hours per month "unlimited."
48. You turn on your computer and turn off your wife.
49. Your wife says communication is important in a marriage?so you buy
another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can
chat.
50. As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your
first instinct is to search for the "back" button.

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Posted 07 May 2006 - 05:42 PM

I totally agree with those, but you couldn't possibly made that. You would of been smart to make something like that.
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 06:03 PM

I'm addicted to the web and absolutely none of them apply to me.
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 08:20 PM

View PostWilko, on May 7 2006, 01:03 PM, said:

I'm addicted to the web and absolutely none of them apply to me.

Same here. :unsure:
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 09:09 PM

View PostWilko, on May 7 2006, 02:03 PM, said:

I'm addicted to the web and absolutely none of them apply to me.

Ya I think it has to do with that its ages old.
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 10:33 PM

View PostTakCLS, on May 7 2006, 01:42 PM, said:

I totally agree with those, but you couldn't possibly made that. You would of been smart to make something like that.


You try to insult someone's intelligence with poor grammar, brilliant.

For me, life wouldn't be the same without a computer (Or even a high speed internet connection.), but nothing from the list applies to me.
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 11:21 PM

Only number 22 applies to me
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 11:33 PM

View PostTrish, on May 8 2006, 12:21 AM, said:

Only number 22 applies to me


:lol: same here
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Posted 07 May 2006 - 11:36 PM

I'm sometimes guilty of 22 and 4, but I'm nowhere near as bad as I used to be.
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Posted 08 May 2006 - 04:57 AM

Does number four include reading articles on Wikipedia for hours at a time? :blush:
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Posted 08 May 2006 - 03:22 PM

Guilty of (or have been):

4. You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to search.
5. You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines .
22. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it
again.
47. You begin to wonder how on earth your service provider is allowed to
call 200 hours per month "unlimited."

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Posted 08 May 2006 - 04:17 PM

View PostTakCLS, on May 7 2006, 06:42 PM, said:

I totally agree with those, but you couldn't possibly made that. You would of been smart to make something like that.


I didn't take any credit at all, and yeah - Most of these are pretty old but good for a laugh. :thumbsup:
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Posted 08 May 2006 - 10:42 PM

51. You are in the pub with your mates when someone says something funny and the first thing that pops into your head is "lol".

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Posted 08 May 2006 - 10:56 PM

I read that as "tub" first, not "pub"
Have you ever seen an idealist with grey hairs on his head? Or successful men who keep in touch with unsuccessful friends? You only think you did, I could have sworn I saw it too but as it turns out it was just a clever ad for cigarettes.
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Posted 09 May 2006 - 12:31 AM

View Postblush, on May 8 2006, 05:56 PM, said:

I read that as "tub" first, not "pub"

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