IRC addicts
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11 Dec 2005, 02:07
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Top 10 signs you may be addicted to IRC.
10. Your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
9. Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
8. You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
7. You have to scroll through your popup menu.
6. You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
5. Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
4. You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your husband.
3. You keep begging your friend's to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
2. Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
1. You laughed at this list.
You might be addicted to irc if....
...your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes."
...you want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
...you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
...you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all."
...when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"
...you're a heterosexual male, but one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
...you come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib."
...you wait for your roomates to say "re."
...the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
...sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
...you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
...you make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
...you have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mirc directory.
...you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
...your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged.
...you send internet Christmas cards. *wink*
...you've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*."
...you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
...you have an irc web page.
...you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you loosers don't even know what irc is,
do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
...you've ever logged on to dalnet.
...you join #hispanola "just to work on my Spanish."
...when someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
...you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
...you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
...you go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message.
...you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
10. Your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
9. Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
8. You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
7. You have to scroll through your popup menu.
6. You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
5. Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
4. You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your husband.
3. You keep begging your friend's to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
2. Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
1. You laughed at this list.
You might be addicted to irc if....
...your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes."
...you want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
...you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
...you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all."
...when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"
...you're a heterosexual male, but one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
...you come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib."
...you wait for your roomates to say "re."
...the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
...sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
...you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
...you make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
...you have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mirc directory.
...you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
...your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged.
...you send internet Christmas cards. *wink*
...you've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*."
...you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
...you have an irc web page.
...you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you loosers don't even know what irc is,
do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
...you've ever logged on to dalnet.
...you join #hispanola "just to work on my Spanish."
...when someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
...you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
...you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
...you go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message.
...you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
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