Top 20 Signs That You've been online too long

[Jimcs50]

Top 20 Signs That You've
Been Online Too Long



1. Tech Support calls you for help.
2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL."
3. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.
4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.
5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "you can hang out."
6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
7. You've gotten on an airplane just to meet some people face-to-face.
8. You have to get a second phone line so you can order pizza.
9. Your wife goes into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail to let everyone know you're going to be "away."
10. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.
11. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation or complete sentences.
12. You begin to say "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.
13. When someone says, "What did you say?" you reply, "Scroll up!"
14. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.
15. You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you're online again.
16. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouses'.
17. You find yourself lying to others about your time online and when they complain that your phone was busy, you claim it was off the hook.
18. You have an iden y crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.
19. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (you were online all night).
20. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.

[SpursWoman]

Hmmmmm.......a little self-analization......


1. Tech Support calls you for help.

not yet, but I know AOL's # by heart.

2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL."

no, but I think it.....actually I think "colon,L,O,L"

3. You watch TV with the closed captioning turned on.

what TV?

4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

Never. Although I have answered my phone at work, "This is SpursWoman..."

5. You keep begging your friends to get an account so "you can hang out."

My best friend finally got connected.

6. Three words: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Nah. A little preventative wrist workout will stave of that problem.

7. You've gotten on an airplane just to meet some people face-to-face.

No, but several have come here on airplanes or long car trips. (Just friends! )

8. You have to get a second phone line so you can order pizza.

Papa John's....order online!

9. Your wife goes into labor and you stop to type a special e-mail to let everyone know you're going to be "away."

Never had to do that. I had a laptop the only time I really went away.

10. You have a vanity car tag with your screen name on it.

I've actually inquired as to whether "SprWmn" was available.

11. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation or complete sentences.

That one's hard to break....

12. You begin to say "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.

Nope. See #2

13. When someone says, "What did you say?" you reply, "Scroll up!"

Never said that.

14. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.

Not married....but have gotten on when I can's sleep.

15. You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know you're online again.

Nah....monitor doesn't face a window.

16. You know more about your AOL friends' daily routines than you do your own spouses'.

Not married...

17. You find yourself lying to others about your time online and when they complain that your phone was busy, you claim it was off the hook.

Cable modem & cell phone!

18. You have an iden y crisis if someone is using a screen name close to your own.

This has happened. Harmon deleted an unused SpursWoman account at WOAI when SR merged so I could have it....I was stressing.....

19. You would rather tell people that your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much than the truth (you were online all night).

Nah....I wasn't partying or online......

20. You type messages to people while you are on the phone with them at the same time.

I've done this a lot....





I need a life.....

[Jimcs50]

4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

Never. Although I have answered my phone at work, "This is SpursWoman..."

I have yelled out "SW" to my wife a few times.

[SpursWoman]

awwwww.....



Did you cover with.... ".....chicken salad from Jack in the Box.......damn, I'm hungry" ?

[CrazyOne]

Papa John's online... I have an account there already...

[Clandestino]

21. Your legs go numb from sitting on the toilet too long.(i'm high tech, no more newspaper since this wireless internet came out!"

[T Park]

11. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation or complete sentences

ooops.......... hehe, Im not guilty of this what soooo ever.


Am I S Dub?

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

This has never happened to me. . .unless you're counting Kori, S y, Spurswoman, Mouse, Jim, TPark, Violent Kitten and GayABC. Other than those eight, and six or seven more, it's never happened. . . NEVER!!!

[Shelly]

22. You email your husband and he's in the next room using his laptop.

[whottt]

2. Someone at work tells you a joke and you say "LOL."

I came close to doing this when I first got online...



4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

LMAO, is it worse if when you call out the screen name it actually belongs to the person you are making love too?

11. You no longer type with proper capitalization, punctuation or complete sentences.

Seriously...I'm ed by this. Especially with ellipsises.


14. You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the night when your spouse is asleep.

Did this all the time...when I was married.

I'd like to add one more to this list..

23.You come online and have a girl that you've never met in person pissed off at you and asking you where you have been.

Yes that has happened to me.

[samikeyp]

Ducks' posts start to make sense!

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Man, I think that's why I try to be as correct as I can when I respond online. I don't want it to carry the wrong way into my reporting.

I know it's bad when I start using AP style in my posts, though.

Typing the numbers one through ten out instead of simply writing 1-10, etc.

[SpursWoman]

I know it's bad when I start using AP style in my posts, though.

Typing the numbers one through ten out instead of simply writing 1-10, etc.

That's not just AP style, Joe.....that's just normal rules of grammar.

And I don't care how long I've been online or how much time I spend here, I'm too anal retentive to forego the grammar part....

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

That's not just AP style, Joe.....that's just normal rules of grammar.

And I don't care how long I've been online or how much time I spend here, I'm too anal retentive to forego the grammar part....

Do you REALLY want to know how long it's been since I've been in an English class (having to retake one this semester to replace an old grade)?

Everything's AP style to me.



One copy @ home. One (my own, not the 4 others I have sitting on my desk) @ the newsroom.

I can't remember what it is right now, but there's especially one rule that grammar and AP style are totally opposite on that pisses me off completely. I used to get marked off tons in high school because I was so used to writing in AP style.

[samikeyp]

That's not just AP style, Joe.....that's just normal rules of grammar.

And I don't care how long I've been online or how much time I spend here, I'm too anal retentive to forego the grammar part....

I had an issue with Hoopsworld with that when I wrote for them. I used normal rules of grammar along with what I was taught in journalism class back in high school. They would tell me I was wrong and no one cares about "traditional grammar rules" and such. That hastened my departure from that site along with other stuff.

[Shelly]

Ducks' posts start to make sense!

WINNAR!!!!!

[Samurai Jane]

22. You email your husband and he's in the next room using his laptop.

Try instant messaging him when he's sitting right across from you!

[Spurminator]

4. You have called out someone's screen name while making love to your significant other.

I hereby give permission for anyone to scream out my screen name while making love.

[Useruser666]

You're over at a friends house for 5 minutes and have to "borrow their computer".

[Slomo]

You're over at a friends house for 5 minutes and have to "borrow their computer".

Guilty as charged!

[Samurai Jane]

You take your laptop to bowling league praying that whoever it is in the neighborhood that has the unsecured wireless signal hasn't figured out how to put a key on it yet.

[travis2]

You take your laptop to bowling league praying that whoever it is in the neighborhood that has the unsecured wireless signal hasn't figured out how to put a key on it yet.

oooooooh...bad girl!

[Samurai Jane]

oooooooh...bad girl!

Actually, I haven't done that myself, but I know someone who has...

[CosmicCowboy]

I hereby give permission for anyone to scream out my screen name while making love.

Ahhhhhhh!...

uhhhhhhhh!...

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.....

SPUUUUUURMINATOR!!!!!!

[gay abc]

I hereby give permission for anyone to scream out my screen name while making love.

anyone huh?