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You know you're addicted to IRC...
if you know your cyberpals better than your own family
if you speak in constant random abbreviations. (i.e. LOL, brb, imho, hehehe, etc.)
if you constantly want to express your thoughts IRC-style. (i.e. /me wants a can of Dr. Pepper)
if you name an IRC channel after yourself (i.e. #melvania)
if you go into deep depression when deprived of a computer
if you start to smile sideways... :)
if you telnet to IRC
if you put off doing stuff (laundry, cleaning your room, etc.) so you can "just check and see who's there"
every time you meet someone new IRL, you want to do a /whois...
when you hear a song on the radio and don't remember who sings it, your first thought is to "scroll up" to see what the DJ said
if you create IRC superheroes
if people call you by your irc nick more often than your real name
if you refer to your parents, teachers, or boss as "ops"
if you own a bot
if you run an irc server
if you start to write your own server
if one day you relize that most of the addresses you have in your address book are of IRC pals
if you were amazed to find out Spam is a food
if you introduce your husband as "my domain server"
if you refer to your spouse as wife@home.org
when you get home from work, you type /names #home to see who else is there
the biggest laughs you get come from typos made on irc
if you change your nick when you're away...i.e. melvan becomes mel`sAway, etc...
if you get an extra phone line for the modem just so you can be on irc all the time
if you would rather be at your IRC birthday party than out with real people!
if you bring in the new year by chatting on irc
if someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "ROTFLMFAO!"
if you have ever had a dream about the people in your channels
if you have ever dreamed about being on irc
if you leave the computer on just to see the mIRC logo!
if you watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on
if your friend Susan tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, /me hugs Susan"
if you keep begging your friends to get an internet account so "we can hang out"
three words: carpal tunnel syndrome
if you are laughing at these jokes
if you want to meet a guy/girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer
if you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups"
if you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all"
if you wait for your roommates to say "re"
if the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shaky
if you start predicting netsplits
sometimes when you type commands from a unix/dos prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
if you've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face
if you're getting antsy because you might be missing something good on IRC while reading this!
when you're tired, you refer to yourself as being "lagged"
if you try to change your ping reply and quit message daily
if you have over 20 megs of .wav files in your mIRC directory
if you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's
if your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged
if you send internet Christmas cards
if you've been so anxious to get on IRC you forgot to turn your speakers on and can't figure out why you can't hear the wavs being played!
if you have ever wondered if there is a #mIRC-anon
if you have a mIRC web page (or links to any mIRC pages on your page)
if you think that this is not fantasy but real life and you plan your whole life around IRC chat!
if you've ever logged on to dalnet
if 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
if you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow
if your pregnant wife goes into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message
if YOU go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message
if you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it
if you sell your car to buy a home computer with an internet connection
if you've been lagged so bad that you've switched servers so much you can see your nicks on the channel list 3 times
if you have ever telnetted to a bot
when you join #mIRC everyone types "Norm!"
one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks"
if your service provider calls *you* for tech support
if you have to scroll through your popup menu
if your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes"
if you come home from work, look at your kids, and say "ib"
if you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you losers don't even know what irc is, do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
if you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone"
if you no longer type with proper punctuation, spelling, capitalization, or complete sentences...
if you live on #twilight_zone for months praying for an O: line
if 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
if you have met over 100 ircers
if you /umode +s because you dont feel right without it
if you dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's first name
if your boyfriend/girlfriend in RL gets on IRC coz its the only way to reach you
if you know which servers are major hubs..in *.tw
if you find yourself wishing that girl that who cut you off were on irc so you could flood her
if you read operlist
if you tell your friends you have plans already on saturday night when you don't
