# am I seeing things?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 12, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692 "2000-01-12T01:11:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/1 "2000-01-12T01:11:00Z")
No, I’m on shrooms currently… but is any else seeing a brown background in every other post?
Maybe my 'puter is telling me it needs to be relpaced…
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“People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis,
But they don’t realize how hard it is
to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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### Author:  [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/2 "2000-01-12T01:11:00Z")
ahem-- I’m **NOT** on shrooms
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“People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis,
But they don’t realize how hard it is
to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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### Author:  [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/3 "2000-01-12T01:15:00Z")
I see a gray background in every other post. I assume it is to help mark where one post ends and another begins. Is that what you mean?
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### Author:  [@special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/4 "2000-01-12T01:22:00Z")
& you first started noticing this when?
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### Author:  [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/5 "2000-01-12T02:38:00Z")
I usually see a grey background in every other post, but for some odd reason it was coming in brown. everything’s back to normal now, but it wsa kinda weird, everything that should’ve been grey was brown. I noticed it whenever it was I last posted, 9:10ish i think. Since everything’s a-ok, I’ll go back to damning physics homework for another hour.
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“People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis,
But they don’t realize how hard it is
to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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### Author:  [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/6 "2000-01-12T16:56:00Z")
This happens to me when I have either my Day-Timer[sup]TM[/sup] software or Adobe Acrobat[sup]TM[/sup] open and not minimized. Could you have been using another piece of software that causes this? If so, minimizing all windows and restoring only SD seems to solve the problem.
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I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
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### Author:  [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-seeing-things/12692/7 "2000-01-13T06:51:00Z")
Could be those shrooms you **weren’t** on…Wink wink!
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-Frankie
Lack of charisma can be fatal