This is freakalette’s fault.
- You say ‘my post is my cite’ on someone’s Livejournal.
- You’re out and about, just living your own life, and something happens to you. You start composing an OP about it in your head.
You remember reading this thread the last time it was started. And you’re wondering if you’re posting the exact same thing you did then.
Not my fault!! This place is worse than crack, I swear…
- You think “Hi, Opal!” whenever you get to the third thing on a list.
- You use Og as part of a road-rage tirade.
Ouch, I do those.
5. You read a news story that pisses you off and wonder if there’s a pit thread about it yet.
When one of the questions you ask on a first date is “Do the phrases “Hi, Opal!” or “1920’s style death ray” mean anything to you?”
When the hyperlinks to all the fora are purple.
When your IRL friends who aren’t online all know what the SDMB is anyway. (as opposed to thinking it’s some kind of bondage site, like they did at first!)
When you don’t have to double-check the odd spellings/punctuation/capitalization/spacing when referring to another Doper by name in a post.
When you get an iPhone and high-speed cellular data access so that you can browse the Dope while in motion on the way to work.
When you remember how to add all the tags for links, bold text, etc, in your text without looking them up. And then you add them to regular web pages and wonder while they don’t work there as well.
You check the Dope for news items before actual news sites.
What is the ‘Hi Opal’ thing? I’ve always wondered, and that dratted Google tells me nowt…
This. And when it’s the first thing on your mind waking up and the last thing you do before going to bed.
Yes it is!
When you’re doing something new and think ‘damn! why didn’t I re-read that thread first?’
Someone will come along who knows more than I do, but here’s what I remember:
People would create a list of only two items. This bothered Opal, who pointed out that a list should contain at least three items. So Dopers, being the sarcastic bunch we are, started lists of two things, but added a third to make it a true list, the third item being, “Hi Opal!”
Or people tell me about something newsworthy and my first or second thought is, “I wonder if it’s on SDMB yet?”
accidental double
You actually say out loud to someone “cite?”.
I’ve done this twice now without realising I was doing it.
When you ask the waiter for Bacon Salt.
Someone famous dies and your first thought is to wonder how it affects the Celebrity Death Pool.
This, all the freaking time! Oh, and the news thing. I always find out about things here first.
I have been reading an article in the paper, and then started an in-my-head arguement about it with other Dopers.
I need a drink.
Yeah, great, I do every fucking thing mentioned so far in this thread…
