# You know you SDMB too much when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897 "2002-09-27T17:11:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/21 "2002-09-29T17:05:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Astroboy14 \* > \*\*When your co-worker asks about your plans for the weekend, and you reply, “Well, me and **Astrogirl** are thinking of…” instead of using her REAL name… \*\* For me, that will be **Mr. scott evil** , but he doesn’t exist yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/22 "2002-09-29T22:22:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jacksen9 \* > \*\*Deadly Nightlight > > Let’s see that list. > > **You know you SDMB too much when…** you wonder if you were remembered on someone’s list of 53 dopers.🆒 \*\* Sorry but you might have been if I hadn’t had a pop quiz LOL here is the list exactly as I wrote it down( you know you sdmb too much if you write dopers names on hhome work :D) Obsidian Flutterby Fretful Porpentine Flamesterette x Wsler Spoofe Spooje Uncle Beer Guinastasia Nightshadea Belladonna deadly accurate vw woman Biggirl the dearly departed STFU donny (ok guess he did,'t count) Triskedekamus( I know that is spelled wrong but I can’t remember how to spell it) Lieu daowajon Libertarian Coldfire Ms robyn Sibboleth dalovindj Auntie Em Qagdap the Mercotan Bosda di Chicor Chique gatopescado robertligouri duck duck goose Dooku Sauron ivylass Sofa king manda JO happyheathen december partly warmer polycarp esprix lola coca cola quasimodem green bean poopah chalupa china guy iteki vinnie virginslayer collunsbury Goo the devils grandmother stoid cartooniverse atreyu dantheman ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/23 "2002-09-29T22:43:28Z")
…You repeat every sentence someone has said to you rolling your eyes after each one. …You say “hijack” before butting into a conversation. ---
**Author:** ![jacksen9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@jacksen9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacksen9)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/24 "2002-09-29T22:43:42Z")
Shucks! ☹ Maybe next time.😉 Or… maybe not.😕 May all of your posts be interesting and well-written. May all of your threads be well-received by the teeming millions in cyber-dope land. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/25 "2002-09-29T23:25:57Z")
…You write ‘Hi Opal’ in place of the third item on the agenda for the morning meeting… …When somebody asks you a question outside of your field, you suggest they try a different forum… …Typing a memo in Microsoft Word, you try to format it using vB code… ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/26 "2002-09-30T02:25:03Z")
You have a TON of homework, and it’s late, and you have to get up at 5:15 the next morning and take an AP test…yet you STILL can’t stop SDMBing. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/27 "2002-09-30T02:41:46Z")
Look, I am _trying_ not to start half my sentences with, “I was reading a thread yesterday…” Sigh. And I wasn’t on that list-thingy. I’m insulted. No, I gues I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![Member\_10K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Member\_10K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Member_10K)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/28 "2002-09-30T03:41:19Z")
…when you think “SDMB” is a verb. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/29 "2002-09-30T04:05:24Z")
Hey **monica** , sometimes I’m busy on here while I’m supposed to be writing an AP English paper. And maybe I’m not on **Nightlight** ’s top 53 dopers, but. . .but. . .but. . .what? Yes, another doper easily distracted by shiny objects. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/30 "2002-09-30T05:15:41Z")
Your first thought when something fantastic/terrible/unbelievable happens is “this’ll make a cool thread!” ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/31 "2002-09-30T13:37:49Z")
Your first thought when something mundane happens is “I wonder if I can make this interesting enough that people will want to read it.” You actually start mentally writing the OP as it’s happening. The SDMB, depending on the poster, is as valid a cite for you as any newsmedia site. You can predict what another poster will say to any particular post. When you think “flaming”, your first thought is of the Pit. A screen name seems as natural a thing to call someone as their given name. After 7000 posts, you’re nowhere near done. And you’ve posted the same thing in at least ten different places … some back in 2000, some in 2001, some in 2002. You look at a thread that got bumped and immediately want to post to it. Then you read it and see that you already did. Your weekend plans change on a Friday with the announcement of an impromptu dopefest that night/the next day. Your spouse/SO/best friend/confidante(s) are people you first/still knew by their screen names. When something devastating/horrible/shocking happens, you immediately go to the board to get news about it. Often there are two or three threads about it. You actually think servers are powered by steroid-riddled hamsters:D In your life, there is Pre-SDMB and Post-SDMB. Anything that happens to you or your friends you’ve probably read about happening on the boards before. At least once. Possibly in a TMI thread. Your life is framed in terms of periods between dopefests. You hear “dope” and immediately affix one of the following to it in your head: straight SDMB -er board Cecil Adams. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear “poster” is _not_ the thing you put on your wall. The choice between watching porn and reading the boards is difficult more often than not. You’ve figured out a way to do both at the same time. You’ve added pizza and beer to that. You spend 45 minutes thinking of mundane shit like this:D ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/32 "2002-09-30T14:49:01Z")
You white knuckle the table trying not to interupt your professor’s lecture to scream “CITE!” (I had this problem. The man is a Pit thread waiting to happen.) You describe people as Pit threads waiting to happen. You use the Dope as your primary news source…and it works decently well. (Eh. if its _really_ important I’ll hear about it on the Dope.) You know full well that your Kinetics class time will be spent making a list of all the Dopers _you_ can think of. So, I’ll be back at noon to post mine. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/33 "2002-09-30T15:07:53Z")
You shamelessly ang gleefully recall the zit-poppin’ video on the Favorite Pimple Thread to your co-workers. In Fact, you recall ALL threads to your co-workers. And they reply: “…:rolleyes: …” ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/34 "2002-09-30T15:25:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*Your first thought when something mundane happens is “I wonder if I can make this interesting enough that people will want to read it.” > > You actually start mentally writing the OP as it’s happening. > …\*\* And then throw an absolute conniption because the boards are down and you can’t post the really great thread. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/35 "2002-09-30T18:27:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by miamouse \* > \*\*When you’re watching the Disney channel and this little blob of clay character says, “who-ha” and you can’t stop giggling, and your 6 YO is asking you 'what’s so funny?" > \*\* [slight hijack] Oh my god, **miamouse** , I saw that too! Did you see the episode of PB & J Otter (on saturday, I think) that revolved around the monster in lake Who-Ha and included a snappy musical number featuring a background chant of “Who-ha! Who-ha!” while the otter kids danced around frantically? That, my friend, was pure comic gold. I was literally in tears, with my SO staring at me the entire time as if I’d suddenly gone mad. [/slight hijack] You know you SDMB too much when: \*You laugh at random moments over remembered posts, spit your half-chewed pear everywhere, causing you to laugh even harder, double over as you rush to the bathroom before you wet yourself, and stub your toe on the way, all the while trying to convince the SO that “no honey, I’m not laughing at _you_, really”. (happened last night) \*You get really offended when people scoff at online friendships, as if words on a screen appeared magically and were not directly connected to a real live human being. \*You are ridiculously excited that you made **Deadly Nightlight** ’s list of “First 53 Dopers that Came to Mind”. 😃 bella ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/36 "2002-09-30T18:37:54Z")
I’m actually planning to try the “how many Dopers can you name?” thing in class tonight, because if I tried it right now I would be unduly influenced by the names I’ve just read. ---
**Author:** ![Deadly\_Nightlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Deadly\_Nightlight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deadly_Nightlight)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/37 "2002-09-30T20:00:37Z")
Yeah i wish I wouldn’t have been interruppted by a pop quiz because I prob could have kept on going and going and going- so after whenI go to class tonight I will have to try again ---
**Author:** ![Bean\_Counter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/db5fbb/32.png) [@Bean\_Counter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bean_Counter)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/38 "2002-09-30T21:30:10Z")
…when you have sat behind the keyboard for so long your legs have fallen asleep and you cannot stand up out of your chair. So you use it as an excuse to continue reading… ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/39 "2002-09-30T23:56:05Z")
belladonna and miamouse, this doesn’t relate to the thread at hand, I guess that’s called a hijack, but I have a 2 year old and my mornings are spent watching Playhouse Disney. I really like Rolie Polie Olie too. The Wiggles are the greatest thing ever invented because it keeps my son occupied so that I can do the things that have to be done in the morning. That’s great television. OK, my contribution to this thread? When my son was born after coming home from the hospital I was up until 4:30 catching up after 3 days away. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/40 "2002-10-01T00:40:35Z")
When something good or exciting happens, you post it to the boards immediately, but it takes you 2 days to remember to tell people IRL. My sister-in-law’s due date, BTW, is the beginning of April. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897.md?page=3)