# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/41 "2002-10-01T13:14:05Z")
…you see **lieu** ’s name as the OP’er of a thread of concerning toilet activities and you just know your keyboard & monitor are going to get sprayed with apple juice. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/42 "2002-10-01T13:49:55Z")
you ask strangers if they are members. Ya see, over 2 years ago, pldennison lived a few blocks from me. It was winter and he posted he’d hurt his leg and had crutches. Well. A week later, i am on the bus and a guy gets on with cruthces. I had to ask! “Is your name Phil?” It wasn’t though. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/43 "2002-10-01T14:16:44Z")
When you’re reading a letter column in the newspaper and you start composing replies, rebuttals, requests for cites etc… ---
**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:** [October 1, 2002, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/44 "2002-10-01T19:54:14Z")
When you are desperatley trying to translate the straight dope literally into spanish so your spanish teacher doesn’t yell Habla en espanol all the time ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/45 "2002-10-01T20:29:54Z")
When you are watching _Hamlet_ and you think, “Hey, why is the ghost talking about _me_?” (Whoa, I’m second on The List? Cool!) ---
**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:** [October 2, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/46 "2002-10-02T17:30:17Z")
When your family members ask you to ask questions on that “dope thingy” you are always on ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897/47 "2002-10-03T01:18:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > **You white knuckle the table trying not to interupt your professor’s lecture to scream "CITE!"** I got into trouble for this on another message board. Somebody was posting ignorant stuff (the discredited “alternate erosion” theory regarding the Sphinx, as I recall), and I replied with a long message complete with links and citations demonstrating why the hypothesis was BS. He responded with something like, “Well, that’s not the way I’ve heard it,” and I said, “If you want to be taken seriously, you’ll have to do better than that.” A bunch of people called me an asshole for it. I don’t post there any more. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by vanilla_ > you ask strangers if they are members. > … > “Is your name Phil?” This is hilarious. “Why would you think my name is Phil?” “Well, you were on crutches. Wait, no, don’t back away from me…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-sdmb-too-much-when/129897.md?page=2)