…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.
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.
When you’re reading a letter column in the newspaper and you start composing replies, rebuttals, requests for cites etc…
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
When you are watching Hamlet and you think, “Hey, why is the ghost talking about me?”
(Whoa, I’m second on The List? Cool!)
When your family members ask you to ask questions on that “dope thingy” you are always on
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.
This is hilarious.
“Why would you think my name is Phil?”
“Well, you were on crutches. Wait, no, don’t back away from me…”