One morning when my mind was not up to speed yet I actually replied to a managers e-mail by breaking it down and quoting segments and addressing them one by one. I also inserted a few ;)'s when I didn’t what him to take me too seriously.
The reply I got was:
"What is this, a debate? and what the hell is 
about?
… when the first thing you think of when hearing the word ‘Satan’ is something to do with giving up smoking;
… when you check SDMB before your email;
Regarding dreams, I’ve dreamed not about posting, but about meeting other dopers - I once had an amazing dream about Wally (before I knew what he looked like, but it was definitely Wally), and he was telling me all these crazy stories about animals.
And I also have to stop myself from answering my SO’s question of how my day was with ‘well, someone posted about the funniest movie they’d seen, and you wouldn’t believe what Coldfire came up with in the pit …’ when I realise she doesn’t have any idea who Coldfire is.
HenrySpencer
… they just assume you’re a moderator because you’ve been here for so long.
This is so me. It’s not even funny. But it gets worse.
I drive my BF crazy with this. And it’s how I start almost every conversation. Fortunately, he’s pretty understanding about the whole thing.
Me, me, and me.
This post is going to be too long. Basically, everything that’s been mentioned previously.
Re:
I’ll have to admit I’ve taken of late to prefacing contributions to a conversation that I’m relating from the board with something like, “a conversation I had last night included the comment…,” or “I ‘talked’ to a friend of mine in (wherever) last night…”
It’s just easier that way.
I don’t introduce myself with my username, but I have caught myself referring to myself internally as beatle.
I’ve relaxed quite a bit as regards posting, but I do recall a period last summer (I think I looked at a weekend) where I got bored and looked at stats and realized that I’d made ~8% of the posts on the board. It was time to go ride a bus…
Hey, me too!!
No kidding? Me too!!
Whew! At least I’m not the only one.
Oh, yeah, I TOTALLY agree with that one.
I could keep going, but you get my drift.
This morning I had a dream that I was arguing about the death penalty with a poster IRL - talk about frightening. I hope I don’t have that one again.
. . . when you’ve seen more than 2 “you know you’ve been on the board too long” threads.
I think I may have even started one.
How about this:
Someone starts a thread on a topic, you get mad at them for not finding the thread you started on the same topic, then you realize that your thread is so old its doubtful anyone else on the board remembers it. I’ve had to consciously restrain myself from proving my old-fart-hood in this way more than once.
And yes, the word “Smeghead” is beginning to creep into my real life frighteningly often.
… when you’re ten minutes late for class and you still check the boards.
Never done that. Nope, not at all.
When you’re reading the editorial page and your actual answer to someone spouting off something silly OUT LOUD is ** DNFTT! ** My son looked up from his own reading and said, ‘What did you say, Mom?’ …‘oh nothing.’
You are somewhere else online and there is a familiar SDMB name and you can’t do whatever you were doing anymore because you keep thinking this is the same person! I was playing 100% on Uproar, THE game place online, and ** ‘Libertarian’ ** was beating the pants off of all of us, and I was convinced it was our very own guy who should still be making his new wife happy, not beating ME!! I’M the one with no life, not him!
You keep wondering what ever happend to…coosa, Shayna [how is she doing?] SingleDad, Duck Duck Goose, [still struggling with an online ISP?]…and the list goes on…
Yes Judy, that’s another symptom of SDMB-affliction. I do recall absent posters and wonder where they’ve been. Many have established themselves and then… disapearred.
I believe it was Homer (bless ya’, Tim - our resident rascal) who noted that, if there had not been a connection (via WallyM7’s daughter) we would never have known the why and the wherefore of his absence. After having seen the many “My family took a hit” threads, and considering the number of travelers we see, I wouldn’t be surprised to find many personal odysseys that have been unrecorded.
Good luck to all of y’all…
Getting engaged to a Doper pretty much said it all for me…
Yer pal,
Satan - Commissioner, The Teeming Minions
*I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR:
Five months, one week, five days, 1 hour, 16 minutes and 3 seconds.
6602 cigarettes not smoked, saving $825.26.
Extra life with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 1 day, 22 hours, 10 minutes.
*“I’m a big Genesis fan.”-David B. (Amen, brother!) **
Uh, h-hello, my name is, uh, Dire Wolf, and I am a Dope-a-holic.
I check messages and post early in the morning and don’t give a crap that I’ll be late for work.
I fall asleep at night thinking about certain posts.
Even though I’m a recent member, I have been reading this god-forsaken black hole of time for so long that I can rattle off ballads about other Dopers off the top of my head.
My spousal conversations are punctuated with “Yeah, on the board I just read…”
(and no, she doesn’t give a damn about my Dope habit, as long as she has Napster and I’m not competing for PC time. Thank God I can do this stuff at work and get paid for it!)
And blessedwolf? I wish I could use smileys in my e-mails at work :wally would really come in handy
When you’re asked a question you don’t know the answer to and blurt out “Purple crackwhore” or “Imthecowgodmoo”.
*Your contribution to any conversation with your SO begins with … “There was a thread about that on the board today.”
You dream about the SDMB
You stay late at work to finish reading a thread
You wonder how the thread is progressing on the train home from work.*
Damn, I’ve been here too long and I don’t even have a 100th post yet!
–sublight.
When you hit the refresh button on your browser to see if anyone’s replied to a thread yet. :eek:
I guess that’s true, ** beatle, ** I too, was amazed at the amount of sadness and burdens that were shared in the ‘Coping with Death thread’, but, it’s hard to let them go in my head and heart.
And doesn’t it seem odd, that like many others have said, NO ONE in my family ‘gets this’ so that I’m the only one saying, ‘there was a thread about this very subject, and ya know what Satan said???’ Everyone’s eyes roll. That’s NOT nice to do to a mom, ya know!!
We were standing in line at movie and I started in on something ‘MrKnowItAll says…’ and heads swiveled, as in ‘WHO???’ I’m always incredulous, how could these people LIVE and be so ignorant???
I’ve been here for such a short time and I find it pitiful how true these things are. The one no one has mentioned yet is in reference to the canonizing by Swimmning Riddles and the thread on gods/goddesses.
I was talking to my ex about anime and I got slightly mad and said “Hey you can’t mess with me I am all powerful patron saint of badly translated japanese kiddie anime” He just looked at me oddly and said “Ooookkay” They just don’t get it. Though he did kind of cringe when I told him my patron saint, Dijon would smite him… I didn’t mention that he would be smited with My Little Ponies and Smurfs though.
I mention the SDMB so much that my friends read it every once in a while, I even got one to register. I’d love to see my ex-boyfriend register just so he’d stop rolling his eyes at me when I mention threads. (ya hear that Danny boy?)
Oh well, maybe I have been here too long.
Kitty
My friends have gotten used to me saying “oh, there’s this thread on my message board…” so they don’t look at me too strangely anymore. But for other people, I say what beatle says “this friend of mine said__________ today…” I have dreamed about meeting posters IRL. I wonder about the progress of threads, including my few… I feel absurdly flattered if someone mentions me or quotes one of my posts. I spend way too much time here…
when you’ve actually used the phrase “I’m taking this to the pit” in real life.
When you dream about going to a teeming Millions putt-putt challenge.
I’m going for a Coffee.