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Joldo
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1. After any minor day-to-day event, you begin composing your Hatrack post about it.

2. That team of experts who have taught you everything? Well, as far as you know, their names really are Mack, Icarus, and Papa Moose.

3. Three or more Jatraqueros have featured in a single dream of yours.

4. Turns out all three Jatraqueros were just the screen names of one landmark-dodger.

5. It's a recurring dream.

6. The name you're posting under now was created to avoid your landmark.

7. And you're coming close to a landmark with that name too.

8. If you've ever, ever been to a Hatrack convention.

9. If, when asked to list your best friends, Hatrack screen names (note screen names, not real ones) appear in the top 3.

10. If you've told a long, convoluted anecdote about a dobie chain to a coworker and tried to ward off the odd looks with a nonchalant "It's an online book club. Cross my heart."

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Telperion the Silver
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Heheheheh... love it.
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quote:
1. After any minor day-to-day event, you begin composing your Hatrack post about it.
Ha... I so do this one! [Big Grin]
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11. You boss tells you to either stop posting on Hatrack during business hours or lose your job.

12. And you have to think about it.

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Joldo
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13. Which is why you must now sell the last of your stolen office supplies for Internet access.
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14. You've just goten home after being away from your fiancé for three days and instead of sitting on the couch snuggling you're sitting with your backs to one another both posting on Hatrack.

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

[ February 23, 2005, 09:57 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]

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"Well, as far as you know, their names really are Mack, Icarus, and Papa Moose."

Bah. Anyone who's had too much Hatrack knows all three of these people by their real names.

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Hm. I need more Hatrack.
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quote:
Well, as far as you know, their names really are Mack, Icarus, and Papa Moose
15. The above sentence looks weird to you because the name 'mack' is capitalized in it.
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I know TomDavidson's real name.

(It's Cecil.)

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quote:
1. After any minor day-to-day event, you begin composing your Hatrack post about it.

But, but, but . . . I don't actually post all of them!

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8. If you've ever, ever been to a Hatrack convention.

[Razz] You're just jealous.
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Annie
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If you've ever posted on Hatrack about minor day-to-day events while at a Hatrack convention.

Not that anyone in here is guilty of that...

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Not at all. Nor are pics posted while said events occur.

and if you have a panel of experts, if tom isn't on that panel, it isn't a panel of experts.

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Wow, Annie, I never noticed how low your member number is. And I think that's way cool.
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15. The above sentence looks weird to you because the name 'mack' is capitalized in it.
...Guilty as charged.
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Annie
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Why, thank you Trish. I'm actually older than that even but I resisted signing up for the "new forum" for a couple months out of sadness for the loss of the old one.

I took a 3 1/2 year hiatus, though, when I didn't have a computer, so I'm not a total oldbie.

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16. Your home network bootstraps itself into an AI just to have an intervention with you after you click "reload" 13,000 times on "Today's Active Topics"

[ February 24, 2005, 12:38 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]

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17. You're about to tell your wife about a conversation you were having that day, and then you remember that it was a Hatrack thread and you were just lurking in it.
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18. You tell about those conversations, anyway, even after the realization.
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19. You're incredibly busy with Hatrack "projects" and "discussions" and trips, and they're starting to interfere with your real life.

20. In fact, they're starting to conflict with each other on occasion.

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21. You keep starting more of them because, hey, you don't have anything else going on in your life, anyway.
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22. You're disappointed in your kid because it's been ages since she said anything cute, so you make stuff up for the cute kids threads.
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[Eek!] Blasphemy! [Wink] [Razz]
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23. You think posts are aimed squarely at you, even when they aren't.

[ [Wink] kq]

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I didn't think that. I thought you meant you did things like that. [Razz]
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*giggle* First he'd have to make up the kid. [Big Grin]
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Well, that IS the fun part, rivka...

When it is past 2 am, and you are still up posting...not because you really have anything to say but because if you go to bed you might miss something on Hatrack....

Night all!

[ February 24, 2005, 02:09 AM: Message edited by: Kwea ]

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Yeah, so I vaguely recall, Kwea. [Wink]
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#?: You have a teacher named Rivka, and you cannot, for the life of you, write her name with a capital "R" on the first try. (Yes, this happened to me last semester!)
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17. You're about to tell your wife about a conversation you were having that day, and then you remember that it was a Hatrack thread and you were just lurking in it.
Guilty [Blushing] --except the wife part!! [Big Grin]

edit: hey that's 200 posts!!Does that count as a landmark??? [Big Grin]

[ February 24, 2005, 06:52 AM: Message edited by: babager ]

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No.
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You know, I don't think I know Papa Moose's real name.

Mmm. . . maybe I do. Not sure.

It's not Widdershins, is it?

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26. You sign out of Hatrack because you have been on for a while, but before you leave the computer, you sign back on because someone must have posted something in those two seconds.
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27. The largest group of people you have ever known both like and understand your puns.
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Like may be too strong of a word, Liz....
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Speak for yourself, punhater!
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26. You sign out of Hatrack because you have been on for a while, but before you leave the computer, you sign back on because someone must have posted something in those two seconds.
You sign out? [Confused]
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Some of us (naughty us !) check on Hatrack at work. So yes, in that case, you need to sign out. [Smile]

[ February 24, 2005, 10:50 AM: Message edited by: Anna ]

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I see.... Yeah, I guess I do sign out when I'm on at school.
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Besides... you just can't have too much Hatrack.
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"Like may be too strong of a word, Liz...."

Remember, you'll be eating my food in two days, K-Man.

As for signing out, what I really meant was just getting off the computer, sorry.

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MidnightBlue, I had the same thought.

You SIGN OUT?

It's more like, you know you've had too much hatrack when you accidentally hit "log out" instead of a link, try to log back in, can't remember your password or the email you used to originally sign up, have to register a new account, use the new name, and have everyone assume you are avoiding a landmark.

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My husband reminded me I needed to post this one:

28. You are half asleep, in bed, talking to your spouse, and say something abhorrent, followed not only by a little shudder, but the word *shudder*. Including thinking the little *s that denote action. [Blushing]

My husband looked at me and said, "Did you just say 'shudder'?" at the same time I realized I'd said it out loud.

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29. You're teaching the Sunday School lesson at church and, as an example you say "I was having this conversation with some friends of mine..." and your roommate wryly interjects - "Was this an actual conversation or did it happen on an internet bulletin board?"

(true story)

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I, uh, do that all the time: "My friends and I were talking about this the other day. Someone said..." (The "someone" is because people would look at me strangely if I said their screennames.) [Blushing]
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When someone says something amusing, you say LOL. The actual letters L.O.L. out loud.

I've done this. More than once.

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I did that a couple of times, too. But the "shudder" was worse.
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When someone says something amusing, you say LOL. The actual letters L.O.L. out loud.

The only problem is, when I read those letters, I actually pronounce them out. I can't seem to remember it's 3 seperate letters and not "lol". Now THAT would be embarrassing if you said that.
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30. You laugh out loud and your roommate calls from the other room, "What's going on with your science fiction website today?"
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That, or you mention to your roommate "one of my friends said..." and she says "oh, is this one of your little online group?"
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