Here's a list I got on my e-mail:
10 Signs That Show You May Be Addicted to IRC
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Your service provider calls you for tech support.
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Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
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You dream about the people in your channels.
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You have to scroll through your popup menu.
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You like to watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
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Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone
and you say: "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
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You've called out someone else's nick while making
love to your significant other.
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You keep begging your friends to get an internet
account so "you guys can hang out."
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Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
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You laughed at this list.
And here's another list:
You might be addicted to IRC if:
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You want to meet a guy/girl and your first impulse
is to turn on your computer.
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You once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
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You come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib."
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You wait for your roomates to say "re."
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The words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood"
make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
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Sometimes you begin commands with a slash mark even though
you are on a UNIX or DOS prompt.
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You've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
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You make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
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You have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mIRC directory.
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You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's Pizza.
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Your friends ignore what you're saying so you wonder if they are lagging.
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You send internet Christmas cards.
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You've ever felt the urge to type *wink*
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You have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
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You have an IRC web page.
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The two largest files on your account are .ircrc and .notify
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You've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say: "You f*ckin' losers don't even know what IRC is,do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
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You've ever logged on to DALNET.
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When someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
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You join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
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You wish real life was more like IRC so you could ban people you don't like.
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You've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
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You respond to you nick in real life.
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You IRC with people in the same computer lab.
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You have to replace the / and # keys every few weeks.
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You use sideways smiley faces in your handwriting.
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You sat and read this entire list!
A funny story:
So Much For Cybersex
Online computer users often engage in what is affectionately
known as cybersex. Often, the fantasies that are typed
into keyboards and shared through Internet phone lines get
pretty raunchy. However, as you'll see below, one of the two
cybersurfers in the following transcript of an online chat
doesn't seem to quite get the point of cyber sex. Then again,
maybe he does...
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