- You type /clear at the % prompt.
- You keep saying, "I'll only be here another 15 minutes."
- You are at the top of the TOP 20 IRC user list.
- You are marked /away more than you type.
- You wanna say, "Look! I have a bouncy chair, isn't this funny?"
- You know more people on IRC than you do in real life.
- You get excited about kicking people from channels.
- You sit there wondering how many people are on IRC.
- People come back to the cluster and say, "You're still here?"
- You write lists of all the IRC commands.
- You haven't gone to bed in 3 days.
- You log into all the terminals in the cluster just so you can say you did.
- You say, "Wow! Maybe I should go eat breakfast soon..."
- You have a favorite terminal.
- You get all you friends to sign up fpr IRC.
- Your friends can't get you to leave, so they have to use it more...
and you talk to them more one IRC than in person.
- You've completely customized your .ircrc file manually.
- You have your own IRC client!
- You say, "There's life outside of IRC?"
- You start using abbreviatons like: ppl, cos, bbl, puter, brb, etc.
- You have ever had sex with someone from IRC (in real life... no netsex here.)
- You want to create ircsh. (a new Unix shell)
- You have significant others on IRC.
- You aren't going to any of your classes so that you can IRC.
- The only thing you know how to do on the computer is IRC.
- You never capitalize the letter "i".
- You get more email from people you don't know than people you do.
- You sign your nick at the bottom of all of your email without even thinking about it.
- You plan long trips to meet people from IRC.
- You start saying everyone's name before you talk to then...(ex. "Zoi: when are we leaving?")
- You make more long distance phone calls to IRC people than to your family...
(And I am damn sure that some of you guys are guilty of this one ;)
- When you accidentally get IRCOp status!
- You make a list like this.