#66410
04/19/2002 12:23 PM
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OK, this is not a post about a word but since we use the Internet to wordify .... and because I think it's funny and otherwise I'd have to send it to all of you separately!Number 5. I found particularly appropriate ... Well, here it is, I'm calling my neighbor to come for coffee.
Signs You Live In The Year 2002
1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son's beeper to let him know it's time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, "What's for dinner?"
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa,but you haven't spoken with your next door neighbor this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so see can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web-site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and six months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
13. Cleaning up after dinner means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
15. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line (or a DSL/cable modem) so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You're reading this.
25. Even worse; you're going to copy and paste this into an e-mail and forward it to someone else.
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#66411
04/19/2002 2:34 PM
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 I love it! and am now going to copy and paste it into an E-mail to my 40 closest friends (i.e., the people I know who who have E-mail accounts....)
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#66412
04/19/2002 6:30 PM
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You start using chat-room abreviations or AWAD terms in ordinary real-life conversation. ["Hon, when I saw that post I was ROTFL."]
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#66413
04/19/2002 8:48 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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>22. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed. How sad would that be???? 
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#66414
04/19/2002 9:02 PM
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How sad would that be????
To wake up at 2 a.m. to pee? (doesn't everyone?) ... or* ...
checking the Email at 2 a.m.?
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#66415
04/20/2002 7:47 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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>or* ... checking the Email at 2 a.m.? Well, you'd never catch me looking in here at 2am! 
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#66416
04/20/2002 7:49 AM
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Pooh-Bah
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>my 40 closest friends (i.e., the people I know who who have E-mail accounts....)
It's when you find that you tend to introduce yourself with an @ in your name that you really have problems.
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#66417
04/20/2002 4:40 PM
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14. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#66418
04/20/2002 4:42 PM
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It's when you find that you tend to introduce yourself with an @ in your name that you really have problems.I have, on a number of memorable occasions, given my name as "David dot Kinraid ..." Whooeee. I gotta stop reading this thread. It's s-o-o-o-o-o-o embarrassing!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#66419
04/20/2002 5:57 PM
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You start using chat-room abreviations or AWAD terms in ordinary real-life conversation. ["Hon, when I saw that post I was ROTFL."]
Someone gave me their e-mail address and said it was: "lolkap@......". She couldn't understand why I started laughing. I explained that lol meand laugh out loud in chat! She said Lol is her husbands first name! Gave her a whole new meaning to his name!
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#66420
04/20/2002 6:16 PM
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Well, at least I'm firmly planeted in the present.
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