You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have to scroll through your popup menu.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you watch T.V. with the closed captioning turned on.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your friend tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've called out someone else's nick while making love to your loved one.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you keep begging your friends to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you are intimate with three words ... carpel - tunnel - syndrome
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, when you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!"
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you're a heterosexual male, but one time used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you come home from class, look at your roommates, and say "ib."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you wait for your roommates to say "re."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If the words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've ever gotten on an airplane just to meet some folks face to face.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have over 2 megs of .wav files in your mirc directory.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your child ignores your request and you wonder if she's lagged.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you send internet Christmas cards. *wink*
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have ever wondered if there is a #irc-anon.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have an irc web page.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you losers don't even know what irc is, do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!"
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you join #hispanola "just to work on your Spanish."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, when someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've ever typed "drinking on irc is better than drinking alone."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you've been lagged so bad that you've switched servers so much you can see your nick on the channel list three times.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you no longer type with proper punctuation, capitalization, or complete sentences.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your umode is +s because you don't feel right without it.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you don't know your boyfriend or girlfriend's first name.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your RL boyfriend gets on irc because it's the only way to reach you.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you know which servers are major hubs in *.tw
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you call your significant other a HNG.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you use words like "lame" and "leet" in RL.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you find yourself wishing that bitch on your hall were on irc so you could flood her.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you read operlist.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you tell your RL friends you have plans already on Saturday night when you don't.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you feel the need to talk in all caps to certain people in RL.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your irc .ini is over 80k.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your desk is the only part of your room that you ever use (screw the bed).
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have ever put a smiley in a paper for work.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If the Jehovah's Witnesses knock on the door and all you can think of doing is flooding them with pings.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you get a call from a telemarketer and you put the phone down and set their mode to -v.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you call your friend Cheryl and /invite $nick to #watch_TV.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you offer the babysitter OPS when you go out for the night.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you refer to rush hour traffic as lagged.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, to avoid traffic, you tell your passenger to quit for a second and switch servers.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If the word "I" is replaced in your vocabulary with /me.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you raise your hand in class and say "BRB."
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have more than three private message windows going simultaneously.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you don't subscribe to a certain ISP because they don't offer unlimited time.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, instead of taking a disk home from work, you set up your BOT to serve it to you later that night.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you no longer have to stop and explain to your friends what "RE ALL" means.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you begin to say hehehehehehehe instead of laughing.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you don't sleep at night because you stay up too late thinking of a new NICK.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you know, and use regularly, more than 10 different ways to smile in ascii text.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you cry when you see more than 3 quit messages with two servers listed as the reason.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, when someone says "what did you say?", you reply "scroll up!"
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you sneak to the computer in the middle of the night to get in more irc time.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you know more about your irc friend's daily routines than you do your spouse's.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If, when someone complains about your phone being busy, you say it was off the hook.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you change nicks so much that you have to type /me to see who you are.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from too much partying instead of the truth.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you put on special mood music while talking to certain people in private chats.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If your friends on irc were above your RL friends on your Christmas card list.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you find yourself involved in channel politics on irc.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you ever turned down real hugs for {{{hugs}}} from irc friends.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have actually kept up with ten conversations at one time.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you postpone your graduation so you can keep your free .edu account.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you have ever written a pen and paper letter and found it impossible to do without the smileys.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you don't even bother answering the phone anymore.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you're broke and your modem burns out and you go to the streets to sell your body to get a new one.
You May Be Addicted To IRC: If you're willing to risk a divorce because your husband/wife doesn't like the time you spend on the computer.