Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs

[Thinlómien]

But what are you saying, a bit? That's an euphemism, to be sure.Hmmm... possibly. :p But if I called that kind of things crazy, I wonder what should my signs of addiction called, so it' better to call you behaviour just "a bit crazy" just to be on the safe side myself. ;)

I just noticed one more serious sign of BD addiction. I just got my English research paper back and I realised I've been just as careless about making up new words as in ww. Fortunately my teacher seemed not to mind it too much, at least she had not mentioned it in the feedback she had written. Also, what I actually think is even more alarming: when I read my final words it really reminded me of my posts in the BD. :D I don't know which is the bad thing: that such comparison even occured to me at all or that the style in which I write English school things resembles my BD posting style that much.... but I think it's odd anyway.

[Aganzir]

Hih! "The fate of the innocent(s) is in your hands." -my English book. Nah, no more WW today.
Guess how much I laughed at that when I had that English course. Also, in my English book was a quote Nogrod had used in his ww game (this is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper), and I came across it the very next morning after he had used it. It was enough to amuse me for the rest of the day.

I was not able to open and read a book as I am used to, I was thinking all the way - and thinking about Downs-related things.
I do that also (but not for an hour yet :D). I still remember the time when I opened the book even if I had only three minutes or something before it was my bus stop, but nowadays I may just think "15 minutes till I'm home, I might as well not read this time," and even if I didn't intend it, I end up thinking about the Downs.

And not being able to sleep because of werewolf is something really bad... :D
Also, waking up before I'd like to because werewolf keeps interrupting my dreams is truly horrible. At some point in the morning, when I'm almost awake but still tired enough to sleep, I start having dreams in which I read the werewolf thread, don't remember anything what people have posted and have no idea what's happening. Not always, but during too many games. It'd be interesting to really remember those things after I've woken up.

And for those people who spoke about songs... Guess if it's nice to listen to the soundtrack for Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame when Clopin sings "so here is a riddle to guess if you can, who is the monster and who is the man." It even isn't anything that obviously ww-sounding.

Anyway, we were watching some video at school today, and there was a man who was on computer. The website he was reading had a black background, and the first thing I thought was "Oh, he's on the Downs."

And I just love those logarithms that are written "lg". They keep me happy in the boring Math classes.

[satansaloser2005]

Once the site is working again (properly) I'll have to put up a little rhyme thing I jotted down. Basically, I was frustrated because the site wasn't working, so I e-mailed a friend complaining and decided to put it in rhyme for kicks and giggles.

[Volo]

When you actually start wondering on something random if there should be a BD addiction related to it and you just forgot what it was.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When you and Laurinque dance around and shout for joy when the Barrow-Downs is working for you again, because you're so excited!

[MaultheStoor]

When you grab you computer every time you hear a Black Rider. Then you say you can feel someone stabbing you (*cough* Witch King *cough*).

[Groin Redbeard]

When you and Laurinque dance around and shout for joy when the Barrow-Downs is working for you again, because you're so excited!

Right on! It actually kept me up last night, for around three minutes, wondering if the Downs would be there in the morning. :smokin: *shudders*

[A Little Green]

I was reading a National Geographic article about some Indonesian village near a particularly vicious volcano. There was this quote about a farmer called Udi at the time of an eruption: "Even the resident monkeys descended in droves, but not Udi and his fellow villagers."

I think I don't need to elaborate.

[MaultheStoor]

I don't know about you, but I can pretty much quote word-for-word everything Frodo said on the trip to Mount Doom. I can also do a mean Gollum impression, but *cough, cough* I save that for parties...

[Kath]

You spend your morning lecture telling your friends how wonderful it is that you can get to the 'Downs straight from the e-mail and don't have to check two different sites each time, and you don't even mind when they stare at you with pitying expressions. :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Right on! It actually kept me up last night, for around three minutes, wondering if the Downs would be there in the morning. :smokin: *shudders*Well, not only were we doing that, but dancing around my living room pretending that we were a village of Gollums, and we took "The One Ring" out of my movie memorabilia box inside room (which also contains the Heart of the Ocean from the Titanic) and danced around it in circles and chanted the verses that apply... then her mom came and picked her up... no more Golluming for us... until next time anyway! MWOOOOOHAHAHAHAHA!!

[Thinlómien]

I was reading a National Geographic article about some Indonesian village near a particularly vicious volcano. There was this quote about a farmer called Udi at the time of an eruption: "Even the resident monkeys descended in droves, but not Udi and his fellow villagers."

I think I don't need to elaborate.You should have elaborated. For surely it's even more funny if you take into account that "Udi" clearly resembles a name we call Nogrod with in RL... :D

[MaultheStoor]

I scared the crap out of everyone at work. I guess sneaking up behind a co-worker and callin her a "stupid, fat Hobbit!" wasn't such a good idea...:confused:

[A Little Green]

You should have elaborated. For surely it's even more funny if you take into account that "Udi" clearly resembles a name we call Nogrod with in RL... Ooooh so it does! I never realised... :D

[Thinlómien]

Today I was startled by a cornflake package saying "Kelloggs Multi Groin".

;)

[MaultheStoor]

Today I was startled by a cornflake package saying "Kelloggs Multi Groin".

;)

Multi-groin?! Duh-bull-you-tea-eff.
That just sounds wrong.:)

[Kath]

Well a talking cereal package would be enough to startle anyone! :p

[Thinlómien]

Well a talking cereal package would be enough to startle anyone! :pYes. It had a very scary deep growling voice...

;) :rolleyes:

[Groin Redbeard]

Today I was startled by a cornflake package saying "Kelloggs Multi Groin".

;)

My goodness, I couldn't help but smile when I read that! :D

[Meneltarmacil]

I ran across something with the word "lynched" in it on the Internet, and immediately went here to check on the latest Werewolf game.

Actually, you know you're addicted when the word "lynch" reminds you more of Werewolf than it does of hate crimes.

[Rikae]

Today I was startled by a cornflake package saying "Kelloggs Multi Groin".

;)

That would startle me too, for entirely different reasons...

ew.
:eek:

[A Little Green]

Today I was startled by a cornflake package saying "Kelloggs Multi Groin". It was around three hours after seeing that post when I happened to meet a friend of mine on the corridor and she said "Look what I have for snack!" and showed me a small package of Kelloggs Multi Groin :D She must have wondered why a started laughing at it... :rolleyes:

[A Little Green]

When you are watching a film classic like "The Thing" and all you can think of is "Hey, this is just like in WW!" :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

Greenie... pssst... another sign: you double post on this thread. :D ;)

[Volo]

When one makes a smiley for the site and tries to, desperately, advertise it. *winkwink*http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/ih8mcdonalds/Wolfbite2.gif

[Gwathagor]

This evening in the cafeteria, I found myself compulsively analyzing everybody who walked by my table. It's a scary place now, because there's people everywhere and YOU DON'T KNOW WHO MIGHT BE A WEREWOLF.
:(
Maybe I need therapy.

[Kath]

When you meet a fellow 'Downer and at least half your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.

[Thinlómien]

When you meet a fellow 'Downer and at least half your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.

When you meet a fellow 'Downer who is also one of your best RL friends and at least half of your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.

As if we had nothing else in common or nothing else to talk about... :eek: And this happens regularly...

(But I might have exaggerated when I said "at least half"... but a lot of it, anyway....)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

When you find out that you can think of some reasons which would imply that you are NOT addicted to Barrow-Downs, then you think whether you should not start a thread "Top Ten Signs You Are Not Addicted to the Barrow-Downs" and then, a feeling of deep sadness falls upon you since you start thinking that it is possible you might not be addicted to the Barrow-Downs anymore...

:D :rolleyes:

[Thinlómien]

When you find out that you can think of some reasons which would imply that you are NOT addicted to Barrow-Downs, then you think whether you should not start a thread "Top Ten Signs You Are Not Addicted to the Barrow-Downs" and then, a feeling of deep sadness falls upon you since you start thinking that it is possible you might not be addicted to the Barrow-Downs anymore...
Legate, that's incredibly silly... :D

I think one rather obvious sign is that you're sad that you don't have BD dreams more often. That might be a bit outdated complaint, though, since I just had one the night before last night. And besides, to defend myself a bit ;), my 'downs dreams tend to be crazier than my normal dreams, so maybe I'm just missing crazy dreams, not BD dreams...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Legate, that's incredibly silly... :D
Yes, tell me about it... :D

I think one rather obvious sign is that you're sad that you don't have BD dreams more often. That might be a bit outdated complaint, though, since I just had one the night before last night. And besides, to defend myself a bit, my 'downs dreams tend to be crazier than my normal dreams, so maybe I'm just missing crazy dreams, not BD dreams...

But don't expect anyone to accept your defense :p I actually had BD dreams in all the last three or four nights, but they were all just very short and not very interesting (like, this night I had a dream that a Wolf player PMed me that they have chosen a Night kill, but that it is just preliminary and the real choice will be posted only later).

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I think one rather obvious sign is that you're sad that you don't have BD dreams more often. That might be a bit outdated complaint, though, since I just had one the night before last night. And besides, to defend myself a bit ;), my 'downs dreams tend to be crazier than my normal dreams, so maybe I'm just missing crazy dreams, not BD dreams...
I used to have a lot of BD-dreams, I would not post them all because some was too blury or simply not interesting. . .but I would not go a month without a dream. Now I dream of everything else that BD, sometimes I wake up with the feeling that someone from the Downs was in my dream, but I never can remember.

[Aganzir]

When you meet a fellow 'Downer who is also one of your best RL friends and at least half of your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.

As if we had nothing else in common or nothing else to talk about... :eek: And this happens regularly...

(But I might have exaggerated when I said "at least half"... but a lot of it, anyway....)
Oh, seconded! How come we seem to be this similar to each other? We even have the same addictions.

Honestly, no, you didn't exaggerate.

And one should never complain if she has a friend who tells her also those of her dreams that she doesn't dare to post on the dream thread.

[Volo]

When you meet a fellow 'Downer who is also one of your best RL friends and at least half of your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.
When you meet a non 'Downer who is also one of your best RL friends and at least half of your conversation revolves around the 'Downs, it's inhabitants and werewolf games.

[Volo]

At last I double post here!

I got an album of an Australian goth rock band Floodland from the library to see what it's like. In their song Sister of Mercy, I'm quite convinced that they sing "Lommy blind" at one point. What amuses me even more is that the booklet has lyrics of all the other songs but not this one, nor could I find them on the net.

[Aganzir]

This is actually almost the same as half of the talk with a RL friend concerning the Downs, but anyway...
You can speak about nothing but the Downs for five hours although there surely would have been also other topics.

Also, your friend starting to have BD dreams might be a reason to be worried.

[Eönwë]

When when you hear Kelloggs Multi Groin you laugh for 5 minutes. ANd thats just for the barrow Downs side of the cereal's name.

[Eönwë]

When you still sometimes chuckle to yourself about Kelloggs Multi Groin, even after that many days

[A Little Green]

When you are doing a biology exam with a question about the speciation of lemmings and you chuckle at the scientific name of the lemming, lemmus lemmus, because you think it resembles Lommy... :rolleyes:

[Gwathagor]

When you are studying Dante's Inferno, and you summarize Ulysses' final voyage with:

"Ulysses sails around the world, ends up at Purgatory and is killed by a werewolf...I mean whirlpool."

[Brinniel]

On Facebook, I just received a notification that I have "1 (Lil) Green Patch request" (some sort of extra application for the site).

I'm sure all you other BDers can understand who that instantly reminded me of...

[A Little Green]

On Facebook, I just received a notification that I have "1 (Lil) Green Patch request" (some sort of extra application for the site). Haha :D I received that one as well and had to accept it just because it had such a good name... (Me, an egoist? No way!)

:rolleyes:

[Eönwë]

When you wonder why you've only posted as little posts as you have, when there are so many shiny new threads.

[MaultheStoor]

When you get depressed when no one ever answers your posts. When you feel that the only friends you have are online and when you say 'my friends' you'e reffering to the other BDers.

[Thinlómien]

When someone starts telling about their dreams and says "I dreamt that Iron Maiden had a gig in metro...", your first reaction is: "IronMaiden? Who's that? Should I know her? Is she a newbie?" :rolleyes:

Also, if you happily write "wolves" when you should write "vowels"... :D:D

[Macalaure]

When you read the Children of Húrin and think that Mormegil written with a capital "M"... just... looks... wrong.

[Mithalwen]

Oh yes... and it seems odd that Nogrod is a place and that they keep missing the 88 off Boromir .......

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When someone starts telling about their dreams and says "I dreamt that Iron Maiden had a gig in metro...", your first reaction is: "IronMaiden? Who's that? Should I know her? Is she a newbie?" :rolleyes:


That is not a sign of addiction to the downs. . . It is a sign of lack of education! Iron Maiden is soo retro, soo cliche, which in turn means that they are soo cool! ! !

Oh yes... and it seems odd that Nogrod is a place and that they keep missing the 88 off Boromir .......

When I read in my history books I constantly read Nogrod instead of Novgorod.

Also the fact that I can walk around with a big smile on my face all day, just because some random downer had a dream in which I appeared.

[Nogrod]

When I read in my history books I constantly read Nogrod instead of Novgorod.I have made that mistake myself as well... Now what does that tell you? :rolleyes:

[Nogrod]

Also seeing or hearing any mentioning of old runes in Scandinavia brings quite different ideas to me... And I should be able to study the old mythologies! :)

[Gwathagor]

At the public library they were selling a book called: Literary Market Place 2005. The title was then also abbreviated above in large letters: LMP. That was what I saw first, and, needless to say, I did a double-take.

[Lhunardawen]

When you read the Children of Húrin and think that Mormegil written with a capital "M"... just... looks... wrong.
Very true. If I remember right, morm said somewhere that he wanted to capitalise the first M. I thought it would look very odd.

[Volo]

I had to write a letter about my musical tastes in an English course. So (http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/ih8mcdonalds/DSC009882.jpg)...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

A discussion in my creative writing class about describing a room...

Lecturer: So, there's a telephone in the room. What kind?
Me: A paper one.

:rolleyes:

[Mithalwen]

That is not a sign of addiction to the downs. . . It is a sign of lack of education! Iron Maiden is soo retro, soo cliche, which in turn means that they are soo cool! ! !



Iron maidens were also a medieaval torture device - and a reason for Mrs Thatcher's soubriquet of "The Iron Lady". No comment.

[Lhunardawen]

When reading a month-old issue of the Downer (for the first time) and seeing the words "Doctor Lhunardawen" in an article made your week. :D

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When reading a month-old issue of the Downer (for the first time) and seeing the words "Doctor Lhunardawen" in an article made your week. :D

Glad to be of service. ;)
I think you were a scientist at some point in the very early ones... I may be mistaken, I can't keep track of all the lies... I mean facts... (I don't think anyone noticed).

Once again, I felt the niggling sense that I'm addicted to the Downs when my lecturer today said, "I knew someone who had a bone marrow transplant" and I thought he said, "I knew someone who had a mone BARROW transplant." :o

[Finduilas]

Once again, I felt the niggling sense that I'm addicted to the Downs when my lecturer today said, "I knew someone who had a bone marrow transplant" and I thought he said, "I knew someone who had a mone BARROW transplant." :o

Addiction: Your first thought on reading this was, "The lecturer's been reading the Downer. He doesn't know anyone who's had a marrow transplant..."

[Kath]

When you're listening to David Bowie's Jean Genie and the line 'poor little greenie' comes up and you immediately get a picture in your head of that photo of Greenie in the barrow with those hands!

EDIT: Huh, and when you then spend a few minutes wondering just why we collectively shorted Little Green to Greenie with an ie rather than a y like we did with Lommy.

[Gwathagor]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

[Finduilas]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?

Yes.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

This is one for those who was around when we had our "survivor" threads going. . .

When I hear "Another Brick In The Wall" I sing:

"We don’t need no segregation. We don’t need no vote control.
No dark oppression on the Island.
Glirdan, leave those elves alone!"

[Kath]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?
I love the idea you think it was a conscious decision. :D

[Thinlómien]

I think 'ie' is more of a diminutive suffix in English...and she IS younger than Lommy, right?Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then? :eek: :p ;)

[Nogrod]

Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then? :eek: :pIt must be because I'm so small... :D

[Aganzir]

When you're listening to David Bowie's Jean Genie and the line 'poor little greenie' comes up and you immediately get a picture in your head of that photo of Greenie in the barrow with those hands!
Actually, I used that in Greenie's death narration in the ww modded by me. ;) I'm not sure if I quoted it also right when we were taking the photos, but I know for sure that I sang it earlier that day. :D

[Gwathagor]

Hmmm... but why's our father called Noggie then? :eek: :p ;)

He's not...short, is he?

[Aganzir]

So... I'm reading the Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, which I now find more amusing than the last time I read it.

"Then it is not the same one," said Gisquette, "that was given two years ago, on the day of the entrance of monsieur the legate, and where three handsome maids played the parts--"

"Of sirens," said Liénarde.

"And all naked," added the young man.

"That is a pity," resumed Gisquette. "That day, at the Ponceau Fountain, there were wild men and women, who fought and assumed many aspects, as they sang little motets and bergerettes."

"That which is suitable for a legate," returned the stranger, with a good deal of dryness, "is not suitable for a princess."

"How well I remember that!" exclaimed Gisquette; "God on the cross, and the two thieves on the right and the left." Here the young gossips, growing warm at the memory of the entrance of monsieur the legate, both began to talk at once.

"And when the legate passed, you remember, Gisquette? they made the assault, and the English all had their throats cut."

"And against the gate of the Châtelet, there were very fine personages!"

"And on the Port au Change, which was all draped above!"

"And when the legate passed, they let fly on the bridge more than two hundred sorts of birds; wasn't it beautiful, Liénarde?"

[A Little Green]

He's not...short, is he? Errr... well, not exactly. :p He's around 180 cm (some 6 ft?) tall so I wouldn't call him short...

Today I was amused by our DVD player's remote control because it had the letters "LG" in it. :rolleyes:

[Gwathagor]

So... I'm reading the Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, which I now find more amusing than the last time I read it.

Fascinating book. I've only read it once, while I was living in Paris, but I really enjoy all the history that Hugo puts in his books. Chapters and chapters of historical context for a single scene...he does that in Les Miserables as well.

Being addicted to the Barrow-Downs really is a life-enriching experience. You find start finding meaning every where you look, in the littlest of things. :)

[satansaloser2005]

*is an addict*

I actually mentioned the Downs in a term paper. Scary part is, it made sense.


Oh, and the other day, Emily and I were driving to dinner and I mispronounced some word (don't remember what it was, sadly) and said "Finn" instead of "thin" when talking about the fog that was everywhere. Emily responded, "Great. Now I'm envisioning Lommy passing gas." It was excessively random, I'm not going to lie.

[A Little Green]

"That which is suitable for a legate is not suitable for a princess" would make a nice siggy for Legate, actually... :Merisu:

[Eönwë]

When you do this instead of revising for your vitally important Year 9 SATs.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

"That which is suitable for a legate is not suitable for a princess" would make a nice siggy for Legate, actually... :Merisu:

I actually thought about that for one moment when I saw what Agan wrote :D

[Kath]

When you do this instead of revising for your vitally important Year 9 SATs.
If it's any help, by the time you get to GCSE's the SATs really don't matter! So don't feel too bad about procrastinating. :p

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When you see a Wheel Barrow painted white and think "Ha-ha! Wheel Barrow Wight! :D "

...

Yes.

[Kath]

When you laugh so hard at Hooky's post above that your bemused housemates stare at you and when you try to explain ... well, let's just say they really didn't get it. :D

[Thinlómien]

When finding the verb "caber" from your book makes your Spanish lesson suddenly far more amusing than it was before... :D

[Thinlómien]

Does this count: for the last two days or so, I've been mistyping every single word ending in -mit as -mith, like just a while ago I wrote admith. And I don't even realise the typo before reading through it again...

[Mithalwen]

When you do this instead of revising for your vitally important Year 9 SATs.

Eonwe, don't worry about them.. they are vitally important to the school but not so much for you as an individual....

Lommie, that is a bit scary...

but then I couldn't take a Letter before action as seriously as I might today because it was from "SPM Collections" .... perhaps the reason we haven' t seen so much of him lately is becasue he is mooonlighting as a bailiff (NB the letter was to the company I am working for not me personally!)

[Eönwë]

When you see a Wheel Barrow painted white and think "Ha-ha! Wheel Barrow Wight! :D "

When this suddenly reminds you of this post (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=553557&postcount=212)*, for example: "Its a wheel bawow wight!"

*It might be because its Hookbilll's thread, or it might be because I go on the Downs too much...:eek:

[Eönwë]

Does this count: for the last two days or so, I've been mistyping every single word ending in -mit as -mith, like just a while ago I wrote admith. And I don't even realise the typo before reading through it again...

This sounds to me like like a classic case of Mithalwen addiction.

Maybe we should start a new thread "Are you addicted to a Downer's name?" or something like that.

[Volo]

I was copying political songs on to my computer: My player automatically downloads the titles for the songs, but this time it downloaded them without capital letters so I had to edit them. At the song "Kommunismin ylistys" (Praise to Communism) I typoed an L instead of a K in the beginning and found Praise to Lommunism quite amusing.

EDIT: Oh, and this (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0105.html) was also amusing when it got to Xyzzy.

[Mithalwen]

This sounds to me like like a classic case of Mithalwen addiction.

Maybe we should start a new thread "Are you addicted to a Downer's name?" or something like that.

I was aware of having a potentially addictive personality - I didn't realise it was contagious. FOr Lommie's sake I hope there is a 12 step programme.

[A Little Green]

When you are at your friend's place and her dad is watching a Denmark - Czech Republic ice hockey match and you think "Oooh Rune is losing, the game is 4-2 for Legate!" :rolleyes:

[Brinniel]

When you only have eight contacts on your temporary mobile phone...and they all happen to be BDers...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

When you are at your friend's place and her dad is watching a Denmark - Czech Republic ice hockey match and you think "Oooh Rune is losing, the game is 4-2 for Legate!" :rolleyes:

Hey we played great in that game!

We never ever expected to have a chance against the Czechs, our turnament only really started against Italy. (Which we beat last night 6-2)

[Lhunardawen]

Hey we played great in that game!

We never ever expected to have a chance against the Czechs, our turnament only really started against Italy. (Which we beat last night 6-2)
...and then you start wondering if there's an Italian BDer. :D

[Volo]

I saw a disk by a band called Lush in the library and was quite amused.

But apart from that I'm annoyed that a person who is not Lommy is using a painting by Mucha as her messenger avatar. :/

[Aganzir]

Well, I'm not sure if this is a sign of addiction or, rather, being able to profit from knowing also foreign people, but as it's BD related I guess I can post it anyway.

In my German lesson today we had to write a short letter of invitation to an (imaginary) German friend. I've never been very fond of inventing friends to write a letter to in these kind of assignments, so I decided to write a letter to Macalaure instead. I invited him (and also Rikae, if she happens to be in Germany at the same time) to Finland in the summer.

Willkommen! :p

[Nogrod]

I was watching a game of ice hockey yesterday. It was Russia vs. Czech republic. On the lower left corner of the TV there was an information-box which had in it the time-count of the game and the scoreline + the shorthands for the teams. It said Russia - Czech rep!

Czech rep? :D

[Mithalwen]

I saw a disk by a band called Lush in the library and was quite amused.

:/

I think of lush when ever I buy my favourite bath stuff http://www.lush.co.uk/

But that was a pre-existing interest ... more worrying is when you develop an interest in poker from and enquiry about an avatar :( I wouldn't risk real money but another way to waste more time is not what I need...

[Eönwë]

Czech rep

Is that the same as normal rep or is it worth double? (now I know why Legate is at the top)

[Eönwë]

When you read a post in the "Books" area of the forum, you swear you could see the scythe on Morthoron's avvie move.

I must be on this website too much! But I love it!

[Formendacil]

When you've just started your 12th and 13th courses of the year (in a normal 10 course year), you're utterly exhausted, and you can barely manage to talk to people anymore... and not only are you still checking the 'Downs daily, you've started posting occasionally again.

That's when you know you're addicted.

[Gwathagor]

I was messing about on GallifreyOne when I noticed that someone's signature contained a link called: littlegreenshop. Go figure. Why does everyone keep stealing that name?

[A Little Green]

I was messing about on GallifreyOne when I noticed that someone's signature contained a link called: littlegreenshop. Go figure. Why does everyone keep stealing that name? Indeed! :mad: I didn't think about that possibility in choosing my screenname...

[satansaloser2005]

Emily and I were driving today and a black car in front of us stopped suddenly. Emily said something about the person in the Volvo, but I heard Volo.

Alternatively, I am writing a play and keep wanting to name one of my characters Kitanna. This is especially odd because I don't believe I've interacted with Kitanna on the board at all. Oh well. :)

[Lhunardawen]

I was messing about on GallifreyOne when I noticed that someone's signature contained a link called: littlegreenshop. Go figure. Why does everyone keep stealing that name?
For some reason that reminded me first of Elempi, and then A Little Green a split second after. Maybe it's how the words were written...

[satansaloser2005]

I was closing some papers I'd been working on, and my Office asked me if I wanted to save my work since the document had been modified.

I read it as modfired.

[Volo]

I was closing some papers I'd been working on, and my Office asked me if I wanted to save my work since the document had been modified.

I read it as modfired.

I read your modified as modfired as well. :D

[Lhunardawen]

I was closing some papers I'd been working on, and my Office asked me if I wanted to save my work since the document had been modified.

I read it as modfired.
Sadly, anything modfired cannot be saved. :( :D

[Hookbill the Goomba]

AAAGH! I realised my obsession has reached odd heights today...

Watching some random quiz show on television I heard a few questions as I did other things (namely reading), one of them was; What is the traditional state of an undead human said to bring horror and dread.
I, of course, said "Barrow Wight!" right away. *shakes head*

Moreover, I saw a car with "BWH" in the registration plate and thought "It's The Barrow Wight Himself's car!" :D

[Lhunardawen]

I still think Artemis Fowl is a mixture of Anguirel, tgwbs, and - this time - Gwathagor.

[Thinlómien]

The word "makaaberi" (Finnish for "macabre") makes me immediately think of McCaber. I think associating the English word is quite understandable as it sounds the same, but that Finnish one isn't that close to McCaber...

[Thinlómien]

I just had an English exam and one of the sentences I had to translate was:
"Do you believe that journalists cook up exaggerated stories in order to sell more newspapers?"
For some reason, I was reminded of something. :D *flees* :p ;)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I just had an English exam and one of the sentences I had to translate was:
"Do you believe that journalists cook up exaggerated stories in order to sell more newspapers?"
For some reason, I was reminded of something. :D *flees*

... *shifty eyes*... I have no idea what you mean... :p

[Gwathagor]

I still think Artemis Fowl is a mixture of Anguirel, tgwbs, and - this time - Gwathagor.

Whaaat?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Today, one of my classmates showed me something on his notebook in school, and while he was doing that, he was connected to the internet and has his icq (messenger) on; and during that time several contacts of his appeared online and at these times always a pop-up window appeared, saying "X is online". One of his friends, whose nick was Lenny, even appeared twice (he probably was offline meanwhile). And both times, I was horribly startled when I saw that, and I twitched - because both times I read it as "Lommy" :rolleyes:

[Lhunardawen]

Whaaat?
Well, someone needed to be Irish. :D

(Or does this mean "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!"?)

Today, one of my classmates showed me something on his notebook in school, and while he was doing that, he was connected to the internet and has his icq (messenger) on; and during that time several contacts of his appeared online and at these times always a pop-up window appeared, saying "X is online". One of his friends, whose nick was Lenny, even appeared twice (he probably was offline meanwhile). And both times, I was horribly startled when I saw that, and I twitched - because both times I read it as "Lommy" :rolleyes:
Elennar Starfire! I can't remember if 'Leny or Lenny was the proper way of writing her nick, though.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You are (or were, as you can see) addicted to the Barrow-Downs when every time you pass a sign that says Rilke, you think Rikae...

[Gwathagor]

Well, someone needed to be Irish. :D

(Or does this mean "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about!"?)

This means "how do I partially remind you of Artemis Fowl?" I haven't read those books.

[satansaloser2005]

... *shifty eyes*... I have no idea what you mean... :p

Step aside, love. Lightning strikes often prove fatal. ;)



Yeah. I'm sitting in a parking lot to get wireless signal. Granted, I'm doing other things besides check the Downs, but still.... :)

[Lhunardawen]

This means "how do I partially remind you of Artemis Fowl?" I haven't read those books.
You should. ;) Well, Artemis Fowl is Irish, for one. :)

[Gwathagor]

Oh, I see. All is clear.

[kementari]

I find myself reading posts and updating my profile when I've got an essay due in two days...

Start to think of barrow downs at breakfast, first site I check when I get home...

[Thinlómien]

Last night, I was watching the Eurovision Soing Contest. It greatly amused me that Serbia's song was named Oro, but I had even more fun when I started imagining that the horrid girl band quartet from Germany were Estelyn, The Might, Mac and Rikae... (I'm so sorry...) Oh, here's a picture: from left to right: Rikae, Estelyn, Macalaure and The Might.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i55/Thinlomien/No_Angels-RESIZE-s925-s450-fit.jpg
Again, my apologies. :D ;)

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Thanks, Lommy. :rolleyes: What a dubious compliment! I wouldn't mind the appearance, but as a musician I must protest at being put in one boat with a group that sang so horribly off-key at the competition!

[Lhunardawen]

This is not so much a sign of obsession as a reason I love the Downs, so it's more or less related.

I was re-reading (actually, re-browsing would be more accurate) RotK the other day, and I skipped to the calendar in the appendix. When I saw the three attacks on Lorien I thought it would probably make a good story for an RPG. And then later while wandering in the fair lands of Elvenhome I chanced upon Bloodstained Elanor (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=10812)! I'm just disappointed I had never taken part in writing it, but that's okay; I'm sure I'll enjoy reading it just as much, if not more. :)

[Thinlómien]

I was revising for an English exam some day last week and there were lists of words and prepositions that go with them. Under the heading "adjectives" and the subheading "of" there was the following list:

ashamed of
aware of
capable of
characteristic of
conscious of
guilty of
independent of
innocent of
jealous of
sick of
suspicious of
typical of

Need I say more? :rolleyes: :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well, to keep to the topic, it happened that today I was reading a part of a book from which I am supposed to write a paper. The book is in English, and at one moment the author wrote this:

...It is my hunch that Niebuhr...

You can think of what I filled in that the writer's hunch said the poor Niebuhr was :D

[Eönwë]

When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë :D I have gone through it too...

Now, there's one thing which I consider a rather scary sign of addiction, which I should as well post to the BD Dreams thread, but... I had a dream today which I don't remember, almost at all, but what I remember is that I posted on this thread about some sign of addiction... I don't actually recall what it was, but I remember it was quite serious. The most serious thing however was, that the dream was so vivid that I was not sure whether I really haven't posted that sign here...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë :D I have gone through it too...


I belive this is one of the most common signs of addiction, at least it is the one that has been mentioned the most. I think this is at least the third time I have read people mentioning on this thread.

[Eönwë]

Oh, I know precisely in which "stage" you are currently, Eönwë :D I have gone through it too...

Does that mean its got better or worse?;)

[Lhunardawen]

When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts.
When you have a thesis proposal to do but every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts. :D

[Volo]

Haha! We were walking in the city with Lommy, when I saw two girls (from our school) carrying a sign saying "I ♥ MAC".

[Thinlómien]

Haha! We were walking in the city with Lommy, when I saw two girls (from our school) carrying a sign saying "I ♥ MAC".Indeed, poor them, because we laughed at them quite a lot. :D Anyway, it was plain hilarious as the sign was very big and there was nothing else on it (except in very small print at the bottom).

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Does that mean its got better or worse?;)

No comment :D

Though seriously, I think it's been better for some time, however I am quite convinced it will return someday ;)

Oops... (who readeth, understand...)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

When you have BD dreams about five days in a row, and are somewhat saddened by the fact that you don't remember their content well and thus can't post them.

Also, when all of a sudden you start thinking of weird similitudes, like "He is thin like Lómien." :rolleyes:

[Lhunardawen]

When you have BD dreams about five days in a row, and are somewhat saddened by the fact that you don't remember their content well and thus can't post them.
Seconded. For the past couple of days, when I wake up, I can barely even remember who were the Downer-subjects of my dream no matter how hard I try, much less what happened in the dream. It's frustrating.

[Groin Redbeard]

When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts.

I never seem to have enough of those moments!:D

[mark12_30]

...and every time you check, you're tempted to add a post to the RPG that says

WILL

SOMEBODY

ELSE

POST

ngphwqzbgrffglnksnrg

[Lhunardawen]

I just realised that all this time, I've been unconsciously imagining Arthur Weasley as Nogrod.

[Thinlómien]

I just realised that all this time, I've been unconsciously imagining Arthur Weasley as Nogrod.:D:D *dies* Oh, the hilariousity. And I really have to admit there's a similarity! :D

[Mithalwen]

Hopefully not plug collecting... :p

When you see an Irish pub called Finns - and think of Lommie and co.

[Eönwë]

When you see PM (for Prime Minister) and immediately think of Private Messaging.

[satansaloser2005]

Heh. Nice one. :)

I was listening to the TV and they were interviewing some random Finnish guy. I immediately looked up to see if it was Noggie. :rolleyes:

[Gwathagor]

Heh. Nice one. :)

I was listening to the TV and they were interviewing some random Finnish guy. I immediately looked up to see if it was Noggie. :rolleyes:

And was it?? :eek:

[satansaloser2005]

And was it?? :eek:

Hehe. Sadly no. Our lovely modgod and resident Tom Bombadil is MUCH more interesting than was this fellow. (It was the Travel Channel and the guy was like eighty)

[Lhunardawen]

I assign walks down the BD memory lane to Orthanc.

Whoops, wrong thread.

I was searching for something (still am, as I post this, actually) in the announcements subforum and couldn't help re-reading some of the threads every so often. It's time-consuming (and I'm supposed to be doing something else, but who here isn't? :p) but I'm having a lot of fun! Look, I even unearthed this (http://lady-wormtongue.livejournal.com/6943.html#cutid1) for y'all. :) I'm quite sure Enca won't mind (even if she no longer wanders here)...

[Oddwen]

I work at a secondhand store where we accumulate a copious amount of clothes. I was putting away some of the said garments when I could have sworn I saw a shirt that said "Abercrombie of Rohan". I flipped back to it, but it had morphed to that other boring trademark. :(

[Eönwë]

I saw a van with the words "Mac tools" on it, and did a double take, then I thought: what is Mac doing in England?

[Volo]

When a friend has internet on his phone and while ordering a meal you decide that one just must try if one can enter BD by phone and post a post on the Addiction thread. Half way the post he was half way his meal, and then I pressed some button which deleted my whole message. :( I'm not getting such a phone.

[satansaloser2005]

When a friend has internet on his phone and while ordering a meal you decide that one just must try if one can enter BD by phone and post a post on the Addiction thread. Half way the post he was half way his meal, and then I pressed some button which deleted my whole message. :( I'm not getting such a phone.

Been there, done that. Well, gotten on the Downs via a friend's cell, that is.

[A Little Green]

I consider it a serious sign of addiction that I start laughing aloud at some seemingly ordinary passages of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Like these:

It was from companionship with this baby-phantom I had been roused on that moon-light night when I heard the cry...

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Though haughty Hate should strike me down,
Right, bar approach to me,
And grinding Might, with furious frown,
Swear endless enmity.

:rolleyes:

[satansaloser2005]

I just realised that all this time, I've been unconsciously imagining Arthur Weasley as Nogrod.


HAHA! Now you have me doing the same thing! Blast....



The Day's over, and I'm still expecting posts for some reason. And nobody's even on IM, so I've got nothing to do....dagnabbit.

[Durelin]

Well, I won't say this is about my addiction to the Downs, really...it's more about how much the 'Downs has meant for me (yes yes, take the sappyness out of Mirth, I know!)... On my high school class ring (I almost didn't bother to get one), I had inscribed on one side just below the stone my year of graduation very traditionally, and on the other, 'Durelin'.

Makes me more fond of it than I'd ever thought I'd be, in addition to the old name of my school being on there, too (they're changing locations after a looooonnng time, and so changed the name because the name was connected to the place...) Yeah, I think I'd answer to 'Durelin' if anyone ever started calling me that "in RL".

[satansaloser2005]

Well, I won't say this is about my addiction to the Downs, really...it's more about how much the 'Downs has meant for me (yes yes, take the sappyness out of Mirth, I know!)... On my high school class ring (I almost didn't bother to get one), I had inscribed on one side just below the stone my year of graduation very traditionally, and on the other, 'Durelin'.

Makes me more fond of it than I'd ever thought I'd be, in addition to the old name of my school being on there, too (they're changing locations after a looooonnng time, and so changed the name because the name was connected to the place...) Yeah, I think I'd answer to 'Durelin' if anyone ever started calling me that "in RL".



Awwww, that's cool, Dure.



Hehe is it sad that I answer to Sally on a regular basis? *shifty eyes*

[Rikae]

Hehe is it sad that I answer to Sally on a regular basis? *shifty eyes*

Not any sadder than the fact that I still think of Mac as Mac...
then again, I can't pronounce his real name correctly anyway (now THAT is sad).

[A Little Green]

Speaking of Mac... I think it's a sign of addiction when you are watching a Germany - Poland football match and your thoughts go like "Ooh that one looks just like Mac... Hey he's German as well!" Here (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/765108657_c1ca32d1a8.jpg?v=0) is a pic of him. (Actually he only looks like Mac from a distance and only when he looks grim or scowls at the camera, but still...) :D

[satansaloser2005]

I spent the last semester of school studying WWII. Many coming months of my life will be pretty heavily involved with research and papers regarding WWII and Nazi Germany. And yet it took Groin Redbeard's signature to remind me yesterday was D-Day.


Who else saw WW and immediately thought....well, you know....

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When you have nothing to do so every 10 minutes you constantly check if there have been any new posts.The first month on the Barrow-Downs I was on almost 24-7 that bug got me good!


When you are driving around town and you see a sign that you think says Rikae and then you turn back and realize it said Rilke... And I thought for a moment that Rikae had come to my city...

Or when you and your friend were on the Downs so regularly that I started calling her Lauri and she called me TGEW... and when your sitting down at lunch and the only thing you can talk about is the Barrow-Downs!

[Volo]

George R.R. Martin is one annoying guy, having names like Moat Cailin, Lord Mormont and Lommy Greenhands in his novels. Gah, freak.

edit: And not only that but in the town of Turku there was a great big sign of Aga on some building, apart from having three or so boats floating together with names from Kurt Vonnegut's Deadeye Dick (ok, not Tolkien or BD, but I was reading that at the time).

[Thinlómien]

George R.R. Martin is one annoying guy, having names like Moat Cailin, Lord Mormont and Lommy Greenhands in his novels. Gah, freak.I gather you haven't met Val yet (or Anguy)... ;):p

[Volo]

I gather you haven't met Val yet (or Anguy)... ;):p
Aargh (again)! I truly wonder who leeked him information on Downers-to-be. article?

[Rikae]

Who else saw WW and immediately thought....well, you know....

I think that all the time.

[Macalaure]

Speaking of Mac... I think it's a sign of addiction when you are watching a Germany - Poland football match and your thoughts go like "Ooh that one looks just like Mac... Hey he's German as well!" Here (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/765108657_c1ca32d1a8.jpg?v=0) is a pic of him. (Actually he only looks like Mac from a distance and only when he looks grim or scowls at the camera, but still...)

Hehe... but Metzelder always looks grim or scowls at the camera. :D

I saw a van with the words "Mac tools" on it, and did a double take, then I thought: what is Mac doing in England?It seems like I'm owning a huge franchise and don't know it! :eek: There's a restaurant chain "Mac Steaks" in NY and a chinese restaurant "Mac Wong" around the corner here.

I need to sue all these people. *evil grin*

I think that all the time.Is it a sign of non-addiction if I don't get what you're talking about? :confused:

[Lhunardawen]

Mac, WW! From what planet are you? :p :D

[Aganzir]

It seems like I'm owning a huge franchise and don't know it! :eek: There's a restaurant chain "Mac Steaks" in NY and a chinese restaurant "Mac Wong" around the corner here.

I need to sue all these people. *evil grin*
And iMacs. Did it happen to be intentional that you chose to be an apple farmer in the DW? ;)

[Eönwë]

Is it a sign of non-addiction if I don't get what you're talking about? :confused:

Are you just trying to get out of looking like a BD addict or are you serious.:eek:

[Macalaure]

Mac, WW! From what planet are you?

Are you just trying to get out of looking like a BD addict or are you serious.

Oh... WW! I kept on wondering what "D-Day" had to do with it. I guess I need to start actually reading other people's posts. :o

And iMacs. Did it happen to be intentional that you chose to be an apple farmer in the DW?Haha! :D Now I wish that would have been intention, but I was just thinking of an occupation and it happened to be the first that came to my mind for some reason.

[Rikae]

Oh... WW! I kept on wondering what "D-Day" had to do with it. I guess I need to start actually reading other people's posts. :o

Translation:
Mac - "You mean WW means something other than werewolf?" :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When you are shopping in the car aisle of the store and you see steering wheel covers, floor mats, and seat covers among other things that have penguins on them and you immediately think, Lommy would love those!

Or, when you are writing "Soft Soap- white" on a shopping list and instead you write "Soft Soap- wight" ...

[Lhunardawen]

In Ecology lecture class, we were at one point discussing perception of the environment and our limitations in perceiving it. I was rather sleepy, not having slept a blink the night before, but I was trying my best to stay awake because it was an interesting class. I snapped fully awake when my professor wrote GW on the board. Alas, he wasn't referring to my fiance, but to global warming. :rolleyes:

Another thing, I mistakenly misread 'onewhitetea' as onewhitetree.

[Rikae]

I snapped fully awake when my professor wrote GW on the board. Alas, he wasn't referring to my fiance, but to global warming. :rolleyes:

Down with GW! :mad:

[Lhunardawen]

Down with GW! :mad:
Yes, of course, global warming is awful. :p :p

[satansaloser2005]

Down with GW! :mad:



Heh. *chuckles*



I started yelling at my computer last night because I was playing Bookworm (or some similar game) and it didn't consider "scry" a word.

[A Little Green]

When listening to music you mishear "Why won't anybody try me" as "Why won't anybody scry me"... :rolleyes:

[satansaloser2005]

On another board I saw someone mention DW (they were being lazy and abbreviating Doctor Who). "Dueling Wizards? Where? WHERE????" Then I facepalmed. (This is especially sad as I'm also obsessed with Doctor Who, hence I should have caught on right away)

[Eönwë]

On another board I saw someone mention DW (they were being lazy and abbreviating Doctor Who). "Dueling Wizards? Where? WHERE????" Then I facepalmed. (This is especially sad as I'm also obsessed with Doctor Who, hence I should have caught on right away)

Wow. Thats all I can say. *hands Sally some pills* "Take these 20 times a day for a week, okay?"

[satansaloser2005]

Wow. Thats all I can say. *hands Sally some pills* "Take these 20 times a day for a week, okay?"



Heh. You should see me when I'm in WW mode. My brain's completely fried. Aka I plead insanity. (I think I've got a shot with that, don't you? :p)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When I went to Mt. Ranier today, I got this dessert that is called a Raspberry Mt. Ranier. It was a pink pyramid. I thought "If I put this picture on the 'Downs, there would be an article in the Downer soon enough about it.

[Lhunardawen]

My Plant Physiology prof used 'CW' to abbreviate cell wall, and I started wondering if there's a role called Crazy Wizard.

But there is! You were the Wizard of Insanity, remember? And Nilp was twice the Wizard of Apathy.

Right, Eowyn.

Oh, I also realised it's weird to write CBC instead of CbC, and have those letters mean 'complete blood count' instead of...something else entirely. :p

[Groin Redbeard]

I went with my friends yesterday to the car superstore, and when I was asked what cars I'd like to check out I said: "I hear those Volo's are pretty good." :cool:

[Volo]

I went with my friends yesterday to the car superstore, and when I was asked what cars I'd like to check out I said: "I hear those Volo's are pretty good." :cool:

:D Ouch.

[Eönwë]

Anyway, how do you pronunce Volo, Volo? Is it Vol-oh, or vole-oh or voh- loh or something completely different?

[Volo]

Anyway, how do you pronunce Volo, Volo? Is it Vol-oh, or vole-oh or voh- loh or something completely different?
Haha, no, none of those. But you are giving me a good laugh. :D It just is Volo, VOLO, volo, ah, I don't know. It sounds so stupid.. :rolleyes: Pronounce it as you think it sounds best, I won't mind. :D

edit: So, I just sneakily add some content here not to just be chatting around. Hmm, fish. - No I don't like fish, even the smell is terrible, I can't stand it- *cough*

I went to check in my Microsoft Sam voice thingie how to pronounce Volo or to write the pronounced Volo and now, at two AM, what do I end up doing? Oh, of course. Of course! I try the names of you Downers on poor Sam. Hmm... I wonder how he'd survive some actual lines from the books. Hiihihii!

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Anyway, how do you pronunce Volo, Volo? Is it Vol-oh, or vole-oh or voh- loh or something completely different?

I always pronounced it 'Gertrude'...

Anyway...

You know your Downs habit is going a little far when you pick through your alphabetti spaghetti (I am so sophisticated) to make the word 'Barrow Downs' on your plate... (followed by TARDIS, Tolkien and Lord of the Rin (couldn't find a 'g')).

I feel like I'm 12 again...

[Lhunardawen]

But 12 is such a good age to be! :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Hookbill, quite technically Barrow Downs is two words...

You know when you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you correct someone like I just did...:rolleyes:

[satansaloser2005]

Hookbill, quite technically Barrow Downs is two words...

You know when you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you correct someone like I just did...:rolleyes:


Heh. It's okay, I thought it too. Then I saw TARDIS....



And as for me....feel free to point and laugh. ;)


I was at band rehearsal last week and we were playing a Czech piece.

(Czech here having the meaning that it was composed in Wilbur, a small town by where I go to college which hosts "Czech Days" which is essentially an excuse for everyone in the area to....erm, I can't really say it on the board. Point is, as far as I'm concerned there's not much Czech about it....But I digress....)

Moving on....Czech piece, to refresh your memory. Well, it had been a long day and we were supposed to play one movement all legato and pretty like (don't ask) and I was spacing off looking over the music and all I saw was Czech and legat (the music wasn't copied very well) and I chuckled in the middle of rehearsal.

I remembered it during rehearsal tonight and had a total giggle fit because I realized that it was perfect fodder for this thread.


(Also, I was playing some game where you had to escape from the Land of Nog....erm, I mean Nod. Enough said)

[Mithalwen]

When you get nearly as many birthday greetings from your fellow dead than from those who know you in life.... :cool:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you are trying to explain the Downer to your grandparents and you are trying to explain it in a way that will not make it sound like a lie. (Don't kill me)

Or when the only newspaper you read is the Downer, and you proudly proclaim that fact to everyone!:D

Or when you have almost (unintentionally) have gotten your grandma to come on the Barrow-Downs..

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you are trying to explain the Downer to your grandparents and you are trying to explain it in a way that will not make it sound like a lie. (Don't kill me)


What a peculiar thing to say. Not a lie, indeed. Pfft. :smokin:

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, the Downer has not lost any credibility because of me anyway. And besides, it's not a lie... it's just the news.;):p

You (at least think) you are addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you join the Barrow-Downs group on Facebook because you cannot get enough. And if that wasn't enough, you make friends with your fellow BDers and talk to them!!:eek:


EDIT: Or when you are sitting in the bathroom and on the sink there is a pile of random stuffs, you have to look because you think you just saw Alien! And then you look and it turns out to be your deoderent ... and I thought I had a reason to be frightened!

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you start eating all of your meals at the computer and eat chicken noodle soup with chopsticks...

[Mithalwen]

when you are ridiculously happy to get Birthday cards from some of your fellow dead :) :D

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

When you are reading the ingredient list for some jelly beans and you read one of the ingredients off as Thinlomien:eek:... I found that it got me a very strange look.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I had to think of Esty when my grandparents were picking up their RV...
We were riding back to their house and I saw this billboard that just cracked me up... It said "Save the squirrels!" It was meant to be an ad for a car repair shop, but for any unsuspecting Barrow-Downer, it means a good laugh...:rolleyes:

[Eönwë]

When you read one of your friend's screennames in messenger as "stop lynching *****[someone's name]" but it actually says "stop lying".
I hope this isn't a bad omen:rolleyes:

[Volo]

When I think about Rune when I see Crunchy Müsli, but read Groucho Müsli instead. To be honest I don't even have the slightiest idea who Groucho Marx was, but well... :rolleyes:

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

haha

If you can make such connections then your everyday life must be extremely downs-infested.

[Eönwë]

When you've started playing WW at school

[satansaloser2005]

Well, the Downer has not lost any credibility because of me anyway. And besides, it's not a lie... it's just the news.;):p

You (at least think) you are addicted to the Barrow-Downs when you join the Barrow-Downs group on Facebook because you cannot get enough. And if that wasn't enough, you make friends with your fellow BDers and talk to them!!:eek:


EDIT: Or when you are sitting in the bathroom and on the sink there is a pile of random stuffs, you have to look because you think you just saw Alien! And then you look and it turns out to be your deoderent ... and I thought I had a reason to be frightened!

To the last bit: Wow.


I was sort of ill the other day and decided to watch some kids movies to cheer me up. I decided on one about a trouble-causing little penguin. "I bet Lommie would get a kick out of this!"

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

To the last bit: Wow.Well, it is green and is kind of the shape of Alien... Just call me crazy.

[satansaloser2005]

Well, it is green and is kind of the shape of Alien... Just call me crazy.

"Crazy." :P

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

"Crazy." :P
Thank you.
You know you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have automatic updates that go directly to your e-mail and a whole folder in your e-mail dedicated to the Barrow-Downs...

[satansaloser2005]

This is actually in reverse, as something on the Downs reminded me of something outside.


The newest member on here is called "noble." The only thing I could think of was the Doctor's current companion.

[Eönwë]

The newest member on here is called "noble." The only thing I could think of was the Doctor's current companion.

Oh yes, that. I wonder who the next Doctor will be... or will they stick with David Tennant (I missed it today- must watch it on iPlayer). And just who is that woman he met on the Library

[satansaloser2005]

that thing he said that's covered up now....






Shhhh....spoilers.... ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Hey umm. Unless you want the chat skwerlz to attack, then you probably shouldn't chat about things that are unrelated to the forum, even though some people (myself included) are interested in that topic...

But anyway, you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have to get up in the middle of the night so you can go on the Barrow-Downs, and stay on here for an hour...:rolleyes:

[satansaloser2005]

Hey umm. Unless you want the chat skwerlz to attack, then you probably shouldn't chat about things that are unrelated to the forum, even though some people (myself included) are interested in that topic...

But anyway, you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have to get up in the middle of the night so you can go on the Barrow-Downs, and stay on here for an hour...:rolleyes:

Been there, done that. For werewolf. During a night phase. During a game in which I was an ordo. Heh.


Don't mind me, just ensuring the non-existence of spoilertasticness. Eon, thanks a ton for editing your post. By the by, I don't know how to do that spoiler tag thing. PM me sometime and tell me how, will you?



Right around the deadline, I was refreshing the page pretty much constantly waiting for the narration. My internet went out for like 30 seconds, and I had a cow. :p

[THE Ka]

You know you are obsessed with the Barrow-Downs when you have automatic updates that go directly to your e-mail and a whole folder in your e-mail dedicated to the Barrow-Downs...

Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. :rolleyes: *remembers great golden horde thread*

~ Ka

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. :rolleyes: *remembers great golden horde thread*

~ KaHehe, I do that too. I think "Will I need this later?" and ponder whether or not to keep it, but then I think that I will be able to find it later. But of course, I spend all day once to find a single post that consisted of two comic strip characters...:rolleyes:
I might want to get a "Barrow-Downs" e-mail, my other one wouldn't get so crowded...

[Eönwë]

I might want to get a "Barrow-Downs" e-mail, my other one wouldn't get so crowded...

Done that already. X2

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Even worse, when you have to make a separate email address to direct your normal email away from the BD flood of updates.

... Or, when you decide to do some 'quick account cleaning' and end up sitting there for 30 minutes trying to decide which thread subscriptions you can do with or without.

I'm always afraid I'll forget something from way back, but I know I'll eventually spend two hours searching through the whole thread for something like four words. Just can't seem to copy, paste and archive for my own good. I'm slowly working it into a habit. :rolleyes: *remembers great golden horde thread*

~ Ka

I guess I am just not addicted then since I decided not to get e-mail notifications a long time ago. . .

*is reminded about the great golden horde thread*

[Formendacil]

I guess I am just not addicted then since I decided not to get e-mail notifications a long time ago. . .

*is reminded about the great golden horde thread*

Actually, it's a sign that you ARE addicted, since you're on the forum so often and check everything so thoroughly that you don't need updates.

I, also, check the 'Downs more than I check my email.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I, also, check the 'Downs more than I check my email.

If The Downs is your home page, that is unavoidable. :D

[satansaloser2005]

If The Downs is your home page, that is unavoidable. :D

Hmmmm. I'm not quite that bad.... ;)

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

If The Downs is your home page, that is unavoidable. :DThe Downs has been my homepage since a month after I joined, it is now the homepage of the spare computer at my grandparents house because I'm online so much... But I get e-mail updates just in case I missed something, which I did yesterday.:o Even though I was on the computer all day.

[Thinlómien]

(One of) the best thing(s) in being at home at last is getting properly online and to BD. Ah, the bliss. :D

[Formendacil]

...when upon rereading the WW game you modded two and a half years ago has you pining for the "good old days" when you had:

1) A job you hated
2) Absolutely no social life
3) An unfulfilled desire to get where you are now

and, most pertinently,

4) Time to moderate WW.

Ah... I had fun in those narrations...:D

[Rikae]

When you read the following line in this post (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=555382&postcount=207) by Mister Underhill:

"I read an interesting analysis of the gap between the U.S. and foreign B.O...."

and immediately think of Volo's revelation:

"None sweat quite in the same way as the French do. "

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know your addicted to the Barrow-Downs when there is only about three subjects you like to talk about and they all have to do with the Barrow-Downs...

I have not been on BD for the past four days, I was getting worried that a new Paper Telephone game had started, I could not guess the rest of the quote on Palantir of Fortune, and the new Downer had come out... I thought that I would miss them all.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

At Camp Meeting (Church camp for Seventh Day Adventists) I had a wonderful time telling my seven year old brother about The Phantom and Alien, which he greatly enjoyed and now him and his friend can quote about three of them! Thanks to my most horrible memory!

But what really creeped me out is there was this kid there that was maybe twelve and he looked an awful lot like Hookbill... I know that Hookbill is not twelve, and not younger than I either, but it scared me none the less...

I knew he was controlling my mind, bu I didn't know he was stalking me too!:eek:

Hehe, and all this while I was trying to explain to my friend what the Downs is, and complaining that I might not get home in time to read the Downer on Sunday...:rolleyes:

[Groin Redbeard]

When you look at someone who has made a really good point and say: "I'd give you a rep. if I could."

[Hookbill the Goomba]

But what really creeped me out is there was this kid there that was maybe twelve and he looked an awful lot like Hookbill... I know that Hookbill is not twelve, and not younger than I either, but it scared me none the less...

Well, people say I look younger than I am (21 in October). Probably has something to do with my having only recently regenerated (http://i35.tinypic.com/rkdkaw.jpg)...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Well, people say I look younger than I am (21 in October). Probably has something to do with my having only recently regenerated (http://i35.tinypic.com/rkdkaw.jpg)...I've seen that picture before...:rolleyes: This time it wasn't Photoshopped, right?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I was playing 'Rock, Paper, Scissors' yesterday with my little brother (which included things like Mt. Zoom, The Phantom, Alien, and John Fillis) and he told me that he'd like to live in Antarctica, I asked him why and he said because there is penguins... I suddenly said "LOMMIES!" he then asked "What's a Lommy?" I told him he wouldn't understand...
Plus last night Lauri came over, we started talking like this:
"Fortunately, we are getting something to eat"
"Unfortunately, we didn't have anything good."
this kept going on for quite some time...

[Nerwen]

On that note: When you see a dead fairy penguin washed up on the beach, and think of–guess who?

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

On that note: When you see a dead fairy penguin washed up on the beach, and think of–guess who?
Me ?

[Oddwen]

Aww, you see a dead penguin and think of a Downer? What a...downer. :(

[Nerwen]

It was, rather.:(

[Thinlómien]

But we are all dead here...

[Hookbill the Goomba]

When, after seeing THIS (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/08/18/amazing-lego-olympic-scenes/), you can't see anything to do with the Olympics without thinking of Formendacil... Odd that.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You know you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs when your friend is writing and asks you how to spell "white" and you say "W-I-G-H-T"

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Another sign of addiction might be...

The first day of real classes starts tomorrow and I have about half an hour before bed, I don't have anything ready for school and I have to be there at 7:30. Yet, I am still here posting on the Barrow-Downs.
This is the sad story of my life...:rolleyes:

[Groin Redbeard]

You know that you're addicted to the Downs when you think you see Thinlomien walking into the classroom. I actually jumped to my first and just gawked at the person, like this: :eek:, until she gave me a confused look. My friends thought I was crazy after that (which isn't entirely false). :D

Have you been attending The University of San Antonio, over here in Texas, lately, Thinlomien? :)

[Thinlómien]

You know that you're addicted to the Downs when you think you see Thinlomien walking into the classroom. I actually jumped to my first and just gawked at the person, like this: , until she gave me a confused look. My friends thought I was crazy after that (which isn't entirely false).

Have you been attending The University of San Antonio, over here in Texas, lately, Thinlomien?Hahaha, no. :D Must be my secret twin sister... ;):Merisu:

[Kath]

You know you're addicted to the 'Downs when you unconsciously favour one of the children in your class simply because she has the same name as your RPG character!

[Brinniel]

Using Tolkien, the Barrow Downs, and its members to partially describe what defines who I am for a speech in my speech class.

And then when I finished, my classmates commented that they could tell from my speech how passionate I really was about these things. :D

[Thinlómien]

I think normal people would not find the following line in a TV series particularly amusing...

Soldier (to his wife): "The big bosses like me. If I went back, I would get a promotion. I could even be a legate. Hey, how would you like it, being a legate's wife?"

...but Greenie and I laughed almost hysterically. :D

[Aganzir]

What amused me was that it reminded me of a poem by Bertolt Brecht:
What was sent to the soldier’s wife
From the ancient city of Prague?
From Prague came a pair of high heeled shoes,
With a kiss or two came the high heeled shoes
From the ancient city of Prague.
etc

;);)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Aiiiieee... :D

Really, this is hilarious :D Oh my :D

[Lalwendë]

An example of how your impressions can be altered - I was on my blog a couple of weeks ago saying how Mithalwen* looks exactly like Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in a famous portrait; I'd just noticed this look-a-like. Last week I popped over to Chatsworth and the same portrait was there, and I thought "Oh, it's Mithalwen" instead of thinking "Oh, that's the duchess".




*Mithalwen is free to deny this resemblance of course ;)

[Hookbill the Goomba]

You're at Oxonmoot.

You see a computer.

You go on the Downs.

:D

[Lindale]

When you cite the Barrow Downs and some of the ideas and questions posted here in class, and vice-versa.

I remember this week we had some speculative fictionists giving a talk, and I can't help but notice, my, they'd be a good addition to the Downs. And I was secretly wondering if one of them was a Downer. Well, one of my professors know about our existence, even though he denies being a member.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

You're at Oxonmoot.

You see a computer.

You go on the Downs.

:DWow! I wish I could've gone to Oxonmoot.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

A really, really bad sign is when the BD seem to even overpower Tolkien himself in your head. I caught myself having a problem to determine whether the following sentence doesn't have more than one subject: "In the mountains only the Dwarves delved Belegost and Nogrod."

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I am in our school play this year... and my character is called McHabe's Runner... I can't help but think McCaber when I see that...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

It is called "McCaber's Rune" !?

[Mithalwen]

An example of how your impressions can be altered - I was on my blog a couple of weeks ago saying how Mithalwen* looks exactly like Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire in a famous portrait; I'd just noticed this look-a-like. Last week I popped over to Chatsworth and the same portrait was there, and I thought "Oh, it's Mithalwen" instead of thinking "Oh, that's the duchess".




*Mithalwen is free to deny this resemblance of course

No I it isn't completely random - I can see what you mean. It does say a lot about how ideas of beauty have changed that she was played by Keira Knightly who looks nothing like the portrait or me.

I have to remind myself that I would have been an infant mortality statistic in eras when I would have been considered beautiful :cool:

And I had a friend who called me duchess:o

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

It is called "McCaber's Rune" !?Not Rune, but I can see the resemblance! I hope that I don't forget to forget the resemblance before the show, otherwise you never know what will happen!:smokin:

[Thinlómien]

When you become worried when you find out your last post on this thread was about a month ago... :rolleyes:

[Eönwë]

When you become worried when you find out your last post on this thread was about a month ago
When you become worried that your last good post on any thread was more than a month ago!:eek:

[Brinniel]

You're playing a Facebook app called Nations and you receive the situation: "A mass murderer is loose in [insert nation name] and the local police force is having trouble catching the culprit. Do you..."

And one of the options is: "Assemble a lynching mob and temporarily deputize them with the orders to find the murderer at all costs?"

Of course the first thought that comes to mind is, "Wow, that is just like WW!" :rolleyes:

[Volo]

...or rather WW. When trying to cross the border from Russia to Finland without somekind of document I should have had (someone (I wonder who) lost it). The worker there tried to convince that I'm a guilty criminal by turning everything against me. Such as that everyone else from the group did have the document - I can't think of why that would point anyhow to me being evil. :S I did get over the border, but probably wouldn't have had I been three months older: I would have got a fine, and since I had ten rubels at most, I would have been arested or something as nice, lynched maybe. I did get to have a laugh though, talking high philosophical nonsense to the worker there and getting away with it. :D

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

As some of you know I tried to rep Formendacil on facebook. . .

[Thinlómien]

When you're delighted, really baffled, slightly disturbed and rather convinced that you just saw Sally on TV. I swear, she looked exactly like her. :eek::D