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

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

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...

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by 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...

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.

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

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. *remembers great golden horde thread*

~ Ka

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by THE Ka

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. *remembers great golden horde thread*

~ Ka

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

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

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]

Originally Posted by THE Ka

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. *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]

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

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]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

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

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

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

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

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

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

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

The 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. 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.

[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...

[Rikae]

When you read the following line in this post 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!

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...

[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]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

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...

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

Well, people say I look younger than I am (21 in October). Probably has something to do with my having only recently regenerated...

I've seen that picture before... 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]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

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, 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...

[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: , 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?

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by 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: , 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. Must be my secret twin sister...

[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.

[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.

[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...

Really, this is hilarious Oh my

[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.

[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]

Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba

You're at Oxonmoot.

You see a computer.

You go on the Downs.

Wow! 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."