13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your service provider calls *you* for tech support.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "LOL!"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to scroll through your popup menu.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friend Tom tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, me hugs Tom."
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your husband.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You keep begging your friend's to get an internet account so "we can hang out."
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friends are now convinced that IRC stands for "I Repeat Classes."
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When you join #callahans everyone types "Norm!" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You're a heterosexual male, but one time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You come home from class, look at your roomates, and say "ib." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You wait for your roomates to say "re." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10The words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shakey. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Sometimes you type commands from the unix prompt you mistakenly begin them with a "/"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've ever gotten onto an airplane just to meet some folks face to face. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You make it a point to change your ping reply and quit message daily. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have over 2 megs of .wav files on your mIRC directory. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to get a second phone line just so you can call Domino's. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your child ignores your request and you wonder if she is lagged. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You send internet Christmas cards. *wink* 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've ever felt the urge to type "*wink*." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have ever wondered if there is a #IRC-anon. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have an IRC web page. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've ever went to one of those form-submit web page 'chats' just to say "you loosers don't even know what IRC is, do you? Huh!? DO YOU!?!" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've ever logged on to dalnet. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You join #hispanola "just to work on my Spanish." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When someone on the channel asks if anyone knows some good servers, everyone else types your nick. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You join busy channels just to talk to yourself because the scrolling makes you feel better about it somehow. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've ever typed "drinking on IRC is better than drinking alone." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You go into labor and you stop to type a "special" away message. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have a vanity car tag with your nick on it.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've been lagged so bad that you've switched servers so much you can see you nick on the channel list 3 times.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You no longer type with proper punctuation, capitolization, or complete senteces..
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have met over 100 IRCers
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You dont know your boyfriend/girlfriend's first name
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your boyfriend/girlfriend in real life gets on IRC coz its the only way to reach you
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You know which servers are major hubs..in *.tw
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You use words like 'lag' and 'lamer' in real life.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You tell your rfiends you have plans already on saturday night when you dont
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your .IRCrc is over 80k
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You feel a need to talk in all caps to certain people in real life
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You forget what the rest of your house looks like
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You get a call from a telemarketer, and instead of hanging up on them, you set down the phone, and set their mode to -v 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You call up your friend Nick, and /invite $nick to #watch_TV 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You offer the babysitter OPS when you go out for the night 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You refer to rush hour traffic as LAGGED... or to avoid traffic, you tell your passenger you need to quit for a second to switch servers 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10The word I is now replaced in your vocabulary with /me. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You raise your hand in conversation, and say "BRB" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have more than 3 private MSG windows going simultaneously 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You won't subscribe to a certain internet provider because they don't offer unlimited time per month 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Instead of taking a disk home from work, you set up your BOT to serve it to you later that night 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You no longer have to stop and explain to your friends what "ROFL" means 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You begin to say hehehehehehehehe instead of laughing 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You don't sleep at night because you are busy thinking of a new NICK
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You know and use regularly, more than 10 different ways to smile in ascii text 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You cry when you see more than 3 quit messages with two servers listed as the reason. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When someone says "what did you say?" you reply "scroll up!" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You find yourself sneaking away to the computer in the middle of the might when your spouse is asleep to get more IRC time in! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You turn down the lights and close the blinds so people won't know that you are on IRC again! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You know more about your IRC "friends" daily routines than you do your own spouses! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Someone in a channel says "where is "so-and-so" today, and you know exactly where that person is and why they are not logged on. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You find yourself lying to others about your IRC time. When they complain your phone is busy, you claim it was off the hook! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have an identity crisis if someone else is using your nick. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You would rather tell people your bloodshot eyes are from partying too much instead of the truth (up all night on IRC!) 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You change nicks so much that you have to type /me to see who you are! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You put on special mood music while talking to certain people in private chats! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friends on IRC were above your real life friends on your Christmas card list! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You find yourself involved in channel politics on IRC! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You ever turned down real hugs for {{hugs}} from your IRC friends. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have actually kept up with 10 converstions at one time! <---this one shows either great skill or that you are too far gone! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have ever written a pen-and-paper letter to someone and found it _impossible_ to do without smilies 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You don't even bother answering the phone anymore...
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are willing to risk a divorce because your husband doesn't like all the time you are spending on the computer
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are risking your job by staying on IRC in the afternoon
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You open up your home to 15 strangers for a week merely because they have computers and cute nicknames 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You consider getting an THIRD phone line so your spouse can get online on a different account
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your kids are standing at your side going "mommy, please come cook dinner" and you'd rather type another "LOL!"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10The first thing you say after coming out of a movie is, "Hey. Remember that funny line? It would make a perfect popup!"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You and your spouse both sit at your own computers and chat to each other every night from across the room! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your first thought when your nick is taken is "/whois"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Both you and your wife has their own computer, phone line, e-mail address and ISP account. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are cutting and pasting these lines to your notepad. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your family (all in the same geographical area, most computer illiterate, none addicted to IRC) refer to you by your nick, because for months that's the only name they heard. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You keep an IRC window open while doing housework 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You use IRC as an excuse for procrastinating on housework
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You go through more than one keyboard in a year
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your nick is mentioned on an IRC webpage 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You feel the urge to /kick and /ban annoying people in person
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You argue with your kids over whose turn it is.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When you write a letter you put :-) at the end of a sentence 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You wont work at a job that doesnt have a modem involed
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You sign your nick instead of your "real name"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You take your girlfriend on a date to #redlobster, then to a movie at #cineplex_movie. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You want to kick-ban your sister from your house. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your husband announces that he is getting a second line..no matter what you say!! He's tired of the phone always being busy. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your dog leaves you...so does the cat.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to ask what the day is...
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You build a toilet into your computer chair so you never *miss* anything...
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You join certain channels just to read the funny topics 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You're sitting at work with NO IRC Clients and you can't find any;You get sidetracked into reading webs about IRC. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to replace your / and # keys every few weeks. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are telling someone about all your friends and it turns out they are all on IRC... 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are doing things more and more that you swore you would never, ever do when you first found chat! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You write a letter like this "dear tom, lo! how r u doin well i gotta go bbl!" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You might be addicted to IRC if you stay on here until your eyes are bloodshot 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You enter a channel and the bots say hi!
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You suggest to your company to hold its meetings on IRC so "The boss can put +m on"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You name your pets after people you talk to on IRC.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You ever tell a story in real life of something funny that happened on IRC to people that have no idea what it is.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You smile sideways
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Whenever you log on to a server you immediately get 10 messages from people who have you on thier notify list
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You can't even remember the names to all the channels you have ops on
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your internet provider disconnects you for using an *unlimited* account too much
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You seriously consider a dedicated account
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have a map on the wall with red thumbtacks to mark where people are
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to take an vacation from IRC because you can not keep up with the messages anymore
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have IRC in the background with the word AWAY after your nick while surfing the net 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10People know you and /msg you even when your nick has AWAY in it 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10People have your AWAY nick in thier notify list 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You spent more than $ 300 on long distance calling those you met on IRC 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Whenever a netsplit or flooding occurs and someone asks what happened everyone in the channel says to ask you
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You got tired of answering what happened and have made popups to describe netsplits and flooding
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have opened a room called #IRCanonymous - topic 12 steppers for IRC addicts ..."meets here"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You look at an annoying friend in real life and wish you could type /ignore 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You can carry on a conversation with the bot(s)
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You drink less cause you don't want go to the washroom during your chat time
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have written you "nick" instead of your name real life
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You use your lunchbreak to jump back on to see who is there
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You get pulled over by the police, and they inform you that you were reported missing 2 months ago. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You bring a sack lunch and cooler to the terminal.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You actually know everybody in your IRC channel. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10The only time you log off IRC is to travel to work where you immediately log back on.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You go into IRC withdrawals if you are away from a computer for more than a few hours.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You make up reasons to your wife to stay late at the office so you can take advantage of their service link.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Someone offers you lady fingers at a party and you have an urge to do a /WHOIS on them.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You're a regular op in channel #mIRC or #mIRChelp 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You use IRC lingo in everyday life(if you still have one)lol
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When writing someone a letter you feel inclined to make your smileys SIDEWAYS
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You e-mail prospective employers and leave a channel name they can find you at
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You leave yourself in the "away" setting for longer than a half hour because it's easier than trying to dial in
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friend tells you a joke and you say "ROTFL..."
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friend doesn't answer you and you wonder how to PING him.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You know not only the best servers to access, but also the best ports.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You think you need more memory, but forgot why....
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling...
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You start thinking 166 megahertz is to slow...
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your notify list has over a hundred people on it
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your worst comeback to a bully is "I'll slap you with a large trout"
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You might be addicted to IRC if you have over 100 megs of wavs
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You set yourself away while burning dinner
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You know more than 7 of the people in a channel at any given time.
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You own a bumper-sticker that says "Split Happens."
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When you wake up in the morning the first thing you do is get on to IRC before you have your coffee. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are using the IRC to conduct settlement conferences about your upcoming divorce. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You're a regular on over 10 channels
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have driven over 5 hours to meet an IRCer
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You include your nick in your e-mail signature
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You would rather be at your IRC birthday party than out with real people! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Someone at work tells you a joke, and you say "ROTFLOL!" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have ever had a dream about the people in your channels. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You leave the computer on just to see the mIRC logo! 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You watch T.V. with closed captioning turned on. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Your friend Susan tells you something sad on the phone and you say "Awwww, /me hugs Susan. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You've called out someone else's nick while making love to your better half. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You keep begging your friends to get an internet account so "we can hang out. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10Three words: carpal tunnel syndrome. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You are laughing at these jokes.  
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You want to meet a girl and your first impulse is to turn on your computer. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You once devoted a weekend to "working on your popups." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You sometimes go to #egypt "just to get away from it all." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10When you join a channel everyone types "LOOK WHO IS HERE" 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10One time you used a feminine nick "just to mess with the horny net geeks." 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You wait for your roommates to say "re."  
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10The words "takeover," "nick collide," and "flood" make your heart beat faster and your hands a little shaky. 
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You think the line a/s/l is your gateway to cybersex
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You have to apologize to someone you're chatting with if you can't answer them because you are working
13You might be addicted to IRC if....10You keep logs on file for the memories.