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

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by The Might

Yes, "accidentally".

Subconsciously, then.

Also, when your English lesson amuses you because
- when the teacher says "fizzy" you think she said "fishy" and think about werewolf
- the teacher talks about phrasal verbs and stresses the word "down"
- you can't help laughing when someone says that superheroes "protect the innocent"
- you have to translate the sentence "no one is going to get away with destroying my reputation"

[Aganzir]

While reading a book, you catch yourself thinking "This would make a good quote for Palantir of Fortune."

You misread Gwindor as Gwathagor and it takes you some time to find anything odd in it.

While studying Swedish irregular verbs, words like brinna and legat cheer you up. Also, the first thing to occur to you when hearing the name Runeberg is not the national poet of Finland, as it probably ought to be.

You chuckle when seeing an enterprise called MacMaintenance Ltd.

This amusement park ride called Hurja Kuru (hurja is ferocious in English and an appropriate transalation for kuru is gully, I think) never fails to make you laugh.

Every time you play werewolf, your father threatens to go and post "I'm a werewolf, lynch me!" if you leave the Downs open when going away for a while. Not that he'd actually do that, though.
Nevertheless, that leads you to remind him that he has promised to buy you a laptop about two years ago. And this time you keep reminding him until he fulfills his promise. A major reason is that you want to play werewolf in the peace of your room.

[Nogrod]

I saw a car with a registerplate ANG-xxx (numbers I don't remember anymore) and immediately thought of werewolfing and elves...

Funnily I had the same feeling a few days ago when there was a car with registerplate's letters FEA-...

[Volo]

...and I have Thinsulate gloves and an Agadir III Wolfskin backpack. There's actually even a story about the backpack.

Agadir the Third was the King of the Dwarves and the ancestor of Aganzir. But not only was Agadir a king, he was also a Werewolf, who slaughtered a lot of his kin at night. On one stormy night he tried to murder a prince, but a glorious princess came out of nowhere and killed the mad king. Together with the prince, they made a magical sack out of Agadir's wolfskin. The legend says that whatever you put into the magical sack, will look harmless to the security guards at airports.

[Aganzir]

Surely you don't happen to be speaking about my performance in Saucie's WW, Volo?

And also Lommy had a Thinsulate hat when she was small.

I just remembered something more.
Today, some girl in my English class told about a book she had read. The author was Mary Higgins Clark, and somehow my mind kept twisting it into Mary Noggins Clark.

[Volo]

I edited my previous post adding the part in italic.


Hmm... I wonder if it's a sign of addiction that already after you've switched off your computer, you remember a minor detail like that, turn on the computer, edit your post and switch it off again. And it's 00:30 here... Or is it just a sign of personal perfectionism or something?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Today, some girl in my English class told about a book she had read. The author was Mary Higgins Clark, and somehow my mind kept twisting it into Mary Noggins Clark.

Oh, you just reminded me of something - I did not consciously realise it, but since the first time I saw Nogrod's name written as "Noggins" (which must be a long time ago), I started to think of the lyrics to one of the songs in the musical "My Fair Lady" as "Just you wait, Mr. Noggins, just you wait!" This song generally sounds in my head (with these lyrics) from time to time when I play WW...

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I started to think of the lyrics to one of the songs in the musical "My Fair Lady" as "Just you wait, Mr. Noggins, just you wait!" This song generally sounds in my head (with these lyrics) from time to time when I play WW...

You must have terrible werewolf-sessions Legate!

Or is that the reason I always get suspected in werewolf... because everyone is humming that song?