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

[Eönwë]

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

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

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!)

[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]

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! 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?

[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

[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 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...

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

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.

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

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!

[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? ) but I'm having a lot of fun! Look, I even unearthed this 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?

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Kitanna in the Sigs Thread

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]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

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).

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

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

I think that all the time.