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Fair and Cold
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: the big onion
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Top Ten Signs You're Addicted to the Barrow-Downs
I do have a life, guys, I do, I promise! Nevertheless, my hall-mates have come to suspect that if I was dragged off from the Barrow-Downs for more than 48 hours, severe twitching, psychosis, and other unpleasant symptoms of addiction should occur (I fear they will try to test their hypothesis after break).
Here I have complied my very own ten signs that signify a dangerous addiction, and are likely to ensure a stay at the Betty Ford center. Enjoy, and post your own. 10. You have written enough private messages to various illustrious members of the forum to compile a not-so-short novel. 9. A naughty pastime of yours is the Freudian interprepations of message icons, shared with other members. 8. You say "screw it" to searching for sources for your latest paper, and begin searching for a cool new avatar instead. 7. You turn down a second date with a punnery "expert," because his skills do not quite match those of Rimbaud. 6. "Green is good," you say to yourself during those dim moments before waking and sleeping, and think of the Barrow-Wight. 5. You actually spend a sizeable portion of your bus ride to class wondering what Mithadan looks like. 4. You have a history of broken off betrothals to at least one famous site member (there could be more, but your memory is sometimes, *er*, lacking). 3. You no longer fear burra (sorry, burra)...Well, you respect burra. 2. You feel compelled to blow the money you usually reserve for alcohol on a bunch of more obscure Tolkien works, because you're tired of being put to shame by the likes of Sharkey and oblo. And, because, frankly, Tolkien is almost a family member by now. And, the number one sign you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs: 1. Before the shower, before checking the weather, before the obligatory screaming across the hall at the neighbours to turn their %$#@ing country music down, the first thing you do in the morning is sign in and check whatever pearls of wisdom and humour were posted over the night.
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03-08-2003, 02:01 PM
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Summoner of Lost Souls
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: At home, with my Strongbow
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Make room, dearest Lush, as I just hit 7 out of 10...
OK, people listen up. I have something to say: Everyone, my name is Maika and I'm a Barrowholic! Wow, I did it! [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
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03-08-2003, 02:18 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Something close like Shire
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[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] This has taught me a great deal about you, Lush!
To the #1 part: Well duh, I don't even recall to have woken before I find myself in front of the screen... [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] And couple more sure signs of "hopeless" case: 1. You have to eat in the living room 'cause your kitchen table is full; every Tolkien (or -related) book you own or have borrowed from the library with maps and such have invaded all the space. 2. You have borrowed Tolkien books from your university's library. Well, people can always assume you're studying English literature... 3. You forgot to borrow the books you actually were supposed to study for an exam. And while in library you had to check the BD site in case someone had PM'd you. 4. Your dog whines at the door for it hasn't been out for say 8-10 hours, it's about 2AM monday morning and still you just can't stop sending really-not-so-funny messages to Middle-Earth Mayhem or the Quiz. 5. Your computer collapses: you start to cry. And that's not because you might loose all the unsaved information you have on your computer. Ok, it's better to stop right here... I have a feeling that people are really starting to worry about me. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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03-08-2003, 06:02 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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The Barrow Downs is far and away the most innocuous of my addictions.
As a bonus I have learned to use the dicitioonairy and can now type up to 20 wpm... [ March 08, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ]
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03-08-2003, 06:21 PM
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Spirit of the Lonely Star
Join Date: Mar 2002
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Rolling over laughing....
Lush, some of us on the other end of the age spectrum have different problems. Try these on for size. You know you're in trouble when... 1. Your son falls to his knees and begs and pleads for you to get off the computer so he can download his music. 2. Your husband is next in line. He falls to his knees and begs and pleads for you to get off the computer so you can cook the family dinner. (OK, I've got a great husband--but a cook, he's not!) 3. You have more pictures of Frodo and Sam on your bedroom wall than your ten-year old daughter does. 4. You can barely bring yourself to look at your latest credit card bill, since you went a little crazy on e-bay snarfing up older editions of LotR. 5. Your fifteen-year old son has to explain to his friends with some embarassment that his mother was the one who put the Frodo screensaver on the family computer. 6. You regularly go with 1-2 hours less sleep a night in your frantic efforts to keep up with the four new RPGs that you have joined. 7. Your Tolkien reading material has spilled from the kichen table and the bedroom over into the bathroom! 8. Your daughter likes hobbits and Elves so you use her birthday as an excuse to load her down with assorted Middle-earth pictures and paraphernalia. 9. Whenever you meet your friends for lunch, they beg you to tell them the next installment of the life of Cami Goodchild the Hobbit. 10. You still hang on to all your Tolkien "collectibles"--the buttons, bumperstickers, and battered books--that adorned your dorm room way back when you were a freshman, over thirty years ago! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] sharon
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03-08-2003, 06:25 PM
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Eerie Forest Spectre
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction
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7. You turn down a second date with a punnery "expert," because his skills do not quite match those of Rimbaud.
~ really quite unfair, don't you think? Entirely outmatched. 6. "Green is good," you say to yourself during those dim moments before waking and sleeping, and think of the Barrow-Wight. ~ that dream about the skeletal hands is not something you'd repeat in mixed company either. 5. You actually spend a sizeable portion of your bus ride to class wondering what Mithadan looks like. ~ I call it 'healthy curiosity' and I'm sticking to that, I am. 3. You no longer fear burra (sorry, burra)...Well, you respect burra. ~ You mean people fear burra? [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] - Maril [ March 08, 2003: Message edited by: Marileangorifurnimaluim ]
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03-08-2003, 07:09 PM
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Cornus Caliga
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here
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Oh, dear... I am 60% obsessed. How sad. I know other people who are much, MUCH worse, though...
Hey, you know what? I'm not even supposed to be on here right now, since my authorities have banned me from the web. But what the heck? They're out... [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] Long live the Barrow Downs.
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03-08-2003, 08:29 PM
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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1. You tell people that you're going to check your messages. They assume voice-mail. You let them.
2. All of your really trusted friends have taken their glassy-eyed turn at listening to your latest RPG. 3. Your husband is completely sick and tired of hearing about the RPG. 4. Ditto what Child said about the credit card. Your husband says, "But it's all the SAME STORY inside those books!" You smile and say, "But the artwork is different." You need another bookshelf to hold it all. 5. You lose hours and HOURS of sleep over an RPG debate concerning elvish pregnancy and wedlock. 6. Your colleagues visit you at lunchbreak, see the green-and-black screen, and ask, "How's Bilbo?" 7. You really hate typing in extended quotes from a book or document, but you'll grudgingly do it because it's information somebody needs for the RPG. 8. The only thing you use your scanner for is LOTR; and you complainingly pay full-price for some ourrageous oversized book because it has a map or diagram that you need for an RPG. 9. Your family worries that you might sneak off to Hollywood and get your ears surgically altered into points. (Hmmmm... how much? ...nah. But... Hmmmm....) 10. Your BK-Gandalf glass goblet regularly serves to remind you of the last online conversation you had with someone of that name. 11. Your most-used baking recipes come from The Downs. 12. Once a week, you wear non-hobbittish, non-elvish clothes to work-- just to prove you still can. 13. And finally: Your husband seriously fantasizes about tossing your computer out the window into a snowbank.
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03-08-2003, 08:48 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Sep 2002
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I have a LIFE [i think [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]],but I'm afraid I have a double life on the BD to! Let's see: 10. You have written enough private messages to various illustrious members of the forum to compile a not-so-short novel (((Almost!))). 9. A naughty pastime of yours is the Freudian interprepations of message icons, shared with other members. 8. You say "screw it" (((For me it's "crapiness"))) to searching for sources for your latest paper, and begin searching for a cool new avatar instead. 7. You turn down a second date with a punnery "expert," because his skills do not quite match those of Rimbaud. 6. "Green is good," you say to yourself during those dim moments before waking and sleeping, and think of the Barrow-Wight. 5. You actually spend a sizeable portion of your bus ride to class wondering what Mithadan (((EVERYONE)))! looks like. 4. You have a history of broken off betrothals to at least one famous site member (there could be more, but your memory is sometimes, *er*, lacking). 3. You no longer fear burra (sorry, burra)...Well, you respect burra. And, the number one sign you're addicted to the Barrow-Downs: 1. Before the shower, before checking the weather, before the obligatory screaming across the hall at the neighbours to turn their -------country music down, the first thing you do in the morning is sign in and check whatever pearls of wisdom and humour were posted over the night. :Jumps Up and Down: [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] |
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03-08-2003, 09:15 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: napa valley, ca
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One more-
- When you consider hiding your screenname so other BD'ers won't see how much time you spend here... [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img]
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03-08-2003, 09:25 PM
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Fair and Cold
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: the big onion
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Good ones! I think Helen (mark12_30) is a bit more obsessed than I am, who's up for sponsoring her trip to the Betty Ford center?
Child, thanks for giving me some perspective. Maril, I think a public flogging by burra is one of the rites of passage on this site. Well, for some people, at least. Tar, since I have LAN, I am pretty much always signed in here. Though even without LAN, I can readily admit to spending a ridiculous amount of time browsing though the threads, especially the old ones in the Books. Go me! Anyone else?
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03-08-2003, 10:52 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
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1. Half the wall in your bedroom is covered with LOTR pics.
2. When you have 50+ LOTR pics saved to your computer, 3. You always visit the BD before doing your homework. 4. You stay up until the wee hours of the morning on a school night to write an RPG post. 5. You get up at 5:00 AM so you can edit or finish that RPG post. 6. You daydream during your classes about getting back on the BD. 7. You socialize with people more on the BD than in real life. 8. You force your parents to listen while you read your RPGs aloud. 9. Your friends beg the impossible; to give up talking about LOTR for Lent. 10. Your friends beg you to give up talking about LOTR for just one day and still you refuse. Oh dear, I really am addicted.
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03-08-2003, 11:09 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Finally out of the Paths of the Dead!
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Brinniel, I got a 10/10 on your's. As I'm typing this post, my dad is telling me to get off the Downs! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Ranger of the Dúnedain(and Raging Barrowholic), Aerandir Carnesir [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ March 09, 2003: Message edited by: Aerandir Carnesir ]
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03-08-2003, 11:50 PM
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Summoner of Lost Souls
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: At home, with my Strongbow
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But I can add a few more. 1. That you risk your job (but that's not important) by sneaking onto a computer at work, which you're actually not allowed to use, so you can inform the others in the RPG you're in, that your own puter is broken so you won't be able to post for a while. 2. That you eat by the puter so often, you've had to get one of those plastic covers for your keyboard. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] 3. That no matter what time of day (or night) your friends pass by your window, there's an 85% chance they'll find you by the puter, completely hypnotized by the green letters. 4. (more Tolkien in general) That you once used all the paint you could get in the red and yellow scale, to show other people your fascination with huge, flaming eyes....(sadly, I lost that one) [ March 09, 2003: Message edited by: Maikadilwen ]
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03-09-2003, 12:40 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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What a wonderful thread, Lush! I’m laughing so hard while recognizing myself all over the place! Oh well, I keep saying that there are worse addictions than one that makes me think, read and write creatively, right?! Here are a few additions of my own:
1. You panic when the site and/or forum is down for a few minutes and go into the chat room to find out why and how long. 2. You stay up really late or get up really early to compensate for the fact that your time zone is out of whack with prime time on the Downs. 3. You keep the rest of the family awake, not just with the sound of typing, but with a live Tolkien reading on voice chat. 4. You have mixed feelings when your kids come home to visit – you love them, but they want time on your computer! 5. You place other working utensils (ironing board, sewing machine) in the room with your computer and say you’re going to be working. 6. You leave the computer on all day, just so you can “peek” in to see if anything new has been posted. 7. You plunder Alk’s member pics page and the chat wight page for pictures of the people you talk to most, print them and attach them to the wall behind your monitor, so you can see their faces while chatting. 8. You spend hours paging through the dictionary to find funny equivalents for Middle-Earth names and places for a parody RPG. 9. You buy dozens of chocolate children’s eggs to get the LotR figurines that are hidden in some of them, even though you don’t like that brand of chocolate. 10. You buy the complete set of HoME books because of the many discussions about them on the forum, but don’t have time to read them because there’s so much forum reading to do!
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03-09-2003, 02:34 AM
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Beholder of the Mists
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Somewhere in the Northwest... for now
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Yes! I too always go on the Barrow Downs before I start my homework!
and also before I go to school and before I go to the gym and before I go to dinner and before I go to sleep and before I have my lunch and I go on it at school I go on it all the time, but gosh I love it here you guys! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Here is another reason: You study your books just so you can be the first to answer newbee questions in the book forum. You start having people call you by your Barrow-Downs nickname.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat.....
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03-09-2003, 09:40 AM
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Maiden of Tears
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Valinor.
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You also know you're obsessed when:
1. You have a 2000 word essay to write for the next day and you're so hypnotised by the Downs that you've only typed 10 words (sadly, this is the case for me at the moment) 2. You can't help but mention people on here when having an entirely unrelated conversation with your friends. 3. You occasionally burst into fits of giggles at the most inappropriate moment because you remember something that happened on the forum/chat
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03-09-2003, 10:26 AM
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Wight
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Finally out of the Paths of the Dead!
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I've got another: You check Barrow-Downs before you go to church, and when you go to church, you bring your Tolkien books instead of your Bible.(This may not apply to everyone)
Ranger of the Dúnedain, Aerandir Carnesir [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Stuck in the center of Spooky Hollow...
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You find yourself constantly refreshing the page, only seconds after you've posted, in the hopes that someone's responded already.
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Anador
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12-30-2005, 08:37 PM
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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You know you're obsessed when you...you think how a hobbit lass would never shave her feet.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Massachusetts - digging up a bottomless hole, searching for something that's not there...
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Wow, on yours, Brinniel, I'm 60 or 70% addicted. I would be 100% or 90%, I'm not sure, except for
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Rivendell
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Brineill:90%!! Go me! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
And another... 1.Your math notebook consists to one quarter of unfinished problems, the rest is new sigs you want to try, unfinished characters for RPGs, "Barrow-Downs rock" in elvish etc, etc 2. You spent time wondering what would happen if you would recognize a BDer if she/he came to your school as a new kid/teacher 3. You annoy your friends you´re actually InstantMessaning with by saying "Wait a sec, I have to finish an RPGpost" or "Do you know who said _______" 4. You lie on your bed, mortally depressed because you can´t find a picture nice enough to send on the MemberPics page 5. You care more about a good rpg post then a good grade 6. Getting a higher member status is one of your natrual highs 7. One of your new-years resoloutions is "Yet a QQ answer before Beren87 does", and another is "Stop making spam posts" 8. You rename your computer into "Barrow-Wight 2", but go back to "goddamn-crap-thing" because one can´t be mad at the BW 9. You make your friends register here, and then continue pestering them untill they jump in an RPG (right, Sindae?) 10. When people REALLY annoy you, you call them "stupid, chat-language using, Orlando-swooning newbie"!, and collect odd looks [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] [ March 09, 2003: Message edited by: Manardariel ]
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Stormdancer of Doom
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars
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03-09-2003, 12:40 PM
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The Diaphanous Dryad
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: R toL: 531, past the wild path
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wow- 100% on brinniel's and about 80% on manardariel's!
on the other hand a lot of you are much worse (or better!) and i'm not sure if i'm happy or not. i'm kind of used to being known as a lotr freak, and here i'm nothing! not even a ghost prince! here's probably a unique one: #you look through your desktop calender and write a quote matching the picture in your diary everyday!# #you lie in bed at night planning scenarios/future posts for RPGs or trying to get the tricky quiz question# #the day before your mock exams start you sit in front of your computer with a growing realisation that, yes, you really ARE addicted to the BD!# #you know that the day before your actual exam you will still be checking whats going on, even though you know you need the grades to get to uni. why can't they do lotr studies, thats what i want to know?# [ March 09, 2003: Message edited by: Lyra Greenleaf ]
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
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When your English homework is to write a letter to the editor, the place you go to check how it is done is The Barrow-Downs Newspaper -thread...
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Alive without breath
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: On A Cold Wind To Valhalla
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Lommy, I'm not sure that's the best place to get your-
Actually, no, it is. Yes, base all you're school work on the endless truth you'll find there in that impressive Newspaper. 
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
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You know there's something wrong when you read a guitarist's name "Tony Iommi" as "Tony Lommi" (although you knew the name before!), considering it an interesting discovery. Do I need to add anything else?
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: IN it, but not OF it
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When you think it's a lamentable loss that you've ceased (temporarily, hopefully) having BD dreams, or being a subject of one.
 And you've finally caught yourself automatically thinking "Lommy" when you see a group of penguins in a photo. Yay! |
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11-07-2007, 04:14 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In that far land beyond the Sea
Posts: 7,431
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories |
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03-09-2003, 02:10 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In a box with a fox
Posts: 1,347
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Hehehe! These are great! I can't say that I match all of these, but I would do a lot more of them if say, I had a daughter, or a credit card, or money! A few more:
You only check your email to see if anyone from the BD's emailed instead of PMing you. You spend more than 30 minuets every day here. You have been here for at least 6 mounths You read books by tolkien, not because you haven't read them, but to find a new topic to discuss You write "ash nazy durbatuluk.." or other things in the black speech wherever you can When you find someone who likes tolkien, the first question you ask is "who are you on the BarrowDowns?"
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03-09-2003, 04:03 PM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Completely lost track, sorry!
Posts: 733
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I have no idea how addicted I am, I just know that I am. Here's one more:
You've just spent at least fifteen minutes discussing with your friend over instant messaging how like you all this is, copying and pasting each point which is relevant to you. At first they fully agree but when you go back and read the conversation you realise they got bored and you've actually been talking to yourself for the past ten minutes.
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03-09-2003, 04:06 PM
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Reflection of Darkness
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Polishing the stars. Well, somebody has to do it; they're looking a little bit dull.
Posts: 2,983
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Got some more:
1. Your BD nickname is printed on the back of your favorite sweatshirt. 2. You constantly beg your best friend who likes Tolkien to join the BD. 3. You spend hours searching for the perfect avatar. 4. When you read about a name or place from The Silmarillion, you automatically think of someone from the BD. 5. No one ever calls you anymore because you are constantly online. 6. Your Tolkien books are torn and abused from constant use. 7. You're never completely satisfied until you have been on the BD for at least once each day. 8. You hardly ever go outside anymore. What's the point? 9. You begin to dream about being on the BD in your sleep. 10. Your favorite quotes come from the sigs of other members on the BD.
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03-09-2003, 04:08 PM
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Cornus Caliga
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Five-hundred-twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes from here
Posts: 710
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HA! Brinniel, according to yours I am only 30-40% addicted!
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03-09-2003, 04:10 PM
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Desultory Dwimmerlaik
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Pickin' flowers with Bill the Cat.....
Posts: 7,779
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*grins
You know you are hopelessly possessed when BW asks you to be a moderator and you agree.
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03-09-2003, 04:22 PM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Immersed in a Good Book
Posts: 367
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I am well and truely obessed then. Especially with RPG. I keep telling all my friends about my favorite battle scene that I have written, spend hours typing up posts and revising them, and I always check BD before homework! I am obsessed...
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03-09-2003, 04:28 PM
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Beholder of the Mists
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Somewhere in the Northwest... for now
Posts: 1,419
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Hey, maybe I should get my nickname printed on the back of my track sweatshirt [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] Good Idea.
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