Heh. I already know I'm an addict. But I term myself a "spod"
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-=*>The Spoddy world that spods spodily spod in *=-
Spod (noun) (feminine:Spodess) (plural individual: Spodz) (Neuter: Spodo) -
A sad, sometimes fluffy, sometimes not so fluffy, computer nerd.
A spod is easily distinguished by the following characteristics:
1. Extraordinarily long login times to talkers and/or Muds
2. Knows a dangerous amount of info about the Internet - more than any person should.
3. Often known to break into computer labs after hours just to telnet.
4. Sometimes name their favorite terminals
5. Often witness beautiful sunrises and/or sunsets... from a computer terminal.
6. Spod Eyes syndrome - Eyes feel as if they will budge after long hours spent at a terminal.
Spod (verb) - To act or behave as a spod. (Trapp spods all night, doesn't he)
Spoddy (adj) - Fitting the behavioral patterns of a spod. (Briana, you spoddy spoon!)
Spodily (adv) - Acting in the manner of a spod (Drizzt spodily types away. What else is new?)
Spodaholic (n) - A spod who is obviously addicted to the spodding experience.
Spodders Anonymous - A spod support group-Before every meeting (It's true that there are meetings on talkers) One says the lines like so: "Hi, I'm Briana, and I'm a spodaholic."
Spoddom (n) - The world available for spods to spod in. The exact opposite of so-called "rl" (real life)
See help spod-classes for the subclasses of spods
"The spoddy world...", and all the subclass names are (c) traP aka M.
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Taken from a talker I'm on.
I've never taken a plane just to meet someone I met online.. at least, not for the first time. I once drove from Pennsylvania to Chattanooga TN with 3 guys I'd never met IRL (and only talked to 2 a few times online) to get to a "spodmeet" to meet everyone I'd talked to online and had never met in person. Think of LAFF without the official reasons. Granted, I *was* going just to meet 1 guy I'd met on the net, then took the bus to visit him on spring break, then flew down for his graduation... And eventually married him.
And yes, I often think "LOL" to myself instead of laughing. The tech support one doesn't count, since that's my day job. But I also do tech support on IRC, as some people know.
BTW, the christmas card one doesn't count. I believe that everyone that I send cards to that's not family, I've met online. Of course, I now live close to a few of them, so they're no longer "online friends".
...You won't work at a job that doesnt have a modem involed
Ewwww, completely wrong. I won't work at a job with a modem involved, not for net access anyway. I refuse to work at a job that doesn't have T1 (or higher!) access with unlimited internet access during work hours. Now if I can find one of those that doesn't involve 40 hours of phone support...
