Category: Let's talk
I'm sure some of you have seen those things that say "You know you're addicted to (LJ/caffene/friends/CSI/insert whatever you're addicted to here.) I thought it'd be fun if we could do one of those things for the zone.
The comments can be true or exaggerated... Or real.
It's usually a short thing that completes the sentence "You know you're addicted to The Zone BBS when..."
I'll start:
you spend more time worrying about your points than you do your checkbook.
you tell your coworkers that you'll send them a quicknote
You try to jump over the cheaters in anagrams.
You check Site Stats daily to make sure no one's topped you in board posts.
You start hearing the buzzing sound on High-low in you're head.
You start double-naming your closest offline friends. "Hey, glad we could work together KimKim! Hey JeffJeff, what's up?"
you set the quicknote sound as your mobile phone's ringtone.
You refer to somebody in conversation by their zone name rather than their real one.
You get your disability income on the first of the month and scream "Woohoo! More points!"
The scream from Hangman haunts your dreams.
You start to consider writing your next paper on the benefits of playing blingo.
You actually consider writing "top ten" lists like this one, devoted to the site. *grin*
where you frequent and everyone knows your name.
when people on other sites ask you , hey aren't you on the zone?
When people use the expression, "was in the zone", "Don't disturb me, I'm in the Zone" or variations thereof, and you're first thought was...
Also applies for zoned-out, twilight-zone, public transport zones etc.
When you hear the word boards you think of the boards on the zone and have the urge to check them.
To zone has become a verb: I zone, you zone, he/she zones ...
You've stopped researching stuff on www.google.com and instead post to the cram session category on the boards.
You don't call Tech Support anymore, instead you post all your computer questions in Geeks R Us.
When the doorbell rings, you think: "So-and-So has just logged in."
when you get up in the morning and say, "i have to get on the zone today to talk to my close friends".
When you hear the word "cheat" and immediately think "anagrams"
You try to memorize the categories of board posters (veteran zoner...)
you log in just to see some familiar names
You tell your friends at school about the huge fight you witnessed on the Zone, knowing full well that they really don't care.
you start signing email/forms with your user name, IE, take care, Charis, I mean Lisa!
When you're bored, you send quick notes to yourself and think it's really cool.
Amen, krisme! LMAO! Someone says a word that reminds you of the Zone or a certain user on the Zone, and that word has a totally different meaning to you than it used to. You keep brainstorming and writing down more anagrams in a file even during school, so you don't forget them, and you submit them later. You think of Blackjack when you hear change jingling in your pocket. You write a to-do list specifically for the Zone, so you don't forget what you wanted to do. You keep checking the stats every five minutes to see who's ahead of you in QuickNotes and board posts. You keep refreshing the page every two seconds to see if you've gotten a message from a certain someone yet. Your Favorites list is cluttered with board topics which you have subscribed to.
While eating breakfast, you try to think of five letter words, in case they will be helpful for blingo
You reuse old Jeopardy questions on Trivia Time.
When you hear something on the news, and wonder what rotten thing Blindguy is going to say about it on the boards!
you read an article on line and think, hey this might be interesting to post in the zone boards!
you go to the computer lab with your class at school and insted of doing the assigned classwork you go straight to the zone!
When your morning routine, before coffee, is to go to the boards and check out what peple are talking about. This is in addition to the part of the morning routine where you check your e-mail and your Livejournal friendspage, which you're already addicted to. I'll pass on that twelve-step program, thank you. LOL!
Before telling your close personal friends about a good score on a test, you go post to the boards as either a praise in prayer chain or a rave in the rave board.
You try and guess what Goblin and Lawlord will say about the latest controversial issues on the news. You know the political stance of most major board posters. You go through other websites trying to find fellow zoners. Most of your livejournal friends list is people you've met on the Zone.
You don't mind being late for your next class because you'd rather be on the zone.
You can't remember what you did during the day at school or for fun on the weekend, but you can describe in detail what you did on the zone.
Instead of doing research in the colege library, you post an article on the zone about a dead political activist.
you spend 10 hours on the zone
or 15, or 24 ...
Instead of thinking about your future crush or whatever, you brainstorm audio profile ideas.
You close any other programs or windows running on your computer and all you have is the zone bbs website.
You go on the zone even though it's painful to type.
Part of your windows sound scheme consists of the quick note sound, private quick note sound, and door bell sound. And Possibly sounds from the games!
You leave a quick note for your parents before you dash out the door.
you know all the zoners by name
and i think i can do the catogries
newborn zoner
this is even better than microsoft
veteran zoner
zone bbs is my life
the zone bbs remains forever my homepage
i just keep on posting
monster rain
i'm going for the plarific posting award.....and then i don't know
how did i do?
You know your addicted to the zone when the current news is, so and so posted such and such on the boards, and the topic of conversation becomes all important, often times a heated discussion or debate.
That's pretty sad.
you know your adicted to the zone when you log on for 5 mins just to check if your friends there
You read this list. That is all.
ROFLFLFLFLFL Nick.
...when you come up with a feature idea and, without hesitation, spend the next few hours making it a reality. I blame it on being single. Addiction? Never!
Hahahaha, Chris! ROTFLFLFLFLFLFLFLFLFLFL!
You keep writing stuff on the bulletin board at work, hoping to get a promotion.
When asked for your demographics, you begin with "I'm user number ####".
You ask random people on the street: "Do you have an audio profile?"
While reviewing the roster of employees at the workplace, you tap their names with your pen to see their profile.
When hearing the door bell, you don't ask "Who is it?", you say, "Hello to the newcomers."
You have a ctrl+alt hotkey to launch the zone web site.
you know you are addicted to the zone when you would ratter play anagrams oniline than in a franklin languaje master...
ROFLFLFLFLFL, Louiano!
You take all the sounds from Zone BBS and remix them into a song. Upon remixing the song, you think it's "awesome!" (when it actually might not be.) You take the time to create an HTML listing of audio profiles you like, lol. You send more messages on the Zone than you do anywhere else. You wonder why there isn't a scream when you beat your friends at handwritten hangman. You've written a song just about the Zone BBS. You turn down an invitation to a banquet because there's going to be a big voice chat session on the Zone BBS at the same time. All the links in the audio profile page are "visited". and ... When you hear the doorbell: instead of going to open the door, you try and find the quick note edit field so you can type "hello".
you refresh any page, with the sole purpose of receiving a quicknote
From me, that is, Louiano! ROTFL JKJKJK!
you um block all the ppl on aim/msn, and pay more attention to the zone
You spend time to listen to, and review, all the audio profiles. Then you take the time to code it all into an HTML page. Yaaaaaaa! Go me with no life!
When you can quote the exact date and time you first joined the zone, off the top of your head.
Sorry if this one has been done, but I don't exactly feel like going through all the prev posts. <grin>
you close your msn windows and ask the other msn contacts to leave the zone alone lol
Well, actually, I do remember the day I joined because it was my birthday, and I have an elephant's memory, LOL.
When, while surfing other sites and not being logged into the zone, you refresh the page to hear if someone just logged in or sent a qn.
You actually respond to your user name if someone happens to want your attention, even if they arn't talking about you. For example, Biko.
... you get caught by a teacher when chatting in lessons to zoners.
You chat on the zone and forget important appointments.
You go through the boards and look for cool topics to post to, like this one!
... you chat in English and if you have to speak another language in lessons and get all confused.
You are addicted to the zone when you are asked for your signature, you write your zone user name. Also, you call your bosses or supervisors community leaders and admins. You're addicted to the zone if you have zone by phone on speed dial, or voice dial, whichever method you like.
You know you're addicted to The zone when you forget to pay your bills, and then you go crazy, because your electricity has been shut off.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you are playing anagram mania at night, give up and go to bed, and then lie there in bed thinking of so many more words that you get out of bed, turn the computer back on, and play the game some more.
When you make a pact with your best friend, telling them to go into your account, change the password without telling you what the new one is, and to swear on their own life that they will not tell you what it is no matter how desperate you may get, but then you can't take being off the zone anymore that you try to get the password from them, but because they don't surrender the information, and because the CL's disable the second account you created, you kill your friend. And you're posting like this on the zone once again... and the body is rotting in the...
To the last poster, wow. and to becky, that describes me perfectly. lol
when you sit on vt for back ground noise while you do your homework. ha ha.
Not me but someone else.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you play "who said that?" and you don't get a single wrong answer.
You know you're addicted to the zone when the word "drama" is a very regular part of your daily vocabulary.
Sitting with VT in the background while doing homework? ... That's an idea for college. Thanks, to whomever posted that. lol
your adicted to the zone when in the middle of the night when you go to the restroom or get a drink, you walk over to your computer and log on to the zone while checking emails and things of that nature.
oh yeah, one more, when you buy a phone with talks and internet just so you can go on the zone when in the car or when away from your computer.
when you reserect old posts from 2005 in your browsing of the boards.
i've been guilty of that cala. lol.
So have I. lollol
You know you're addicted to the Zone when you mention this site in conversation, and the people you're chatting with look at you like, "Huh? what's that?"
Y're addicted to the zone when the first phone call you make is to zone by phone, and you have every number.
You know you're addicted to The Zone when you're teaching someone how to navigate the Internet using this site, and forget the lesson because of a board post, qn or game.
Lou
lol
You know you're addicted to the Zone when your grades start slipping in school because you've spent most of your time on this site, when you should have been finishing that research paper you put off until the last minute. lol *cringes* That's aroad I'd rather not go down again, not that I've ever been a member while in high scool, but you know what I mean.
You kniow you are adicted to the zone when a teacher asks you to write an essay on the book you are reading for english but instead you qwrite the essay on the zone. You know you are adicted to the zone when you have a number for zone by phone listed in your contacts. You know you are adicted to the zone when you are taking your college placement test and answer a question wrong and your answer is about the zone. You know you are adicted to the zone when you end every conversation in your instant messenger.
You turn on your computer and log in to the zone every morning before doing anything else.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you spend an hour with notepad, google and a dictionary, preparing your next board post.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you've read all these responses and enjoyed them.
Bob
lol, Bob. and to poster ninety-two, that usually starts my mornings. *smile*
You know you're addicted to the Zone when you start looking up random facts and figures on the internet, or via the encyclopedia, writing them down, and then playing the trivia game on this site, just so you can see if anything you looked up is the answer to the question you get. Then, when you've won x number of points playing trivia, the whole cycle starts all over again, until you've got a huge binder full of useless historical names and other junk sitting on your desk, or memorized, because you've gone over it so many times. That definitely isn't me. lol
and it never will be either. just talking hypotheticallly, of course
You know you are adicted to the zone when you change your home page to the zone.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you sit on the site for nearly 20 hours a day, waiting for one person to log in. And this happens over, and over, and over for the balance of five months.
That's worse than an addiction; that's pathetic.
lol, perfectlyu true, Becky. I don't know anyone who has done that. I once did it for six hours. That was bad enough. lol and i"m not afraid to admit that.
Premiums can notify themselves when someone comes on, then they can watch their email for twenty hours a day.
You know you're addicted when you see someone you know in person who is a zoner, and you can only remember his/her screen name, and not their real one.
Lou
karens ; When, your on the zone late at night, and should be in bed, and have to be up at 4;30 in the morning for work. :) wehn, you write about the zone and all the fun things, and cool stuff to do in your journal,or in my case a KDd :) lol
You know you're addicted to the zone when your only friends are zoners. The only calls you make are to zone by phone. Also, instead of studying any kind of terminology you need to for your school classes, you study the user names and profiles.
Oh,!!!! my,!!!! God!!!!
*Shakes,!!! Hed,!!!!!!*
and studying for school should be top priority on your list rather than wasting hours reading people's profiles.
and as for Zoners being your only friends, time to go out and meet some new people, and have fun.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you want to be called your user name. The only email you get is private messages and you use your audio profile as your voice mail greeting on your phone.
That's just ... wow ...
This isn't to be taken seriously. I get more email than private messages, and not all of my friends are on the zone. O, you know you're addicted to the zone when you don't give a friend your phone number. You just give them your user id. When you hear something about attending a conference, you ask, which one? 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, or do you want private conferencing.
you spend so much time on zone that you gorget to eat.
That's when medical attention should be sought.
You know you'ree adicted to the zone when you start spending every free time at college that you have on here. You know hyou're adicted when your board message thing says so, or when it says that zone bbs is your life. Now, I think I really will go to bed.
You know you are addicted to the zone if you have all the users in your messenger contacts, email address book, and in your cell phone.
You spend 24 hours a day on here. Hahahaha!
When you try to get the most points in one day.
You spend most of the time posting in the Game Parlor board.
You bet the maximum on all the games. You bet the maximum on the games and get annoyed when you loose all your points and go back to having 0 points in your account!
Instead of taking notes in class, you go on the zone.
You know you are addicted to the zone when you meet a new girl and you try to look up her profile.
Bob
You try to get as many points as possible.
A topic turns in to an argument.
People start putting 2 or 3 posts on a topic in a row.
That's me, depending on the subject. lollol
You know you are addicted to the zone when you use the word lollol in everyday conversations.
Bob
You know you're adicted to the zone when you can memorize every number for zone by phone.
You know you're adicted to the zone when you log in just to see who else is in here. Hahahaha!
You know you're addicted to the zone when you read board posts that don't really interest you just to pass the time. And when you even reply to board topics that don't interest you just to piss someone else off or be a smart ass...
...when you know evry single QN that is sent and win at "who sed that"
When you compete with other zoners posting to the boards.
Wow wow wow wow wow! Oh come on now! Lol hahahahaha roflroflrofl!
You decide to read all the topics out of total bordom.
you bring back old bords
Can't think of anywhere else on the internet to go.
Hmmm,lol.
When you post to a topic, even though you don't have anything to say.
you say the zones 2 favorite words
"I'm bord" at least once a day
When people's accounts get disabled the day they sign up.
Isn't that kind of like enforced rehab?
Bob
How can people's accounts be disabled when they've only just signed up?
You also know you're adicted to the zone when you start posting 2 or 3 board posts in one topic one after another.
Well there's that Frank Johnson guy yesterday.
oh wow lol
When every topic goes off topic and turns in to a giant argument.
you know you're addicted to tee zone when you start speaking fluent zone-ish and talking in acronyms. lol
Or when you see your friends from the Zone in real life and you call them by their Zone nicknames. Scary, very scary!
when you start thinkinng: I need to get a life.
I'm here, rite?
When you are on the zone till 3 in the morning, and wake up at six in the morning just to go back on.
when your social life is the zone.
when you are in love with a zoner.
when you only talk to your bf or gf on the zone.
I'm guilty of... guess how much of it.
When you go on the zone in your extra 3 minutes of time at school in class and put yourself at your teacher's mercy. lol
When you forget to eat, exactly, I've done that... In fact I am doing it now. I'm hungry, think I will eat something.
What a fucking weirdo.
Basically, when the Zone consumes every aspect of life.
lmfao iyana. I was on zone at school last week. just lmfao
U know you're addicted to the zone when u post on boards or play games, instead of doing your schoolwork.
which is a habit I hope to Merlin I don't fall in to when I start school. lol
when you don't have time for anything else.
When you post to this topic.
You know you're addicted to the zone when you keep a log of the points you have, when you lost or gained them, and how you lost or gained those points. You know you're addicted to the zone when you're more concerned about who's going to be the next CL than who's going to be the next president.
You have a shortcut for the zone on your desktop and your desktop is full of shortcuts to your favorite boreds.
when you have just read every single post in this topic... wow I think I'll go away now.
When you have nothing constructive to do so you go on the Zone and post to your heart's content.
You know you are addicted to the zone when the zone kills you.
When you get mad because you lost all your points.
Zonebbs.com is your homepage, in your favorites list, and you have The Zone BBS By Phone number in your cell phonebook. All these apply to me. Zone-obsessed? Yep, damn straight.
When you even join the facebook group for the zone.
You write your research paper on the benifits of going on the zone and every entry in your work cited list is a qn, a topic from the boards, your profile, and every audio profile you can find.
When you join the mailing list for the Zone.
You know when your addicted to the zone when you have a million points, and you call yourself a millionaire.
When you say you are taking a long break from the Zone, but come back 2 days later.
Damn! Who in the devil thought about bringing this crap back!
You throw some random comment in a board topic about why it's being brought back.
Oh Jeannie you are one of a kined.