I figured that since it's been a rather rough couple weeks here on the Board with heated debates and trolls and what-not we could all use a little humor. So, I borrowed an idea shown me on a different forum: signs you are an addict.

So, here's my ideas:

- You refer to a tall tale as something that is loaded with "Bart Sibrel."

- You use up valuable time searching the web for conspiracy sites just so you can post them on the Board.

- When a friend hands you a Twinkie, you have the sudden urge to make fun of it as if it were a conspiracy theorist.

- You actually dress up the Twinkie as a conspiracy theorist and mimic mock imitations of said conspiricist with it.

- You can acurately predict which Board members are going to respond to which posts with what sort of comments.


All right, I'm tossing the ball out to the crowd. Anyone want to pick it up and continue?

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Better yet, I think you have a problem...
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You actually start to miss cosmicdave.

-You want to turn on your computer and resign onto the board to see if anyone has posted, one minute after you turn it off. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

-Every time you see a movie, T.V. show, or scientists name you want to add "Bad" in front of it.

-While talking on other boards you take on the roll of the resident scientist. When a troll appears you ask the B.A. to please ban them. Even if the name of the webmaster is Billy Bob.

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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: g99 on 2003-03-05 01:06 ]</font>

Ummm... it's off topic, but what exactly is a Twinkie, and how does it relate to a conspiracy theorist?

I gather it's some kind of junk-food, going by some of the 48,000 websites that Google came up with.

When dealing with international audiences, Americans often quote brandnames that are only familiar to those in the USA, and it's so-o-o-o-o frustrating. If only they would describe the product... (JimO please note!)

By the way, from about the age of three I regularly used rubbers, and became a little confused when I heard about American college kids carrying them around on nights and weekends. I eventually learned that the things we use for "rubbing out", you call erasers.

So in NZ that Schwarzenegger movie ran under the title "Rubber"? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

Harald

Somebody posts something stupid and you run a sweepstakes with yourself based on how long it will take for Jay to slap the poster point by point.

You think his name really is Richard H. Hoagwash

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"Trying to wrap my head around creationist astronomy is like trying to ride a unicycle around a Moebius strip: it’s off-balance, physically impossible, full of one-sided arguments, and in the end you don’t go anywhere." Phil Plait

You through a tantrum when a small school assignment says Jupiter has 38 moons instead of 39.

Everytime you find one brief minor astronomical mistake on a sci-fi movie, you immediately rush out of the movie theater and to your computer to post about it on the No Doughnuts forum.

Whenever you hear a big bang, you think you've finally solved the Big Bang mystery, get all hyperactive, and start posting some retarded crud about how there are still Big Bangs today.

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If you didn't like the opinions expressed in this post, get over it!

Twinkie is "food". Remember the movie Die Hard? The cop in the movie kept eating them.

One is wrapped in plastic the other tinfoil.





<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Rue on 2003-03-05 09:35 ]</font>

Twinkies are wrapped in plastic, Ding-dongs are wrapped in tin-foil...

So perhaps the more approprate term would be Ding-dong???

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"Trying to wrap my head around creationist astronomy is like trying to ride a unicycle around a Moebius strip: it’s off-balance, physically impossible, full of one-sided arguments, and in the end you don’t go anywhere." Phil Plait

Well it is the sound their brains make as they bounce around inside their skulls.

I thought this was a good idea at first, but I don't think that it is actually tin-foil, is it? OK, tin-foil isn't tin either, but twinkies it is.

Twinkie, Ding-dong, whoo whoo, i'm pretty flexiable [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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"Getting lost is part of exploring." Uniqua in "Backyardigans-Heart of the Jungle"

"Trying to wrap my head around creationist astronomy is like trying to ride a unicycle around a Moebius strip: it’s off-balance, physically impossible, full of one-sided arguments, and in the end you don’t go anywhere." Phil Plait

Kiwi - "Twinkies" is the term the BA coined for conspiracy theorist - particularly Planet X'ers, IIRC.

Twinkies are also vanilla snack cakes with cream filling put out by Hostess I used to love those things as a kid.

I'm sorry your childhood has been deprived from Hostess products- err, I mean, I am sorry for the confusion.

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What will outlast us in the end? Twinkies and roaches.

- You spend your lunch hour cruising around the BABB reading old threads.

- The rest of the internet has become boring because of your addiction to the BABB (sounds like me..).

- Reality doesn't matter anymore because of your BABB addiction.

-Colt

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Here is my bit...

You read CNN astronomy news coverege (on CNN website/TV channel) and read(/hear) every bit carefully to find mistakes and then run to your computer to post it on BABB.

(Sorry, I have done that myself [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img])
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/vi...702&forum=1&62

This one was on History Channel, though.

Am I an addict of BABB, you bet I am.)

- Your co-workers learn (the hard way) about BABB withdrawal symptoms.

- Your significant other dresses as a computer just to have a conversation.

- No one wants to watch the news, see a movie, or read a newspaper with you around.

- You need to buy another hard drive to store the shortcuts to Bad websites.

- You carefully cross reference and verify your shopping list.

- You have the photo id numbers memorized for every popularly know space photograph, along with appropriate mission time and location.

- You turn to the BABB for confirmation of ANY news story.

- Your significant other drags you away fro

You feverishly try to find BA in your other interests so you can talk about them on the board.

You can't watch Fellowship of the Ring anymore without snickering. (Speaking of which, guys... 'Fellowship of the Apollohoax' would be either a really great or really stupid idea for an anti-moonhoax webring. What do you guys think?)

Oh, and if you're interested in twinkies, check this out.

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You register and post over 3,000 messages in just under a year and a half...[CCOOgrapesofwrathUUGGHH] [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[CCOOkilopiUUGGHH] [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

I'm addicted, but it's not to the BABB. Per se.

Or how about...when there is a lull in the postings, you go back and read old posts by cosmicdave.

Ok, I'll bite. Why not?

OK here goes.

-- you cannot hear the phrase "someone has to pay the piper" without giggling and imagining someone squinting at ALSJ pictures on their monitor with a magnifying glass.

-- You are one of the first ten members of PA

-- You listen to a space conspiracy program and say "Olberg would have a field day with this guy".

-- Sibrel, Rene, and the street preacher with the PA seem to be interchangeable.

-- You become the voice of reason on astronomical subjects on such sites as the History Channel and you don't have any astronomy training what-so-ever.

-- You can test out of Junior year Astronomy classes in an Astronomy undergraduate degree.

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Astronomer humor:

Your wife starts worrying because you are staying home at night logged in, instead of being out all night with the boys.

You spend so much time on the BABB that you haven't actually seen the sky itself in two weeks.

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Aporetic

You wonder when Jay is going to show up on the other non-astronomy, non-science related boards you frequent and show that you really don't know anything there either....

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"Getting lost is part of exploring." Uniqua in "Backyardigans-Heart of the Jungle"

"Trying to wrap my head around creationist astronomy is like trying to ride a unicycle around a Moebius strip: it’s off-balance, physically impossible, full of one-sided arguments, and in the end you don’t go anywhere." Phil Plait

You have to stay away because one post triggers a relapse.

BTW what does CCOO...UUGGHH mean?

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