Playing Too Much

Congratulations to ~zamboni for adding the 500th entry:

"You haven’t played acro for months and you still can’t stop thinking about it. I sure hope they bring acro back. "

Hmmm...maybe it's time for ACe.Cat to visit Winfield's 12-Step Page or maybe Foolie's 12 Questions...

You know you've been playing too much when(if)...

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While waiting for Face-Off to start, you make acros out of your friends names in the room. Sweetdragon82 7/11/03
You say GMV when your husband says 'let's go out to dinner, Honey!' Angel~O^O~ 9/2/02
You are interviewing a potential employee, and you shake thier hand and say out loud "you got my vote friend" bmcmullen 6/20/02
Your daughter shows you how well she can spell and you start speaking in , the new acro language. Tara 3/7/02
You haven’t played acro for months and you still can’t thinking stop about it. I sure hope they bring acro back. ~zamboni (hi guys, remember me???) 3/6/02
The letters S-O-D-A, no longer mean the bubbly drink, but Severe Odor Disinfected Ants Preckle87 3/1/02
You answer a question on Jeopardy faster than the people on the show and expect two speed bonus points!!! Karennnnn 2/6/02
Any abbreviation becomes an acro, usually when it's three or four letters long... Karennnnn 2/6/02
The first place you head, after stepping in your front door, is to your computer!!!! Lesley Blakeman 1/7/02
You're in denial that the game is no longer with us, and everyday you click on the website thinking that one day it will magically appear and it will have been one big bad dream. Majestic 12/11/01
You install a fully functional toilet for a computer chair just so that you don't have to get up and make a mad dash during an important match. Kid Rock'n 12/6/01
You see something funny and scream out "LOL LOL"!! The Cook's 10/18/01
You can clean your whole house in Acro breaks. CandyCain 10/8/01
You make phrases and sentences from license plate letters while traveling. SassyBF 3/24/01
You haven't updated the YKYBPTMAW page for 7 months. Dave Koller 9/2/00
You seem to be having a serious BRAINFART!! lovedove67 2/20/00
You go to your favorite room and everyone knows your name and greets you just like Norm walking through the door of 'Cheers'! Tub Toy 1/16/00
You make a page about it: punk's acrophobia page punk 12/18/99
Your idea of a perfect date is for both you and your date to stay at home and play acrophobia against each other. True24 12/3/99
You spend hours trying to figure out a way to be able to play acro behind you company's firewall. True24 12/3/99
You realize you just spent over an hour of your work day reading this list. True24 12/3/99
Your co-workers ask you if anything good happened over the weekend you respond.. "yeah in topic: Technical Cumputer parts I won with DAF=Duhhh... a Floppy!" True24 12/3/99
You get bored one night and start mirror acro'ing the alphabet just for kicks. Abyss 11/8/99
people call you by your acro name irl...and you answer... Abyss 11/8/99
You leave the game for almost 2 yrs, come back and people remember you from way back when... Abyss 11/8/99
You get all misty eyed when reading all the entries on this page from the beginning and realize it's been almost two wonderful years. {{{SLRs}}} zamboni 11/8/99
Joined AA 0n 12/97, gee, I slipped on 10/99, I'm back. Zkelly 10/17/99
You name your babies acropheebie acrobob and acropenelope! Catdog 7/4/99
You acro the names of all the gamerooms while waiting to get into a room! TastyTart 7/4/99
Your idea of a night out is to bring your laptop out onto the deck to play Acrophobia! TastyTart 7/4/99
Your hubby sends love messages via E-Mail so you will understand them! TastyTart 7/4/99
Your kids call you by your acro handle just so you will answer them.(has happened to me!) TastyTart 7/4/99
You acro the grades on your kids report cards: A=Anal B=Bigger C=Coochie D=Doggystyle F=Fellaccio TastyTart 7/4/99
You spend 20 minutes waiting to get into a room on a half hour lunch break! TastyTart 7/4/99
You know you're addicted when someone in the RL tells a joke and you say "Laugh Out loud!"-----true story. TastyTart 7/4/99
You name you son after Steve Case. CDCary2 6/13/99
That you greet you husband/wife with you got mail. CDCary2 6/13/99
What do you do when you're playing Acro and the whole room gets the boot??? (Must be because the Bot thought we were having too much fun!!!!) You get a group chat going on ICQ with as many of your Acro Buddies (we had 5 at one time) and start firing out letters to Acro!!!! BTW, does anyone know how many contacts you can have in a group chat on ICQ all at once??? LMAO fergiewoman 5/11/99
You try & try to get onto "Acrophobia" and find server's down, but you think it's a mistake, and Play Solitaire for 2 hours...........Hoping a WIN will send those cards a'rolling and MAKE YOUR DAY!! 22Twain (I just cannot STOP!!) 3/27/99
You actually read through the whole list of "you know's" when the server is down. RedSky 3/27/99
You surf these sites, because you can't play, Acro down for upgrades! strawberry 3/24/99
You acro the eye-chart when being fitted for computer glasses. LadyRig*CR* 3/15/99
You have tried to bribe your doctor into hooking you up to an intravenous coffee machine. LadyRig*CR* 3/15/99
You dream in "chat". LadyRig*CR* 3/15/99
The only RL people you talk to, you call by their Acro names. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You know the RL names for more than 75% of the players registered on Berserk. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You don't bother reading the newspaper, because you'd rather read the "Current Events" acros. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You think of words like: Off-Line, Lag, Crashed or Booted as Vulgar. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
People start frequently using new "Naughty" words, and you have no idea what they mean. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You're older than Dick Clark, haven't worn a new fasion since the "Beehive", but you normally talk like an 18 year old pervert. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You've found a way to make money by playing Acrophobia. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You've ever been fired from a job for playing Acrophobia instead of working. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You're only ever OFF Acrophobia to add to the "YKYPTAW..." list. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You're a celebrity (In Acro, of course), but nobody has a clue of what you look like. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You constantly do the #9, but have never seen a #1 thru #8. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
Coffee is your official drink, and Equal is your sole source of nutrition. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
Your computer has a coffee maker, or Soda Machine peripheral. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
The only web pages you've ever posted all have something to do with Acrophobia. ACe.Cat 3/7/99
You make your own acro generator on your graphing calculator's list of programs (Not that I would know :] ) SpeedyG242 3/5/99
People begin worrying about the Y3K problem. SpeedyG242 3/5/99
You try to save your /log file from a days worth of Acrophobia onto a blank Iomega[tm] Zip Disk and your computer tells you "The file is too big for the designated drive." **AZ**Denmo* 3/3/99
Acro becomes your own personal form of shorthand. **AZ**Denmo* 3/3/99
you hum that little ditty all the time to yourself and at work...and then go chh chh chh turner2 2/14/99
Your RL becomes little more than an abstract theory. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've been /complained'ed about because you're too good. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You think the CAPS LOCK KEY was designed for the specific purpose of being rude. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Acrobot has ever complained about you. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your attention span has become so short that you don't realize that some of this list is being repeated. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Acrobot has ever surrendered to you. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You not sure, but you think that BRB means: "Bladder's Really Bursting!" ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've read a book specifically about acrophobia. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've WRITTEN a book specifically about acrophobia ACe.Cat 2/6/99
The only reason you go to the doctor is to get stronger glasses or to get pain killers for your CTS. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You can think of more than thirty acro's for the word 'STOP'. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You don't use AOL because you're afraid of getting automatically logged off. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
After reading this list you think to yourself: "HAH!! They've just barely logged on!!" ACe.Cat 2/6/99
The only thing you can think of that would get you away from your computer is meeting your acro buddies in person. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your attention span has become so short that you don't realize that some of this list is being repeated. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your ISP no longer bills you by the minute/hour, but by the month/day. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
The time you spend on-line can be calculated by # of days in the month times the number of minutes in a day. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
A RL person asks why you're playing a room by yourself, you told them: "I'm not alone... Acrobot's still here". ACe.Cat 2/6/99
And especially: ......if acrobot wasn't. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've been on Acrophobia longer than Acrobot has. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You have turned you name into an Acrophobia related acronym. (I.E. ACe= "Acrophobia: constantly entertaining") ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Server lag makes you type slower. ACe.Cat 2/6/99ou'v
You've been in more than fourty Face-Offs in one sitting. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You're not sure how long ago you logged onto Acrophobia. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've had to change the calendar a few times since you last logged on. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You need a coffee maker next to your computer. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've had an acro room named after you. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your attention span has become so short that you don't realize that some of this list is being repeated. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've ever challenged an entire clan to a tournament to a duel........ and won. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your computer was the highest speed/tech available when you logged onto Acro, but before you logged off, you've had more than half the room laughing at how slow it is. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've thought of more than twenty... no, thirty... no, make that fourty...ixnay on that: fifty....nnt, sixty....and again, seventy..... additions to this list in one sitting. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've started using acronyms in your acro's. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
A burglar broke into your house, stole everything but the computer, and you didn't really care. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
A burglar broke into your house, stole everything but the computer, and you didn't even notice. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
A burglar broke into your studio appartment, stole everything but the computer, and you didn't even notice. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You live alone and your neighbors think that your place is vacant. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've skipped more than five consecutive meals without any snacks between. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You ever seriously played for longer than a day in one sitting. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You don't sleep... you pass out from exhaustion. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
It's not a matter of If you're playing, it's a matter of what room you're in. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Anyone has ever mistaken you for acrobot. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
400th Entry!! Your attention span has become so short that.... no, wait... I think I already said that........ ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You thinks MACs aren't real computers since they can't run Acrophobia. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You have ever found it reasonable to form a military unit specially outfitted for playing Acro-. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You have enough screen names to be a clan by yourself. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've ever asked the room to NOT vote for you. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
If you've ever been able to rack up 92 points (including the F/O). ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Upgraded your computer while it was on so you wouldn't have to log off. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your tombstone will have an Acronym, or the word "Acro" on it. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've had to replace more than one keyboard or mouse since you've been playing because you've worn them out. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Acrophobia is not longer a game, but a way of life. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've ever had a dream about being burried under millions of red letters. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
.....it was a wet dream. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your chat log gets so long that you can crash your computer just by typing "/save". ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've been sitting so long that you've forgotten how to walk. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You wish that there was a way to get acro's that are longer than just seven letters. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You have no idea what any of your friends look like. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You only see RL people when you have to replentish your supply of nutritional fuels. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've ever seen the letters start to dance... not just jiggling.... doing the Macarena. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've woken up to: "Great Game! Let's play again!" with your keyboard imprinted on your face. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've began to acro off of the letters in your acro. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
...you acro off of those letters. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
During the commercial breaks, you've E-Mailed the government about passing litigation to punish players who link.the.word.in-their-acro-together. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
1997 was the year that forever changed your life. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You have radiation burns from your monitor. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Your CTS is so bad that you've learned to type with your toes. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
.....and later developed CTS in your feet. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
The only way you can tell if someone said something off-color in the chat box was by the reponse they got from the other players. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
You've thought of 69 ways to tell you're addicted to Acrophobia, and still can't think of something dirty to say. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
Come up with acros for the letters in the F/O... even though you didn't make it. ACe.Cat 2/6/99
When you're sick and you notice you're the only one playing but you don't care. Lazurus 1/6/99
You pick up a newspaper for the first time since you downloaded acro (a year ago) and you find yourself acroing the words in the headlines. Sweet Willow 12/19/98
You don't know the gender or age of your only friends cuz they have generic identities and you havent asked them "a/s" yet. Sweet Willow 12/19/98
When the power goes out or the server is down you pay someone to read out random letters so you can practice acros to beat one of those (ex-)best friends who beat you and stole your bf/gf (who you have never met) last game. Sweet Willow 12/19/98
You decide you have to get in shape, join a gym, then sue them because they don't have exercise machines to speed up your typing. Sweet Willow 12/19/98
You look back at the old "you know when you've been playing too much acro when's" and realize you've been playing for over a year! zamette 12/13/98
Wait...you're allowed to stop playing acro? This changes things. Bob the Mild 11/25/98
You hired a member of your channel to "do in that stupid moose", celebrated when it no longer showed up, and then became angry when it turned up again to spy on romantics. (True for one person in our channel!) FalconPain 11/1/98
You "age/sex/location check" people you meet on the street. FalconPain 11/1/98
Your idea of a Halloween party is to have everyone use a different nick for one night and try to guess who they are. FalconPain 11/1/98
You have ever used clean answers in an adult channel...and won. FalconPain 11/1/98
You have come up with acros for the abbreviations in the Mr. Stock ad.
You buy all of the products featured in the ads. FalconPain 11/1/98
You begin speaking acro! I found myself saying "slash me is hungry" or "slash me is tired!" AJSuds 10/29/98
You start talking funny, like going up to your boss and saying "Break needed; requiring cigarette." Gekkie 10/22/98
You actually get a 22 point acro. (The max score for one acro) You make a 3 letter acro in under 2 seconds...and win! You win a faceoff 36-0 even WITH the opponent submitting entries. ShyBoy820 10/6/98
The server has been down for a day and a half so you sigh and decide that if you can't play acro, you may as well go to work. goncrazi 9/8/98
The letters begin to fade away on your keyboard... nklunch 9/7/98
Your family tells you it's time to install another phone line (in addition to the two you already have!). One for the internet (Acro), one for acro/ICQ friends who call while you're playing, and the other for "non-important calls." TonnieD 8/16/98
You wait for the commericals to come on, just so you can say along with Schimitty, "You Don't Know Jack!" and when the arcobat finally puts you back in the room, you type the whole Mr. Stock, Kelly Services, and YDKJ commericals out for all to read. AgntFoxxM 8/12/98
Everytime You Drive Down The Road And You See A Stop Sign You Speed Up, and Think "Speed To Outrun Police". Leslie 7/24/98
You meet someone new in the "real world" and accidently call yourself by your acro name! ~~angel~~ 7/24/98
You count among your friends, aproximatly 200 acro players you NEVER met outside of the game. TC 7/20/98
You get the speed bonus for the acro XXZQ in 4.1 sec athens 7/18/98
Your family says you have a problem and you respond with, "Oh please, I M A O K " johnny318 7/7/98
You notice that you are dancing to the acro music. :o) taqua 7/3/98
When you go to your favorite room , with a new nickname that is a running gag with your roomies, and don't let them know who you are and keep them guessing. You start calling your room, your home. You'd rather be with roomies than anywhere else. We actually have a rather large cyber family, complete with histories, that got so large, we couldn't keep up with the family tree!!! taqua 6/24/98
Your email spell checker's dictionary will now accept the acros you commonly use. minklynx 6/24/98
You are very upset that the new version of acrophobia won't let you type during the commercials because you were so good at it and now you have no choice but to watch them... ...plus, now you cant talk to people who are in the face off when you dont quite make it. minklynx 6/24/98
Your homepage has a direct link to GPAN so all of your friends can easily find you and become addicted, too (really, it does) minklynx 6/24/98
The signature file to your email contains your acro username as a way to contact you (mine really does!) minklynx 6/24/98
Your "home" page is AAN! g- 6/16/98
Your 2 year old daughter yells... Hurry Mommy! You & Gramma in the Faceoff! Momma&Jonzi 6/16/98
Your 'puter pops up the time & it says you've been on'line for 19 hours. ( all of which you've been playing acro!!) Momma&Jonzi 6/16/98
You are at work and all your conversations begin with... "And the Acro is". All your co-workers answer with letters. You find yourself flying home on your lunch hour to squeeze in 20 minutes of play only to be out of time and miss the FO. Oh no! True story! No more time......have to go play ACRO! Perky Pookey 6/10/98
You have your online Thesaurus minimized for easy access during brain farts! Psyched 6/10/98
Your two-year-old tries to drag you out of the chair crying she's hungry! LusciousPop 6/10/98
Same child begs you not to play 'puter no more. LusciousPop 6/10/98
When you start wishing you had WebTv just so you can sit in your recliner instead of the computer chair. LusciousPop 6/10/98
When you're idea of dinner is grabbing a muffin on the way to the computer. LusciousPop 6/10/98
You spend your time trying to figure out how to vote for the green one. Wild Thing 6/2/98
Your computer displays the message "Integer divide by zero", and you say "Computer GMV" Redshift aka Blueshift 5/30/98
You are driving down the road (had to get food) and every license plate and think of a acro for each one. Ambular 5/30/98
You make an acro cheat sheet...for emergencies. Chenae 5/26/98
...Your acro cheat sheet is now 50 pages long. Chenae 5/26/98
You turn your icq off because your boss knows that is the only way to get hold of you and he keeps calling..when the only reason you had it on was so you could converse with your acrobuddies waiting in the lobby to get in... IdaBoss 5/24/98
You've been booted twenty times in the last hour and still you try one more time to get in because "this time it's going to work!" (True story) Couga 5/24/98
You Wonder If Acrophobia Is In Heaven erme 5/16/98
You lie to your family, saying, "No, I wasn't up all night playing...I just played late and got up really early...honest!!" rollergirl 5/15/98
You think that nothing in life is even remotely as important as getting enough points to face off and win during every acro game you play. Sweet_Poison 5/12/98
You realize that you can't come up with an acro for the Current Events topic, because you've been too busy playing to watch the news or read the papers! DDW7856 5/12/98
The Circus is in town and you attend just to finally have a word with those darn Acrobots, but then you realize they're called Acrobats, so you go home, and play some Acrophobia. Hockey_Freak 5/5/98
During an election, you vote by filling in /v next to the box of your choice. Hockey_Freak 5/5/98
You don navy blue tights and jump around atop skyscrapers at 2 in the morning under your secret identity... "Acroman - King of Justice". Hockey_Freak 5/5/98
You join Americans Against Narcotics just because the initials are AAN. Hockey_Freak 5/5/98
You die. Hockey_Freak 5/5/98
...your doctor shows you your CAT scan and notices a polyp in your left sinus.... and the first words to come to your mind are, "Ohmigod! It's HUGE!" Wrapper2 5/3/98
You can actually get your man off the couch to get your beer. Apples500 4/30/98
Your bladder has to speak up and tell you that unless you go to the bathroom it will explode. Apples500 4/30/98
You know when you're addicted when instead of counting sheep to go to sleep, you think of acros for the dreaded 7 letter!!!! FourAU 4/30/98
Your dog is so hungry he is eating the furniture, and you keep on playing. Gamaholic 4/26/98
You know lots of words that begin with the letter "z". Gamaholic 4/26/98
You die, and you miss your own funeral because you were so busy playing Acrophobia, you didn't notice you were dead. Gamaholic 4/26/98
You have a catheter put in & an I.V. for necessary nutrients to supply your body with what you need to survive on. tuinei 4/24/98
You finally get those dumb repeat episodes of Acro.... You know the ones... It's the ones where you know you've seen the acros before, but you're not sure where.... Then you realize that you're not playing acro, and you're reading some sort of FYI page... (And, for those of you who definitely play Acro too much and forget what FYI means, I think it means something like Five Yearly Indictments.... I don't know.) Vulturus 4/18/98
You find an ad in the paper for an Acrophobia support group, and all the stupid people there are afraid of heights, not acronyms! Die Jagd 4/11/98
You start referring to your fellow Acrophobes as "the little people inside the computer" Die Jagd 4/11/98
You know when you're addicted to Acrophobia when you have a portable potty installed next to your computer. Deb 4/6/98
You have already won for most games played and are determined to break your own record... Yermama2 4/4/98
Your husband feels neglected and the only way to get your attention is to flip the breaker, cutting all electricity to your computer....(true story) SassieSue 3/29/98
You name your 1st born WEB ..... William Everett Berzerk Petlvr1951 3/28/98
300th Entry!! You realize you have no Idea what ICQ stands for, so you make up Acros for it and then realize....You could be playing Acro right now!! **AZ**Denmo* 3/24/98
You have a chance to make big bucks with overtime pay, but you pass it up to stay home and acro. AuroraLights 3/23/98
Your message has been sent and you realize all of your typos cause you can't see straight from sitting in from of the computer for too long......... KatRena 3/23/98
You think god answered your prayers for putting a 'find your friend' button in acrophobia so you didn't have to waste valuable acro time trying to find the room they are in! KatRena 3/23/98
You know you are addicted to acrophobia when you actually sit in front of your computer for 45 minutes just to read this entire list LOL KatRena 3/23/98
You think that 'Acrophobia' really does mean the Fear of Acronyms. Nutbar Boy 3/21/98
You know you're addicted to Acro when you choose to memorize the dictionary rather than have a social life. Nutbar Boy 3/21/98
You realize the snow is all gone!!! Wagger 3/20/98
You realize that the GLAZE over your eyes could potentially be caused by GIANT LASHES ACTING ZANY EFFECTIVELY. Bob the Mild 3/20/98
Instead of LOL or ROTFL or even ROTFLMAO you are ROTFLSDHYRYS (Rolling on the floor laughing so darn hard you ruptured your spleen) Bob the Mild 3/20/98
You know you are an acrophobic when your spouse wakes up and comes into the computer room and says, "You lied, you said you were coming to bed." Jolyn97 3/18/98
You don't have a single clean dish in the house, you don't have a thing (and I mean anything) left to wear, you can't see the road beyond the mile high grass in the yard, your cats start fixing their own supper, you can't remember if you paid the bills this month, you are done playing acro and you are exchanging msg's with the acro players on your ICQ list.... etc. --g-- 3/14/98
You have to warm up your car and curl your hair during those 30 second intervals, before work. --Jojo 3/14/98
Your teenage son tells you to shut the computer off and go to bed. --Jojo 3/14/98
You haven't bathed in so long you /ignore YOURSELF trying to get away from the stench. 8) --codymaxx 3/8/98
You figure out by yourself..... HEY!! I can /msg MYSELF!!!! LOL --Wyzegeyser 3/7/98
You really know you've been playing too long when you discover......... Hey, If I click the top-left corner of chatbox and/or scoreboardbox I can move them around!!! (NOTE: They DO NOT go back automatically?? You may have to exit to return them to rightful places!) --Wyzegeyser 3/7/98
Your Partner Starts Looking In The Phone Book For AA (Acrophbians Anonymous) --Nutcais 3/5/98
You look forward to new commercials. --Madhat Zero 3/3/98
You're writing new background music for Acrophobia, and you don't work for Berkeley. --Madhat Zero 3/3/98
Trivial RL concerns like eating, cooking, using the washroom, laundry, etc. no longer interfere with Acro, because you and your room-mate just take turns typing. --Madhat Zero 3/3/98
Your VL is better than your RL. --Madhat Zero 3/3/98
You know what VL and RL refer to. --Madhat Zero 3/3/98
You get booted from the server in your daydreams. --Nolij ...sad, but actually happened to me... 3/3/98
Everything you see, you make an acronym for... and then think to yourself "Why don't I play by couch rules?" --Dogbert 3/2/98
You continuously find yourself making acronyms for everyday acronyms such as PEMDAS (parentheses exponents multiplication division addition subtraction for the younger ones) and turn it into "People eat meat? Donuts are scrumptious!" or "Phonics entertains me, doesn't attract secretaries!" or even (shudder) "Please entice minutemen! Destroy Attacking Saddam!" --Dogbert 3/2/98
You think to yourself "Maybe I'm Dying.... Mentadent is deadly!" --Dogbert 3/2/98
You write in and say the same acronym over and over and over and.... Yo! We're interested! Stop taking some artificial ostriches! Androids Omitted! Argh! Oh aardvark! --Dogbert 3/2/98
You find yourself acroing people by there title, (e.g. BOSS "Big Orangutan! Stupid Sometimes!" ) --Dogbert 3/2/98
You write into AAN. --Dogbert 3/2/98
You wake up in the middle of the night because in your dreams, you keep hearing the cursed voice of Acrobot screaming "Let's see who wrote what and how many votes they got." --Dogbert 3/2/98
(If a couchie) You decide NOT to log off and instead turn off your monitor and the sound because it is so hard to get in! --Dogbert 3/2/98
You are willing to wait literally HOURS to get into Couch... --Dogbert 3/2/98
You keep hearing "This player did not vote and scores no points this round" and think to yourself, "I bet they didn't record that all at once!" --Dogbert 3/2/98
You attempt the IMPOSSIBLE ACRO! (echo) --Dogbert 3/2/98
You think of new ways to torture those who refuse to play by couch rules. --Dogbert 3/2/98
You wonder "why is this guy starting with the word 'You' so much?" --Dogbert 3/2/98
After seeing the ad for the 2523453452346523453465234582436759213645923465235th time, you realize that the YDKJ Netshow ad is off a little because IT ISN'T THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!! --Dogbert 3/2/98
The one above doesn't apply to you because, you DON'T realize that it is not the holidays. --Dogbert 3/2/98
yOU CONSIDER UTTERLY DESTROYING YOUR caps lock KEY! --Dogbert 3/2/98
Instead of having a song stuck in your head endlessly, you have the Acro end of face off music playing over and over... --Dogbert 3/2/98
People ask to pick a category with acro like hoosers (i.e. GA or POL) and you say "Got aches!" or "Please omit Language!" --Dogbert 3/2/98
You start thinking, It would be PERFECT if the any acro came up and spend your entire day thinking of what you would acro for that particular acro, then, if it comes up, you choke........ (True Story!) --DaNevio 3/2/98
You make a new handle every single day! (also a true story!) --DaNevio aka Dogbert aka Nevets aka <'(((()>< aka............ 3/2/98
Your ass is so wide that people go "beep, beep" when you back up! --XanaduMe 3/2/98
You spend all day trying to figure out clever acros for YDKJ (Yoda: Dagobah's knowledgeable jedi), IMHO ("I murdered her," O.J.) and other common abbreviations. --Nolij 3/2/98
You surf the 'net for the coolest Acro webpage --Nolij 3/2/98
You can figure out when someone is a regular in disguise is just by their style of play. --Nolij 3/2/98
BSI calls you to tell you to quit hogging the server. --JoMaus 3/1/98
You are considering moving your PC in front of the toilet and buying a dorm frig and a microwave to put next to it. --Disc Golfer aka Bluemont 3/1/98
When you throw your dinner into the oven and set the timer for 35 minutes......only to run up there an hour later (thinking you have burnt it) to find a frozen pot pie, STILL FROZEN!! So you turn the oven on , reset the timer for 35 minutes.....only to run up there yet another hour later and find it BURNT!! AAAHHHHhhhh (shhhh, dont tell anyone...LOL) --IamRae 2/24/98
You teach the kids on your school bus about acro, so they can play it in school (with the teacher's blessings, of course). True story!!! HONEST!! --Miagraine 2/17/98
You name your kids Jack*CR* and Jill*CR*. --Hockey_Freak 2/17/98
YKYBPTMAW = Y'all know you're bad people to make ACROS whining. --RobertSeth 2/15/98
You actually know what YKYBPTMAW in the subject box means. --JL0776 2/14/98
The dust bunnies under the couch go on strike because the house is too messy, because you have been on the 'puter. --JL0776 2/14/98
Your spouse starts to acro at you to get your attention! --JL0776 2/14/98
You imagine not taking that job in Colorado because your notebook doesn't have enuff room for Acrophobia. --JL0776 2/14/98
You start to yell at you kids in acros: klmaiabptg (kids, leave me alone, I'm busy playing this game). --JL0776 2/14/98
You would rather play acrophobia than have sex. --JL0776 2/14/98
Nudity does nothing for you without ( . Y . ) or (_I_). --JL0776 2/14/98
You haven't slept in two days, hoping for a seven letter win to happen. --JL0776 2/14/98
You see acros on the menu at McDonald's. --JL0776 2/14/98
Your butt starts to get flat like this (___I___) from sitting in front of the computer all day. --JL0776 2/14/98
You can't communicate without typing the response. --JL0776 2/14/98
Instead of writing an essay, you play Acro for 10 consecutive hours and only get up because of a fire drill! --thundercats 2/14/98
Your husband's romantic Valentine's gift is a 1299-page thesaurus... --rissatoo 2/14/98
You realize the question is not, "Why does the phone always ring when I'm playing this game?"...but rather, "Why am I always playing this game when the phone rings??" --Leslie Kay 2/10/98
You go through the list below just to create a "BOYKYBPTMAW" ...er, best of you know you've been playing too much acro when... and you overly enjoy yourself relating to each one! --IdPyro 2/8/98
ACRO = Acroing Causes Reckless Senility! --jane 2/8/98
You begin typing acros on your keyboard at work instead typing the copy. --Beg4MErcy 2/5/98
The letters on license plates become the next round . and the category for the next round is ...commuting! --budone 2/5/98
You know the Acro addiction has gotten WAY out of hand when... You start any mention of what you are going to do by saying "slash me" e.g. "Slash me needs to go to the bathroom" --Deuce x2 2/2/98
You realize that the Englishman (with the bright yellow punk-like mohawk) freaks out and kills the American (wearing the College sweatshirt) and the Frenchman (wearing the beret) because he doesn't have a mouse and is having to do everything manually! --LeafT 2/2/98
You know exactly which ad I just described above! --LeafT 2/2/98
You spend time looking for other animals that start with "A" besides aardvark and armadillo. --_Leather 2/1/98
You start making rhymes with the advertisements... (i.e., Alien Resurrection): "A horny beaver, I wanna ride her... A really big erection!" (Sigourney Weaver, Wynona Ryder... Alien Resurrection.) LOL.. --TallBlonde :) 1/29/98
Your beard is stuck in your keyboard. --Michiel 1/29/98
You ask everyone in the room where you can buy "Bongo Fever" --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You completely forget that the whole game is 100% EDUCATIONAL!!! *LOL* --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You make up new acros for old acros, made for acro. (GMV is really Give me vodka) --LosQuagos 1/29/98
There's 3 clans named after ONE STINKIN ROOM!! --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You laugh at the idea of a real-life relationship. --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You skip school, not to hang out at the mall, but (of course) to play ACRO!! --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You base your entire schedule around clan games. --LosQuagos 1/29/98
You start using game acros ( wtg, gmv, glu2 ) even when you aren't on the computer. --Miagraine ( Or tc. or Milwaukee t) 1/28/98
You ask the pilot of your flight to fake an instrument malfunction to delay final boarding, so you can compete in Face Off, as you stand at the public phone in the airport with your laptop. --tac 1/20/98
Your Christmas tree is still up and the Easter Bunny is hopping around it. --TOOT!TOOT! 22twain 1/20/98
You sit, staring at the screen for 45 minutes waiting for you favourite room to come up! Cuz that's what I'm doing right now! \=) -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
You mail in to Bezerk to have every one of your friends voted as Player of the Week. -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
That list happens to contain more than fifty acrophobiacs! -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
You consider the starting of arthritis as Battle Wounds... -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
Your internet usage fee becomes higher than your hydro bill. -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
You start to cry when you shut the game off... -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
You start blaming the acrobots for all your problems, including bad acros! -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
When you can think up a 7-letter acro in less than 5 seconds! -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
Hey... you know that one I said about waiting 45 minutes... you mind changing that to an hour?!?!?? \=) -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
When you begin humming the acrophobia background song everywhere you go. -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
When you keep a list of 'must-use' acros beside your computer! -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
You begin mailing in countless numbers of 'acro over-usage' signs! \=) -=Mr.Quake=- 1/18/98
200th Entry!! You volunteer at the local health clinic in hopes that you will catch something, thus giving you an excuse to stay home and acro. --Neesh 1/18/98
You expose yourself to as many sick people as possible, in hopes of catching something that will force you to stay home for days with nothing to do but play Acro. --Neesh 1/18/98
you wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat shouting, "XERORADIOGRAPHY!!!! I missed my chance to use XERORADIOGRAPHY!" You then cry and sob yourself back to sleep comforting yourself by saying, "They wouldn't have understood anyway..sob..sniff..." --Poo-bear 1/18/98
You know you're playing too much when your day is ruined because you had the category "Insanity" and the Acro "LCBVRR" You go on to guess "Lost control because voices required revenge." You then start to do your victory dance whoopin' and hollerin' patting yourself on the back. The votes are coming in, your saliva starts to drip onto the keyboard. And.........You get no votes. You then begin to curse the stupidity of all the people in the room, hurl the monitor out the window, and basically have a bad attitude for the rest on the day. --Poo-bear 1/18/98
Your daughter tries to awaken you one morning. In an halfhearted attempt to shake the last 2 minutes of a two-hour sleep off, you shout, "Quick! Gimme a word for the letter 'G'!!" --angelcookie 1/15/98
Your contact lenses simultaneously pop out of your eyes as dried, crusty pieces of plastic, because you haven't blinked in 10 hours... --tac 1/14/98
You've passed the addiction along and now have whole rooms just of fellow co-workers, friends, & relatives. --Goldi 1/14/98
You stop buying pc games because all you need is Acrophobia. --Goldi 1/14/98
Everyone asks you, "You still here?" and you saw them twelve hours before. --rockon1974 1/11/98
You're getting ready to go to bed and your significant other is getting up for work. --Oden 1/5/98
Someone at work tells a joke; you don't laugh, you just write down *lol* --Oden 1/5/98
Every letter you see you start saying acronyms. Or you sleep talk acronymns. --Tuskers*CR* 1/4/98
You are lying in bed and trying to think of an acro for "sleep" --BIGNUTS 12/31/97
The "real" Diablodog crosses his legs and whines "Mommie I'll acro on you if you don't open the door for me"! --Diablodog 12/20/97
Your ICQ 'not available' message reads, "I'm playing Acrophobia, leave me be if you know what's good for you!" --Diablodog 12/20/97
You begin to hate Santa and all the rest of the holiday Acros, but you're looking forward to the next holiday so it can start all over again!! --Diablodog 12/20/97
You are listening to your favorite computer radioshow "Floppy Talk" with Bill Beesley and Todd McFall and start to acro the show title: "F L O P P Y": Frosty looked okay playing pingpong yesterday! and "T A L K": Takes a LOTTA ketchup! --Diablodog 12/20/97
You are a member of the I H N L S A Club (I have NO life since Acro). --norcalgal 12/18/97
You begin to wonder if you can claim ACRO AS A SECOND LANGUAGE???? --Briz 12/18/97
More people know you by your acro nicknam than by your real name.
You come to the movie theatre to see "Face Off" the movie, after you see the movie, you are very disappointed that there were no Acros. You had brought your laptop for nothing! --Dnominator 12/16/97
Boring and annoying people and obnoxious drivers brings immediately to mind /ignore. Frustrations or minor aches and pains also /ignore. --Lapo 12/15/97
You pay the local phone call charge for your on-line time and wonder whether your parents are going to sell the computer or kick you out of the house when the next "big one" (=phone bill) comes. --Tarja 12/14/97
You think your Acrophobia mates understand you better than your family and friends. --Tarja 12/14/97
You no longer find being on a diet difficult since the ad breaks are too short to run downstairs to the refrigerator and back anyhow. --Tarja 12/14/97
Your 1st language isn't English, but you've been acro-ing and chatting so much that you start to forget essential words from your mother tongue. --Tarja 12/14/97
You can't log in for two days due to a server problem, your weekend is ruined and even though you are 99% certain you won't be able to log in you still keep on trying, and trying... --Tarja 12/14/97
Your relatives and friends think your phone is out of order since it's *always* giving the busy signal. But on the bright side of things you haven't got any phone calls from people trying to sell you things in ages! --Tarja 12/14/97
You laugh at people, who don't know what gmv, wtg or lol mean - and you think that people, who don't know what the word acronym means are complete idiots (even though you weren't probably all that familiar with the term a couple of months ago either... ). --Tarja 12/14/97
Someone asks about your hobbies and you immediately respond Acrophobia - and can't think of anything else... --Tarja 12/14/97
You start to analyze the commercials and manage to convince yourself there's "deeper symbolism" in them. --Tarja 12/14/97
You aren't any good at making up acros to begin with, you skills don't improve and yet you just keep on playing hour after hour, day after day... --Tarja 12/14/97
You don't remember what you used to do in your spare time before you discovered Acrophobia. --Tarja 12/14/97
You switch on the computer in the morning to check your mail, end up in Acrophobia for "just one round" and a while later realize it's noon, you've missed breakfast and lunch and you're still in your pyjamas. --Tarja 12/14/97
You can type fluently and without any typos during commercials. --Tarja 12/14/97
You can't enter an answer and you feel the room starting to close in. --hoofman 12/13/97
Your history notes say TEPHBGP. "The Egyptian Pharaohs had built great pyramids." --Denominator 12/13/97
You keep waiting for your date to say: "Welcome to Acrophobia!" in a semi-robotic voice. --**AZ**Denmo* 12/12/97
You dash off a quick 3-letter acro because you know that'll give you about a minute to go to the restroom before having to vote. --LeafT 12/11/97
You dash off that quick acro to go to the restroom, and you win the round by a large margin. --LeafT 12/11/97
Other players start calling you "Thesaurus" or "Webster's son" --LeafT 12/11/97
Your roommate has left and sold her stuff to the neighbors, and when they knock on the door you are at 26 points. You let them in and tell them you've got something going on the computer and as soon as it's done you'll help them... but by the time Face Off is over, they are done. --LeafT 12/11/97
You start to refer to your brain as your gray thing. --Ogrot 12/9/97
You invent a variant on Acro and Berkeley creates rooms specifically for your variant (Mirror, Looking Glass). --Ogrot 12/10/97
You start seeing how many Acros you can make out of your own initials. --iceman 12/9/97
Acrophobia becomes a "Lifestyle." --copmom 12/9/97
You and your boyfriend are addicted when you need to talk to him; so you call his house; no answer, no answering machine and you know exactly where he is. You think to yourself "But what chat room will I find him in?" . So you go down the list entering each room asking if he is in there. --JJJ 12/8/97
You enter each room looking for someone by their real name and players respond to you saying..."Do you see Sally in here?" and you say "Do you really think these names are these people's real names?" --JJJ 12/8/97
You watch Sleepless in Seattle after not seeing it for a while and find that you have a new appreciation for the little girl (Jonah's friend) who used Acros the whole movie and you wish you could be like her now! --JJJ 12/8/97
You start to think (and refer to yourself) in your Acro name... i.e. Beenie needs to get some sleep! --Beenie 12/8/97
You would rather lose your cable, lose your job, and let them repossess your car before you lose your phone and Internet connection to Acrophobia! --Gunnie 12/7/97
The words "hey get off line I wanna use the phone" Become fighting words!! --Gunnie 12/7/97
You sympathize with disgruntled postal workers when you have 29 points and the acrobot tells you that the server is going to shut down! --Gunnie 12/7/97
You can't wait for codymaxx to respond to your seemingly endless e-mail acros... --Briz 12/7/97
You start knowing *everyone*. --Agent99 12/6/97
You write poetry about playing too much. --JoMaus 12/6/97
Berkeley changes the name of the game to AcroMania! --copmom 12/6/97
u begin to do acro aerobics; sitting in chair you reach for your toes and then for the ceiling during breaks and face offs; if you leave the chair by the computer it doesn't count!!! --jane 12/4/97
You go to get some leftover Thanksgiving turkey and Santa Claus has beat you to it. --Nitehawk 12/2/97
You start make ACROs for license plates while driving... --Nitehawk 12/2/97
You have to get another phone line, just for Acro. --iceman 12/2/97
You know you've been playing too much Acro when you curse at the driver in front of you in acros instead of words... --iceman 12/2/97
Someone asks what "gmv" means and you come up with 20 acro's for it except got my vote!!! --kitten^ 12/1/97
The server is down and you think they are trying to ban you for playing too much!! --kitten^ 12/1/97
You know you've been playing too much Acrophobia when, yes, keenly you begin perceiving there's more acronyms within. --Sirilyan 12/1/97
The server is down, so you start acroing in a chat room, i.e., /me hasn't been able to play today!!! --iceman 12/1/97
The server's down, and yet the only sites you'll visit are acro sites. --**AZ**Denmo* 11/30/97
In the middle of a game you are brushing your teeth and using a porta-jane--all at the same time... --Briz 11/30/97
You see a series of letters during the work day and you immediately come up with a hilarious acro, then you run home and get on-line to play hoping that the same letters come up. You play for 4 hours just to see if any letter combinations are even remotely close. --orpheus 11/30/97
I didn't talk to my husband for the whole week and a half it took him to fix the c-drive on the 'puter HE crashed. I started thinking about other friends who might not be using their pc's, and would they like company, maybe? (Well, maybe not real good company). --Mystere 11/30/97
You leave cold, gray Ohio for warm, sunny Florida & end up playing acro instead of seeing mickey! --Steve771 11/29/97
You know you are addicted when the server is down and you start sweating. --Nita 11/28/97
You find yourself at this webpage! --HuslaFoEvr 11/28/97
You FINALLY log off the Internet and you have 15 messages waiting on your Call Answering. --Mmike 11/28/97
You finally made a neat stack out of those pizza boxes, but STILL haven't gotten them out to the garbage can. --Mmike 11/28/97
You glance at the TV and "Friends" is starting, then you look up again just in time to catch the credits for "E.R." --Mmike 11/28/97
You join a room when someone has 20 points and you end up in the faceoff. --Mmike 11/28/97
...the server is down and I came to this site cause I missed it soooooooooo much! --SlugQueen 11/28/97
YSTDIA (You Start To Dream In Acros)! --TomChaney 11/28/97
The little time spent away from the computer is devoted to making charts to account for possible future letter combinations in each category. --Mr. Pink 11/28/97
Your wife says: spell it out. hmmmmmmm. WDIS - what did I say? --zkelly 11/28/97
You think an acrobat is the baseball version of the game. --**AZ**Denmo* 11/28/97
You think YMCA stands for about 12,009 different things. --**AZ**Denmo* 11/28/97
You are Christmas shopping the day after Thanksgiving with your husband (a non-player) and point to the computer game, and shout "Look honey, it's Bwead Wunna!" --Zippity 11/28/97
You can't reach your computer to type ROFL because you are literally ROFL. --Tilter 11/28/97
It isn't available and you realize you have no other alternative entertainment! --DebbiD & TommyD 11/28/97
You think of great acronyms to use in the game, if by chance the letters happen to come up, eg. "Days Inn: Confused" for the topic of hotels. -- 11/28/97
The main server goes down and you start contemplating suicide. -- 11/28/97
You're typing a paper for school and you need to do rewording, you replace words only with others that start with the same letter. -- 11/28/97
Hours seem like minutes, and u realize you need to shave. --Halvey 11/28/97
Your kids tell YOU to stop playing so THEY can go to bed! --Iceman 11/28/97
You know everyone's acro family tree without looking at Lapo's or Codymaxx's page. --Peaches 11/27/97
You are so hooked to the game that you read this list to its terminus. --uhuru 11/27/97
You think of something to say, just so you can be posted up here with your fellow acroholics! --fish 11/26/97
You make web pages about it. --cyberius 11/26/97
You start sending enteries to this list. --cyberius 11/26/97
Grandma just seems like family. --cyberius 11/26/97
You start cursing at X's and Z's when you see them (even when you are not playing Acrophobia) --cyberius 11/26/97
You have a permanant butt mark on your chair that you use to sit on while using the computer. --cyberius 11/26/97
This page has over 100 entries. --Mysteron 11/26/97
100th Entry!! You begin the acro diet: Didn't I Eat Today? --jane 11/26/97
You miss playing your nightly game and you find yourself Dreaming in Acros !! --slydad 11/26/97
You see the letters and no words come to mind at all. (None left in there) --g-anon 11/26/97
My eyes are red and my head hurts,
I can only take Acro in larger Spurtz.
I want to stop,
But keep on typing.
It's addictive and it's really frightening...
--CaTz 11/26/97
You run for the potty (during commercial) but can't go cause you're thinking about the letters just given, and come up with a really good one for those letters, and you're on the pot! --Diablodog 11/26/97
Other family members get online, go from room to room searching for you just to tell you something you really didn't need to know! But your phone line is busy!! --Diablodog 11/26/97
Other family members do happen to get you on the phone and act like they've been neglected cause they always get a busy signal!! And you tell them, you are soooo sorry for the inconvenience, but too bad!! You really don't want to say, "Hey, I don't want to talk to you, I'd rather play Acro!" --Diablodog 11/26/97
You really seriously consider frozen dinners for Thanksgiving so you can get back to the game sooner!! --Diablodog 11/26/97
You can't think normally. --copmom 11/26/97
...at the end of an intimate encounter with your mate, you hear in your head the voice of the Acrobot saying, "Congratulations! Let's play again!" --Sci 11/25/97
Your eyes start to lose their sensitivity to the color RED, and you start squinting to read the acros! --Sci 11/25/97
You live in North Dakota and yell loudly out the door, "Hey what's that Norwegian instrument that starts with an H?" --cin 11/25/97
Instead of buying your usual "mags" you buy a Thesaurus, crossword dictionaries, kid spelling checker, Atlas and a baby's name book. --BoyWonder 11/25/97
You even listen to the words your kids utter in the background so that you might use them in that 7 letter acro in front of you! --Dutch 11/25/97
You DON'T know that you've been playing too much! --Lone Penguin 11/25/97
Someone knocks at your door, but you don't answer because you have 27 points! --fish 11/24/97
You're reading through this list and you realize that you know over half of the people who submitted their ideas :) --SuGaRD0LL 11/24/97
You know that you're addicted when you're viewing this page during commercial breaks on acro :) --SuGaRD0LL 11/24/97
You write down every new concept in your classes with capital letters and acro it to keep away the boredom. --JJGittes 11/24/97
You get your grades in the mail...... and you think GPA stands for Gosh, Played Acrophobia(too_much). --AGGIEMAN 11/24/97
You take a day off but due to withdrawal symptoms began writing acros from tv show titles, cartoon titles and the names of your kitties!!!!!!
ex: GARFIELD = gets all real food indefinitely edging little dog...
--jane 11/24/97
You jump from room to room looking for your regular ACRO friends before starting into a game. --Spifff 11/24/97
Several players (including you) enter the exact SAME phrase for LZMMFA - and it involves little zebras eating humans before the main course (egad!) --Wild Bull 11/24/97
You take your laptop to work so employees can play AND YOU ARE THE BOSS. --Daedalus 11/23/97
You run out of words (YROOW)! --copmom 11/23/97
You know you're addicted when you wait 2 hours just trying to get in! --sherri 11/23/97
You tensely vote for the ACT acro response, "Acro causes tension." --hancocm & codymaxx 11/23/97
You spend your time away from the computer in a dictionary writing down words for X, Z, and Q. --Gas Hed 11/23/97
You start missing mindy from the budweiser commercial. --husband&wife 11/23/97
You start making acrophobia action figures (anatomically correct). --husband&wife 11/23/97
While driving down the highway, you see all the wonderful acros contained on license plates. --Bobo100 11/22/97
You never took science in school but are willing to learn now in order to get a good acro. --chefs 11/21/97
You go to renew your license and insist on plates that say GMV LOL..... --chefs 11/21/97
Cats aren't fed, trash isn't down, house is cold...and I'm playing Acro. --Winfield 11/21/97
The cats know the Bean commercial means it is time for food! --Maxx (via JoMaus) 11/21/97
You no longer have a sex life... --Winfield 11/21/97
Someone tells you something funny and you respond with "LOL". --g-anon 11/21/97
You actually debate hiring a contract killer to "off" Mindy Leiberman! :o) --Allyson 11/21/97
Words cease to have meaning... you only see letters, letters, letters! --MagNet 11/21/97
You stopped visiting your friends who own Macintoshes. --MagNet 11/21/97
You skip your classes to play Acrophobia and tell your professors you have a "serious illness". --MagNet 11/21/97
You accidentally start typing too soon and put your answer in the chat window, someone else uses it and wins the round, and you want to cram your mouse down that person's throat... --MagNet 11/21/97
You tell everyone in the room that you have to leave, but you end up playing two more games. --MagNet 11/21/97
You come up with a list of reasons that you're an Acrophobia addict. --MagNet 11/21/97
You wake up your roommate at 2 AM so he can help you with a category that you know nothing about. --MagNet 11/21/97
When you practically rip your brother's head off for calling you and logging you off when you had 29 points. --MagNet 11/21/97
...someone asks what "GMV" means and you reply, "goats may vary" then "green means value" then "ghosts move vacantly" then "Greenland: mighty verdant" then... --Buggy 11/20/97
...you can recite all the commercials by heart. Watch your back, Jack! --Buggy 11/20/97
Your ISP (internet service provider) starts to charge you by the word for your online time to beZerk. --TC 11/20/97
You find yourself panicking because your son is coming home for Thanksgiving next week and you realize that the computer is in his room and you will have to suffer acro-withdrawal. --Zamboni 11/20/97
You have a nightmare and in it you are in the face off.... the voice says the category is "click here". --Zamboni 11/20/97
You can't sleep at night, and acro (in multiple categories) all the names of the fellow acro players in your family: Lapo's Acro Family <--click here --lapo 11/19/97
Your name keeps popping up on the "You know you've been playing too much when..." page! --Abyss 11/19/97
You no longer remember or respond to your real name. --Kaiser Sozay 11/19/97
Your day is divided into playing acro, talking about playing acro, and dreaming about playing acro. --Jomat 11/19/97
Your toddler is more interested in Acro commercials than his own cartoons. --Jomat 11/19/97
The green answer looks best and you still don't get any votes! --TerryO 11/18/97
At the movies, you make acros out of names in the credits (like "Anthony Hopkins: A notable thespian hero, our nearly young hero only possesses keen insigts. Not sell-out"). --Wilkie 11/18/97
...while grocery shopping, I saw the boxes of AirCrisps and immediately stepped up my speed so I could get home and play Acrophobia! --DebbiD 11/18/97
....sleeplessness occurs, I don't get up to play but I lay in bed thinking of good "X", and "Z" words rather than what I have to do the next day! --DebbiD 11/18/97
You can no longer "run" to the bathroom on commercial breaks because there are too many toys, shoes, etc. built up and ignored in the pathway... --g-anon 11/18/97
You have created complete BIO's on all your acro friends from chatting during the games! --Candy 11/17/97
Your husband asks, "Pizza for dinner, honey" and you answer, GMV tks! --grandma 11/17/97
All the characters on your favorite TV show have either been replaced, or are so much older that you don't recognize them when you see them, as you're running past the TV to go to the bathroom during Acro commercials. --grandma 11/17/97
You change your grand daughter's diapers and you keep thinking, "Poopy Pampers, Phew, bare baby bottoms". --grandma 11/17/97
You type letters to your friends in green and when you tell them something intimate, you type in red and write "/msg" first. --grandma 11/17/97
You find yourself ROFLOL when reading, "You know you've been playing too much when . . ." answers, because you identify with each of them. --grandma 11/17/97
You can carry on an entire conversation using acro-buddy names in place of nouns. --slydad & g-anon 11/17/97
When you start making acros to the highway signs as you're walking or driving eg:
SPEED=spent paycheck, extremely expensive dinner
LIMIT=let's imitate monkeys, it's traditional
--furf 11/17/97
The game's only been online for two weeks and you're coming up with variants! --Lone Penguin 11/17/97 after hearing about Mirrors
You begin reading the Enquirer magazine to brush up on celebrities so when the category comes up, you will be prepared. --mistert 11/17/97
A perfect night on the town is with your computer and not your wife. --mistert 11/17/97
You know all the people you play with better than your neighbors. --mistert 11/17/97
Yes, I am an Acrophobe: Adult caught rotating often playing here or bouncing everywhere... --mistert 11/17/97
Someone asks you to introduce yourself and you reply, "LAPO - likes all people, outgoing." --lapo 11/17/97
You are continuously making up excuses as to why the phone is always busy and you can't be reached by e-mail... (never, ever admit to being an addict)!!! --g-anon 11/17/97
You watch the animanic cartoons with the kids and change the theme to "Acromaniacs, and we're crazy to the max... etc."! --Candy 11/17/97
You are having a serious conversation in your dreams, you begin to talk all in acros, and you understand everything you're saying! --Candy 11/17/97
You start remembering the punchlines to all the jokes you hear as acros. --Leisa 11/17/97
You find yourself voting for answers with "fart" three times in one evening. --Zamboni 11/17/97
You find yourself dying for a commercial so you can go pee. --Zamboni 11/17/97
Your cat sits on top of the monitor and waits for the Bezerk and the flying things so she can swat at them. --Zamboni 11/17/97
Your dog starts barking when she hears the commercials because she knows it's the only time she's ever going to get walked. --Zamboni 11/17/97
You Acro your own nickname, or screen name!! "Dog isn't always barking loudly officer!! Diablodog's observing games!" --Diablodog 11/16/97
You know you've been playing too much Acrophobia_sm when you make a web page about it. --g-anon 11/16/97
You know you've been playing mirrors too much when you start reading everything from right to left and you're not Japanese. --OyrreT 11/16/97
You can't read anything without thinking what a great acro that would make. --TerryO 11/16/97
Having a conversation with your boss, he uses an acronym that is unfamiliar to you and you offer three possibilities - out loud - for what it means! --cat333 11/16/97
Going to the bathroom, PERT=Pooping eases rectal tension. --slydad 11/15/97
AOL=Acrophobiacs on Line. --slydad 11/15/97
Unable to reach daughter (g-anon) on phone, DOA=Daughters on Acro. --slydad 11/15/97
The latest I have used is "/ignore" (boss) (wife) etc. I have also (as have my favorite cat people) set up two computers side by side and "played with myself" just to get a game going. --slydad 11/15/97
Stopping at the grocery store to pick up some "Cat333" food, I am sure that I will qualify for AA=Acrophobiacs Anony'mous'. --slydad 11/15/97
You start ordering take out every night just so you can get on the computer sooner. --furf 11/15/97
You start talking about your acro buddies as if you've known them all your life. --furf 11/15/97
...and the truly addicted start filing away jingles and phrases in their heads for future acro games...
   TIFK=Trix is for kids!
   SGTITA=Slydad's Grandma Twisted into the Abyss!
   GMNC=Got Milk? Need chocolate!
--g-anon 11/15/97
Someone asks a stupid question, and all that goes thru your brain is "Server Down or Not Responding". --Twisted 11/15/97
FTS=failure to stop is the excuse you give the COP=creepy old policeman when you rear-end the car in front of you because you are so busy acro-ing the license tag, you don't notice they've stopped. --JoMaus 11/15/97
You're feeling twisted because you're worshiping the Diagod and falling into the Abyss g-anonomously...Oy rreT!! --codymaxx 11/15/97
You make up phrases from the letters on the telephone buttons. My phone number is LLRSRWP: Lovely ladies resist suitors; wretches persist! --codymaxx 11/15/97

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