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Old 09-18-2002, 03:46 PM   #44
Lharae
Manshoon
 

Join Date: September 5, 2002
Location: East Coast USA
Age: 47
Posts: 153
Hehee! This thread is great! Here's an old one from the original Bioware forum.

1. You complain to your family about having to live in "such a pissant town".
2. You search for objects at the base of every tree you see.
3. You walk into a complete stranger's house and start rummaging through his drawers.
4. You go into your basement to kill spiders.
5. You buy an Irish wolfhound and name him 'Ruffie'.
6. You tell your boss, "I don't like the way this company is working out. Perhaps better leadership would help."
7. You try to pawn severed heads.
8. All your friends have green circles around their feet.
9. You have a collection of odd-looking sticks which you believe contain magic, but haven't been identified yet.
10. On your resume, your education is listed as 'lore'.
11. You demand discounts on the grounds that you are a hero for getting a cat out of a tree.
12. You rest for exactly 8 hours every night.
13. You refer to your luxury car as an 'automobile +1'.
14. You divorce your wife for 'incompatible alignments'.
15. You find a ring and carry it with you for your entire life in the hopes that you will meet the person to whom it belongs and return it.
16. You buy a new 3 gig hard drive, exclusively for Baldur's Gate.
17. You've been wearing a cloak around the office lately.
18. You scan every square inch of the ground looking for hidden objects when on the way to the store.
19. Your wife says, "Something smells. Have you been hanging around in the sewer again?"
20. You're fired from your job for 'laying hands' on the other employees.
21. You are deathly afraid to kiss women you meet at the beach, especially ones with bluish skin.
22. You have nightmares about your 4th grade teacher screaming, "You WILL Learn!!!"
23. You have bite marks all over you from trying to charm squirrels.
24. You refer to sex as 'entering The Gate'.
25. Your playing sessions end when you say, "Ooops" as you notice the sun coming in the window.
26. You now hesitate or are paranoid about putting on a belt.
27. Your greeting to people you don't like now consists of "Go for the eyes!!"
28. You try to "pause" life.
29. When you walk on the street at nighttime everyone has a red glow around him.
30. You never eat, or go to the bathroom.
31. Your dad's name is Gorion.
32. When you leave your house and want to get back in you need to give a book worth 5000 gold.
33. When you look out of your window in the backyard you see a bandit camp.
34. When you're going to the basement you refer to "The naskel mines."
35. You feel like being controlled by an omnipresent authority figure.
36. When you die you reload.
37. Your boss gives you a new assignment and you reply disdainfully, "A waste of my talent..."
38. You order a large steak in a resturaunt, then grab your knife and cry out "My blade will cut you down to size!".
39. You get a Neon green spandex body suit and run around showing everyone your "ankeg armor".
40. Next time some kid asks you to help him look for his dog you try to kill him for exp.
41. You wonder why when you go into hotels and rest you never seem to find that campfire.
42. Everytime you see a huskie you cry "vampire wolf!" and run.
43. You are in your car looking at a street map and you can't figure out where to go, because no other sections are highlighted.
44. You go to a Tailor and ask if he can make you a set of leather armour.
45. You go to a bar and when the Bartender comes up to you, you ask "where is the fat guy that works in every bar?"
46. A friend of yours gets seriously injured and you take him to a church/temple instead of the Hospital.
47. You refuse to try on any new jewelry without a remove curse spell handy.
48. You make 89,000 dollars per year and your job refuses to give you anymore.
49. Your Boss tells you you really screwed up that report and demands you fix it immediately, You respond by saying a patch will be
available shortly.
50. During sex, your Wife keeps asking "who the hell is Imoen?"
51. You buy a hamster for the sole purpose of naming it Boo.
52. When it starts to snow/rain/thunder&lightning out, you complain that you can't find the gameplay menu to disable weather.
53. You try to cross a state border and the border guard asks you to insert CD #3.
54. You complete an assignment and your boss gives a pat on your back and says "Gorion would be proud!"
55. When something catches the corner of your eyes and you frantically try to hit the .
56. You immediately launch an assault on anyone playing with a red hoola-hoop. And you introduce yourself to anyone playing with a
blue one.
57. You leave a buddy at the mall and, upon returning there the next day on another errand, are confused and annoyed he isn't standing
right where you left him waiting for you.
58. You start a new game every 20 minutes just to hear Imoen say that funky "HeeyYA!"
59. You don't know who's playing who in the Superbowl and couldn't care less, your mage is only 5000xp from level 7 dammit.
60. You get upset that your girlfriend always refuses your reasonable requests that she break into people's locked desks and start
carrying a bow and arrow.
61. You start giggling uncontrollably when entering a liquor store and see HUNDREDS of vials of various colored liquid everywhere!
Your mutterings of "Gotta find that Frost Giant Strength...it's gotta be one of these." draw concerned stares.
62. Your constantly starting fistfights just to be able to shout out, "Time for a wee bit o' tha rough and tumble!" at the top of your lungs.
63. You run off with all your wife's jewelry in the hopes of being able to trade it in at the local sporting goods store for that new hunting
bow they got in.
64. You take 3 hours to get from one end of an airport terminal to the other since there's obviously NO WAY you can possibly walk
THROUGH the crowds to get there. So you leave the terminal, walk around the runway, across the highway, through a marsh, past a
farm, back onto the runway and into the other end of the terminal. This behavior seems totally reasonable to you.
65. You have no time to be farting around on a BG newgroup posting a list of things telling you you've been playing too much Baldur's
Gate. There's a game to be played and your busy playing it!
66. You actually use the word "buffleheaded" in a sentence. By the way, just FYI folks, "buffleheaded" is in the dictionary. It means
"dull, stupid, foolish." So, even though she says it with a
laugh, it's really not a compliment !
67. You begin quoting Minsc to your co-workers (a very bad >sign).
68. After playing BG till 3 in the morning, you slip into bed only to hear your wife say " EITHER FIND AN INN OR REST OUTSIDE"...
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