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I saw this thread on another site and, reading through some of the posts, I recognized myself in almost all of the things they said. Here were a couple of them.
You hear "The Office" theme song and it instantly makes you feel good. No other TV theme song does that to me.
When your 8 year old daughter, attempting to insert her pierced earring into her ear says, "I can't get it in the hole", and you reply, "That's what she said"..... I am the worst mom ever..
You start a lot of sentences with: "Fact:" or "Question:".
So we all know we're addicts here. We could all add:
So that's my starter. Now it's your turn. Will this thread catch on? Only time will tell, my friends.
I was walking by a woman's cubicle at work a while back and noticed she had a Dwight bobblehead. I told her how much I liked it and thought about asking her if she was an addict such as myself, but thought "Don't be creepy."
The involvement of TO in my life has expanded to this site (not a bad thing)...A few times recently I've found myself wanting to relate something from one of the threads to a conversation in real life, but then I realize no one knows what I'm talking about (unless I have friends who just lurk on here without me knowing, but I highly doubt that).
You know you're an office-ionado if...you go to Office-related web sites so often at work your boss yells at you.
You know you're an office-ionado if...you go to Office-related web sites so often at work your boss yells at you.
I'm a bit concerned that this will happen to me too.
You know you're an office-ionado if...you go to Office-related web sites so often at work your boss yells at you.
Yeah, you're hardcore, AMJ.
You know you're an Office-ionado when:
You clean out your front-hall closet and find The Office-themed scarf an online Office friend knitted for you when you came in second in an online Office-themed contest and the discovery prompts you to hum the theme song out loud for 10 minutes to your uninterested wife.
You actually take the time to look up old sightings of Jo and Ho to post a minor, mostly uninteresting point on a thread of an Office-based forum.
You feel that getting from the end of the writers strike to April 10 is longer than the strike itself.
You’re excited about an upcoming movie about football set in the 20’s with unfortunate casting in which the 30-something female lead is a little too long in the tooth for the college age hunky love interest when ordinarily you probably wouldn’t even rent it.
You keep wanting to pass on a factoid about the weather in Australia, or repeat a joke about Roger Clemens, or quote a remark about a movie to your family or friends, but realize that if you tell said family and friends the source of your conversation-starter they may look at you funny.
When doing trivia on the "Addicted to The Office" application on facebook, and you honestly don't know the answer to a question because you didn't see the deleted scene from which it was taken, you answer correctly anyway because you know the characters that well.
When doing trivia on the "Addicted to The Office" application on facebook, and you honestly don't know the answer to a question because you didn't see the deleted scene from which it was taken, you answer correctly anyway because you know the characters that well.
I do that all the time.
To add to that:
You've peaked at number 5 on the "Addicted to The Office" trivia application on facebook.
To tweak the topic just a bit:
You know you're addicted to the Watercooler when you try to use * to italicize text in a Word document.
Yikes.
Actually, putting underscores on each end to italicize works in Word, at least on Mac. The asterisk bolds text.
You know you're addicted to the Watercooler when you know that kind of information.
Actually, putting underscores on each end to italicize works in Word, at least on Mac. The asterisk bolds text.
All it does on my PC is add asterisks and underscores. Must be a Mac thing.
It made me smile when I did it, though. And immediately log on here to see what's up.
You know you're addicted to the Watercooler when you try to use * to italicize text in a Word document.
I too also have done that as well.
You know you're addicted to the Watercooler when you try to use * to italicize text in a Word document.
Good call, MISSterious. I do that all the time now.
I always have to go through all my text documents to make sure there isn't any HTML or markdown in there, because I'll use them both if I'm not paying attention.
You see a tv ad for a cholesterol lowering medicine and you think, "Wait! I want to raise it first!"
You're reading an article about music, it mentions Eddie Money, and all of a sudden you hear Michael Scott singing "Two Tickets to Paradise" in your head.
Or the song "Tiny Dancer" reminds you of The Dundies and not Almost Famous.
Or the song "Tiny Dancer" reminds you of The Dundies and not Almost Famous.
Actually, that song still reminds me of WKRP in Cincinnati.
You know your an Office-ionado when you plan a lunch date with an Office online friend.
You know you're an office-ionado if...
You go to Kohl's to get DM jammies and buy them even though they only have men's large and you are a women's small.
When you're watching the Weather Channel and you remark to your family that there's a thunderstorm heading towards Scranton, Pa. and they give you quizzical looks.
there's a thunderstorm
This reminds me...you know you're an Office-ionado if last weekend when there was a thunderstorm, your father-in-law says "More storms will hit the midwest" and you interrupt by saying "than read to their children" even though you know he will give you the crazy look because he has never seen the show.
You know you're an office-ionado if...
You're bored one day and decide to try to rank your favorite episodes, and then abondon the task after realizing that doing so would be like Sophie's choice. Then you are so overcome with love for the show that you watch the DVDs for a couple hours.