1.) You step out of your room and realize that your parents have moved and you don’t have a clue as to when it happened.

2.) Your bookmark list takes 15 minutes to go from top to bottom.

3.) Your nightmares are in HTML and GIFS.

4.) You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

5.) You start introducing yourself as “Jim at net dot com”

6.) Your heart races faster and beats irregularly each time you see a new WWW site address on TV.

7.) You turn on your intercom when leaving the room so you can hear if new e-mail arrives.

8.) Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.

9.) All of your friends have an @ in their names.

10.) When looking at a web page full of someone else’s links, you notice all of them are already highlighted in purple.

11.) Your dog has its own home page.

12.) You can’t call your mother… She doesn’t have a modem.

13.) You check your mail. It says “no new messages.” So you check it again.

14.) Your phone bill is a heavy as a brick.

15.) You write your homework in HTML and give your instructor the URL.

16.) You don’t know the sex of three of your closest friends, because they have neutral nicknames and you never bothered to ask.

17.) Your husband tells you that he has had the beard for 2 months

18.) You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back to bed.

19.) You tell the kids they can’t use the computer because “Daddy’s got work to do” — even though you don’t have a job.

20.) You buy a Captain Kirk chair with a built-in keyboard and mouse.

21.) Your wife makes a new rule: “The computer cannot come to bed.”

22.) You get a tattoo that says “This body best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or higher.”

23.) You never have to deal with busy signals when calling your ISP… because you never log off.

24.) The last girl you picked up was only a GIF.

25.) You ask a plumber how much it would cost to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.

26.) Your wife says communication is important in a marriage… so you buy another computer and install a second phone line so the two of you can chat.

27.) As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the “back” button.

Before I came to college, I wish I had known . . .

- that it didn’t matter how late I scheduled my first class, I’d sleep right through it

- that I would change so much and barely realize it

- that you can love a lot of people in a lot of different ways

- that college kids throw airplanes, too

- that if you wear polyester everyone will ask you why you’re so dressed up

- that every clock on campus shows a different time

- that if you were smart in high school - so what?

- that I would go to a party the night before a final

- that you can know everything and yet fail a test

- that you can know nothing and ace a test

- that most of my education would be obtained outside my classes

- that free food served at 10:00 is gone by 9:50

- that psychology is really biology, biology is really chemistry, chemistry is really physics, and physics is really math

- that I really wouldn’t be with that high school (boy/girl)friend for the rest of my life

- that dorms can be both your lifeline and personal hell at the same time

- how much I would miss my washer and dryer at home

1. THINGY (thing-ee) n.
Female…… Any part under a car’s hood.
Male….. The strap fastener on a woman’s bra.

2. VULNERABLE (vul-ne-ra-bel) adj.
Female…. Fully opening up one’s self emotionally to another.
Male…. Playing football without a cup.

3. COMMUNICATION (ko-myoo-ni-kay-shon) n.
Female… The open sharing of thoughts and feelings with one’s partner.
Male… Leaving a note before taking off on a fishing trip with the boys.

4. COMMITMENT (ko-mit-ment) n.
Female…. A desire to get married and raise a family.
Male…… Trying not to hit on other women while out with this one.

5. ENTERTAINMENT (en-ter-tayn-ment) n.
Female…. A good movie, concert, play or book.
Male…… Anything that can be done while drinking beer.

6. FLATULENCE (flach-u-lens) n.
Female…. An embarrassing byproduct of indigestion.
Male…… A source of entertainment, self-expression, male bonding.

7. MAKING LOVE (may-king luv) n.
Female…… The greatest expression of intimacy a couple can achieve.
Male.. Call it whatever you want, just as long as we do it.

8. REMOTE CONTROL (ri-moht kon-trohl) n.
Female…. A device for changing from one TV channel to another.
Male… A device for scanning through all 375 channels every 5 minutes.