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How do you know you are spending too much time on this forum?

BA Between A&BOGR Forum Member

You know you are spending too much time on this forum when:

 

9. You start your internet day here rather than checking out Drudge or your Email

8. You find yourself quoting yourself from other threads.

7. You keep typing & editing & forget to check the laundry.

6.  It takes some effort to resist getting into a debate w/ ________

5.  You find yourself shoveling the snow here rather than your driveway once again.

4.  You find what you have to say more interesting than what others are saying.

3.  You forget that there are often more interesting forums here than just this front door.

2.  You figure there should be 10 elements to this list but remember you are neither Letterman nor one of his writers.

1. You can’t wait to see if/how others contribute to your thread, or comments, or ...

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rtr12rtr12OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
Originally Posted by Chugman:

10. You never get anything done on your layout, but you have an opinion on what everybody else is doing.

 

Art

 

Originally Posted by david1:

You start making lists.

 

Originally Posted by Larry Sr.:

10. You just get a thrill out of getting so far off topic no one knows what the heck you talking about.

 

Originally Posted by TexSpecial:

When you're reading threads like this one.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

Original list should be revised after these were added! You guys are hilairios really funny! (couldn't spell hilarious)

ReadingFanReadingFanOGR Forum Member

You think engineer and firemen figures have nothing on Rich Melvin - even the fantasy ones.

 

You wonder if anyone makes scale rope so you can post a photo of a two or three unit l****p.

 

You join the Worship & Music Committee of a church so you can choose hymn number 765 as often as possible.

 

A - You hear the first few words of a conversation with your wife before you read a really interesting thread on the Forum.

 

B -Your wife gets suspicious of all the time you spend online. She takes your computer to be checked out. MEMORY is opened, and all that comes up is ogrforum.ogaugerr.com

 

C - The computer tech guy decides to check it out and soon joins the Forum as Melvinite765.

 

D - It soon becomes obvious that Melvinite765 knows a lot more about running the 765 than Rich Melvin.

 

 

E - Melvinite765 and Hot Water duke it out until Scrapiron Scher makes peace. Now they all post together.

 

 

 

 

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OC OLD CROW RESTORATIONSOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by Between A&B:

You know you are spending too much time on this forum when:

 

9. You start your internet day here rather than checking out Drudge or your Email

8. You find yourself quoting yourself from other threads.

7. You keep typing & editing & forget to check the laundry.

6.  It takes some effort to resist getting into a debate w/ _________

5.  You find yourself shoveling the ____ here rather than your driveway once again.

4.  You find what you have to say more interesting than what others are saying.

3.  You forget that there are often more interesting forums here than this front door.

2.  You figure there should be 10 elements to this list but remember you are neither Letterman, nor making his money.

1. You can’t wait to see if/how others contribute to your thread, or comments, or ...

When you finally join.

mike.carusomike.carusoOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

How do you know?

 

number 10. You miss the opportunity to stock up on bread and bottled water as Winter Storm Bartholomew approaches.

 

9.  You didn't realize that Justin Bieber got arrested (again)

 

8.  The goldfish are floating belly up

7.  You miss Trainstock because you're waiting to see someone post pictures of the food.

6.  The seasons have changed..."hey, when did that happen?"

5.  You miss seeing your team win its first title in 45 years because you were arguing about whether the purple boxes are better than the orange ones.

4.  Your stock options expired unexercised while you were on weekend Photo Fun

3.  You miss the Super Bowl because you're passionately arguing on here why trains will never be made in the U.S. again.

2.  You burst into tears when a Member announces that he's leaving The Forum

 

and the number one reason you're spending too much time here...you miss the birth of your child because "that guy who's selling his collection" is about to post a detailed inventory list on the Buy/ Sell Forum

 

- Mike

 

ReadingFanReadingFanOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by vssmith42:
Originally Posted by vssmith42:

Wife files for divorce 

But she had to join the forum to inform you.

And she wants custody of the trains! 

As a member, she lists them on "Buy-Sell." The guy who buys them turns out to be a Forumite about 30 miles away. He DIDN'T tell his wife about his purchase. He winds up giving them back to you.

ReadingFanReadingFanOGR Forum Member

Visitors like your model of Mt. Rushmore at one end of your layout. Then they notice another mountain at the other end with faces of Rich Melvin, Jim Barrett, Allan Miller, and Myron Biggar.

 

You hear a TV show character say, "It's O Gauge or no gauge" and agree 100%.

 

Keys that spell ogrforum.ogaugerr.com need touch-up paint.

 

 

 

 

BA Between A&BOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by jim sutter:

I'm very thankful for the forum. Not much to do during this very snowy and cold time. I enjoy reading about all of you and looking at the pictures you post.

I think most of us on this thread would agree w/you on that sentiment. Here's a few more (and a sure sign of ...)

 

10 You think that a Win 7 gadget is something you connect to a lock on.

11. You are tempted to see if someone else has figured out how to connect a GPS to that PW steamer.

12. You check your own profile & discover you've made 2,015 entries since you signed up. There is no way you could have made more than a dozen contributions of merit over the years, but far be it for that to slow you down.

 

and finally  (he promised himself and the rest):

 

13. you find yourself contributing to your own thread.

 

 

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Madison KirkmanMadison KirkmanOGR Forum Member
When you are laying in bed, can't think, yet you are staring at few prewar pullmans and a and a spot above my window, thinking that i should finish my 6' bridge, And other things like what if the color you think is blue is my red, but because you have always been told it was blue, you see blue, and how to print out thee silhoette passenger windows and when you start to question if I am a sleep and if this sentence is to long.  
 
riginally Posted by Between A&B:

You know you are spending too much time on this foru:-) m when:

 

9. You start your internet day here rather than checking out Drudge or your Email

8. You find yourself quoting yourself from other threads.

7. You keep typing & editing & forget to check the laundry.

6.  It takes some effort to resist getting into a debate w/ ________

5.  You find yourself shoveling the snow here rather than your driveway once again.

4.  You find what you have to say more interesting than what others are saying.

3.  You forget that there are often more interesting forums here than just this front door.

2.  You figure there should be 10 elements to this list but remember you are neither Letterman nor one of his writers.

1. You can’t wait to see if/how others contribute to your thread, or comments, or ...

 

barrister.2ubarrister.2uOGR Forum Member
 
AND the guy who buys them then hooks up with your ex-wife.
 
 
Originally Posted by ReadingFan:
Originally Posted by vssmith42:
Originally Posted by vssmith42:

Wife files for divorce 

But she had to join the forum to inform you.

And she wants custody of the trains! 

As a member, she lists them on "Buy-Sell." The guy who buys them turns out to be a Forumite about 30 miles away. He DIDN'T tell his wife about his purchase. He winds up giving them back to you.

 

RickORickOOGR Forum Member

1. When I read about member x posting a question on how to fix a problem with a loco.

 

2. A week or two later, member x lists same loco for sale on forum.

 

3. Another week or two later forum member y purchases the same loco( "from a forum member", x maybe) and it  still has the same problem member x had with it.

 

Somehow I feel like I'm the only one who catches this, and it happens somewhat regularly.

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