# You Know You're A Flash Addict When **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 15, 2001, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489 "2001-12-15T08:08:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2001, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/1 "2001-12-15T08:08:04Z")
Today I met with my friend Sarah Remy (The world’s sexiest propellerhead) who expressed concern over my obsession for learning and mastering flash. I responded to her observation by slinging out a metaphorical joke, which inspired this new thread.\_\_ You know you’re a Flash Addict When:\_ 1. You’re making love to your girlfriend and you conceive a swf file. (Thanks Kirupa 🙂 ) 2. You snail mail your lover a romantic letter written in action script. 3. You hang up posters of Hillman Curtis, Colin Moock, Brendan Dawes, Todd Purgason and that hot chick Jessica Spiegel. 4. You search for actual Friends of Ed to get his personal E-mail address. 5. Your favorite song is “Flash Dance” by Irene Cara. 6. You take medication for “MotionTween Sickness”. 7. You consider a JPEG of Your lover as the ultimate @#%$ Symbol. 8. You swear Gorillaz are the world’s greatest band because they used Flash for all their music videos. 9. You put yourself in credit card debt because you keep buying those darn flash books from New Riders and Friends of Ed. 10. You E-mail the good people at Macromedia with threatening letters of defection to Adobe’s Live Motion because they won’t award your work as “Site of The Day”. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2001, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/2 "2001-12-17T09:52:07Z")
your eyeballs fall out and u have to work harder to buy some more :lol: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/3 "2001-12-17T21:00:55Z")
11.)You camp out at CompUSA waiting for the next version of Flash to be released. 12.)You look at an object and wonder if it can be made using vectors. 13.)You go by your local bookstore again to make sure that some author out there did not release a Flash book that you currently do not own. 14.)You get a tattoo that says “Flash 5.0 Required”. more coming soon… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2001, 6:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/4 "2001-12-19T06:41:39Z")
1. you write “property of Macromedia” on your underwear. 2. your cat is named “button”, your Dog “MC”,your bird “graphic”. 3. u make fun of your enemies by puting an L up to your forehead…L as in adobe Livemotion. 1:cool: you look at screenshots of Flash 6 and click the Jpg pretending to be the real program. 19)you have more than 400 posts in the kirupa forum. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2001, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/5 "2001-12-19T10:06:58Z")
…more than 238… 🙂 u take your computer over 200 miles for the chrismas period at your parents…'cause you can’t bear leaving it at your flat…! …b… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2001, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/6 "2001-12-19T19:30:56Z")
21.)You have an entire Web site dedicated to Flashers. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/7 "2001-12-20T13:53:02Z")
:lol: … that is the ultimate!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/8 "2001-12-20T18:23:52Z")
Kirupa, ``` I just read your last thread and I now understand. I decided to reinstate the line by modifying it myself with what I hope is more suitable humor for the educators that put the squeeze on you to remove the offending joke. I recently became aware of your book by my business partner and best friend Crystal Birk. Kirupa I'm very impressed with your credentials and hope to develop a professional relationship with you in the near future after I finish my business site. Well enough about this misunderstanding let's get back to the jokes. here's a few more I thought of: ``` 1. You fantasize about Jessica Speigal from [were-here.com](http://were-here.com) 2. You purchased both versions of HIllman Cutis’s Book “Flash Web Design: The Art of Motion Graphics” for the bragging rights. 3. You turn down clients in need of static pages. 4. Your other favorite song is “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. 5. You bookmark your browsers with only Flash Tutorial Sites. 6. Google E-mails you demanding that you stop seaching for Flash sites. 7. You have to join a 12 step program for Flash addiction. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2001, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/9 "2001-12-20T22:45:29Z")
29: you have nightmares that your F6 and F8 buttons aren’t working 30: you write .swf at the end of all of the titles for your school papers brian\* ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2001, 12:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/10 "2001-12-21T00:35:04Z")
31: when you have bought trading cards of all the flashers featured in the New Masters of Flash 2002 Annual. 32: when you have arguments with your friends on who the better Flasher is. 33: when you don’t forget to send a christmas card to Rob Burgess and Jeremey Allaire. 34: when you laugh at Scott McNealy trying to rationalize Java as the best multimedia platform on the net. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/11 "2001-12-21T20:35:56Z")
1. You know you’re a “Flash” addict when you run out of your home naked under a trench coat, then frequently open your trench coat wide, yelling, “macromedia flash…you’re the bomb baby!”…F.F. (only edited to put a number in there. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/12 "2001-12-23T05:17:23Z")
1. you refuse to open any program on your comp without using a Flash generated UI. 37.youStruggleOverTheQuestionOfWhyLanguageDevelopedSpacesBetweenWords. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2001, 9:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/13 "2001-12-23T09:25:47Z")
1. you delay going home for christmas…by a day, so you, your com and flash can be alone together…and have a special ‘kb’ christmas dinner… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2001, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/14 "2001-12-24T00:55:08Z")
1. You…make…a…whole…post…talking…about…possible…ways…of…being…an…addict (MySpaceBarAintWorkin,Sorry) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2001, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/15 "2001-12-26T06:48:55Z")
1. Its almost impossible for you to type,write, or say the word “flash” withtout having to impulsively add a “5” at the end. 41)You force your girl to install FLASH on her computer 42)try to define the meaning of life using MCs and AS. 43)you cry when macromedia doesnt feature your site as flash site of the day 2. buy NIKE shoes because of their cool site. not because u like the shoes. 3. U spend more time studying Flash than School. 4. you take a semester off from college to get better at flash and so you site at home for 7 months drawing in flash for countless hours a day and making a website wich eventualy gets featured on [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com) 47)Your name rhymes with fedwin and lirupa 4:cool: you wonder,Who has time to eat/sleep/bathe? when there is Flash to be done. 49)You change your middle name to Flashmasta 50)you consider yourself to be a compulsive FLASHTURBATOR 51)u no longer need hot keys or a keyboard, flash knows your everymove. 5. you have multiple Flash sigs ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/16 "2001-12-26T23:02:16Z")
1. When your bedroom is covered in posters of colin moock and gary grossman. 2. When flash is in your start up folder so ever time u start ure computor flash opens up 3. You wear t-shirts that say “I LOVE FLASH” on them. 4. you have a screen shot of flash as ure background on your P.C 5. when you talk to flash like its ure best friend… and it replies!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/17 "2002-01-02T23:35:34Z")
\*\* I’ve got a few of my own:\*\* 5:cool: You dream of Flashing 24/7 and curse the need of sleep and food that hinder you. 1. You have a calendar featuring 12 different angles of Aria when she is flashing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2002, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/18 "2002-01-03T22:41:06Z")
sorry i forget mine…lol ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/19 "2003-04-19T00:38:21Z")
haha i found this and it though it would be funny to bring back. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489/20 "2003-04-19T00:58:23Z")
when you go to sleep because you couldnt figure something out in flash and dream about it and find the solution you automatically wake up and fix the problem this has actually happened to me when you spend more time on this forum than flashing [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/you-know-youre-a-flash-addict-when/1489.md?page=2)