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May 29, 2008, 05:02 PM
 
56. Made a remix of a mac advert with another song

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56) 2 words: Math Co-Processor.
     
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57) thought "Brickles" was actually a fun game. (Its not)
     
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May 29, 2008, 05:25 PM
 
59) Have an Apple logo sticker on your automobile.
60) Have an Apple bumper sticker on your automobile.
61) Have an Apple related license plate or license plate rim.
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May 29, 2008, 05:31 PM
 
62) Copland isn't just a Sylvester Stallone movie. (Yes, I know it's pronounced COPEland)
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May 29, 2008, 05:34 PM
 
63) Your ColorClassic has been upgraded with an 800x600 touchscreen LCD, G4 processor, and 1GB of RAM.
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May 29, 2008, 05:37 PM
 
64) You died a little inside when Apple started porting applications over to Windows.

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May 29, 2008, 05:44 PM
 
65) You fell out of your seat during Macworld '97 when Bill Gates displayed his rugged good looks on the giant screen behind Jobs.
66) You fell out of your seat during Macworld '06 when Apple switched to Intel.
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May 29, 2008, 05:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by TheWOAT View Post
56) 2 words: Math Co-Processor.
I am stupidest when I try to be funny.
     
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May 29, 2008, 07:00 PM
 
.....you've owned Speed Doubler, RAM Doubler, and Startup Doubler.
     
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May 29, 2008, 07:09 PM
 
67) Your guild in WoW is called the "Reservoir Dogcows"
68) You still have your Copland disks

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Originally Posted by olePigeon View Post
65) You fell out of your seat during Macworld '97 when Bill Gates displayed his rugged good looks on the giant screen behind Jobs.
I was there. That was one hell of an experience.

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May 29, 2008, 07:27 PM
 
69) If in 1997 you bragged to freinds and others how you dont use floppy disks anymore
70) if Noah Whiley is your favorite TV actor.
     
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May 29, 2008, 07:48 PM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
67) Your guild in WoW is called the "Reservoir Dogcows"
of all the WoW guilds I've ever been in, I miss this one the most. Really great times during the beta. Wish I could go back then.
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
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May 29, 2008, 08:04 PM
 
77) *this is just a placeholder*

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May 29, 2008, 09:31 PM
 
56) You got drunk and went off on someone about all that things that make OS X better than Windows.
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Originally Posted by Peter View Post
of all the WoW guilds I've ever been in, I miss this one the most. Really great times during the beta. Wish I could go back then.
No, you don't. Things got ugly. Guild bank was stolen. It was a mess.

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May 29, 2008, 09:41 PM
 
57) was on the mailing list to save apple by the guy, guy (i forgot the name)
58) delt with the unfortunately named technologies apple had: RISC, Giga flop
     
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May 29, 2008, 09:46 PM
 
59) You get excited about engineers calling you from the Mothership and tell your friends. ✔

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Originally Posted by ironknee View Post
57) was on the mailing list to save apple by the guy, guy (i forgot the name)
58) delt with the unfortunately named technologies apple had: RISC, Giga flop
... Altivec, RAVE, and the legendary 66 Mhz PCI slot for graphics.
     
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Originally Posted by ironknee View Post
57) was on the mailing list to save apple by the guy, guy (i forgot the name)
The Apple Evangelist by Guy Kawasaki
59) Ordered free Apple promotional material from said list (yes, free! I got a whole truckload of posters, videos, stickers).
60) Ordered same free Apple promotional material to your Windows using friends and then looked at their confused looks when the semi-trailer pulled up outside their house for delivery.

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May 29, 2008, 09:50 PM
 
You sir, are a true Mac nerd.
     
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Originally Posted by TheWOAT View Post
70) if Noah Wyle is your favorite TV actor.
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May 29, 2008, 10:38 PM
 
61) hoarded think different posters from apple when they sold them for something like 5 posters for $10
     
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May 29, 2008, 10:41 PM
 
Wow. We can not count.
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71.) You have 20k posts on a Mac forum.
     
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May 29, 2008, 10:46 PM
 
83) You post on Mac forums about numbers being out of order in a listings thread.

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May 29, 2008, 10:49 PM
 
72. You still have your eworld brochure on you desk, and wish you could go back at least 1X per month.
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May 29, 2008, 10:53 PM
 
73) You create a new thread on a Mac forum every time the Apple Store goes down.

That should have made it on the list before 73.
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May 30, 2008, 12:03 AM
 
74. Apple.com is your Home Page.
     
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Originally Posted by glideslope View Post
72. You still have your eworld brochure on you desk, and wish you could go back at least 1X per month.
Mm....no. eWorld sucked.

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May 30, 2008, 03:17 AM
 
73. Your soul dies a little every time you hear the words Boot and Camp

74. You think of beige plastic and lines, not dwarves and witches when you hear the words Snow White.
     
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May 30, 2008, 08:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens View Post
74. You think of beige plastic and lines, not dwarves and witches when you hear the words Snow White.
Um, no.

The Snow White design was truly white, not beige.
     
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May 30, 2008, 08:34 AM
 
75. You still have a MacClassic just for Shufflepuck.
76. When that MacClassic is not in use, AfterDark FTW.
     
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Originally Posted by MarkLT1 View Post
75. You still have a Mac SE just for Shufflepuck and Crystal Quest.
fixed that.

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Originally Posted by Person Man View Post
Um, no.

The Snow White design was truly white, not beige.
Snow white wasn't a design it was a design language. The stripes and beige look were part of it.
     
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Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens View Post
Snow white wasn't a design it was a design language. The stripes and beige look were part of it.
No. Beige had nothing to do with Snow White.

The Apple IIc was white, and it used the Snow White design elements.

Started out as off-white (which they called "Fog") and then later evolved to the "Platinum" color, of the IIgs and Macs of that era.

From the Wikipedia entry on Snow White:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia
Nevertheless, Esslinger who detested the original Apple beige-color, insisted all Snow White-styled products use the same off-white color as the IIc.
Emphasis mine. Beige was not part of Snow White. Never was.
     
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May 30, 2008, 10:36 AM
 
77. You debate what elements were and weren't part of Apple's Industrial Design motifs.
     
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Originally Posted by turtle777 View Post
77) *this is just a placeholder*

Woot. Post from the future
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77. You debate what elements were and weren't part of Apple's Industrial Design motifs.

I'm sorry, but #77 is already taken. Please rename your post to #78.

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May 30, 2008, 11:35 AM
 
The next Nerd post should be 89.
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May 30, 2008, 12:47 PM
 
Originally Posted by Person Man View Post
That would be 32 and 33.

34. you cringe every time you see someone call it MAC.
35. you make fun of people who call it MAC.
The next Nerd post should be 89.

OK:

89 you don't apply for jobs on Craig's list if they call it MAC
     
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May 30, 2008, 01:07 PM
 
I think all the MAC items should be rolled into one.

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90) You firmly believe that people who use "MAC" instead of "Mac" should be crucified.
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91. You know who Anya Major is without googling her.
     
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92. All seven of your handles have reached "Clinically Insane" status at MacNN.
     
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May 31, 2008, 11:55 AM
 
93. You've gotten up at 5am, taken public transit at an obscenely early hour and waited for three hours to be one of the first people to walk into a new apple retail store.
94. You've flown cross-country, gone to Macworld, spent one night in SF and then flown back home - just because you could and you wanted to see what a real Macworld (not the dinky ones in Boston) was like.

Yes, and yes, I've done both of these things.

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May 31, 2008, 01:45 PM
 
95. Used ResEdit to modify the Mac interface (Startup Screen, Apple menu logo, etc.)
96. Snagged a bunch of free posters from a MacWorld event only to sell them online for $$$. (I still have a couple of 1984 - 2004 Anniversary posters).

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May 31, 2008, 02:58 PM
 
97. You jab F9, F10 or F11 on your PC at work, getting increasingly frustrated that nothing is happening, only to remember after thirty seconds of increasingly aggressive button-pushing that you’re on a PC. ✔

98. Criticism of the iMac G4 and/or G4 Cube puts you into an almost violent/psychotic rage. ✔

99. You find yourself being irresistibly drawn to the Key Lime clamshell iBook, Blue Dalmatian iMac and/or Flower Power iMac. ✔

100. Get irrationally excited by the release of a point System Update by Apple and email every Mac user you know advising them to upgrade immediately. ✔
     
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May 31, 2008, 05:04 PM
 
Screw it, let's break the 100!

101. Until you, on a Macintosh forum, have told about a strange place you have had sex.
102. You have owned a Mac clone.

(On a different subject: Hi to Koralatov, lived 6 years in Scotland myself - Wishaw in North Lanarkshire... Have some Irn Bru and think about those who can't have some )
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May 31, 2008, 05:27 PM
 
87) You use option™ to make symbols™ such as ª ¶ ¡ § ∞ – ™ £ ¢fl ‡°‹ really easy to bug Windows users.

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