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76405 2002-09-04 10:27:00 Hello.

Your name was given to us by a spouse or family member who is concerned
about your internet addiction. At Internetaholics Anonymous, we can help.

Yes, you--we're talking to you. You, looking at this screen for hours on
end, online. You, bleary eyed. You, an addict. Have you looked in the
mirror lately? Been outside? Know what day of the week it is? Have you
checked downstairs to see if your family still lives with you?

We're a non-profit society of recovering addicts like yourself that
provides support and counseling through weekly (off-line) meetings designed
to help you cope with your problem.

We feature a twelve-step recovery program and in extreme cases,
interventions. Although it is our firm belief that you are never "cured,"
you most certainly can recover.

We have designed a brief checklist to determine if you are an addict. Do you:

1) Have twitches of the hand when you walk by your terminal?

2) Check e-mail more than five times a day?

3) Spend more time chatting than eating or sleeping?

4) Surf aimlessly with no direction, if only to be online?

5) Leave your name and information at countless sites if only to hope
you'll receive a reply one day from a company you'll never do business with
anyway?

6) Log on before important personal habits, such as meal preparation,
hygiene or bodily functions?

7) Have red, swollen eyes that hang halfway out of your head?

8) Spend hours online on a holiday from work, where you'd usually be
griping about your carpal tunnel syndrome?

9) See smoke arising from your computer or WebTV box?

10) All of the above?

If you answered yes to four or more questions (or chose #10), you have a
problem. Please call us at Internetaholics Anonymous at:

1-800-LOGOFFNOWFORPETE'SSAKE

We're here, we're free, and we're confidential. The first step to recovery
is admission that you have a problem.

Call us today. That is, if you can power off to free up your phone line. 		Mike (15)
76406 2002-09-04 10:27:00 PS. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.

Mike. 		Mike (15)
76407 2002-09-04 10:33:00 Mike, ...... I think the air is a bit thin on Geonosis! :D Jen C (20)
76408 2002-09-04 10:35:00 LOL Mike - true, I often get trade discounts at electrical warehouses if I wear one of my Dad's (electrician) work shirts with the company logo.

Also, today I had a job interview, so I wore a shirt and tie etc. I than wandeed around a couple of car yards in the avo whilst my flamete borrowed my car for a driving test. A slesman tried to sell me a $40000 wrx without even asking if I was buying. Wants me to come back on Saturday at closing time to take it for a test drive! LOL - I just might :-)

Funny story too.

G P 		Graham Petrie (449)
76409 2002-09-04 10:35:00 >You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard.
... and walk fast glancing frequently at your watch 		Heather P (163)
76410 2002-09-04 10:50:00 > PS. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious
> and carry a clipboard.
>
> Mike.

There's also a whole host of other things that can be done(taken ;)) in a similar fashion. 		-=JM=- (16)
76411 2002-09-04 11:01:00 > There's also a whole host of other things that can be
> done(taken ;)) in a similar fashion.


Like....? 		Susan B (19)
76412 2002-09-04 12:19:00 > > There's also a whole host of other things that can
> be
> > done(taken ;)) in a similar fashion.
>
>
> Like....?

well take a walk into a largish (busy and unorganised) company wearing something which looks kind of legit (suit, clipboard, overalls, etc). Then just walk in and I'm sure you can figure out the rest. A sack barrow maybe handy if there are largish items. 		-=JM=- (16)
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