The Top 14 Signs that your online relationship isn't working out

14. You discover that "Chesty McBust" isn't her real name, and she's dialing in from Langley, VA.

 

13. You: Large, hairy man.

Your online girlfriend: Large, hairy man. 

12. Her postmaster rejects your e-mail not as "undeliverable" but as "unlikely to get you anywhere." 

11. After months of shared experiences and emotional investments, she attacks you in the Mines of Quarn with a +5 Vorpal Sword when she learns you're worth 45,000 points. 

10. "Returned mail: User unknown and never wants to hear from you again."

9. Your cyberlover is just too busy editing that silly little Top 5 List.

8. Getting perhaps a bit too comfortable, she lets a reference to cutting her chin shaving slip by.

7. You discover that she has been cutting & pasting her time.

6. You can barely make out your SO's face in the JPEG she sent because she's obscured by her 25 cats.

5. He claims to be the richest man in the world, but his GIF looks like some geek who works for a software company.

4. Since her first e-mail, Make.Money.Fast!@cyber-promotions.com has become cold and distant.

3. She's suddenly changed her address to comingout@lesbian.com

2. Ken Starr launches an investigation into your relationship with the mysterious tubby@whitehouse.gov

1. In an ironic twist of fate, you discover that the object of your affection is a curvaceous 18 year old, rather than the geeky 14 year old boy she'd pretended to be.

Prison vs Work

 

IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8x10 cell.

AT WORK...you spend most of your time in a 6x8 cubicle.

IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.
AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.

IN PRISON...you get time off for good behavior.
AT WORK...you get rewarded for good behavior with more work.

IN PRISON...a guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.
AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and unlock and open all the doors yourself.

IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.
AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.

IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.
AT WORK...you have to share.

IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.
AT WORK...you cannot even speak to your family and friends.

IN PRISON...all expenses are paid by taxpayers with no work required
AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.

IN PRISON...you spend most of your life looking through bars from the inside wanting to get out.
AT WORK...you spend most of your time wanting to get out and go inside bars.

IN PRISON...there are wardens who are often sadistic.
AT WORK...they are called managers.

Spending too much time on the computer?

Here are some commom indicators:

1. You accidentally enter your computer password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.

7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line.

8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.

10. You learn about your redundancy on the 11 o'clock news.

11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get
''long-service to the company'' awards.

AND THE REAL CLINCHERS ARE...

13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling.

14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your friends.

15. You got this e-mail from a friend who never talks to you anymore, except to send you jokes from the net.

16. You are too busy to notice there was no No. 9.

17. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a No. 9.

18. AND NOW YOU'RE LAUGHING at yourself.

Finally:

19. You've read this before.