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Old 10/09/07, 4:17 PM   #176
Kaelvanas
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Hyjal
Originally Posted by Ozzmar View Post
A buddy of mine was telling me about a family reunion he was at when he had a group of 5-6 of his little cousins/nephews chasing him around. He quickly realized that he was running them in a circle with hopes to Frost Nova them once they had clumped well enough.
I am grateful that I wasn't drinking anything right now. =D

I've had very vivid dreams of playing; it was usually after several very-late-gaming sessions. I think I might have dreamed about scanning the auction house once, though. O_o And, I've definitely pressed push to talk while talking to people.

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Old 10/09/07, 4:22 PM   #177
Fold
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Undead Rogue
 
Scarlet Crusade
I used to play a lot of poker before WoW and have been playing more and more again lately. It's taken me a bit to get used to people inevitably laying their hands down and announcing "fold", and realizing they're not addressing me.

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Old 10/09/07, 6:06 PM   #178
Erick
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Shadowmoon
My girlfriend and I both play WoW. She likes to jewelcraft and makes a lot of gold from it everyday. One time when we were starting to get intimate she excitedly blurted out "...radiant talasite...". We just looked at each other for a few moments in silence then burst out laughing.

This is both hilarious and sad :P.

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Old 10/09/07, 7:18 PM   #179
Kelfar
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Bronzebeard
I say gold instead of dollars, sometimes.

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Old 10/09/07, 7:41 PM   #180
Drunkmunky
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Jubei'Thos
I'm guilty of saying gold instead of dollars without even noticing until people say "you just said gold you freaking nerd". That's not too bad but there was one time when I was sick and delerious, i walked into town to the hospital to see a doctor and then as I was walking home I had the brief thought that I could just hearth. If it hadn't been brought on by a sickness induced delerium I would have quit playing wow right then, that shit is NOT cool. I also do the Shift-B when I'm sitting around idle on a computer, usually with annoying results (like scrolling to the bottom of 6000 emails in outlook).

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Old 10/10/07, 1:25 AM   #181
panny
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Barthilas
I got cut off by a car on the way home, and I actually physically prepared to spit at him before I realised simultaneously:
A) My windshield was in the way
B) I don't spit IRL
C) I don't need to use my mouth to spit; it's a slash command!

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Old 10/10/07, 4:19 AM   #182
Crepe
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Gnome Warlock
 
Earthen Ring
Originally Posted by Macblade View Post
Also, only partially RL, I was playing D&D with some friends and I rolled a Theif. We got into a hard fight, so shouted "Vanish." They both play WOW though, so they just thought it was funny.
I managed to get my DM to let me do this by doing an opposed Bluff check plus a Hide check. I've regularly used it to escape certain death, only to have said death eat someone else in the party (in true rogue fashion).

Best part? No 5 minute cooldown.

(And yes, I'm a dork.)

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Old 10/10/07, 8:32 AM   #183
Calim
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Aggramar
Worst PTT in IRL moment: Last years super bowl. When the Bears had their one good play, a kick return for a touchdown I think, I yelled to my wife, "Erin! Get in here!", so she could see the play/replay. (She's a lifelong bears fan.) The group on vent was trying to figure out who "Eric" was and why he was in so much trouble.

My son did the "Ding!" thing for his birthday last month. He just turned 8. I fear I've doomed him to a lifetime of geekdom.

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Old 10/10/07, 8:54 AM   #184
Jamiel
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Malygos
Couple decent ones:

In June of last year, when my old guild was progressing through BWL, we had a rather nightmarish late night and I had to get up early the next morning. When my dad tried to wake me up with a "Come on, time to go" or something similar, I replied, totally serious and groggy as all hell, "Do we have to do the Lab packs again, or are we clear to Firemaw?" When he persisted, apparently I started to bitch about how much I hate Lab packs and tried to go back to sleep.

I was sitting on a porch with some friends, slightly inebriated, reminiscing about the previous evening where a large male friend of ours decided to moon us. It was truly terrifying. After I got done complaining that I could still see it and couldn't get it out of my head, my buddy (ex-WoW player) asked if it was a "BoT" attack. His girlfriend looked extremely puzzled, so he turned to her and said, "You know, BoT! Butt over time!" She sighed and walked away. I had a good chuckle.

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Old 10/10/07, 9:19 AM   #185
Kretschmer
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Chromaggus
The only one I can think of is telling myself "finish this run and you can gain a point into fitness!" during a tough workout. Hey, it works.

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Old 10/10/07, 9:20 AM   #186
Justyskie
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Turalyon (EU)
I was at an open Zoo recently and passed an archery section... Im sure the board was less than 8yrds away and I was certinaly able to fire arrows at it without problems.

After walking up to it I have concluded that arrows cannot be fired closer than 2 yrds, though tbh you would be better of using it to stab someone in the eye...

All this time I had a queue of ppl also firing arrows at other targets and a bewildered archery instructor standing gaping at me as I day dreamed...

I just shrigged and said "Deadzones definately off" and handed him his money as I ran past the moneky enclosure wondering if they where laughing at me or with me.

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Old 10/10/07, 10:08 AM   #187
snape
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Destromath
Originally Posted by Erick View Post
My girlfriend and I both play WoW. She likes to jewelcraft and makes a lot of gold from it everyday. One time when we were starting to get intimate she excitedly blurted out "...radiant talasite...". We just looked at each other for a few moments in silence then burst out laughing.

This is both hilarious and sad :P.
Especially because it's such a terrible gem!

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Old 10/10/07, 10:11 AM   #188
snape
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Destromath
Originally Posted by Kretschmer View Post
The only one I can think of is telling myself "finish this run and you can gain a point into fitness!" during a tough workout. Hey, it works.
Hey, I've done that too (forgot until now). I buy those wifebeaters at Wal-Mart, but they're always too long so I cut off about 6-9" on them, and every time I've thought, "Your skill in tailoring has increased to 5 (or whatever, I'm probably up to 10 now)."

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Old 10/10/07, 11:36 AM   #189
Icetro
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Drizbo
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No WoW Account
Originally Posted by snape View Post
Hey, I've done that too (forgot until now). I buy those wifebeaters at Wal-Mart, but they're always too long so I cut off about 6-9" on them, and every time I've thought, "Your skill in tailoring has increased to 5 (or whatever, I'm probably up to 10 now)."
Ugh, there's a tailoring boutique-type thing upstairs from where I do my grocery shopping, and when I was slogging through endless bolts of imbued netherweave over the summer in hopes of hitting 375 it made me endlessly furious to see the tailors scurrying about. Dunno why, maybe I have a pituitary imbalance.

Also, the video Gurgthock linked earlier in this thread has been #1 on google video for some time now!

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Old 10/10/07, 11:37 AM   #190
Dreamflow
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Night Elf Hunter
 
Grim Batol (EU)
Some chemestry exercises when reading 1g I think it's 1gold for a second.

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Old 10/10/07, 6:01 PM   #191
Elvandir
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Troll Hunter
 
Silvermoon
Not so much WoW related but Elder Scrolls. When I was heavily playing Morrowind I had been completing the quests for the Mages guild all day and into the early hours of the morning. I went to bed at about 2, aparently I shook my wife awake at about 4 with the following exchange.

"You have to tell the mages guild I have their cat!"
"What?"
"You have to tell the mages guild I have their cat!"
"Okay Honey"
Roll over and resume sleeping

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Old 10/10/07, 6:33 PM   #192
Grogimer
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Dragonblight
Went to eat with friends. Got up from the table and told them "going afk for a sec"

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Old 10/10/07, 10:39 PM   #193
Ursanis
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Turalyon (EU)
A bit over a year ago I was working on a uni project with some classmates. They were discussing a friend of theirs who is a fellow wow player. Apparently he used "for the win" in a rl conversation and they were wondering what it could possibly mean. For a couple of moments there I was actually baffled as to how on earth could they not know what such a commonly used expression meant and how to explain it to them without just calling them noobs.

Also when half awake I sometimes have trouble determinining if playing or if it's just a dream.

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Old 10/11/07, 4:24 AM   #194
Bill
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Jaedenar (EU)
3 geek friends of mine who do not play wow but are quite familiar with the Onyixia wipe video had just arrived outside a club that had two effective passage ways inside. One of my friends (who is absolutely in love with that video) looks at us and shouts "Odd groups left even groups right and don't fucking pull aggro!". With dead serious faces 2 of us go down the left passageway and 2 down the right while several bewildered people gaped at us.

Another interesting effect is often now I say "kek" irl to pretty much anything I find funny, even though my friends don't know where it comes from or what it means they have started saying it too... :o

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Old 10/12/07, 10:11 AM   #195
Elisanre
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Quel'Thalas (EU)
Last weekend at the pub I called a guy fucking ninja cause he ran and sat down at the last empty table.
When I've had too much to drink it has happened that I think of my drinking capabilities as on cooldown.
Was looking for a butcher and wondered where the hell is that damn vendor.

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Old 10/12/07, 10:35 AM   #196
Zurgat
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Aszune (EU)
Probably listed already but..
Trying to Hearthstone back home.

-= Random Ravings - RSS Feed =- Rogue and Hunter stuff here. As well as guides to get you trough your spare time.

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Old 10/12/07, 10:58 AM   #197
Rottenapple
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Turalyon
This makes me sad inside, but sometimes when I'm dealing with the awful DC traffic commute I get pissed at a driver and in my subconscious I find myself casting immolate at them. Just that trained mental reaction you get, not so much the physical reaction. Its similar to when I grew up playing soccer year round and having that subconscious trained reaction to certain situations.

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Old 10/12/07, 12:18 PM   #198
Maynard
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Frostmourne
I'll also confess I'm an OCD WoW /dance user IRL. I have a background in drama and scarcely need an excuse to break out in to the dance routines of MJ in Billy Jean, Chris Farley as a Chipendale, Napolean Dynamite, Saturday Night Fever, or even Toxic. I'm also privvy to WoW flexes, and I'm sure at least one keen eye at the movie I just saw would've picked up my innocent muscle stretch after the movie was, in fact, a tauren /flex.

Lately I've also been using commutes to, from, and between work as an excuse to pencil out cool encounter ideas in my head. I'd just read a book on how spiders build webs, and thought it'd be cool to have a movement-heavy encounter that also reduced your movement speed any time you moved... reach 0% = webbed. Forcing an economy of moving. Anyway...

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Old 10/12/07, 12:46 PM   #199
Crazed
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Worgen Rogue
 
Auchindoun (EU)
Told someone that my age was Level 25. Sort of embarrasing. In matter of fact, probably the most embarrasing moment in my life.

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Old 10/12/07, 2:23 PM   #200
Ozzmar
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Magtheridon
Originally Posted by Ursanis View Post
Apparently he used "for the win" in a rl conversation and they were wondering what it could possibly mean. For a couple of moments there I was actually baffled as to how on earth could they not know what such a commonly used expression meant and how to explain it to them without just calling them noobs.
Phht, FTW came from Hollywood Squares man. You don't have to play WoW to get that reference.

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