...your screen is always yellow
...refresh coffee lounge every 1 min.
...you argue about politics
...you don't wanna hear $h!t about microsoft
...firefox is your default browser
...you take screenshot of your desktop every month
You're FK'er when...
Printable View
...your screen is always yellow
...refresh coffee lounge every 1 min.
...you argue about politics
...you don't wanna hear $h!t about microsoft
...firefox is your default browser
...you take screenshot of your desktop every month
You're FK'er when...
... You know the RGB values of Fennel Yellow.
... You know who Mark Fennel is.
... You know JStarkey's hairstyle. :D
... You've memorized footer dimensions, avatar dimensions, and most of the rules.
... You understand the significance behind "Yarr."
... You fell vicitim to the vBulletin exploit that made it look like members were leaving messages / making threads specifically for you. :D
... You create an advice thread before making a substantial electronic purchase.
...The Coffee Lounge is your home page
...You have a 100x100 avatar
...You have a 4 digit post count
...You joined before there was any politics to discuss
...You don't bother subscribing to threads because you know you'll check them before you get the mail
Rushvision is about to post but I'm calling Shenanigans because I saw him looking at the "101 ways to tell you spend too much time on FK thread." :D
... You don't mind being called a FK'er.
... You got the last FK calendar and you can't wait for the next one.
... You remember threads like this.
... You're a member of the Official Super Gerbick Fan Club! (we are however, still waiting for Gerbs to print up the t-shirts) :p
http://board.flashkit.com/board/
... You have your own personal stalker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Genesis F5
... you watch the "Who's Online" page all day long.
... you can see users even though they think they are invisible.
... you can Stealth Mod any post at any time.
... BANNING is your business, and business is good.
Oh wait, that's for the Super Mods @ FK list... :D
Damn't, I was just linking to the same thread RUSH!
Was gonna say
...when you know exactly what key words to use to pull up an ancient similar thread.
Now that's the real FK'er!Quote:
Originally Posted by EVPohovich
He's a mod. That doesn't count, he has to be here.
Me, I am a little girly-man and I love being here...
See how easy that is...?
~EVP
EDIT: ...when you know what your messing with but do it anyway...
...you know what big thumbs & pickles mean
...you've never really used flash, but you're still here
...you buy a camera just for the photography forum
...you know the real names of many of the users here
...you get instant messages regarding threads you haven't posted in yet
...your likeness is worked into a photoshop battle because you've posted your photo in the member photos thread
...you now know why it's wrong to create a flash movie and leave it on a girl's doorstep
...you come here for your news
...you see something cool and immediately measure it for an avatar
...you look for things to increase production and quitting FK is the biggest reason
...you see a news story and immediately want to know what a certain member said about it
...you no longer care about your post count
...you actually notice when you have PM
...when someone changes or removes their avatar, the special voice you made up in your head for them goes away when you read their posts.
you know your a member of flashkit, when your posting in a thread about a topic that has been posted at least 6 times before.
I miss jAQUAN's little dog... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by lefteyewilly
How the heck did I sound in your head!? Like scooby? :)
long story behind taking down the dog.
does it involve lawsuits?
no
--You understand how funny a thread about 'lol' can be
--You realized just how annoying spam is
--You wish you had the power to ban someone
--You know how funny footer tricks can be, but also know that they can get you band (nerdles, Jamez)
--You are only as smart as how many threads you have read
--You know about everything before everyone else
or 222 times.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverx2
dp
when you do this (see sk8krogs posts): http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=668069
- you can rattle off the name of every active female member from memory.
- you have no idea there is a home page.
- you remember coming here to learn flash, but now just post in the CL or Arena.
- your real-world friends have heard about your fk friends.
- a member offers to host you on a trip to egypt, and you consider it.
- you read something about a member from Egypt and you know it's el-ig ;)
Link? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Genesis F5
:D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by robbmcaulay
Some old members here might remember my "You might be a Flash Kit junkie if ..." footer (now more than six years old). Here's the text it contained:
You might be a Flash Kit junkie if ...
you think headlines at flashkit are more important than headlines at a creadible news source.
you have the T-shirt
you know who John Mark Sorum is and you are tiered of hearing about him. (WDDG take this as a complement, I love your work
you used to not really like orage, but now it just looks good on everything.
You have alittle picture under you name.
You have taken the time to figuer out all the smiles.
You spend more time on Flash kit than doing Flash.
You are on the FK chrismas Xchange (thanks dezin)
Flash Kit is your conection to the outside world
2000 post seems like a realistic and important life goal
average more than 100 post a day.
The Coffee lounge is your homepage.
If you have different flash footers for every holiday.
your saving up for the FK IPO
You constatnly speek in anacranims LOL, BTW, FK, JK, MOLOFR
you have fallowed the post "I want to set the record for the longest thread" cence its creation.
you have done all of the tutorials.
you have though of planing a trip to (corection) australia sory guys
You recommend flashkit to people who dont even use flash.
You have the Coffee Lounge, Newbies, General Help, and Cool Site forums on you IE links bar.
Everytime you want to spell flash, you accidently go and write a kit after it.
Mark and you are on a first name basis
You can name all of the faeries
You own a piece of Marks chipped tooth. (Thanks Magget)
Flashkit has become a religion
You can give the address of Flashkit headquarters
You link to flashkit.com on your homepage.
You have a tutorial up and it is more than 13 pages long.
You spend more time at Flashkit then you do working
You feel guilty when you are on flashkit, and you feel like you need to set aside some time for your girlfriend.
Coffee and Flashkit go together like Ice Cream and Warm Apple Pie
Your IP has been logged as being active on flashkit for more than 48 hours.
You call your girlfriend when you reach a new level in post counts
Poeple start emailing you for help
Flashkit knows your IP by heart
You have ever talked with Den.
You know Dens destruction plan
You helped den with his destruction plan
You know what your member number is.
You make footers just to try and suck up to the webmaster
Time means nothing
Months mean nothing
You have carpal tunnel syndrome.
You can name the last 50 posts that you made
Your email sends a text message to your cell phone when a new post is made in the coffee lounge
You downloaded the flashers list for AIM.
You have physically slapped Jezza
You actually have Australian time on your computer, just so you can adapt, and really grab ahold of the Flashkit experince
Mg33 cries when he sees how much longer your posts are
You can tell me what my website is.
You have been on flashkit before they had 5000 members
You set all the homepages on school computers to flashkit
You remember nymyth
You dont talk with mods from were here. (Not encouraging this)
You can name all of the FKB's and you know the FKC's birthdays
You can make a list longer than this.
your Phone Nr. is 1-800-FLASHKIT
your E-Mail is [email protected]
your friends call you Flashkid
your home is painted in blue/orange
you dream about flashkit
you use the word 'flashkit' more than the word 'and'
you keep a personal archive of all markF pics ever posted on the boards
you post in every forum, every hour, every day during the workweek
you post in the guestbook every time you visit
you splice jezza's face into animals for fun
you want to be the fulltime 'chat' moderator
you save all your flashkit email to read on a rainy day
your screensaver is a series of screencaptures from flashkit
you hide secret links to flashkit in all of your flash work
you donate regularly to the FKB retirement fund
You wake up in the middle of the night in a sweat, dreaming that flashkit is taking over the world, and you have to be there.
Having the Flash-kit logo and/or Mark F's face tatooed somewhere private, for your own personal pleasure.
you think being a flashkit junkie is a good thing.
you see a funky effect on a TV programme/film and think, "I'll just put that in my FK....."
you get depressed about leaving the office (and free internet access) for 2 weeks over Christmas.
you have 2 or more user names
You defend Flash from stupid remarks of conservative loser web-designers...
You really try to make loading screens cool !!!
if you are still looking for a way to tween coffee into beer or vice versa.
Your Name is : TheEnigma!!! I beloive that sums up the lot!
You know exactly where to click BEFORE the graphics are loaded.
You know the RGB colors of the Flashkit layout by heart.
You know when you are a flash Junkie when Phooka gives you a virtual Guiness at 4:00am and then you actually get drunk.
You open 3 flashkit windows so you don't have to worry about the load time at peak hours
You have a newfound respect for stevestarr because of his impressively long list
You say to yourself "I don't need flashkit, I could stop anytime I want"
There is a "no flashkit" rule at work
Your friends or family have made a comment such as "I think you are addicted to flashkit" or "geeze, you are always looking at that orange site"
Your friends and family know flashkit by name
Your friends and family know mark, steve, and the fkb's names
You frequently visit support forums, even if you don't have the program they support
The flashkit news article was the highlight of your week
you have all fk-board pages in your browsers cache.
your "go bed" storys name is: fk-newsletter (Is this English?)
you have 8 fingers like the count of letters in the word "Flashkit"
f you read every post(like I did on this one), on every thread, in several forums.
You paint your house to the color scheme of flashkit
you paint your car interior\exterior to the flashkit schemes
you come into work and the first thing you do is check your email to see in anyone replied to your thread
All you do ALL DAY at work is look on flashkit waiting for someone to put up a new fla you can mess with.
You name your too cats flash and kit.
All your parrot can say is flashkit.
You spend even more of your work time to think of funny things to put in here.
Action script is your first language.
You invent your own smileys, just to stand out on the boards
You have to make up little white lies for your time sheet at work because you were really on Flash Kit the whole time
You put off urination and bowel movements until it hurts because you're so enthrawled in the General Help forum
When some one asks you what your favorite thing in the whole world is... you answer in VB code (with a footer at the end)
You check to see if your post has been answered every 5 minutes through out the day
You go back to view the "previous 30 days" posts to see if there was anything you missed
everyone at your school hates you because you got flashkit banned from the school computers from going to it to often.
you keep submitting fla's in the hope your effort will make it to the sublime heights of 'feature fla', the ultimate ego boost!
you wonder exactly what people do who manage to get thousands of FK posts in a matter of weeks
you check out every new open source fla just to be sure you've not missed something brilliant
you spend ages thinking about what the next title of your post will be in order to attract people's attention
you watch the Olympics and wander what the FK team are up to, since they're also somewhere in Australia, right?
you lose all sense of time while on FK, and forget to go to bed at sensible times
Your boss bans flashkits IP address from coming through the firewall so you can't go there.
Flash Kit is in your system tray.
You kick yourself when you close your browser with Flash Kit loaded in it...
Your workmates mock you for buying a Flash Kit T-Shirt.
Mark Fennell ICQ's YOU, not vice versa.
You can spell Fennell.
You are annoyed at all the posts in the coffee lounge that appeared over night, because you know you can't read them all...
Hour of Flash. Need I say more?
you take notes in actionscript
flashkit is the last thing you see before you go to bed
flashkit is the first thing you see when you wake up
you plan a trip to australia only so you can meet the fk team in person
you have panic attacks every time flashkit is down
You think Flashkit invented Flash.
You're shocked when you discovered that FK is orange not yellow.
All hits to your site originate from FK board.
You laugh at people with 22 posts.
You have the flash kit logo on your phone
You have the flash kit logo tatooed to your forehead
you spend 1/2 hour thinking of a reply to post on this thread
In your will you write: If i die, post the details of my death at this URL: http://www.flashkit.com/board/forumd...php?forumid=11
Your eyes reflect blue and yellow even when you're not in front of the computer
Flashkit has become more important than: calling your mother, your job, feeding your fish and walking your dog, eating
You use FK team member smileys.
You walk around all day in a state of euphoria when you learn that your post has made it to the cover of FK.
It's 2am in the morning and you could not sleep... so u decided to check your e-mail but ended up not sleeping the whole night crawling around flashkit!
You promote FK to complete strangers..
Your first line on any topic of conversation is: "Yesterday, on the FK boards.."
You produce, market and endorse misc FK products(Keyrings, Waterbottles, Pens, Business Cards, Notepads, FlashKitCola(xtracaffine) and FlashKit Coffee Mugs.).
You see your FK footer(s) more often than your children/mother/significant other..
You think/talk in action script.
Your walls are adorned with flashkit logos and screenshots of other people's footers.
on Dec 2 you have your own Flashkit name, over 1,000 posts and your profile on the left says "registered Dec 2000"
IF you get employed by Flash Kit and get flown to Australia to join the team!
when you search for posts to trace your family tree
you ask your cousin that just landed at airport a couple of hours ago how she could move away fr australia just like that
reading every freakin' single post and realizing these are all true.
believing that flashkit is based in the clouds, because anything this good must be from heaven.
each time you're looking for a girl you compare she with Flashkit!
each time you're looking at a white wall you see the Flashkit layout a bit!
when you leave your gf in the middle of love making to make a post.
when you see a hot girl, and thiking you can make better curves than her in flash.
when you start to shake , if you did not check the coffee lounge for new posts.
when you are stil posting, but you had to go to the bathroom for #3 hours ago.
when your neighbor had to call the police, because you're laughing so loud form the posts.
If you wish to cut the FK cake on your birthday even if you GF insisted.
If you have finished playing all the games of FK arcade.
If FK has been set as your homepage.
If you keep thinking about what turorial you'll do @ FK after dinner.
If you visit FK more that 20 times a day.
If you see Mark and Den in your dream (this happened to me a week ago!, i swear to god)
If you wish FK had a WEBCAM so that you could see all the FK team at work.
If you wish to spend your vacations at FK than visiting your Granma and Granpa.
If you have a hard choice, you abandon your GF for FK (possible ???!!)
If you post messages just because you want to stay in touch with FK, and with the members.
If you have FK window ALWAYS open whenever you're online.
If you find surfing more comfortable than going to a marriage party!
you are wondering why outlook doesnt convert a smiley
you are asking your boss for a tittle after the 500'th project
you die on your chair with flashkit.com on your screen
you try to email bill gates with a sitecheck on microsoft.com
you doesnt even use flash anymore to spend more time on flashkit
You have all the loops in a cd (or two)
You have that cd, bronzed and framed.
You dream with FlashKit
You legally change your name to your Flash Kit board name.
When you have to decide between a shower or another version of Flash, you figure the smell isn't THAT bad.....
You begin to look at real life events in terms of Action Script.
Someone says FlashKit is only a web-page and it takes 13 State troopers to keep you from killing him.
When asked at any time, you can say your entire Board ID forwards AND backwards.
Fredi
You start calling people "flashers".
You don't know what 'too much Flash' means.
Your desktop has a screenshot from FK on it.
You are emotionally attached to whatever .FLA you make.
You name every one of your Footers.
You have memorized a loop.
You sing the loop to people.
You pass out when someone asks you what FlashKit is.
You have a statue of your favorite hero and you pray to him regularly.
You do some Flash in your dreams.
You use a FlashKit screensaver and you will never change it.
You start to forget Swish.
You forget Swish.
You gave your first born to Macromedia in hopes of being on the Flash 6 beta.
You keep hitting the refresh button hoping for new posts.
You name your firstborn Mark Fennel.
You have a separate directory devoted to Flash related programs.
Your Flash directory takes up more than 200 megs.
The Flash manual is as important to you as your bible.
You dress up as a Pope for halloween.
You have FlashKit screenshots in your families photo album.
You gaurd FlashKit web-page with you're life.
You have pre memorized all the hotkeys for Flash.
You took the time to read all this.
You make a post when you reach 500 posts
You make a post when you reach 1000 posts
You make a post for the longest thread
You are the only one who replied that thread
You make a post about who much you love flashkit
You have all the TextFX and Fonts in your FlashTyper
You dont see TV
You want to be a moderator
You are a moderator
You have participated in all FK contests
You are READING THIS RIGHT NOW
You have all the footers of everyone in your computer
You wonder what font is in the footer of Erik(aka Sog_Webmaster)
You discover the font
You drop out of school to join the FlashKit Board Crew
You call up your girl/boy friend at 3 in the morning to tell them you love FlashKit.
You sell your house to live in a trailer park near the FlashKit headquarters.
You felt emotionally scarred by the removal of Mind Control, and felt the need to vent on the forums.
You have already submitted your application to the FlashKit headquarters on Australia and hope to be accepted soon.
you accept the admin position only to control the proxy and firewall (no FK IP bans at my job!!)
you have received more e-mail from FK than from your friends
you have gotten upset with your ISP when FK seems to load slower than when you checked an hour ago
when you type the letter "F" into your web browser, it automatically finishes the rest for you
you check FK more than you call your own mother
you have referred to FK as if it were a person with a gender
you would be angry if you were ever banned from FK
you actually thought deeply about your FK member name
you know the IP address to the FK website by heart
You fudge the time difference in your profile to convince yourself everyone is awake when really you are the only one who is.
you think to post is better than sex.
the first thing you do after sex is to write a new post.
you don´t want to mention flashkit in the therapy hour.
you read this thread completely.
you post in this thread.
you have started to dream in post and turorials.
You close your eyes only to realize the FK logo has been permanently burned into your cornea.
all you want for christmas is more flash kit t-shirt's
you know the moderators on a first name basis
everytime you open your mouth in public it rhymes with "flash"
Fredi
A footer? Under every post you posted?:P
.. you see an EMO kid..and you immediately think of 'Wanna Be' LOL
(sorry..true story) :)
It was a little php image thing that displayed one at a time...Quote:
Originally Posted by MagnusVS
Subway, that was the most misspelled and grammatically incorrect list I have ever read. Yet I thoroughly enjoyed it!
This was way before the php/img version Ihoss did. My original version was a Flash footer (the good ol' time of Flash footers ... yeah, we really had them) that displayed one line at a time, each for a few seconds, and a thread where members could submit new entries (with all the typos you see there, I just copy pasted them).
Fredi
Damn server hickups. Deleted.
Fredi
...you IM everyone on your IM list to ask if FK is down.....and they all say yes. :(
yeah that sucked! I had to work damn't!
I actually found my flash sig a week or two ago subs.
Quote:
Originally Posted by robbmcaulay
I hear ya, see the way I figured to be a FlashKit Admin, is to physically hold as many members as possible, I guess over 50% should suffice ;)