Sounds really familiar for some reason ;-)
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From: "Marco Delsordo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: I think you�ll agree with this!!!!!!!
> You know you are a reefer if:
> 1.) you would rather tinker with your tank than tinker with your
> "significant other".
> 2.) you are watching Baywatch, on location in Hawaii, and you only notice
> the corals, and can name all the corals in the shot, and don't even
realize
> that Pam Anderson is wearing nothing but a white bathing suit in very cold
> water in that same shot.
> 3.) you willingly spend $12.00/lb. for imported "purple" rock with living
> things on it that you can't even see without an electron microscope.
> 4.) you like buying things twice, like a protein skimmer, lighting, live
> rock, et cetera, with the thought that "for now, this will be good enough
> `til I get more money".
> 5.) you have to borrow your friend's pick-up truck to go to the market so
> that you can fit all those 1 gallon jugs full of distilled water into one
> car in order to fill up your new 150 gallon tank.
> 6.) you are late to work because you were up all night draining your 150
> gallon tank full of that water from
> 5.) because you didn't bother to check if that bulkhead was fastened
> correctly, which it wasn't.
> 7.) you get a very sharp pain in your wallet whenever you look at your
tank.
> 8.) your ears hurt from your "significant other" yelling at you all the
time
> for buying things that you can't pet, name, train, wear, eat, or even
touch,
> for 50 bucks a pop.
> 9.) you spend 5 hours looking into your tank so that you can get the 5
> second glimpse of that copepod scurrying under the rocks.
> 10.) you stay up all night wondering what that thing in 9.) was, thinking
it
> was a flea that will eat everything from 8.).
> 11.) you know what strontium is.
> 12.) you know what the relationship is between alkalinity (what you used
to
> think was just a type of battery), pH, and calcium.
> 13.) you have an unexplainable urge to see as many other reef tanks as you
> can possibly see, even if it means driving for 8 hours to get to them.
> 14.) you know what the ocean (and fish poop) tastes like from sucking on
> that hose to get the siphon going so you can do the weekly water change in
> your tank. *note: this is only with the newer reefers.
> 15.) you put more fluids into your reef tank in a day, than you put into
> your car in a year.
> 16.) you've got a 3 ft.-high stack of vinyl bags, from bringing all those
> corals home.
> 17.) you've got an entire drawer-full of tiny rubber bands that came with
> the bags in 16.), with which you struggled for an hour to get them off
after
> getting your brand new corals home-"these will come in handy someday", you
> said to yourself at the time.
> 18.) you make up 10 new cuss words after struggling with 17.) to get them
> off of 16.) so that you can admire 8.).
> 19.) you have no idea what Guten Tag means, but you do know the German
word
> for limewater.
> 20.)you always tell your wife, mom, brothers, that your new coral costed
you
> 3 or 4 dollars when it actually was 60 or 70 dollars.
> 21.) you are reading this list. ;)
>
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