It's been a while since we last did this, so let's do it again: Where have you seen WoW in your real life world?Umi on WoW Ladies sees BOP, and automatically thinks Bind on Pickup. I was once driving around looking for a party, and had been playing WoW so much lately that when I realized I was lost, my first thought was to type /1 (without a computer in the car, mind you), and ask where the party was in General chat. No one was in the car, but I felt pretty stupid after having a thought like that.
And my favorite lately came from that post on boss quotes the other day. Here's what happened to commenter Thingy at work:
Person 1: "How about we get that stuff in next week?"
Person 2: "Too soon"
Me: "You have awakened me too soon, Executus."
*odd looks from the rest*
Me: *finally realises what I just said*
Funny. Where have you seen WoW in the world?

















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6-14-2007 @ 8:40AM
p3ngu11 said...
I always think "/2 WTB " when I go shopping
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6-14-2007 @ 8:42AM
Don said...
About a week after getting my girlfriend hooked on WoW she calls me from the car and says, "You know, while driving for the last 15 minutes I have been checking the surrounding countryside for copper deposits."
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6-14-2007 @ 8:51AM
Dave said...
I notice that when I'm at business parties, lunches, or get togethers (like we don't see enough of each other during the day) I'm very aware of how much agro I generate. In other words, don't make eye contact, they might come over and talk to you. That sort of thing. This also applies to people who are selling things on the street and such.
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6-14-2007 @ 8:54AM
len said...
Passing roadkill...
"Aw, man, I could've skinned that."
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6-14-2007 @ 8:56AM
chaz said...
I work in downtown Chicago, lots of lunch options. Several of the bigger buildings here have multiple food spots in them and they are named boring things like "401 N Michigan", or "222 W Wacker". When we discuss where we are going to eat, it's no fun to list those buildings. So we have named all the nearby multi-food complexes with instance names. Shadow Labs, Botanica, MC, Underbog, etc all exist near north Michigan ave!
Trying to get non-wowers to just call them that has been a bit of a struggle. They'll come around.
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6-14-2007 @ 8:57AM
Smutcakes said...
I want to punt midgets :(
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6-14-2007 @ 9:01AM
Mad Cow said...
Sigh, I farmed Netherwing rep like a madman this weekend for my drake ... went from honored to exalted in two days (yay eggs). I got it ... but it cost me on Monday.
I'm not repeating what happened ... all I'm going to say is that there are now two girls in this office that think something is seriously wrong with me ... and my co-workers/guildmates won't stop making fun of me. It has gone so far as to have them create a new rank in the guild just for my toons.
To my defense ... I was REALLY tired and did not think before I opened my mouth =/
PS - I know my friends are going to reading this ... I hope you guys DIAF! At least I got drake (chicken).
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6-14-2007 @ 9:03AM
Adorable1 said...
Recently someone was showing me a picture of their daugther, and in my head I was going to ask "Oh.. how old is she?'. But it came out, 'What level is she?'
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6-14-2007 @ 9:05AM
chaz said...
@7
Your post is no fun. Spill the details.
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6-14-2007 @ 9:17AM
Laura said...
In an email I told my boyfriend that we could afford to buy something because it was only X gold. His reply was "gold lol -.-" I had no idea!
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6-14-2007 @ 9:25AM
Seper said...
lol this past sat. my family and I were heading off to my grandparents house for the day. My dad asked are we ready to go?
and I immideatly thought: pfft idiot throw up a /readycheck
i lol'd for a little bit while he sat there wondering what was so funny :p
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6-14-2007 @ 9:26AM
Becca said...
The day I knew I needed to lay of WoW and get some sleep was the day I was coming home from my boyfriend's house and stopped at a stop sign. I looked both ways, didn't see any cars, and naturally I thought to myself "Yea, but there may be some stealhed cars out there waiting to get me".
I told my boyfriend and he laughed for about a week straight.
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6-14-2007 @ 9:26AM
Dongyrn said...
I see patches of wildflowers and itch to pick them... and wonder why the little gold circle didn't show up in my minimap...
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6-14-2007 @ 9:27AM
Sylvina said...
When I see BOP I see Blessing of Protection, but maybe that's just me? :O
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6-14-2007 @ 9:35AM
Kabbalah said...
This one is not too funny, but it's real. When I was assigned to a HR project in the company I work for, I noticed how WoW can be useful in real life. After much debate, we realized we could structure our career plans as talent trees on WoW - as people studied and made progress, they would improve certain "talents" that were linked - so after being considered fully prepared in a certain "talent", a person could pursuit two or three different specialization paths related to that talent, with an increasing salary the "deeper" that person went in one of the trees. They could also go for a "hybrid build", incorporating talents from different trees. Career choices became pretty much like deciding if you're going to be an Elemental/Enhancement/Restoration or Hybrid Shaman!
Since WoW is a big hit between the people who work at this company, everyone quickly understood the concept and what they needed to learn in order to evolve and grow within the company, and where they could eventually get if they invested their time and effort in developing certain talents.
The only hard part was convincing the "conventional managers" that they would have to respec in order to understand these new ideas ;)
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6-14-2007 @ 9:40AM
HiWay said...
@13 wait... you have a minimap irl? what key do i press to turn it on??
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6-14-2007 @ 9:45AM
Daughter Of Kerrigan said...
The quizzical look I received when I said that my work schedule was being "nerfed".
Managers, FTL.
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6-14-2007 @ 9:46AM
Nails said...
my brother bought a huge box of about 100 hamburgers at the beginning of the summer. i bought 20 of them from him.
what did he want as payment, you ask?
$15? no.
15g? yes.
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6-14-2007 @ 9:48AM
treyger said...
pretty much anytime someone walks up to me that i dont want to deal with my first reaction is to frost nova then blink
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6-14-2007 @ 9:49AM
Gargoyle said...
Looking down for hotbars when watching TV...
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