You Might be a Flashaholic if ...

1) You have an individual flashlight to cover every lumen requirement between 1 and 1,000.
2) "Flashlights" is a category in your household budget.
3) You've considered a career change so you might be able to write flashlights off your taxes as a business expense.
4) You know what a blow/suck test is, and also know it has nothing to do with sex.
5) You own one or more flashlights that cost more than the family TV set.
6) You buy the latest and greatest high resolution digital camera so you can take pictures of your flashlights and their beams.

Please add to the list [Like the Jeff Foxwothy redneck jokes].

you vistit cpf

if cpf is your homepage

if you buy 5 minimags from target at the same time for mods

if your only hobby is flashlights

if it costs more money to mod the lights than the lights cost to begin with

if you pray for power outages

if people call you "flashlightguy"

if your friends say they think your obsession is strange, but constatly play with your flaslights nonetheless

...if you are so into flashlights you start or add to this thread without realizing there already is one:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=16519&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1


(with FOUR pages of posts!) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Sorry about the duplication, and thanx for the link.

Oh no biggie, just thought you might want more examples of our sad yet humorous addiction to Flashoholism...

Oh yeah ... it will take a while to get through that thread.

It is entertaining and somewhat disturbing at the same time.

I'm surprised we haven't seen that many jokes concerning the "blow/suck" test, this_is_nascar had a pretty good one in one of the L4 thread's.

If you can't stop fondling your flashlight(s). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
(aka testing, er, playing with)

If someone says you are too crazy with lights.
Once, my friend Caitlin Williams actually said, "I understand your obsession with computers and Britney Spears, but flashlights?! That's so crazy!"

CPF is my homepage! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

of of the things i said were true... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

I visit CPF so often now that it saves me minutes of my precious time by having CPF as my homepage! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

"...might be able to write flashlights off your taxes as a business expense."

might?!

I've got CPF set as my default page too.
Click an icon on my desktop to connect, then click another icon to launch IE6. Poof, there's CPF. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

...you need a flashlight "RIGHT NOW", but you stand at your collection for at least 2 or more minutes trying to decide which one to take, . . . . . then take 3 or 4, . . . or however many you can fit on your person. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinser2.gif

If you sniff you new light like a fine cigar. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

If people think your having a seizure when you get a new light

If your friends ask you daily how many posts on CPF you have

If your younger sister talks about "Candle Power Fumes" all the time in front of everybody

If the only website you practically ever visit is CPF (and other flashlight websites of course)

If people greet you with a phrase with the word "flashlight" in it all of the time

(All of these apply to me!) /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

I came up with some more....

If you reconfigure your Maglites in your free time to make them colorful and take pictures of them. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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If you have CPF as your homepage on multiple computers! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

you type "flashlights" on Ebay and scroll through all 2324 matching listings /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jpshakehead.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/help.gif

If you're reading this.

Brightnorm

You are sitting in the dark reading threads on CPF and you use the nearest flashlight to look at the wall clock to see what time it is instead of looking at the top of the computer screen.

Had to dig up this thread for that one LOL.