actually, if you don't know what kind of gardening i do, you really haven't been around that long at all. i am sure a site search for "garden" or "fish" will provide a small thread with the answers to that.
... you start talking about the achievements or funny stories of macosx.com members by saying "oh yeah my friend did..." outside of macosx.com. People don't look at you funny any more when you explain how you know them.
you say "backslash, sarcasm" after sarcastic comments, to make sure it wasn't lost in the transcription, even though you're not typing, but you kinda wish you were anyway...