You can count on my vote in the great "You know you've played civ too long when... " Apolyton contest!

I wasn't a religious guy until now, but you showed me the light! You civilized me!

Wicked Witch: Monitor, Monitor, on my Desk, Who is the fairest of them all?

Monitor: Why - Sid Meier is the fairest of them all

Wicked Witch: Hurray, now does anyone fancy a game of civ and an apple? just don't eat the red ones, they're a bit off...

...when you buy your family windows that they can sit behind and brick walls for behind them so your dinner looks like the annual council meeting.

...when you record all of the civII noises and play them on a continuous loop as you go to sleep.

...when you design every desktop icon after a unit in civII.

...when you eat mashed potatoes, you make them into the Great Wall and wonder why people are yelling at you.

When you dream in grasslands and irrigated rivers.
When you block your neighbor's sidewalk, so he can't get to his house (city) or trim his hedges (farm his special) or save his house (palace) from his rambunctious kids (marauding barbs, civs, or cruel warlords).
When you scour the 'net looking for the "Gilligan" scenario.
When, after you don't find it, you create a "Gilligan" scenario--and you put the "Mary Ann" kingdom right next to yours. (Yes, my sweet, let King Gilligan trade fine techs with you.)
When you create your very own calendar, based on the course of "Civ II"--Before Writing(BW), After Gunpowder(AG), 200 moves until Christmas, the holidays of "We Celebrate the Consul" and "We Love the King," the Creation of the Universe at 4000bc, the "I've Got Howitzers!" day you take off from work, the end of the year at "AC Takeoff!"
When you have midi files of the Civ II music on your totally unrelated web site. (And no I don't.)
When you find a "Civilization II" textbook in a college classroom, and you thank Sid Meier for finally updating the manual.
When you cast your very own CIV II movie:
Jesse Ventura as the Military Advisor.
Anne Heche as the Science Advisor (of course she's in drag)
Matthew Broderick as the Trade Advisor.
Lucy Liu as the Foreign Advisor (ooh la,la!)
An overweight Robert De Niro as that Elvis guy. (Unh, huh, thank you very much)
Tyra Banks as the Zulu Warrior Queen
John Goodman as the Viking King
Renee O'Connor as the Celtic Queen
Jackie Chan as Mao Tse Tung
The Donald as the American Big Shot
A very made up Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) as Gandhi
And last, but not least, Howie Long as . . .
THE BARBARIAN KING!

Oh, something I wanted to test...

Civilization for windows
Civnet
Colonization
Civ2
Multiplayer Civ2 (Forget where I got this hack, but it Works!)
Alpha Centauri Demo (don't ask why it's still there)
Alpha Centauri

*Puts MoM onto Father Beast's Civ folder*

When you wonder why the americans got republicans and democrats, but no anarchists, monarchists, fundamentalists and communists in their votes.

And at last: When your forum name is Pol Pot :-))

...When the Civilization folder in my programs menu holds 8 items:

Civilization for windows
Civnet
Colonization
Civ2
Multiplayer Civ2 (Forget where I got this hack, but it Works!)
Alpha Centauri Demo (don't ask why it's still there)
Alpha Centauri
Master Of Magic

Hey, I couldn't resist! it was only 7.84 at walmart.

...When you play ToT and actually miss the high council, wonder movies, and city view. I actually spent 15 minutes in my first city screen looking for the view button.

...when the Civilization folder in the programs menu holds the following:

Civilization for windows
Civnet
Civ2
Multiplayer civ2
Alpha Centauri Demo
Alpha Centauri
Test Of Time
Master Of Magic
Colonization
Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires

...when you have current games on all of them.

...When civ games are the only ones which get a "full install".
...when you're too busy playing civ to visit apolyton.

Dad doesn't really play anymore, but I think my mom plays most every day. She has been playing Civ 2 since not too long after it came out, and she just recently decided she was ready for warlord finally (she crushes the computer at Chieftain, which is what she likes to do)

.... when you wonder why the Eqyptions were a Monarchy in stead of a democray afeter all they had the pryimids.

...when confonted by a geography study guide on ancient civ's in volveing the Hanging Gardens you put down "wonder of the world which gives you 1 extra happy citizen in city ect".(true story afriend of mine... )

...When some one insults Civ you take it personaly...
then you take up arms agienst them...
then you go home and build a two tierd earthen terrace around your house to increase it defence factor...
then you get frustrated be cause you can't send you "Mighty Legions" to crush them.
(first part of thats true)

...when you seriusly consider useing the number of cruise missle hits it takes to sink a battleship in civ 2 as an argument for BB reactivation on the warships1.com battleship reactivaton mesage board, then you rember the time in civ one when you lost you battleship to a defending phalanx.

...when you forget your not actuly the Garyey of Lubuckstan.
...when you forget that there isn't actuly a Republic of Lubuckstan for you to be the Garyey of

...When you've reapedly Mailed letters to the goverment's of China, Russia, and Kazakkhstan about the daznger and Menace which lay right across ther borders in Mongolia

[This message has been edited many times repetedly by RollinThunda (edited January 05, 2001).]

when the only reason you upgrade your computer is so that you can play the upcoming civ3

You believe running a civilization is work, thereby informing the gov't that you need to be paid a civil servants wage

Case Closed!