RAS

[Danotron]

When your Wife (or Husband - not to be sexist) says they need to buy a new Toaster and all you can think about is a guitar pickup.

When you picture oven knobs on your guitar and not on an oven.

When 1993, 1997, 1998, etc., no longer represent years.

I could go on.................................I've got it bad

[jimk]

You know you have RAS when......

you hear an unfamiliar band on the sound track of a TV show and you wonder if that twangy guitar is a Rickenbacker.
JimK

[melibreits]

When you're watching music videos and you feel a thrill when you see someone playing a Ric guitar or bass....

[iiipopes]

...when you watch the toast in your Sunbeam chrome toaster and fantasize about your playing being as hot as the nichrome coils as they toast your bread.
(I actually own this exact model of toaster. It's decades old and still toasts perfectly.)

[jimk]

You have at least 1K posts to your credit on the RRF.

You drool all over your keyboard every time Jingle_Jangle posts new pix in Lots Of Projects Nearing Completion.
JimK

[stringsncords]

When your favorite nature shows are about beetles and birds...

[xpitt]

...when you're thinking about what to sell to refund another one...

[cjj]

...and what you're considering selling can never be a Rick...

[scotty]

Well we certainly have it bad folks!!!

[xpitt]

Well we certainly have it bad folks!!!

...we don't have it bad, Scotty, it's just the way it should be...

[scotty]

So whats the going rate for a Kidney?

[xpitt]

...at least a one of...

[electrofaro]

So whats the going rate for a Kidney?

an iPad http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13647438

[scotty]

[Hotzenplotz]

And maybe somebody of his relatives assembles that stuff...

Just evil!