Idle
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
The state of your computer after it goes without use for a certain period of time. When you are idle on IRC, it is customary to change your nick to nick+AFK. If you don't do this, you will come back five hours later to ten million messages. If everyone in a channel is idle, a luser might think that chat isn't working.
[edit] Good reasons to be idle
- Friends marathon
- Shower (pictures plz)
- Something is on fire
[edit] Places to be idle
[edit] Types of Idles
- American Idle is a popular TV show where a bunch of people don't use computers.
- Eric Idle is a funny director.
