In late 2000 there was a post in the usenet group Sci.Astro.Amateur about...

• You reply to Astromart ads of "telescope with eyepieces" with "please send picture of eyepieces."
• You find it difficult to focus because you have a 20mm Nagler in one hand and a 35mm Panoptic in the other.
• Your coat ONLY has 14 pockets.
• You 'lift' the fingerprint before cleaning as evidence at the next family 'trial'.
• You can carry your scope but must wheel the eyepiece box.
• You only need two more eyepieces to fill the 0.1mm focal length gaps from 2mm to 60mm range.
• Al Nagler looks YOU up at star parties.
• While towing your wife's car to the garage, you are seriously trying to convince her that $3000 for used Zeiss orthos is a good deal!
• You have an eyepiece in your lunch box - just in case.
• Your spouse refers to your eyepiece case as 'Glass Acres.'
• You have a framed photo of a Nagler on your wall.
• You look through the toilet paper tube before tossing it in the trash.
• On your Life Insurance policy you name Al Nagler as your sole beneficiary.
• Your kids ride in the trunk...eyepieces in the child car seat.
• Whenever someone wins $5000 on Jeopardy you think,"Wow I could buy 10 Nagler 20mm's with that!"
• Name of first child: "Plossl."
• Whenever Orion Telescope gets an envelope with your name on it they wildly high-five each other and close shop for the day.
• Automatic hair pulling fist fight whenever someone mispronounces Koenig.
• Your spouse and relatives ask what you're ordering and you say "uh... nothin."
• You sell your car to finance a new set of Radians.
• You get Christmas cards from all the leading eyepiece makers.
• You have bumper sticker that reads, "Life is like a Rini eyepiece... You never know what you're going to get.