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Chokoholics, video-game addicts, manga fiends — tell us how you know when you’ve crossed the line.
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You know you’re addicted to the computer when you ctrl-S before a test.
Cerulean Pyros (on previous thread)~ I’ve had the librarian tell me about a books she though I’d enjoy and then after I’d looked in over and said that I’d check it out she replied “Oh, I already did that for you!”
(2, et al., from previous thread)
Our check-out is completely computerized, but I can rattle off the 14-digit bar code without a blink.
You know you’re addicted to books when the librarian says: “Are you actually going to read all those?” or “Are you in school?”
3~ My library card is 14 digits. Oh yes, the librarians cal our house and say “there’s a huge stack of books here for you all…..”
You know Eragon’s addicted to books after he reads Lord of the Rings at ten years old and Watership Down at nine and a half.
2 (Midnight Fiddler)- I’ve never had librarians check books out on my behalf, although sometimes librarians have looked at a book I was checking out and said things like “Oh, that looks interesting.” Once, one librarian flipped through a book and said “I’ll check that out once you’ve returned it.”
3 (Lady Bunniful)- Our library has a self check-out now, but there are still librarians behind the counter–mainly to answer questions and get books off the hold shelf.
We’ve had the librarians say things like you stated, too. Sometimes they ask my mum if she’s a teacher.
(5) oh yeah Eragon? how about reading Harry Potter 4 when you’re in second grade???
i did.
7–meaning absolutely no disrespect to the brilliant Potter books, you’ve kinda got to admit that they are significantly easier reading then LOTR. And even Watership Down, I would probably say. Don’t get me wrong–I’m not saying their little kid books (hello, resident rabid pottermaniac, here), but…..LOTR is definitely harder reading. Of course, GoF is undeniably a sizable book for a second grader, though if it had been out at the time, I might have gone for it. But, alas, only the first and maybe the second were out at that time, and as it was, I wasn’t introduced to them until I was 8 or 9….and then, the year I turned ten: GoF.
Anyway, on topic:
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you can’t go more than five minute at your computer without punching the refresh button to see if there have been any new comments since you last hit refresh. (Only a slight exaggeration.)
8- Ah ha ha. I used to do that all the time.
I have become addicted to the zippy the pinhead comic strip recently. I have dug out every single zippy annual an have read half of all seven of them. Look up the strip-but remember NEVER try to make sense of the strip!
You know that your addicted to books when you read eragon and eldest in THIRD GRADE!
11 – That doesn’t mean you’re addicted, that just means you can read well at an early age. That’s what I did with Eragon, except now I’m hardly addicted – I hate it.
The librarians at my school know enough not to ask if I’m “actually going to read all of those”. They know I will, and I don’t care about due dates either.
My current selection of about ten are about a month overdue. I check out books en mass.
Well, believe it or not, I was in third grade when I read it. I didn’t really catch me until I was 8, although I’m sure I had the linguistic capability.
I have an overlarge, overflowing heap of a vocabulary.
14 – I read it in third grade too, like I did with Harry Potter so, yes, I can believe that. I liked it at the time, but now it’s just an annoying rip-off to me.
Brisingr was far better. Eragon was…bleh….Eldest was…*claps*…Brisingr was….rockingly awesome!
PAOLINI SPOILERS.
16 – Eldest deserves *claps*? Hardly. What does Murtagh say at the end but “Eragon, I am your brother. Morzan is your father.” Also, Eragon falls in love with a girl he can’t have. And turns part-elf. And Eragon is:
Eragon finds something. Thing grants him mysterious powers. Eragon rekindles long-lost race. Brom becomes old, wise mentor who promptly dies. Eragon finds secret, rebellious organization. Eragon joins secret, rebellious organization.
17 – Ah, sorry about that. I meant to include a spoiler warning, but it must have slipped my mind…
5- How about Charlotte’s Web when you’re three? Of Mice and Men, Animal Farm, and others at 3rd grade? Hmm? I actually understood them, too.
I read animal farm in… 4th grade i think… wow, SBF, when did you learn to read?
One of my friends read the Scarlet Letter in fourth grade. She read it again in English class this year (I think), and after rereading it, she says that she fully understand it in 4th grade.
7-HP 4 summer after kindergarten.
Strange- I hated reading in first grade and before, but never had trouble. The someone gave me a fantasy book at the beginning of second grade and I loved it. I spent more of third and fourth grade in Narnia and Emelan then on earth…
19 – Charlotte’s Web when you’re three? That’s incredible. Most people can’t even read by that age.
I learned to read when I was three, Ithough it was mostly non-fiction books about animals. My kindergarden teacher was amazed that I knew the meaning of the word “vegetation”.
I could read at 4 or 5, but I hid it from my parents because I thought that if I read to myself, they’d stop reading to me! They found out when I asked what a word on a street sign meant.
24–when I was little (pre-kindergarten), I didn’t see the point in learning to read, because that was what my parents and sister were for. Then, the summer before kindergarten, my parents finally convinced me to learn…….and in kindergarten, I was reading kid chapterbooks (y’know, boxcar children, hardy boys, etc)
3–Ha ha, that happens to me almost every time. Except now I get weird looks because I usually have as many graphic novels or drawing books as regular books.
17–Sounds familiar, somehow…dragon-rider/x-wing pilot…?
On reading–I knew the alphabet at two, but learned to read at 4 (hooray for Green Eggs and Ham
). I still remember reading my birthday cards on my fifth birthday, and the parents at the party thought I was pretending.
In kindergarten I remember I had to go to another classroom for reading time because I was reading at a 3rd/4th grade reading level.
You know you’re addicted to Kingdom Hearts when:
• You own all the game consoles just so you can play all the Kingdom Hearts games
• Whenever you watch a Disney movie, you say, “What? That’s not how it happened in Kingdom Hearts!”
• Whenever you see a key, you think, “Keyblade”.
• Whenever you see Donald Duck, Goofy, or Mickey Mouse, you don’t think “Cartoon character”, you think “Fierce warrior”.
I can probably think of some more in time…
22- I learned how to read when I was 2.
Okay, no bragging here about how early you learned to read, guys…
(*coughcough two or three *coughcough*) I asked my parents to stop reading to me when I was four. I’ve always hated being read to.
Anyway…
28 – What’s Kingdom of Hearts?
*appears out of the shadows*
I don’t doubt anyone’s intelligence, nor do I accuse anyone of lying, but I think we’re too busy trying to outdo one another that we’ve begun convincing ourselves of fantastic reading abilities in order that the guilt of fudging the truth bothers us no longer.
Early language/reading skills mean nothing about intelligence. Einstein didn’t say a word until after his fourth birthday.
*disappears into the shadows*
31 – Haha, I know. And I’m not lying.
I’m not lying, either. You know you’re addicted to 1984 when you start using Newspeak in daily life.
33–hey, I believe you. My sister (or so I’ve heard, Iwas just a baby) learned to read at 2 (or maybe 3) as well.
Been there. In eighth grade another boy and I used to greet each other by shouting “Bellyfeel Ingsoc!”
35–huh?
35- Ha ha!
Kingdom Hearts? Dunno, it’s some sort of video game:
13~ 10 books at a time?
I’ve been know to do that. And more, if you want en masse look at my mom, she takes at least three bookbags to the library to carry the cartload that she checks out. It’s amusing.
Reading ages…wow, I’m impressed.
My parents actually tried to keep me from reading until I was about 7 or 8, but that failed. I insisted that I learn to read ASAP and I was maybe around 4 or 5 before I won the argument. However, once I started I wad finished with “How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” in very short time, since I had a fit if we did any less than 3 lessons a day, sometimes more. By the time I was aproximately halfway through I’d read Ramona Quimby Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (first real book I read, while my lessons were still only a few sentences long) and then kept on going, reading an embarrassingly large number of pulp fiction books. I could usually read at least 5 in a week, depending on how long they were.
I think I was around 7 or 8 when I discovered the Harry Potter books. I don’t even know how old I was when I read most of the Anne of Green Gables series, maybe 9, but I don’t remember. I didn’t finish them because at that age the later books didn’t make sense-never having been in love or fathomed having children of my own it was a little much even for my hyperactive imagination.
By the age of perhaps 11 or 12 I was completely addicted to Shakespeare. Still am, as a mater of fact.
Hmm, this thread seems to have turned into a reading and library thread and the telltale signs of our hopelessness in their power…….
(5-39) Yes, yes, we know you’re all very clever. That’s the starting point.
40 – Okay, we’ll stop discussing it.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you have dreams about it.
Dreams about muse blog? About what? Posting things? I doubt any of us are guilty of dreaming about the blog. But yes, I am addicted.
(42) Several people have written about their MuseBlog dreams. And GAPAs have been known to dream about it, too.
You know you’re addicted to the computer when you command-Q at the end of the day.
42 – Oh, I’ve done it.
…I dreamt about having a Kokon and we went through a corn maze and I got pied in the face with a pumpkin pie… so, yes, I have dreamt about MB. Multiple times, actually.
Yum, pumpkin. One of the nicest pies to have oozing down your face.
A pumpkin-pie facial, you say? It will soon be all the rage at the day spa, dahling….
I have my library card number from home memorized and then once I got the one that works here at college I had it memorized 15 minutes after I got it.
I don’t know when I learned to read. Before kindergarten sometime I think. I read the Hobbit Dec. 00 (age ten) to probably January or so and then I read the Fellowship of the Ring etc. I kept getting distracted by other books so I finished The Return of the King in 2003. One thing I’m glad of is that I read each book before its respective movies. Also I had heard of the books before I’d heard there were going to be movies. Pretty soon kids will grow up having known about the movies their whole lives.
You know you’re addicted to Phantom of the Opera when:
-You keep eyeing the chandelier above your head warily
-You start signing all your corresponences “O.G.”
-The sign on your locker says “Death to Raoul”
-You are overjoyed when you hear songs in your head
-You have named your school auditorium “The Opera Populaire”
and since most of those are way too close to true for me…
You know you’re addicted to LOTR when:
-All your passwords are “mellon”
-You start saying “eleventy-one” instead of 111, and you refer to potatos as “taters”
-There are more LOTR posters in your room than pictures of family and friends
-Your favorite things are your “precioussss”
-You feel proud that you’re short, because even the smallest person can change the course of the future
-You think the whole world has changed. You feel it in the water.
-You know what LOTR, FOTR, TTT, ROTK, BOLT and Sil stand for and use them often.
-If someone jokingly asks you if you speak elvin, you say “quenya or sindarian?” (guilty)
49 – The LOTR… I am slightly guilty…
~You know you’re addicted to math when all your online usernames are complex math formulas.
~ You know you’re addicted to reading when you have quotes from Shakespear in your emails
~You know you’re addicted to Neopets.com when someone asks for a paint brush in art class and you yell, “SCAM!” (You may or may not get this one, considering whether you play Neopets or not.)
51a- also when your usernames are all shapes… *not guilty if you count things from more than a year and a half ago*
I think I’ve had a couple of Kokon dreams.
You know you’re addicted to Phantom of the Opera when you plan on replicating the Phantom’s room in your own house just so you can smash all the mirrors one day.
I’ve had a few Kokon dreams. They’re always fun, and it’s disappointing when I wake up. D:
51 – Yes! Someone else who plays neopets! I totally get it. Do you remember Dupe Day?
You know you’re addicted to “Arthur” when you know Mr. Ratburn’s full name. It’s Nigel Charles Ratburn, if you were wondering.
49–ok, I get LOTR, FOTR, TTT, and ROTK, but what does BOLT stand for?
35- Here are some conversations on that subject:
Female Friend (FF): Hey, look at my drawing.
Me: Doubleplusgood!
FF: Huh?
And another:
Male Friend (MF): I can’t stop thinking about her.
Me: The Party encourages celibacy! Thoughtcrime, thoughtcrime!
MF: Huh?
And another:
(at school, watching inauguration. Obama is sworn in.)
All: Yay! Yay!
Me: Down with Big Brother! Two minutes of Hate, everybody! Look at the telescreen!
All: Huh?
I want to greet sombody by saying “I’ts a pleasure to meet you. I hope you never find a live turtle in your soup.”(I got it from Dilbert!) But I haven’t met any new people lately. Guess I’ll just wait ’till the next ‘phyte comes along
Ooh, The Phantom of the Opera sounds good.
I’m going to read 1984 for my English book club. I was going to wait until I read it Honors Government my senior year, but all the other options were a) Victorian romances (and I love Austen and her cohorts dearly, but I can’t take any more right now) or b) A Man for All Seasons (which would be nice because I would get to write about King Henry VIII, but which sounds extremely boring as far as stories go) or c) something I’ve already read. There was Angela’s Ashes as well, but there can only be one group of that and half the class wants to read it and I didn’t really want to read it, so I signed up for 1984 instead.
And to be on topic…
You know you’re addicted to reading when you don’t need a nightstand table because the stack of books by your bed is so high.
(Not guilty).
You know that your addicted to carrots when your body becomes tinted
(not guilty myself but my sis’s fave(only one she would eat) baby food was mushy carrots)
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
You know you’re addicted to science fiction when you always use up the black colored pencils first because you draw so many space scenes!
56–good question…Bob’s ‘Orrible Lyrics from Tolkien?
60- That happened to Arnold on the Majic School Bus.
(63) I should write that, but I suspect it refers to the Book of Lost Tales.
64–mkay…..by the way, your post is referring to the wrong number, 63, instead of 62.
Took me a while to figure out who you were talking to……and what about.
59-I am guilty of this!
You know you’re
addictedhaunted by Donnie Darko when you’re greeting phrase to other fans is “Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!”, your cell phone banner says “Selador”, you’ve written “They Made Me Do It” all over margins in homework papers, and you’re scared to death of bunny suits.38- That game cover is FAKE!!!
17- I found this while surfing the net:
A boy of foggy origins lives with his uncle in a remote place of a vast empire headed by an evil Emperor and his right hand man, who was once prominent in an ancient order of guardians with mystical powers.
Through fate or luck, depending on your point of view, this boy comes into the possession of an object vital to a rebellion against the Empire; this object was inadvertently sent to him by a princess in the rebellion, who had attempted to send said object to an old man who once belonged to the same order of guardians as the Emperor’s right-hand man.
This boy seeks the old man to learn of the ways of this ancient order, but eventually has to return to his uncle’s farm, which, the boy finds, has been destroyed by fire, and his uncle killed. The boy then sets off with the old hermit, who also gives him a sword which belonged to his father. As they travel, they train. The boy meets up with a rogue who is full of surprises, but turns out to be fiercely loyal, for all his proclaimed selfishness. The boy also begins “seeing” a beautiful woman imprisoned and in need of help.
The boy decides that he needs to rescue her, even though he doesn’t know her; further, he thinks of her only as beautiful. Long story short, the old hermit dies to protect the boy, the boy and the rogue help the beautiful damsel escape.
They then set off to the rebellion to give important information and return the object which the princess had sent the boy. They were followed by the Empire, and prepare for a giant battle that will either save the rebellion or annihilate them.
The boy proves his worth with heroics during the battle, but his crowning achievement is his destruction of a noun of much power that has the ability to destroy lots of things. The boy is aided in this by one of his friends, who arrives at precisely the right moment.
The boy is lauded a hero.
The boy has a hallucination of a powerful master who can teach him more of the ancient order. The boy travels to the powerful master to learn the ways of the ancient order’s mystical power. While there, he grows very powerful. While he is away, the Rebellion regroups in a new area.
Just when the boy is on a roll with his training, and has grown very powerful, he has a vision of his friends in great danger. He decides he must go to help them. His master warns him not to go. The boy promises that he will return. He leaves.
He finds his friends just in time and is able to distract the enemy so that his friends will remain safe. He finds out that his father was the right-hand man of the Emperor–his father was the one who betrayed the ancient order and helped kill them.
The boy is shocked and ultimately defeated, but not killed. He finds out that someone dear to him has been taken by evil people, and promises to find this person.
68 – Definitely. I’m not sure they’re even going to make a kingdom hearts 3 – one called that anyways.
69- Tetsuya Nomura’s been hinting they’re making it, but if it happens, it won’t be out for a LONG time. That cover was a fan-made one based on the trailer for Birth by Sleep.
67- Love that movie. It is the best in black and white. The projector we were using wouldn’t play it in colour but it is awesome in black and white.
56- Book of Lost Tales.
Oh! and on the subject of LotR about six of us started singing part of the LotR soundtrack spontaneously. I love college sometimes. I am surrounded by fellow nerds and it is splendid.
You know you’re addicted to harry Potter when the guy at the ticket booth says, “Kid, don’t you have school?”
You know you’r addicted to Harry Potter when you can answer the question: what is James Potter’s wand’s length?
75-There’s a thread for answering questions of that sort.
You know you’re addicted to procrastination when you have an entire weekend to: write an english paper, study biomed terminology, and do readings for the next week, and only start on it Sunday afternoon.
guilty, obviously. I managed not to do anything yesterday, and then at about 11pm, my roommate, a couple of her friends, and I decided we were hungry and we went out to steak’n’shake……and it was past midnight before we even had our food. ’twas great fun, I’ve never done someting like that before (go out to grab food with friends, esp. at that time of night)
You know you’re addicted to underwater exploration when you stay up past your bedtime on a school night to watch a documentary about the Titanic.
You know you’re addicted to photography when you’re late for work because you stopped to take pictures of the way the sunlight hits against the shower wall.
You know you’re addicted to Kingdom of Loathing when you start treating your pork roast as currency.
you know you’re addicted to slacking off when the third and fourth pages of your five-page essay are filled with lipsum.
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77- You know that when you’re starting your book report, math hw, and studying for a chinese test at ten o’clock at night the night before it’s due.
77- You have Steak ‘N Shakes there? I’ve been to a couple, but only when traveling. We filled out a comment card saying that they should put some in our area, but so far no luck.
83–yup, they’ve got one here. Probably because it’s a college town, so they get a lot of business, I would imagine. When we were there (at midnight) it was very busy–one would have thought it was dinner time or something.
They seem to have a fair number of them in the mid-west/south-east. Don’t think they really have any on the west coast…..But your from Nebraska, right? Seems odd they don’t have one there.
(83, 84) I understand they have quite a cult following. Though I never paid any mind to the one here, I’m curious about it now after Roger Ebert wrote an affectionate tribute on his blog the other day.
84- Yeah. There were a bunch when my family drove back from DC a couple of years ago, but when we got to Iowa, they disappeared. Nebraska has a place called Runza, though. Only in Nebraska.
Dang. Now a shake sounds really good. Banana, to be specific.
((SFTDP))
85- You should go. You can get a really good burger, fries, and a half-and-half shake. A pretty big shake at that. (Wow, I sound like an advert for this place.)
85–They are pretty good. And not too expensive (only about 8 bucks for a meal and a huge shake). I’ve not decided how I feel about their fries, though. They’re seriously shoestring fries–their diameter is about half that of a typical shoestring fry (like from McDonalds). As a result, they’re a bit too small to have much flavor to them, unless you eat them five at a time……
83-88 – Never heard of it. What is this you speak of?
77: Sunday afternoon? I’ve left off homework of that sort to 20 minutes before class!
now that is true procrastination!
I still got full credit, as well!
You know you’re addicted to a certain thread when you suffer symptoms of depression when you see that no one has posted anything new.
Only slightly exaggerating.
88- More fries, more surface area on which to hold your milkshake. I’ve never been able to have a shake and french fries without dipping the fries into the shake.
89- It’s a chain restaurant called Steak ‘N Shake, which specializes in hamburgers, fries, and, of course, milkshakes. Delicious, delicious milkshakes.
Hehe… You know you’re addicted to a restaurant when you spend half a dozen posts straight discussing it, even though you’ve only been there twice.
Speaking of cold, sugary dairy products, has anyone else been to Ted Drewe’s in St. Louis?
You know you’re addicted to MB when, while you’re waiting for GAPAs to moderate your posts and for more people to post, you keep clicking the “Previous Posts” link until you get back to the time at which you first posted. *guilty*
You know you’re addicted to shopping when you have to see a pharmacist (sp?) for prescriptions regarding your painful credit card rash.
(How was that?
)
92–I s’pose. Except, although I have always been partial to eating fries and ice cream, I’ve never actually like them physically mixed together (as in, my fries dipped in my ice cream). Although, come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve actually tried dipping any of the numerous times I’ve had the two together….. *note to self, try dipping fries in shake*
You know you’re addicted to online tv when you:
watch all the back episodes of several tv shows,instead of either reading (haven’t even touched the book I started on the plane, and it’s a good book, too) or doing homework
have, in the two weeks since starting school back up, watched every single back episode of Bones (at least 4 seasons), as well as all the Mentalist (only 13 episodes, but still).
No wonder college life is so…..I dunno–dull. gah–I hate spending hours watching this crap (not that all are crap–bones has got to be the funniest show I’ve ever seen), and yet I can’t seem to stop…..
93- How can you even get a credit card rash?
You know you’re addicted to museblog when you get all worked up when your name isn’t on the Happy Birthday thread.
(96) We can remedy that if you tell us (or remind us) what it is.
It’s the halfway point of winter.
Sorry to make things difficult… February fourth.
My inability to plan anything must be getting worse as I get older. It’s in two days and we’re just slapping things together over here!
Ah well, the trees always celebrate with me.
Not difficult at all. Check the calendar.
64–Ah, there we go. Although the alternative might be more interesting, albeit annoying.
77–Somehow, in all my travels of the east coast restaurants, the Steak N’ Shakes sounded the least appetizing. I mean, I know it isn’t steak in a shake, but I don’t think those two food items should combined in one phrase. Besides, In N’ Out chocolate shakes rule ALL.
Speaking of regional restuarants, anyone a Cracker Barrel fan? (This is getting into southern comfort food…yum). We go there at least once every trip back east. I always get the pancake meal.
100–cracker barrel’s not bad. I think everytime I’ve gone there I’ve gotten chicken fingers, though. (It’s almost guaranteed when I go to a restaurant that I will get one of two things: chicken fingers, or bbq ribs.)
I think my three favorite restaurants are TGIF, Applebees, and Chili’s (I LOVE ribs). And they actually exist in Alaska (the restaurants, I mean). However, I have had the fortune to visit a Ruby Tuesday in the recent years, and they have pretty good ribs–but more importantly, their cheese fries are to die for. They’re not the typical fast food cheese fries, glop some nacho cheese ont he fries. They make real cheese fries, like Outback, only better: real cheese–cheddar, mozzarella, and bacon its sprinkled generously over steaming hot, deliciously seasoned fries. And they don’t go skimpy on the cheese, either. Seriously, if you’ve never been to one, GO. I think they’re in darn near every state except Alaska.
I love ribs too! However, I hardly ever go to those restaurants
97- I was so upset last year! Just a reminder, it’s May 28, 96, same as Syllabub (same hospital, birthing classes, and playcare, too!). My favorite colour is deep purple at the moment.
95- Hey, it could happen.
100- Never been. The closest one to us is in Mass, so I’m not sure if I’ll ever go.
(103) Once you’re in the master file, your birthday appears automatically. But I did add your favorite color. We can change it later if your sentiments have altered by May.
100- I go there every three weeks or so. Best chicken and dumplings at any chain restaurant anywhere. Is it really mainly out East? I’ve seen quite a few around Nebraska and Iowa. I love how every single one is decorated and laid out in the exact same way. Most even have the same antiques in the same places. And nothing beats lounging on one of the rocking chairs on the porch after a huge meal.
I wish I could name some smaller, family-owned restaurants where I live, but that would, alas, give away my top-secret location to strange men in trenchcoats.
This is so random, but so fun.
You know you’re addicted to too many books/movies/fandoms/etc. when you can’t decide which to use for a screenname/greeting/conversation.
(guilty)
106- Guilty.
104- my favorite colors right now are lime green and teal. (well no actually. my favorite colors are pretty much anything but pink and olive green)
106/107- i too feel the guilt of such an act, however i figured that a name like “taekwondogirl” is more original than something such as “harrypotterfan1234” or “twilight.is.the.greatest.book.ever.fan.club.” (which is something i have an objection to) seeing as not very many people even know how to pronounce tae kwon do, much less do a class of it.
108-that’s what I thought too, so I use un-fandom related nicknames that my friends give me, like Pax or Lirpa or Blank.
108/109–I, apparently, have no qualms whatsoever about a fandom related name…….I’m quite happy with it, much better than my first blog name (my real name), although, I only had one fandom from which I had to choose, as HP is my only true book obsession. I mean, I like (even love) plenty of other books, but…..not to the same extent.
And, I have no concern about it being a transient affliction, with the need to soon change to another fandom name, or a neutral nonfandom name, as I have been a “rabid” pottermaniac since…..OotP (cuz I despised Harry’s attitude–makes lots of sense, huh?), so 2003. Nearly 6 years, so no fear of my feelings changing…..
Anyway, clearly I am rambling for no good reason, so…….I’m gonna go see who it was who just sent me an email.
You know you’re addicted to band when you have actually heard the statement, “Did that just go into the tuba?” out loud.
you know you’re addicted to drugs when you read a fanfic and it actually makes sense……
you know you’re addicted to Harry Potter when:
-you dislike the movies because they got so many things wrong
-you have a fit when you see the tracks to your HP audiobook are out of order on the computer (guilty)
-you know so much trivia from the books you can tell when the robes in the movie are the wrong color
-etc.
113: Guilty (Hermione’s ule ball dress was periwinkle!). All the way.
114: that was the exact example I was thinking of! But Lockhart…
114–I know! How could they do that??????? Who cares if they were using blue screens, and blue wouldn’t’ve worked, they should’ve figured out a way to make it work.
103- I’m exactly one year and four days older than you!!!
116- The whole “wearing blue against a blue screen” thing isn’t a problem these days. Either they shoot on a green screen or fix it in the computer. That’s why the Senate Guards in The Phantom Menace had blue uniforms, but in the Original Trilogy, almost nobody in the effects-heavy shots wears blue, if you notice.
118–Well, according to something I read (yeah, I know, don’t believe everything you read) that was what the producer/director/whomever peoples said was the reason they put Hermione in pink instead of blue. Just proves they’re liars.
118 – Yes, that’s what I was about to say. There are green screens, you know. Evil movie people.
SFTDP.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you use ‘en’ in a school essay. (Guilty. It was for Government.)
121–I’ve been having a hard time not using it in my english essay, as I’ve got this one sentence that goes: “…..he/she……his/her……..” and it is so annoying sounding.
122 – Use it! Why not? Just remember to put a footnote explaining.
123–i don’t want to give the teacher any reason to give me a bad grade. She already pretty much said that everyone is going to get a C at best on our first submission of our papers. And then proceeded to assure us that C’s were perfectly decent grades, as they are average, only someone who exhibits “writing skills strongly unusual for freshman students” will get an A. “A ‘C’ is earned for competence.”
I really need a good grade, not a C, because I really need to get an A in the course, and starting with a lower grade on my first paper really isn’t the way to go…….
124 – Ah. Well, that is awfully annoying. I just use ‘en’ now.
124) Since when do teachers need excuses ?
68) you know, that summary also applies to Star Wars (the first part of the old trilogy): *eragon rant*
124–good question. They probably don’t, but it’s best not to supply them willingly, regardless.
125–*is confused* I thought he was posting a description of Star Wars? With the intent of showing how Eragon ripped it off? As that seems to be the general consensus?
128) I saw it as eragon first… never mind. I guess it’s just a two-way thing.
129–I dunno. He could’ve meant Eragon, for all I know. *shrugs* It does fit both.
127 – It’s a summary of how Eragon is a ripoff of Star Wars (which is is).
You know you’re addicted to Warriors when you draw parallels between it and Twilight (BramblexSquirrelxAsh = EdwardxBellaxJacob). And you don’t even like Twilight.
I’ve also figured out a long list of parallels between Warriors and Harry Potter:
• ThunderClan/Gryffindor: brave, portrayed as “best” Clan/house, most main characters in it
• WindClan/Hufflepuff: loyal and hardworking, thought of as weak
• ShadowClan/Slytherin: Portrayed as evil, sneaky, proud
• RiverClan/Ravenclaw: I’m not sure, but they’re kind of similar.
• Prophecy about main character
• Some characters prejudiced against because of blood(half-Clan/Muggle-born)
• When evil character takes over, characters are killed for being half-Clan/Muggle-born
• Character who holds an important position, acts as a mentor to main character, and has piercing blue eyes
112- You wouldn’t know about that from experience, would you? *raises one eyebrow*
121- I’ve always wanted to do that, but I don’t want to have to explain it all to my teacher. I still might, though.
131- I don’t really see it as a “rip-off”. I see it as whatever-the-author’s-name-is just went through and changed a few names and minor facts, then sold it off as something original.
Does anyone know anything about that new movie about Star Wars fans? I don’t know when it comes out or what the title is, but I read an article about it while sitting in the waiting room at the dentist’s office a while ago.
133 – That’s practically the definition of a rip-off.
133- Fanboys. It’s called Fanboys.
135- That was it. I couldn’t think of it for some reason. I hope they release it in more cities; it looked pretty good.
134- I suppose I was just trying to emphasize that it was a bigger-than-average rip-off.
You know you’re addicted to Spanish when you start talking to your pets in it.
You know you’re addicted to Spanish if you start thinking in it. (Guilty.)
You know you’re addicted to overachieving when you have nearly run out of classes to take senior year because you have taken so many things in previous years. (Guilty, probably. When the time comes. I have my future planned out until senior year, but I need to more quarter electives and can’t find any.)
136- Ooh, I used to call my cat Gatito.
I speak no foreign languages except a little Hebrew. Ah, well. Most definitely not addicted to that!
You know you’re addicted to hating Twilight when the very name sends spasms through your body. Addicted might be the wrong concept, but – GUILTY!
Reading thru and seeing several mentions of phantom of the opera I must say that I love it. I have a framed poster signed by the whole cast of the brodway show and a piano book with the songs in it
Continuing the discussion on Spanish (which could more fittingly go into the Coy Woodnesse thread), my Latin sub today said she was a former Spanish teacher, so I responded in Spanish to any class-wide questions she asked. I’m not sure if she noticed, though.
138- I call my cat that as well. To alleviate any tension among anyone present, I also have a dog.
You know you’re addicted to Spanish (or another language) when you start disliking English because of its idiosyncrasies, rule exceptions, and general ugliness. (Proudly guilty.)
You know you’re addicted to A Hat Full Of Sky if:
-You always talk fluent Feegle
-You’re terrified of standing between to mirrors
-You’re either terrified of, or obsessed with, the written word
-You call all your enemies Annagramma
-You have read the dictionary all the way through
-You keep having to tell people the proper meaning of literally
-You dream of owning a virtual pointy hat
-When you think someone might be crazy, you say they’re “cackling”
-Your favourite phrase is “see me”
-You see identical twins and ask if they’re one person with two bodies
-If you ever hear a person use a word that sounds like “geese”
you ask if they mean the magic kind or the bird
-You see a picture of an eye and you ask whose eye it is
-You know Miss Tick’s full name
– You always check to see that a hat is resistant to at least 80% of falling farm houses before you buy it
132- Finally somebody gets it! Warriors RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know you’re addicted to stupidity if you’re YOU!
You know you’re addicted to the piano piece ‘Heart and Soul’ when you start tapping the ‘heart’ part on your knee whenever you get bored.
You know your addicted to books if you can’t stand movies made from them because they always get things wrong, you keep a memorized glossary of every made-up language you read and correct everyone’s pronounciation, and you can read The Anybodies and know every book they’re referring to (they never use titles).
100% guilty.
Don’t get me started on every mistake movies made from books make, but the 2 worst atrocities I’ve ever seen are the movies The Animorphs and the movie Eragon.
145- I hate when they make big mistakes on movies. In the Golden Compass book, it was much more dramatic, and in the movie they didn’t kill either of the characters that they were supposed to!!!!
I love those books(the dark materials series), but the movie had nothing on the book.
Love the book, hate the movie. It’s one of my sayings.
142 – I couldn’t have put it any better. I’m guilty of some, and I also tried the ‘see me’ thing. Well, I was going to. Then I heard a buzzing noise and didn’t. (It turned out to be a children’s game, but that’s another story.)
147–Me too, except for LOTR. That’s the only book/movie set I can think of where I liked the movie better. Even with the Princess Bride, the book is better than the movie (if that’s even possible).
149 – No… with me, the books are ALWAYS better. I have only one exception, but I can’t remember it right now.
149- I agree on LOTR, but Princess Bride? I’m gonna have to say that they’re about the same.
148- Well, some were realistic and some were just “out there.” I’m not guilty of them all, but I’m guilty of a lot. Especially the first one! Ach, get oon with ye noo, ye scunner!
P.S. Should I write one about Wintersmith or have you not read it yet? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s the sequell to A Hat Full Of Sky.
The Princess Bride movie was so much better than the book! I love that movie, except for the mushy bits.
I rarely see movies that were based off books that I’ve read, because it kind of spoils it, and I’m usually too busy comparing the two, I don’t really enjoy the movie. My dad won’t let me see the LOTR, because he thinks they’re too gory. Hmph. What does he think I am, a girl? Oh, wait, I am…
One exception to my general rule was Ella Enchanted. Good book, good movie, but they were so different that it was like the movie had nothing to do with the book.
Never seen the Narnia movie, nor Eragon, nor any HP movies after PoA, because it was so horrible, and people said they just got worse. I did see some trailers, though, and, well, lets just say I’m never going to watch it unless I’m in a soundproof room with plenty to throw.
I suppose these are all symptoms of an addiction I should go into rehab for, yes? Oh well.
You know you’re addicted to collecting quotes when:
-It says so in your SCREENNAME, for heaven’s sake
– you have quotes written on/ taped/wallpapered to every bit of space in your bedroom
-you are contagious, and you’ve infected your little brother
-you would die without your notebook of quotes, because it is your only real friend… *sniff*
GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!
153- *high fives* I agree with you on all the book/movie things!
153- Just popping in to say that I have to absolutely have to disagree with “…Ella Enchanted. Good book, good movie…”
Good book, yes. Good movie? … *twitches*
Not so much. But that’s just my opinion.
I saw The Princess Bride the other day too. I dunno, I think I would have liked it a lot if I hadn’t read the book, but I can’t really tell as of now. There’s just too much of a comparison.
153–But the mushy bits were nice, too! Very sweet.
I really enjoyed that movie, both the times I’ve seen it (first when I was 12, more recently here at college). I’ve not read the book, so I can’t honestly say if the movie does it justice. I think I”m a bit afraid to read the book, as it might spoil my opinion of the movie. And I really like the movie, I don’t want to learn that it was actually crap.
The book doesn’t turn the movie into crap, at least not for me. The movie isn’t less awesome, the book is just…more awesome.
153- but the movie doesn’t have Macpherson. Macpherson and I are pretty close.
154- *high fives back*
155- I thought it was funny, and I like funny. That’s also why I liked the PB
156- I didn’t really like the book, I liked the movie, though. I think I’ve said that…
157- Ah, well. Miracle Max makes up for it, in my humble opinion.
I love Princess Bride. It’s the only movie for which I sprung money to buy on iTunes. Now I can watch it anywhere. In my opinion, that’s possibly the most quotable movie out there.
I LOVED the Princess Bride movie. Then I read the book and it was even better (except for the dumb part in the begining where the author put in his biography and the parts where he interrupts the story). It’s the only movie made out of a book I like.
OK, does ANYBODY want me to do one for “you know you’re addicted to Wintersmith”
160- Ah, but that wasn’t the author at all! It was the abridger. I took the longest time figuring that out. I think he gets too much credit.
A friend of mine said that there really is no S. Morgenstern (you know you’re addicted to the Princess bride when you don’t have to check S.Morgenstern) and Billy Goldman actually wrote it, making up all the stuff about florinese exoperts and stuff like that.
(161) The “abridger” is an invention of the author. Or, more properly perhaps, the author is an invention of the “abridger.”
162- :/ Really? Woah.
*wikipedia’s*
Or would it be the other way around?
Now I am thoroughly confused and also feeling a little sheepish.
(163) Just to add to the confusion, you were writing at the same time I was revising my comment.
162/4- Ah, okay.
…
Holy wung, a further investigation of William Goldman’s Wikipedia page is telling me that pretty much of the “abridger’s notes” are completely false as well. Holy wung. My world has thusly been turned upside down.
160–166– *is lost*
166- You honestly didn’t figure that out? I mean, it took me a while, but… yeah, I agree, it’s annoying. End conversation.
166- Well, that’s what I’d figured while reading it anyway, but I wasn’t sure.
You know you’re addictedd to The Princess Bride if:
– After rhyming something you think “oh, I’ve just pulled a Fezzik.”
– If anyone tells you someone’s dead you say “Tell them to say hi to Vizzini for me”
– Your favorite quote is “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
– You take fencing and wish to someday be a wizard like Inigo.
– Every Halloween, you draw parallel slash marks on your face.
– You’re terrified of nameless machines.
– If you want someone to notice you, you answer their every command with “As you wish.”
– You have a horse called Horse
168- Well… I did think some of the things he said were a little implausible, but wow. I totally fell for it. *gullible*
… Let’s get back on topic.
You know you’re gullible when:
-You only figure out S. Morgenstern is the same man as William Goldman when Lady B. explicitly points it out to you
-You believe your Bio teacher when she tells the class she’s quitting teaching to breed guinea pigs upstate
I’m rather embarrassed to admit the second one is a true story as well.
170 – Woah… they’re the same person??? o.0
171- Apparently so. The whole saga can be tracked, comments 160 to 166. -_-
-giggle- For a while I felt sure that there was actually a place called Florin. At some point I realized that I was thinking of Florence, in Italy, and that Florin and Guilder were actually kinds of money.
173- I knew about Florence, but I didn’t know about the money.
One of my classmates is completely obsessed with the PB, and I made a couple of my friends watch it with me once. Now we sometimes go around school saying ‘Hello my name is Inigo Montoya…’ It’s great fun. Very quotable movie, and I love quotes!
You know you’re addicted to negativity if you’re me!
You know you’re addicted to Scooby Stories if you can quote every episode you’ve seen.
Episode 1: Scooby “You push me like that again I’m probably gonna go to the moon!”
Barney “Cool, you can bring me back some cheese.”
Scooby “Cheese? What are you talking about?”
Barney “There’s cheese on the moon.”
Scooby “OK, and there’s hair in your brain.”
Episode 2: Scooby “And it’s a good thing Barney doesn’t have gas. Well, sometimes he does.”
Episode 3: Scooby “Barney’s fortress? What is that, a giant barbie house or something?”
Morpheus “Exactly.”
Scooby “I was just kidding, that’s kind of creepy.”
Episode 4: Morpheus “And go through the Canyons of Blue’s Clues.”
Episoder 5 was taken off the net because of technical difficulties.
Episode 6: “And the sky was purple.”
Sorry for sending an incomnplete comment. Episode 7 hasn’t been completed yet.
You know you’re addicted to anime when you start singing the Japanese theme songs in the middle of English class!
You know you’re a historical detail freak when you’re looking at a picture of some guys doing a War of 1812 Navy impression and your thought process is
“Wow, that’s a nice cannon. Wait, those are sailors, why are they next to that gun [note the change from “cannon” to “gun” as soon as the thought sailors hits the brain]? It’s on a land carriage! What are a bunch of sailors doing next to a gun on a land carriage? That’s so weird. If they were a gun crew even on land it would be on a ship carriage, wouldn’t it be? Wait, or could they change it? Gotta look into that………that’s just too weird. That makes the whole picture weird! Am I the only one that looks at these things? Wait, is anyone even listening to me?!”
*sigh* I guess you don’t even have to ask if I’m guilty…………
(180) A guy I know keeps his friends up to date on anachronistic hymns on BBC productions, with comments like: “the music for ‘Holy, Holy, Holy’ was written in 1861; Wuthering Heights was written in 1847” and “AGAIN, BBC??? A hymn from 1861 in a novel written in 1838???” (“Abide with Me” in Oliver Twist.)
181~ *tries unsucsessfully to hide from “GUILTY” sign plastered on forehead* When watching the new movie version of Pride and Prejudice (with Kira Knightly) in one of the dance scenes I was moaning to my parents that (1)the weren’t dancing in a way that middle/high would do, (2) they were mangling a perfectly good tune and (3) that tune wasn’t even in England at the time the movie was set in. Grrrr. It was apparently an American tune that made it’s way over the puddle a good time after.
Then there’s the whole thing about there being concertinas in the POTC movies, well do the math, if the concertina was invented in the 1850s, and the movies are set in the mid/early1700s (although a lot of the details point to later 18th century) there’s a problem here. The people in the rows nearby were less than pleased, for whatever reason, to be thus enlightened on the finer points of historical accuracy, or at least mathematics.
182–As I’m sure the people in nearby rows are less than happy (as i know my parents, father especially) during HP movies when I enlighten them about inaccuracies, as relating to the books. Which, I must say, I do increasingly more often, and loudly with each movie. I think I made several fairly audible mutterings/complaints/rants during the fifth movie, and I believe my dad was very close to forcibly removing me from the seat next to him, if not the movie theatre. And my mom was none too thrilled, either.
But hey, one must have something that sparks fanatical interest. Elsewise there wouldn’t be much interesting in the world…..
We went to a planetarium show at Mystic Seaport and I had to kick my father to keep him from shouting “Kai knows!” every time the presenter asked a question.
(182) I’ve read that the moviemakers moved that version of Pride and Prejudice back in time 20 years or so, making its setting Georgian rather than Regency. So the clothes were all in earlier styles, and the people were rougher-hewn and less well-off than they would have been in the novel. (That makes the anachronistic music worse, of course, but it may explain why the party scene was so much more crowded than the ballroom scenes in other movies. I thought it looked like more fun, myself.)
183- We watched The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe last night, and of course, me being me, I have most of the book memorized and know every little nuance of the plot. So my poor parents had to sit through “WHAT? Why did they put in a FOX? The fox isn’t supposed to be there. Plus it looks nothing like a fox. And why is RUPERT EVERETT playing it?” and “The scene on the ice was never in the book! It’s stupid! What’s the point of it?” and “Father Christmas never told the Beavers what their Christmas presents were! And why is he dressed like that?” and “The White Witch is a. supposed to have BLACK hair, b. supposed to be seven feet tall, and c. supposed to be really pale!” This was after the movie, so my mom responded, “She looks like a Rastafarian albino” (being exactly like me and having the entire book memorized as well). As well as good commentary, such as “Oh, good, this version got Aslan right” and “Oh, good, they got the bit with Edmund fighting the witch exactly right.”
185~ I guess. I can see that the dances in both versions would be fun. My fashion sensibilities were rather offended when Kira Knightly went schlumping about the countryside wearing what appeared to be a huge floppy man’s coat over her gown. I nearly died right there in the seat of the theatre, and I’m gratified to say that there was a slight groan from my mother beside me. Nice to know I wasn’t the only one feeling pain because of that.
You know you listen to too much historical music when you can recognize 90% of the tunes that are played at historical sites for background noise or during those intro/documentary films they show.
It’s worse if you actually play them and your fingers start involuntarily twitching and you can’t concentrate on the plaques you’re reading because you’ve noticed that they do a few measures differently and you want to try it out when you get home.
You know I’m guilty, why do I even bother admitting it anymore?
38 – Wait, how did you do that?
(188) Eragon didn’t do that. Some kindly GAPA overcame ens general disinclination to do extra work and added the image.
186- Finally someone gets it! I mean grrrrrrrrr!!!!!
You know your addicted to he book Eragon if you can’t go 1 minute without insulting the movie, you only watched, like, 3 parts of the movie, and the movie nearly made you throw up it was so off. (150% guilty)
Saphira is a DRAGON not a blue flying dog! Arya does NOT look like that!!! Durza didn’t have a SHADOW DRAGON for crying out loud! I’ve heard that Angela referrs to herself in the third person in the movie, that is NOT supposed to be the case! I could come up with a million more rants, but it’s been a while since I saw even that much of the movie.
You know you’re addicted to Lord of the Rings when you’re asked in Lit. what your favorite poem is and the components and stuff and you start rattling off laurië lantar lassi súrinen and stalking about Elvish grammar.
Also, a surefire way to tell that you’re addicted to Harry Potter when someone is teasing you about being a nerd in the corridor and you attempt to use Langlock, Petrificus Totalus, and Rictumsepra them.
You can re-check your books online! (forget who didn’t care about due dates, but that’s what I do)
I’ve been known to have several books out at once. I usually keep them out, via re-check, long after I’m done with them. Re-read, ignore, I do everything with them.
49-My sister actually speaks elvish.
51- You play neopets too? Cool!
I dreamed about MB only last night. It was the Superheros and Mary Sues Roleplay. It was quite interesting.
You know you’re addicted to…
ITL (D&D-like game) when (a) you’re having a discussion about it with your family, and (b) when someone asks about the slightly odd statistics of a creature, you can tell them nearly every detail correctly. GUILTY AND PROUD OF IT!
Books, or something, when when your sister reads a quote from the book and leaves out some parts you can accurately put them in. GUILTY AGAIN!
LotR when you keep trying to read the Simarilion. Seriously, that is probably the most boring book ever. It’s not too bad, but the plot is pretty much non-existante! And the characters change every several chapters, which doesn’t help… Sorry, I’ll stop now.
I actually generally disagree with the LotR movies being better than the books. They movies are good depictions of the book, but I, like so many others, am slightly annoyed by the things they added and took out of the movie. I would be glad to rant on about it, but this is not the thread, so I will not.
191 – Isn’t it Sectusempra…? I dunno.
193–There is a rictumsempra as well, at least in the computer game. I forget whether it is in any of the books. But yes, Sectumsempra was, I believe what Harry used onDraco.
194 – Rictumsempra is the spell Draco uses on Harry during the Dueling Club in Chamber of Secrets.
… You know you’re obsessed with Harry Potter when you know that off the top of your head.
195–ah, yes, that’s right. I believe it does something different in the computer games, although it is still a jinx/curse/hex.
And Draco cast serpensortia and Harry spoke to it in parseltongue, to protect Finch-Fletchley, and all ran in terror when they convinced themselves that Harry was the Heir of Slytherin. Good times, those.
180- You know you’re addicted to space exploration when you get mad because a book mislabeled a picture of a Saturn Ib rocket as a Saturn V.
197-
You know you’re addicted to the computer when you begin singing the ‘Windows is shutting down’ melody as you fall asleep.
198- They look really different, okay?
Also, there’s a “Windows is shutting down” melody?
You know you’re addicted to space exploration when somebody says “Guy with sideburns who kicks butt.” And you think “Burt Rutan”, not “Wolverine”.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog (and certain threads) when you realize that you’ve learned how to spell “physiognomical” just by seeing the thread name so often. 0_o
The scary thing is that I’m really not that good of a speller.
Heehee, spell check doesn’t believe me. It doesn’t think “melodeon” is a word either.
127- Yeah, that’s what I meant. It also includes The Empire Strikes back, though.
197- You know you’re addicted to Titan when you start calling every orange thing Titan (including oranges and carrots/)
200- Guilty!
You know you’re addicted to MB when you want to italicize text in a Word document and literally get through half of the HTML code before you realize that you could have just done apple I… Guilty! I just did that.
You know when you’re addicted to math when…
1) Your math teacher always gives you handouts from interscholastic competitions (guilty)
2) You sign up for a math competition even though you’re really busy (guilty)
3) Kids think of you as “the math guru” (guilty)
4) Coming out of narcosis at a hospital, one of the things you say is “27 is the cubic root of 3” (guilty)
5) Kids ask you to explain things in math if the teacher is busy (guilty)
6) Everyone wants to sit next to you on math tests (guilty)
203- Ugh, I do that too. Occasionally I have to stop and think for a few seconds about how to actually do what I want to do. I also occasionally try to use MB emoticon codes while IMing, etc.
I once had a dream about how MB organized some sort of kokon/camp/boarding school thing (I know, MA in real life would be SO COOL), and I found out that one of the MBers was in my algebra class. Then I had some very interesting conversations with him, and we eventually started dating. I spent all of algebra the next day trying to figure out who it was. I feel stupid
You know you’re addicted to MB when you’re already trying to decide what costume you’ll wear to the next Halloween Masquerade.
207- Guilty!
you know you’re addicted tothe phone when you spend every free (well, that’t a bit exaggerated) moment on the phone with camp friends.
You know you’re addicted to house when you half-whisper “Everybody lies…” as a comeback to everything.
207- Guilty, oh so guilty.
You know you’re addicted to MB:
in a school essay.
-when you try to put
-when you have a bookmark folder called MB to keep track of all your favorite threads
-when you first blog, then eat lunch
206) I daydream about that…
You know you’re an astronomy nerd when:
-You spend so much time watching the shuttle dock to the station on NASA TV that you forget to shower.
You know you’re obsessed with the Beatles when you
-Associate everything with a Beatles song
-Know random facts about them
-Make your teacher use jellybeans in a math assignment because it was George Harrison’s birthday (jellybeans were his favorite candy)
-Walk up to random people you don’t even know and scream in their faces, “I am the walrus!”
-Ask if you can read a book of Beatles songs during silent reading
I am (not surprisingly) guilty of all these things!
I got cut off with 213. More:
-There’s a teacher in your school named Mr. Obert and you always end up accidentally calling him Oberth. (The crazy German guy who jumped into an empty swimming pool ’cause he wanted to know about gravity.)
Some kid: “Do you like Twilight?”
Me: “What kind?”
Some kid: “What do you mean, ‘What kind’?”
Me: Well, nautical twilight is the last time you can take a sextant reading, civil twilight is when the city turns on the streetlights, and astronomical twilight is when you can really see the stars…”
Some kid: “You’re weird, you know that?”
You know you’re addicted to your stringed instrument when you try to use vibrato while playing Guitar Hero.
121- very,very guilty
193- sectumceptra is the choppy blood & guts one. rictupscempra is tickling.
you know your freinds are addicted to twilight when…
– you threaten to draw bite marks on them and write edward was here on it and they actually let you
– they decide to rent sharkboy and lavagirl just because it has taylor lottner in it
– they ask for giant posters of edward for their b-days
-they put videoes on youtube that arejust people they vampireified using photoshop
-the list goes on..
wow, nobody posts here so SFTDP
you know you’re addicted to the beatles when you know the harmony for yellow submarine
(came up with that one in band today)
you know you have ummmmmmmm….interesting…. freinds when they see a person on the front of a book who has black hair but is wearing light pink lip gloss and they say ‘that looks kind of goth’ in a repulsed manner
you know you arent normal when you sit down in a recycling bin, some kid asks yo why, you say ‘because there is warm air coming out of the drinking fountain’, your freind says ‘becdause she can’ and the kid who asked you why in the first place says ‘and becauses youre weird and you say ‘i do try’.
those last two must have been aufly confusing. sorry.
You know you aren’t normal when you
-Sit down in a trash-can, which promptly gets stuck on your butt, and then you request to be called “Trash-Butt Emi” for the rest of the day.
-get kicked out of your classroom because you were laughing too much.
-Constantly say, “Jacknife, in your sweaty hands” if someone says “Knife.”
-When your teacher asks for questions, you say, “Why do people say tuna fish instead of just tuna? Are humans so stupid that we have to specify what species of animal we are eating? But then again, why don’t we say salmon fish or sardine fish or halibut fish or mackerel fish or. . .? That is really what I want to know at the moment.”
You know you are addicted to hating Twilight when you read comment 217 and say, and I quote, “I bet that means Taylor Lottner was in the movie Twilight too! Oh My God, a character from one of my favorite movies is in Twilight I am going to DIE!”
-obviously guilty
You know you are addicted to being weird (like me!) if:
-You have a club for weirdos.
-You bring vials of various condiments and colors of food coloring to school just so you can gross people out at lunch with your Crazy Food Combinations.
-You get mobbed at lunch by people wanting to hear your singing and you drive them away by exploding your popcicle all over your hand and then licking it off.
-You sit down in math and ask the person next to you why your seat isn’t a trash can.
-The most popular guy in school starts flirting with you and two seconds later has your half-eaten danish in his mouth, and when he spits it out and runs away you throw it out as if nothing had happened and as if you had never thrown it.
-You are the self-appointed Queen of all Weirdosity.
(100% guilty)
((220) Not guilty of any of those, but since there are no cafeterias here, I can’t really be…))
You know you’re addicted to languages and correct grammar when you:
Want to strangle the kid who sings “We all are a yellow submarine” in art
Can’t listen to songs by (all popular singers) since the grammar mistakes drive you mad
You carry a red pen in your pocket to correct your classmates in english during group projects
(only guilty of 1 and 3)
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You know you’re addicted to being mysterious and lying when you:
Never tell the same story about your home, family, e.t.c. twice
Change your schedule on a regular/random basis
When you teacher asks you: “What is this letter ?” since she can’t read your writing, you say: “What do you want it to be ?”
Everyone knows a different place where you claim to live
You change your hair color and wardrobe inexplicably, and simply say “it was necessary”
You change your friends on a random basis
The moment someone says something about you, you prove them wrong
You grades skyrocket, then fall, almost like the economy
No-one from school has every been to your house or seen your parents
((Not guilty of any, but I know several people in my school who are.))
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when:
You’re on instead of doing your school which you have one hour to finish.
You check the threads you take part in every thirty minutes at most, even for the old, dying threads.
You are a part of nearly every RPG, and some RPWs.
You know you’re addicted to reading when:
You can name nearly every ‘other world’ you’ve read about, even though they number quite high.
You read at nearly every free moment that you’re not on the computer. (Sad, but mostly true.)
You know you’re addicted to being paranoid when you start wondering if the librarians will judge you because of the books you’re checking out.
Guilty of 2.
I have 2 of the reading one.
Guilty of all of these…
221- You don’t need a cafeteria for most of the things I said.
222- I am guilty of both of your “addicted to reading” symptoms.
You know you are addicted to changing you appearance when you get up in the morning and don’t immediately recognize yourself in the mirror.
And when you don’t recognize a photo of yourself.
221 – Guilty of 2.
222 – Guilty of three.
You know you’re addicted to traveling when you see your friend write ‘going to lax’ on Facebook and immediately think they’re flying to Los Angeles. You slowly realize that it’s short for ‘relax’ and that they can’t spell very well. Or use necessary apostrophes.
Of course I’m guilty of that. It would be oddly specific if I wasn’t.
225- They could also have been going to lacrosse. Sometimes people write lacrosse as “LAX”.
You know you are addicted to the MuseBlog when you go on everyday.
227- how about three times a day- at least that’s what I end up doing on vacation.
You know you are addicted to your hypothetical business when you start writing up all of the nit picky details of every single item you are selling, even though you teacher only told you to enter 5 items into you item list (I’m taking a bookkeeping course this year where we get to make our own businesses in QuickBooks).
227- That’s not addiction. That’s normal for MBers. I, for one, couldn’t live the life I do without going here. We’re not obsessive, though, right?
332221- guilty of 3222- guilty of # 1 of addicted reading.
(SFTDP) ACK! That should be 221 not 332. What I get for typing in the dark.
You Know You’re Addicted to The Children of Húrin When:
You’ve drawn most of the characters.
You have developed a fear of dragons. (guilty)
Whenever something goes wrong, you insist that you’re cursed.
You read The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth books, and you spent a very long time trying to figure out why the cake Gwindor’s hand gets cut off in The Children of Húrin but nowhere else. (guilty)
One of your Great Ambitions is to be the screenwriter if it’s ever made into a movie. (guilty)
If someone’s crazy, you say they’ve been “looking at dragonsâ€. (guilty)
You practice your archery every day and are trying to convince people to call you “So-and-so Cúthalionâ€.
You took a lantern and covered it with blue tissue paper. You then hid it under a towel and made the towel fall off at odd moments.
Thunderstorms freak you out.
You’re annoyed that your dad’s name doesn’t rhyme with yours.
You’ve started dressing completely in black, and if people tell you that you look goth, you give them weird looks.
You took a wooden sword and painted it black.
You’ve developed a strange tendency to fall on top of the aforesaid sword at random moments. You also talk to it.
You absolutely refused to go to a museum entirely about mining, even though the rest of your family thought it would be cool.
You actually understand what I’m talking about. (actually, that just means you’ve read it)
You know you’re addicted to the Beatles when you decide to form a Beatles union in protest of the arranger for our 8th grade band song, who messed up the rhythm of songs like “Eleanor Rigby” and “Yesterday”
You know your friends are sick of you talking about MB when they shunt you and your MB-ing friend to one side of the table so you don’t disturb their conversations.
hahaha good times.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when
-You talk about it all the time to your friends, none of which even subscribe to Muse.
-You spend half of lunch period designing your dress for the May Day Ball.
-You spend all of your free time on it.
-You dream about it.
-You try to use the HTML and smilies in emails, school assignments and IMing.
-If you send two emails in a row to someone, you say SFTDP.
-If you’re filling out a “Getting to Know You Form” you list “wung” under “Do you have any pets?”
-You shudder every time you see hot pink.
-Easter makes you nervous because you’re afraid of seeing an HPB.
-You automatically think anyone named Joe is stupid.
Guilty of all of these except for the last 4.
Another one:
‘You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when your first thought in the morning is “I wonder if anyone posted on _____ thread?” ‘
( Guilty as charged! ^__^ )
I had a dream about MuseBlog once. I think it was right before my first Kokonvention, which is yet another thing that would indicate obsession. Meeting MuseBloggers in real life? Now that’s hardcore.
And, as for the Easter one, I made a HPB easter egg this year. It looks really cool. Maybe I’ll send in a picture one of these days.
You know you’re addicted to the Icefire series if:
-every time you make a pottery dragon you put snow in it’s chest
-you have an arsenal of clay dragons, whose names all begin with G
-your dream name is for a girl Gwendolen, and for a boy Lorel
-you eat snow to see if it gives you transformation powers
-whenever you see a polar bear you adress it as either son/daughter of Ragnar or son/daughter of Lorel
-you actually travel to Scrubbley to see if you can find Mrs. Pennykettle, Lucy, Zanna, David, or Alexa
-you name your cat Bonnington
-you talk to and name animals, especially squirrels and crows
-you put the Mark of Oomara on your arm to give you sibylic power
-you set your watch to say 3:00 when it’s 11:00.
Oh, and just to freak you out if you’re guilty of this, NINE BONGS!!!!
*screams* haha, I’ve read that series, I’m not that bad tho.
“tho?” “haha?” Capitalize, f&h. And spell out the whole word, please. This is MuseBlog, not IM.
Sorry, had just finished reading an email from my annoying friend who is a bit older than me and has horendous (sp?) chatspeak habits.
Two r’s: horrendous.
I don’t see anything wrong with “haha”, excepting the lack of capitalization.
I don’t either. I was pointing out the lack of capitals, although it probably didn’t look like I was.
You know you’re addicted to manga when you start confused on which side of the book to start on.
234- Guilty of all except 8, 9, and 11.
234.2- I dream about MB/people from MB usually at least once a week. That’s pretty obsessed.
I had dreams about editing the HTML of MB pages.
237.1-
Wow. That’s really obsessed.
On somebody’s DeviantArt profile, under “What fandoms are you a part of”, he wrote “NASA”.
Now, first I went “NASA is/has a fandom?”
And then, I went “So, if it’s a fandom, does that mean we have to start talking about our favorite systems like character relationships? Is Apollo-Saturn Sapollo? Is Orion-Ares Ories?”
You know you’re addicted to a movie if you can recite the whole thing from memory. Example:
M “What am I supposed to do?”
SB “I told you this would happen.”
LG “I thought he would just remember.”
M “Remember what?”
LG “The dream! Remember the dream!”
M “I don’t remember half my dreams! Woah. That’s why I write them in my dream journal!”
SB “What half your dreams do you remember?”
M “This one I remember.”
LG “Where are you taking us?”
ME “Where all the useless dreams go. To the dream graveyard!”
apparently i’m addicted to the incredibles…
236: I know that feeling! About a year ago I had this strange and bad habit…
Step one: Read as many really long novels as you can in quick succession.
Step two: Get tired of novels and switch to cartoon history of the universe.
Step three: When you are dreaming about living in neolithic times, switch to manga. Read this until you are thorouly confuzzled about the right way to open a book.
Step four: get tired of reading and go watch tv and do art projects.
Step five: Adopt regular reading habits until the cycle begins anew a month later.
THATS obsessive. But I don’t do it anymore.
You know you’re addicted to procrastinating on school work when you’d rather fanatically clean your dorm room (must be done, by the time I check out Friday) than study for you cumulative chemistry final that takes place in……29 hours.
You know you’re addicted to being an overachiever when you start spazzing out that you forgot everything you learned in chem and are going to do really horrible on the final, when you have already demonstrated to yourself that you can get a ZERO on the final, and still have a B……And only need a 56% for an A.
Guilty, obviously.
You know you’re addicted to reading when you fall asleep with your face in a book and wake up with the print of page 47 across your face. Happened to me yesterday.
You know you’re addicted to sparkling water when you discover that your mother has left 5 bottles outside your room. And they’re filled with plain water, and you’ve drunk about half a liter before realizing this.
You know you’re addicted to space travel when…
You see Tom Hanks and think “Jim Lovell!”.
You see Jodie Foster and think “Ellie Arroway!”
Your brother comes back from seeing Night at the Museum 2 and mentions that there’s a space monkey in the movie and you pause before asking “Was he a good guy or a bad guy?”, because you’re afraid he’s going to say the monkey was a bad guy.
You see the word “Griffin” and think “Mike”.
Ellie Arroway! I love that book! And it’s by Carl Sagan, a famous astronomer.
I know, he rocked!
You know you’re addicted to Death note when…
• You see the cover of Twilight and immediately think of Ryuk
• You draw black circles around your eyes, just to look like L.
• You think about killing your entire family just to test your abilities.
• Like Misa, you refer to yourself in third-person. “____ (your name) is very happy!”
• You’ve tried going on an all sweet-diet like L.
• Whenever you forget your homework you say, “Sorry, my Shinigami was bothering me again.”
• Whever you leave your room you lift the door handle a half a centimeter up.
• You eat a chocolate bar every couple seconds.
• You sit like L.
• You wear oversized white tops.
• You go bear footed around the house.
• You like strawberries.
• You love candy.
• Whenever someone says God you either say/think ‘Kira’ or ‘Ryuk’.
• You love to play with toys and puppets.
• You like to think/know a Shinigami is watching you.
• You love chocolate.
• Chocolate reminds you of Mello.
• Strawberries and Candy remind you of L.
• Toys remind you of Near.
• You love wearing stripes.
• Stripes remind you of Matt.
• You think the world would be a better place if there really was a Death Note
• You dream of having Shinigami Eyes.
• You can relate almost anything and everything to Death Note.
• You would like a granddad like Watari.
• You put your hair in two small pigtails ontop of
your head [that’s for girls].
• You love White Pyjamas.
• Black and Leather remind you of Mello.
• The colour brown and suits remind you of Light.
•You are wary of where you go instead someone is following you.
•You have the Death Note soundtrack, films, anime, manga or merchandise.
•You’ve cosplayed as a character of it before.
• You start to think like one of the characters.
• Light has influenced you to actually study.
• You have the Death Note Films/Anime on your ipod.
• You quote Death Note often.
• You have pictures of Death Note all over your walls and PC/Mac/Laptops.
*SPOILERWARNING!!!*
• You eyes begin to fill with tears whenever you hear the word/name/the mention of L, Light, Mello or Matt.
• You love apples.
That’s so thorough! I can’t think of anything… I just recently finished the series. *swims to manga thread*
“You go bear footed around the house.” Was that a misspelling, or do you actually cut off the feet of a bear and stick them on your own feet? I haven’t read it.
Is the door handle thing so that you can see if someone enters while you’re gone? *random guess*
POST HERE PLEASE!
You know you’re obsessed with comics when you actually create scenarios for how superhero teams could best react to various disasters.
You know you’re addicted to Captain Underpants when you go on the scholastic website to find your Professor Poopypants name and use it in everyday life. (I don’t).
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when it feels weird to sign your emails with your real name.
I’ll know I’m addicted to the INTERNET if I do that! On another site I call myself Kiga too (I slash it with my real name, but I used to be just Kiga).
You know you’re addicted to Muse when someone says “MFA” and you think “Muse Fans Anonymous” (guilty!)
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when…
You feel like your name is your blog name, and feel weird when people use your real name. (guilty!)
You burst out laughing when someone mentions Chuck Norris, Watership Down, Cake, Muffins, Custard, or pie. (guilty!)
You used to want to be a Muse when you grow up. (guilty!)
You know you’re addicted to phonetics & linguistics when…
You learned how to say “(my name) loves math!” in phonetic symbols. (guilty!)
You pronounce “R-P-G” as “Rippage” when talking out loud as you type. (guilty!)
You pronounce “R-P-W” as “Rip-wah” when talking out loud as you type (guilty!)
You try and figure out how you make letter sounds with your mouth, when talking, and see how sound relates to shape, and the shape of similar letters to each other. (guilty!)
You think English should be perfectly regular, and the past tense of “strike” should be “striked”, “run” should “runned”, “dive” should be “dived”… (guilty!)
Guilty of the second two.
Ditto. **delay**
There was a 25,000 dollar question on Millionaire the other day and one of the answers was Chuck Norris and I was all “Chuck Norris! Pick Chuck Norris!” and it turned out that that was the correct answer.
I do feel weird talking about myself by my real name, as I always use my handle when talking about myself here.
You know you’re addicted to RPGs when you atoumatically double up your parentheses. (Guilty! But not this time!)
I’ve dreamed about MuseBlog. I saw it for a second, and all I saw was that, on the recent comments bar, Aggrifish had posted on a thread called “Apathy Pill Emoticon”
This is strange. *searches* I don’t see the thread. Maybe it’s a sign from your subconsciousness telling you that Aggrifish has no emotions for you. Do you have feelings for Aggie, Enceladus?
Jakob- What was the question?
No. I don’t have any interest in any MuseBlog girls, except as good friends.
Hmm. Well, what could it mean? Maybe the simpler analysis is that it means nothing, and your subconsciousness is on the blink.
Or maybe it means that I don’t exist!
You know you’re addicted to Space Camp when…
You watch NASA TV and complain that the astronauts make it look easy because their councilors don’t give them any crazy problems.
You hear “Grissom” and think “Gus”, not “CSI”.
I wouldn’t’ve imagined thinking “CSI” for hearing “Grissom”. “Gus” is the very first thing that comes to my mind, even never having gone to Space Camp. Waitaminute… I don’t even know who Gus Grissom is. Why do I know that name? Curse you, instant memorization!
He was one of NASA’s original Mercury astronauts, who later was in the Gemini program, but died in a fire during training for the first Apollo flight. He was well known for his sense of humor and the practical jokes he played on the other astronauts.
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you
-think a thread is dead after a week of noone posting on it
-it’s the first thing i do when I’m on the computer
-wish my emai had an hpb smiley
-spend half of lunch on your phone, on MuseBlog
-are obsessed wth the magic RPG
-think you’re no good at persuading people to do anything because none of your friends have joined MB
-you are obsessed with pie
-feel weird when your friends proclaim they don’t like maths
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you get an email from your friend Amanda and think it’s from Armada. True story.
Wooooooooooooooooooow. That’s sad, SR.
True. And to make matters worse, it was actually from a non-muser friend who mentioned Amanda in the subject line.
Hey! Come talk to me!
I left! Jeez! Now YOU come talk to me!
*has cold* *is miserable*
Well, en has Kokonvened with Armada. Maybe they have each other’s email addresses.
We do. And RoseQuartz was there. But Amanda goes to my SCHOOL! And also, see 255.1.1.
Oh, wow! Thats creepy.
You know you’re addicted to tablets when you use the handwriting recognition program, even though just typing would be a lot faster. (guilty right now)
You know you’re addicted to MB when you feel like you’re becoming more like your blog self than your real self (guilty)
I’m also guilty…
I usually think of myself as Enceladus. No, I’m not obsessed by any means.
I nearly always think of myself as RoseQuartz, and contemplated having schoolfriends call me Rose or RQ instead of Hannah… my Spanish name’s Rosa. XD
If I met you I would probably call you RoseQuartz or RQ. And I’m starting to casually refer to MBers in conversations with my RL friends.
I do that a lot. XD
Oooh. Verrrrry guilty. XD I swear I wish sometimes I lived in the MB FanFic. Not the bunnies-taking-over-the-world part, the MBers-are-my-entire life part.
Which they mostly are, already.
Me too. I want to live in the Muse Academy RPG.
You, too?
I mean, it’s the perfect school! And, when I’m typing, I wouldn’t have a cat sitting on my arm, restricting my hand motion and cutting off my circulation. *glares at the cutest cat on Earth*
I’m guilty of this one. Honest.
You know you’re addicted to Pokémon when you’re far away from your house, and when it’s time to go home you think you can just press X, select Pokémon, and use Fly.
258:I used tto be addicted to Pokemon two years ago.
You know your addicted to Muse Blog when your home sick all you do is stay on it when your not sleeping.
This is what I’ve been doing since last Wed. I’m going back tommorow.
258- Me too!
You know you’re addicted to brownies when you feel like crying when they’re all gone. (sorta guilty of this one)
You know you’re addicted to Muse Blog when: (By the way, I am guilty of all of these!!)
-you’ve dreamed about it several times (Kind of like what Enceladus was describing above, except for the fact that I didn’t actually see the web page, I just…I don’t know. I just dreamed MB thoughts, I guess!!!)
-whenever you hear a name that is remotely close to a screen name on MB, you automatically perk up.
-it’s the first thing you do when you get on the computer
-you have a song for it. (Yes, I do. There’s this song that always comes on my radio station, and even though I have no idea what the song is called, it makes me think of MB every time I hear it! Weird, but true…)
-Your day automatically becomes better when you a very interesting new thread is made by the GAPA’s!
-you are obsessed with pie (I’m not really guilty of this one, but I do eat it a lot!!)
Don’t worry, the pie obsession will catch up with you. As for me, I didn’t much care for chocolate before MuseBlog started, and now….
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you have the page numbers (?p=3300, ?p=4105) for your favorite threads memorized.
262– Ooh, that’s bad.
My revised version of…You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you:
(BTW, I’m using stuff other people have said, too. These are my favorites)
Talk about it all the time with your friends.
Are terribly afraid of the color hot-pink.
You use the word “pie” as a verb.
It is your favorite thing to do on the computer. (Well, it should be anyways!)
Your first thoughts in the morning include, “Hmm, I wonder if anyone posted on the ___ thread?”
You dream about it (frequently).
You feel like you’re becoming more like your blog self than your real self.
Whenever you hear a name that is remotely close to a screen name on MB, you automatically perk up.
You randomly quote MBers throughout the day.
You can’t go more than five minute at your computer without punching the refresh button to see if there have been any new comments since you last hit refresh.
You try to use smilies, HTML, and MB “lingo” (such as ‘en’.) in emails, IMing, and school assignments.
You have the page numbers (?p=3300, ?p=4105) for your favorite threads memorized.
You use the word “cake” instead of swearing.
if you send someone two emails in a row, you start the message with SFTDP. (guilty! I once did that without realizing it, and my friend sent me a message back saying, “Um, what the heck is SFTDP supposed to mean?”
)
You enter MBers’ birthday (and colors) into your agenda. (I did this today.)
Well, there is a drama event called “pie a teacher in the face” at my school, and I KNOW that nobody on MB lives in the city that I live in… at least, I THINK I know… now who in drama would post here…
You know you have a morbid mind when you see a banner on a booth at the fair that reads, “FREE MASSAGE” and you think it says “FREE MASSACRE.”
You know you have a morbid mind when you read that comment and thought it said, “FREE MASSACRE” both times. ((No, I didn’t. I’m just saying.))
You know you’re addicted to the computer/typing when you make a mistake and you automatically think CTRL-Z.
You know when you’re addicted to classical music when you hear Jaws and/or Star Wars (medal giving scene at the end of Ep. IV) and proclaim loudly that they were stolen from the fourth movement of Dvorjak’s New World Symphony. Outrageous!
I believe the “medal giving scene” is entitled “The Throne Room / End Title”.
266 – I know right? As you put so nicely, outrageous!
Now when people hear it they will think “Star Wars” not Dvorak! Eek! It’s like, how can you NOT recognize the New World Symphony!
You know you’re addicted to the computer when you’re on it instead of doing your school. *sigh* Outrageously guilty…
Umm…I am guilty of that every day, sadly.
Some of my homework is posted exclusively on the school website, so I technically have a reason to be on.
“Technically.” Of course.
You know you’ve become addicted to Dr. Who when you’ve watched almost all of two seasons in only 4 days, at the expense of all the other TV shows you would normally be watching (I have yet to watch House & NCIS) and at the expense of your schoolwork. Whoops. It’s dreadfully addictive, though, more than i ever would have guessed. And I just can’t picture the Dr. as Barty Crouch Jr, I just can’t, even though he doesn’t look that much different in that role, I just can’t. It’s so strange.
You know you’re addicted to Star Trek when asked for a method of transport to a hard to get to country, the first thing you think of is beaming there.
Does anyone remember the “digital conveyor” in the movie Galaxy Quest?
Afraid not….And I just watched that movie earlier this semester.
It dices you into little cubes and then reassembles you, not always in the right order. One alien monster they beam aboard arrives inside-out. Then it explodes.
Oh, I remember now!
And they needed to use it on the one crew member (the captain?), but were terrified to because they were afraid he’d arrive inside-out, too?
I’ve not gone mad, after all.
268) Guilty!
270) Guilty!
You know you’re addicted to debating when you deliberately seek out a vocal person who disagrees with you, just so you can argue. (not guilty! But almost)
Hehe, I’m guilty too.
Really, when there was an NPR report about getting a reporter to Honduras during a lock down, the first thing I thought of was “Oh, they can just beam them there.”
You know you’re addicted to forensics shows when something is described as going missing in a park at Mock Trial in the case summary and you shout “Get a scuba diver and search the lake!”
You know you’re addicted to MuseBlog when you have the page numbers (for example, ?p=4105 is the page number for the current Bunny Apocalypse thread) for your favorite threads memorized.
It’s true
I used to be guilty…not anymore
Okay, so I was just on another site where there was a pop-up with the trailer for this new movie called The Box, and in one scene, the male lead was standing in front of a blac-and-white picture… and I recognized it as the Viking lander’s first photo from Mars.
So yeah, that probably means I’m addicted to space travel.
Oh, and I can recognize the music from the movie Apollo 13 from another room. That’s probably a bad sign, too.
You know you’re addicted to Queen when your sister tells you to stop playing A night at the Opera and you say, “But I’ve only played it through eight times today!” (Almost guilty)
You know you’re addicted to Muse when you go to the library, start to ask “Are you sure you haven’t saved any Muses from more than a year ago?” and the librarian finishes your sentence. (Almost guilty)
You know you’re addicted to manga that whenever you see the words “train,” “near,” “black cat,” “light,” “strawberry,” and/or “alchemy,” or the letters l, m, and/or n, you immediately think of their corresponding manga. Really. I do this. All the time.
Ohhhhh, yes. Quite definitely. And several others.
Don’t forget the words “dark” or “whiz.” (DN Angel floor the win!)
Dark-kuuuun! ♥
I like Daisuke better. Have you noticed that Risa– *tornadoed to manga thread*
Waaaa, but I love Dark! He’s so– *manga thread*
You know you’re addicted to addictions when you can’t go even 24 hours without one.
You know you’re addicted to John Barrowman (I blame Torchwood, which is another current addiction) when you’re seriously contemplating getting up at 4 in the bloody morning to listen to a radio broadcast that he is on next Saturday. The first Saturday I will have had a chance to sleep in for the past 8 weeks, and I’m seriously considering up at 4 am, just because there is a radio program that he’s on. I don’t even remember what the heck it’s about, just that he’s involved in some fashion…..
257- Hmmm… But my muse-blog self is my self! Okay, I still never think of myself as “bookgirl_me”, but I just … okay, I’m just not smart enough for this
You know you’re addicted to Andromeda when…
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-the only spanish vocabulary phrase you can remember is “de trace” (->Trance Gemini)
– you’ve watched 2 seasons in a few weeks
– in the morning, you hair reminds you of slipstream (instead of Chewbacca
– you try to draw Andromeda on your desk (didn’t really work)
– you cleared all the videos off your I-pod touch to make room for episodes
-you have withdrawal symptoms if you don’t watch an episode at least every second day
-you can spell “vederans” and various other characters but not Insulin (which was on your biology test)
You know you’re addicted to Torchwood when something happens that you want to erase from your memory and you think “Dangit, I wish I had some retcon,” rather than “Dangit, I wish I could Obliviate myself.”
You know you’re addicted to Torchwood when you hear the name “Captain Jack” and you immediately think of John Barrowman and time travel and aliens and Cardiff, rather than Johnny Depp and pirates and the Caribbean.
You know you’re addicted to JB/Torchwood when you come across a company selling a life size cardboard cut-out of Capt Jack and you would actually consider buying it if a) you had room in your bedroom and b) if you weren’t afraid of the bizarre looks/reactions you would probably get from your family for wanting a full-size cardboard cutout of a 42 year old gay man in your bedroom.
You know you’re addicted to Percy Jackson when:
-You compare your classmates to Percy Jackson characters on a regular basis.
-The term “Percy Jackson” or “those Percy books” (mysteriously) shows up on your Latin sentences seven times.
-You say “oh my gods” by ?accident? more than you say “oh my God/gosh”
-I love Percy Jackson is written all over your planner.
-Your school user name and password are both Percy Jackson related.
-Your screen saver is, naturally, a picture of Percy Jackson.
-When your friend is planning on writing a “mysterious love letter” to someone, you immediately say, “Write I love Percabeth”
Yup…I’m guilty of most of these, sadly. And then I wonder why some people don’t get a life…
You know you’re addicted to the internet when you have the urge to actually say ‘XD’ at appropriate times in real life. XD
ME TOOOOOO!
Really?
^^
*is an idiot* What does XD mean, exactly?
It means effectively the same thing as “lol” does.
It’s a text smiley. Basically it’s so happy it’s got its eyes squinted together, or some such….
Look sideways and you’ll see that the D is a mouth, and the X is some sort of weird eye motion that seems to be dying with laughter.
I do that. And I have a mysterious urge to start speaking my actions…
Yup.
I DO THAT! REALLY! And I say LOL, and I say things like “Cake” and “Caking wung buttons” when I get really mad……
You know you’re addicted to MB when you start saying Cake and Caking wung buttons in real life.
You know you’re addicted to Muse Blog when you randomly connect completely random words with names of MBers that you didn’t even know.
Guilty.
You know you’re addicted to Muse Blog when you’re on it instead of NaNoing. *headdesk*
You know you’re addicted to the game Plants vs. Zombies when you plan out exactly how you will beat a level when going to bed. (guilty!)
And when you can name almost every Zombie in the game. (guilty!)
And when you can name almost every Plant in the game. (guilty!)
225- You know you’re… something… when you think that LAX is short for Laxative. (Guilty, obviously.)
You know you’re addicted to new threads when you start asking for- Oh, wait… That doesn’t make sense.
You know you’re addicted to not-so-subtle hints when you start talking about new threads in the format of the thread whenever a formatted thread is in need of a new thread.
You know you’re a genius when you can understand that last “You know you’re addicted”.
Breaking out of the chain…
You know you’re addicted to COCP when all of your passwords are based off of it. (Guilty, except for my email password that was made before COCP)
COCP?
I think most of mine all related back to HP in one way or another. Although, recently, I’ve been having the ahrdest time thinking up new ones (or keeping old ones straight, as several for random sites were just different spelled variations of others), and have branched out into a couple of Torchwood/Doctor Who related passwords. And still can’t remember ’em.
Most of my passwords are variations on a theme.
COCP is a very
unsuccessful cult that was founded by Me, RoseQuartz, MissSwann, and Armada. COCP stands for “Cult of Clueless People”.Join it. *does bug-eye stare*
It’s Club, SR. Not Cult. It’s still Club. *refuses to call it the Cult of Clueless People*
I need to make us some badges at some point…I thought maybe Shrinky Dinks. But they’re gonna have to be ducks. Garden weasels are too hard to draw.
My friend calls marching band a cult…
SFTDP
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Argh. *brain frizzles*
I thought it was going to be snipped. And I like how there’s a little line of nothingness right all the way down about 2/3 of the the way to the right.
I see it! Hooray for random lines of nothingness!
Yes quite!
You know your addicted to math when the first thing that you think of when you see that post is Godel, Escher, Bach.
You know you’re addicted to inflicting humility on your siblings when you debag them in front of your uncle.
Have you?!
You know you’re addicted to epidemiology when you become excited when several of your friends come down with swine flu and you feel the need to conduct a study. (VERY guilty)
You know you’re addicted to Torchwood when you see a scene in a television show in which a person is killed by having liquid cement poured over them, and instead of feeling disgusted/disturbed, you immediately flashback to a similar (and much more graphic) scene in Torchwood and spend the next few minutes of the TV show reminiscing over that scene in Torchwood.
286.1- Yep.
You know you’er addicted to MuseBlog when you want to be a GAPA when you grow up.
You know you’re addicted to Torchwood (if you hadn’t yet figured this out) when in spanish class when playing a variant of Pictionary, your word is “el traje” or “the suit”, and all you can think of (beside the “How the heck do I draw a freakin’ suit?????) is Ianto, who “looks good in a suit.”
Seriously, I’m standing their at the chalkboard drawing a (very bad) depiction of a suit, and that’s all that’s going through my mind……And to think, it used to only be HP that anything and everything somehow related to it in my mind. But, oh, no. Now it’s Torchwood. And there is a growing list of items (stopwatches–like, old fashioned pocketwatch style stopwatches–measuring tapes, photocopiers, and suits–because Ianto looks good in them. Really good, actually……) I will never be able to look at the same, again, most for reasons not mentionable on here.
Captain Jack Harkness: And this is Ianto. He looks good in a suit.
Ianto: Careful, sir, that’s harassment.
Well, it is captian Jack- to qoute the doctor “saying hello is flirting” another qoute :
Rose: Actually, Doctor, I was kind of wondering if captin Jack would like this dance.
Doctor: I am absolutely sure he would, Rose, the question is— with whom?
Anyway, you know you’re addicted to Doctor Who when you reply to a comment about Jack Harkness (who first appeared on Doctor Who), own seasons 1-the present of the new series, watched all of them, can qoute most of them, and are seriously considering watching them all AGAIN…
You also know you’re addicted to BBC televison when you realize that you only watch 6 TV shows, three of which are on BBC.
True, true. ♥ ‘s Captain Jack.
And, yup, I know Jack Harkness first appeared on Dr Who, that’s where my obsession with his character (and the actor) first began…..
Although I can’t quote most of Dr. Who (I can quote a fair bit of Torchwood, though), I am borderline obsessional with it, as well, as I only just watched the entirety of the new series (seasons 1-4) in mid-October, and I’m already planning out when I can go back to the beginning and watch them all again. Barely even a month after I first saw them. o_0
And BBC television……BBC television has spoiled me for American TV, although I still think most of the TV shows I watch are American TV (counts: House, NCIS, Criminal Minds–occasionally, Bones, Medium) compared to the three BBC (Merlin, Dr. Who, and Torchwood). And I’m not sure Torchwood necessarily counts, as it might not even be coming back…..But, still, it rates as my all time favorite show.
I’m pretty sure they are, they’re just doing an odd season of both Who and Torchwood because Russel T. Davies, who created both shows, is retireing, and they are phasing in new people… Oh, and David Tennant was busy!
I also finished watching 1-4 in october- it took me three months to watch four years worth of televison!
I know doctor who is coming back and i’m fairly sure torchwood is… all the torchwood references in Who (esp. season 2) actually get a little tiring if your parents won’t let you wacth it yet…
Yeah, I can see how the references could get tiring if you’re not allowed to watch TW yet, but…..It’s really not the most suitable for a younger audience. If I were a parent, I’d not be surprised if I didn’t want my kid watching it until 16 or so, although being not that much older than that, myself (19), and knowing my own mental level at the time, I don’t think I would’ve had a problem with it as young as 12 or so……Doubt I would have gotten half the humor, or the innuendo, but…..the partial/full nudity that occurs upon occasion would not have particularly bothered me.
Three months? Well, that’s more reasonable than the 2 weeks I took to watch all 4 seasons of DW and “3” (really more like 2 1/2, season 3 was really short) seasons of TW. Seriously. 6 1/2 seasons of television in 2 weeks. And even taking into account that a BBC show has half the episodes of a typical US show, that’s…..still a heck of a lot of TV in 2 weeks.
Ah, well, only 2 and a half years to… WHAT?! I’LL BE DRIVING WHEN I’M 16! ONLY TWO AND A HALF YEARS!! *goes momentarily unconcious from headdesking* But my mom is obsessed with torchwood, so I hear alot about it… For instance, the music (which is really well done and farily subtle in Who) for Captin Jack’s theme song is said to contain a bit that goes here-he-comes-in-a-ruddy-big-tractor (the beat of course
I honestly don’t notice the music, much……Perhaps that means it’s doing what it’s supposed to do. Create mood, without distracting and being obvious, that is.
If I can find the time, I’m planning on forcefeeding my sister Dr Who episodes over Thanksgiving Break. I doubt she’ll enjoy them as much as I do–after attempting to describe what the show was, she proclaimed it sounded “weird”–and I’m about 99% certain she would not like Torchwood at all. And being the nice (yes, nice) sister that I am *coughcoughyeahrightcoughcough* I won’t try and force those upon her over break in addition to DW. Of course, perhaps I’m only being that nice because I doubt I’d have time to even get through one season of DW, much less the 2 required to get to TW, over Thanksgiving Break. I have lots to do that week.
well, season 1 really sucks compared to season two… It’s not as well done, the doctor is meaner, Rose is an idiot (and annoying) and there is way to much of Mickey and Jackie and they are annoying beyond belief… But then gain season two is mushier…
That is the point of the music but on one of the discs (can’t say I remember which one) they have the Doctor Who PROMS (public rectials of music) and you realize how amazing it is….
But Rose’s theme song is depressing… fitting, I supose.
I rather liked Season 1. I though Eccleston was a brilliant doctor. Of course, I really liked Tennant as doctor, too……
Well, any doctor who is brilliant, and Eccleston is amazing, but I can’t say Rose is my favorite person to start with… She gets better, though.
You know your addicted to Mythbusters when you jump up and down and scream when its on.
You know you’re addicted to Cats when you spend all your computer time for the past three days looking at fanart of it on DeviantArt. I wasn’t aware there was that much fanart of anything before this week. 0_o XD
You know you and your brother are both history nerds when he shouts “You are accused of WITCHCRAFT! How do you plead?”
And you say “More weight.”
And you both completely understand each other.
oh.. that dude who was sentanced to death by being squashed by stones… not a plesant way too die… I for one would have preferred hanging like the rest of them..
You know you’re addicted to Monty Python and the Holy Grail whet that reminds you of it. *headdesk*
Okay, it’s probably time for a new math list.
You know you’re addicted to math when…
You use the word trivial several times each day. (guilty)
You have dreamed in the projective plane. (guilty)
Projective geometry can brighten your day. (guilty)
When someone says logic, you think of truth tables. (guilty)
When someone talks about infinity, you ask which infinity their talking about. (not quite guilty)
You’ve done two math competitions in a day. (guilty several times)
You want to take three math classes each semester. (guilty)
The question you consider when planning your summer is which math camp to go to. (guilty, although I’ve now decided for next summer)
Oh, and you know your addicted to Scholastic Bowl/Quiz Bowl when you’re writing about important books in a history paper and you use the phrases “this work” and “titular”.