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you know you're a obsessive can't hardly wait fan when...


okay, i stole this from the stand by me board (an excellent movie, might I add-wil wheaton is an awesome actor, and a LEFTIE!!!). Anyway, just add your responses and we can see who is the biggest chw fan in the IMDb world...

1. One of your best friends is pissed at you for repeatedly reciting lines at random times (take the middle of english class lol)
2. Your parents (or besties or partners or whatever for older fans lol) actually BAN you from the DVD because you watched it back-to-back 5 times in one day
3. You know the sub-characters names (such as Vicki the yearbook girl) even though they are not mentioned in the movie
4. You know the entire cast's (im including actors with tiny roles) filmography off by heart (okay, that's not true for me, but half of it anyway)
5. You are obsessed with this movie which came out in 1998, when you were actually only six at the time!
6. You search everywhere for the DVD, and are so pissed when you can't find the DVD you consider going onto eBay and buying it without telling your parents (im 14, okay!)
7.Your new fave word is 'bullcorn'
8. You are in love with the nineties solely because of this movie, and third eye blind, blink 182, eve6 and the offspring

can't think of any more right now, but i inevitably will later=)
bye for now,
KackY
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9. Your new favorite food is strawberry poptarts.
10. When you hear the name Preston or Amanda, you think about CHW.
11. Whenever you listen to one of the songs on the soundtrack, you're instantly transported into the scene it played in during the movie.
12. You can never look at Barry Manilow or his songs the same way again.

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lol i reckon!
okay i have more...
13. you mistake perfectly normal words for phrases out of chw (my friend sarah was talking to me this arvo an i could swear she was saying 'bullcorn' even though she's never seen chw)


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14. you go to dartmouth college because preston went there and hope to meet him or guys just like him.

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15) You got into Buffy the Vampire Slayer because it had a lot of the CHW stars in it... not vice versa like every other person you've talked to. (It's kind of embarassing but true, heh)

"Are there any nachos in here, little tree?"
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16. You try and get Foregin Exchange students at your school to say "I am a sex machine...Would you like to touch my penis?"

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17. You're watching Jawbreaker and you recognise the diner (that is featured in like, 2 seconds of the movie) as the one in chw

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LOL! yeah, well i'm still in my prime teen years so YAY!

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Dude, I'm right there with you. Ten years ago...holy GOD!

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wait i've got another one!
19.you will never look at watermelon the same way again...

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20. Every time you visit the Union Station in Los Angeles, you can't help but picture Preston jumping the arm of one of those funny uneven chairs. (Which are still there by the way)

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21. You frequently say, "Stop wasting my flavor! Damn!" (I say this ALL of the time. My friends are cool and understand the reference, so it's funny.)

**Incubus is the greatest band ever**

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22. When someone asks you to describe a person you say.."He's sorta tall, has hair, and wears t-shirts...sometimes!"

absolutely love this movie!

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23. When you refer to super-sexy females and guys who get a lot of action as "sexual icons" just like Trip McNeely.

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24. when you meet with a girl called amanda, you have to say it like Mike does when he's drunk.

Amanndaaaa!!

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37. Everytime your at a keg party you randomly scream "Nobody drink the beer, the beer has gone bad!" while getting beer from the tap!

it never gets old

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38. You become a kleptomaniac and steal things like gum ball machines when nobody is looking.

39. You rock out to Paradise City all the time.

40. Even though you have a cell phone, you call radio stations from a pay phone

41. You learn how to play the theme song from COPS on a piano

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42. You plan on naming your kid Kenny so you can call him Special K.

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43. you recognized TJ from the new 'grindhouse' trailers.
44. You can't wear goggles in the pool without laughing.
45. you've seen 12 monkeys just because of CHW
46. TIME TO GET FREAKY! is one of your catch phases...

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47. you appreciate laser-swords and Klingon warships.
48. You always double bag your condoms (J.K.!)
49. You always wear rubber flip-flops in the shower
50. You have written "Denise Fleming is a tampon" on your locker (YEP!)
51. Everytime something sucks, you use TJ:s phrase like he does: " they suck... they suck!"
52. Everytime someone comes into your room, you say "bargin' in here like a friggin' moose!" and makes strange moose sounds.
53. Your answer to a pick-up line goes "You don't know 20 different ways to make me call you Big Poppa"
54. You've had the angel stripper's quote "There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it's up to you to make it happen" as a quote on imdb/myspace etc.
55. You're obsessed with strawberry pop-tarts, but you've never seen or tasted one.
56. If you wanna ignore someone, you walk past them exacly like Corinne(?) did.



My heart is broke, but I have some glue

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57. You talk about Tripp Mcneely like he is a real person.

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"24. when you meet with a girl called amanda, you have to say it like Mike does when he's drunk.

Amanndaaaa!!"


I do that all the time lmfaoo
but more of a "Aman- duhhhhh"

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A-man-DUHHHHH!

Every single time. I can't help myself. :D

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20. you rock a party to the song Paradise City the way William Lichter rocked it.
21. u play lightsabers with flashlights.
22. u actually believe that stars r God's salt and that he's waiting to eat us.
23. u ask a girlfriend/wife to wear an angel outfit.
24. u feel the best way to tell a girl how you truly feel about her is to leave her your old letter lyin around a huge house party for everyone to inadvertantly pass around so that it eventually makes it to the girl for her to read it.

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20. You know what a dendraphiliac is.
21. You pronounce it "Aman-duh."
22. Whenever you see twins, you always know there's 3 of them.
23. You tell people that your mom is a hip-hip lady.
24. Your girlfriend is always at a photo shoot in Fiji.
25. You'd rather be bobofet than Kiss dolls.

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59. If you know the stars are really salt, and God's just waiting to eat us.

Chris J. Nelson

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WHEN YOU HEAR THE SONG "TAKE ME DOWN TO THE PARADISE CITY WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN AND THE GIRLS ARE PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!!! OH WONT YOU PLEASE TAKE ME HOME??!!" YOU THINK OF CHW

BEST MOVIE EVER! HAHAHA

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1.) You re-name your band "Love Burger"

2.) You purposefully make enemies with a girl named Amanda...just so you can insult her by calling her "Aman-DUHHH"

3.) You have mirrors installed on your bedroom ceiling.

4.) Anytime you get drunk at a party, you stand there with a goofy grin and shout "I can't feel my legs...I HAVE NO LEGS!"

5.) You carry toy dinosaurs around with you...so you can point them at random people and go "Raaarrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

6.) You make sure to bring rubber flip-flops to college with you...'cuz Trip McNeeley told you to.

7.) You start a "Dead Romance Lanuages" club at your school

8.) You beg your wife/girlfriend to dress up as an angel before "naughty" sessions...

9.) You can't watch Milo on "24" without secretly wishing he'd lick brownie off of Nadia's face.

10.) You try to elude the cops by spraying silly string in their eyes

11.) You 've tried to spin records on a Victrola

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LOL!btw...about the toy dinosaur thing...it was a bong lol

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...MORE...because I'm bored at work!


12.) You constantly use the phrase "You want some a' dis?"

13.) You make sure to have at least six cans of whipped cream at all of your house parties.

14.) You have the sudden urge to play "Miami Vice" in your friend's basement.

15.) You end up dating your high school girlfriend all throughout college, so you don't meet the same fate as Mike Dexter.

16.) One of your pick-up lines is "You...are...so...Gwynyth!"

..okay, these are kinda lame...maybe I should go read a book or something...

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17. Every time the song Paradise City comes on, you yell out, "I know this song! A guy I tutored in math used to make me listen to it!"

18. When your friends ask you if you are gonna hook up with someone, you say, "Man, that boy ain't got no skittles."

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Um, not to be rude, but I think the quote is "man, that boy ain't got no SKILLS." Not skittles. LOL

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I got one for you...
25. You made your senior yearbook look based off of this movie, and everyone agreed because they wanted it to be like the movie..
Very awesome movie. Helped me all through high school, and yes there are so many people that I went to high school with that turned out to be one of the people in the movie. I love this movie...

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26.you name your dog Mandy

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27. Everytime you eat a brownie you said "dude..this brownie sucks" even if it doesnt

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28. When you order a hamburger at a restaurant, you ask for a Love Burger...well done.

29. You yell out "This is the greatest night of my life!" randomly at parties.

30. You tell your friends that from certain angles, they somewhat resemble David Duchovany.

31. You try to make-out with your second cousin...by marriage.

32. You've thrown up in your bookbag and left it on the school bus.

33. When women turn you down for sex you respond by telling them "My *beep* coulda been bangin!"

34. You attended the most recent Scott Baio autograph session

35. You sympathize with strippers in angle costumes.

36. You lost your scholarship when incriminating photos of you surfaced

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OMG had no idea this thread was still around! Holy crow!
thanks for all the posts-brightens up my day LOL

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37. You have a new appreciation for Scott Baio
38. You always order burgers ... well done.
39. When someone mentions pudding, you say "And who could forget the pudding incident, I know no one else has."
40. You randomly say "But William! you could get drunk. YOU COULD GET addicted."

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When someone claims that they're gonna go get laid you ask somebody else if they think if, "He's gonna hitzit the skizins?"

You only watch the movie with the director's commentary cause it's that much funnier. And sadder cause we STILL don't have the damn cut scenes.

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1.When someone asks you where's your team spirit and they do a cheer like "Go hot dogs!" you simply reply "Bitch!get a life"


I now declare this bridge open

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2. When ur jumping on the bed, to ur fave song and u say
í have no legs'', then scream Í HAVE NO LEGS!'-an ultimate rock moment for you.

3. When you hear Dire Straits 'Romeo and Juliet'u think about Ethan(also a scene in Empire Records with him same song playing)

4. when u watch the saturday screening on tv(for the millionth time) and then get up on sunday10am to watch the repeat

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5.Your dog's name is Mandy.

6.You made a dinosaur bong





Do the Huffle-puff


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50. You truly attempted to show up to your high school graduation ceremony naked under your gown, and then later complained that your gown smelled like blue cheese.

51. You try and remember live by William's philosophy about "Women and trolley cars. There's plenty of them in the sea."

52. Mike Dexter is your 'official' God (and role model.)







David Tyree (#85 of the New York Giants) is a god! F--- the Pats!

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Your high school yearbook quote was "A true friend stabs you in the front" just like denise's because after seeing the movie as a kid she became your icon. as an adult you continue to love the work of all the teen actors from the time, and you still watch the movie when you've got free time.

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53. Your shoes serve orthopedic functions.
54. When your friend breaks up with his/her significant other, you tell them that the opposite sex is just like trolley cars - there are plenty of them in the sea.
55. You have a Scott Baio poster on your wall.

<3<3<3

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You read all the 'you're an obsessive can't hardly wait fan when...' posts from the beginning till the end. (which I did)

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