- Every time you happen to see a film/TV show/current affairs program involving a (fictional or real) American president, you jump up screaming, "IT'S AN IMPOSTOR!"

- You find yourself criticising other film/TV presidents, listing all the ways Bartlet would have done better.

- Ditto for their staff.

- You have a strange knack for turning any conversation to the West Wing, no matter how unrelated the topic.

- You find out that the Australian Democrats leader is called Andrew Bartlett, and wonder if he is any relation to Jed. You then spend several hours trying to figure out how he might fit into the Bartlet family tree, and how come he spells his name with the two 't's.

- You begin to compare everybody to West Wing characters ("You're such an Amy!")

- You think Bartlet's actually the President, and wonder who this Bush guy is everyone's always talking about.

- You've got a goldfish called Gail.

- You wonder why there's nothing about Qumar on the news.

- You count down the days/hours/minutes till the next episode.

- You start your own religion known as "Wingism", and declare Tuesday/Wednesday a Holy Day, on which nothing must be done unless it is in front of an episode of West Wing.

- You think about naming your pets after West Wing characters, and are held back only by Leo's dislike of giving animals human names.

- You seriously consider naming your future children after West Wing characters.

- Your week goes, "Monday, Tuesday, Wingday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday." (or "Monday, Wingday, Wednesday...")

- Your answering machine has a sound clip of Margaret saying "Leo McGarry's office..."

- You insist on conducting most of your conversations while walking briskly down random corridors.

- You instinctively dislike anyone called Amy.

- You only just started watching the show a couple of months ago, but already you know more about it than your friends, who've been watching it since the beginning.

- Your friends look on Wednesday/Thursday with dread, knowing that you could bounce up at any minute and recount all of last night's episode.

- You try to convince your best friend to run for president.

- Your football (or whatever) team appears to be winning a match, but you refuse to join in the cheering because you don't want to tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.

- You have to tape "Election Night", and next morning only get to watch up to the first ad break, where Bartlet isn't able to sign some papers because his hands are shaking too much. Spend the rest of the day worrying about him, and going around saying anxiously, "THE PRESIDENT WAS SHAKING!!" (to the great annoyance of your friends)

- You try to get everyone to address you as Mr/Ms President, and refer to your friends as your "staff".

- After watching "20 Hours in America", you issue one of your friends a dare: Every time they says their name, they have to follow it with "I work at the White House".

- Said friend has become generally accepted as President Bartlet's secretary, and does nothing to dispute the title.

- Your friends know almost everything there is to know about The West Wing, despite the fact that none of them have ever seen an episode in their lives.

- You can relate to most of the things on this list.

- You read "the things" in that sentence above and found it funny.

- The first thing you do when you get the paper is to check for an article by Danny Concannon. You're still surprised you haven't found one yet.

- You know all the words to the Jackal.

- You can list all the episodes in alphabetical order. Backwards.

- You got a copy of the Constitution for Christmas.

- When talking to friends, you randomly quote West Wing, with little regard for the actual subject of conversation.

- You have to do a science outcome on a neurological disease, and you choose MS because of POTUS.

- You continually listen to "New York Minute" for the single line, "somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail..."

- You find it hysterically funny that Lord of the Rings was produced by Wingnut Films.

- You go looking for lemonlyman.com.

- You stuff cotton wool in your mouth just so you can say "woot canaw" like CJ.

- You continually have to buy new videos to tape West Wing on because you simply can't bring yourself to tape over the old episodes, even though you'll probably never get the time to watch them again.

- Your library at home consists of fanfic, episode transcripts and the Constitution.

- You start writing a letter to Martin Sheen, only to stop, realising that you don't know who he is. You then write a letter to President Bartlet.

- You dress up as a Republican for Halloween.

- You can identify a season by everyone's haircuts.

- You celebrate Big Block of Cheese day.

- Your mobile phone plays the West Wing theme.

- Every time you get a call, you wait for ages before answering, just so you can hear the entire thing.

- The "thing" bit there set off more sniggering from you.

- Your spellcheck recognises names like "Bartlet".

- You are better known on internet West Wing forums than in real life.

- Nobody knows more about national parks than you.

- Most of your friends and family have forbidden you to email them anything, after you clogged their inboxes with hundreds of West Wing virtual postcards.

- You nearly have a heart attack upon noticing that the car directly in front of you has the numberplate "CJ 367".

- Tell me if any of this sounds familiar: 'Let's list our ten favourite episodes. Let's list our least favourite episodes. Let's list our favourite parts of the White House. Let's make a chart to see how often our favourite parts of the White House appear in our favourite episodes. What male staffer would you most like to see coupled with a female staffer and why? Let's spend a weekend talking about Josh falling in love with Donna and then let's do it again.'

- On reading that last point, you shouted out loud, "THAT'S NOT BEING A FAN. THAT'S HAVING A FETISH!"

- And now you're going on to quote the remainder of that scene.

- Your friend tells you she had a dream that she bought some West Wing DVDs, and the first thing you ask her is what season were they.

- You apparently also featured in this dream, and your dream-self bugged your friend into watching every single episode.

- You try to force your friends to pay homage to pictures of West Wing characters.

- You're helping your friend study for a Politics/Economics test using the West Wing: "Is President Bartlet a natural, human or capital resource? President Bartlet has a personal aide named Charlie. What kind of resource is he? Charlie loses his job. How could unemployment affect him?" Whoever said television wasn't educational?

- Trivia night - the question is "Who is the current US president?" and you write, "Josiah Bartlet".

- Your most used phrase is "What's next?"

- After watching an episode (on tape/DVD), you rewind it back to the beginning and watch it again.

- Every time the state is mentioned, you just want to raise an imaginary glass and shout, "MARYLAND!"

- You look up the Federated States of Micronesia in an atlas.

- You come across a competition to win the DVD boxset. You only enter once... a day...

- You're watching an episode on tape from a couple of years ago, and while fast-forwarding over the commercials you notice an ad for a competition in which the prize is a trip to Washington and a tour of the White House. You seriously consider entering, despite the competition being obviously long finished.

- You're watching a video you taped a while ago, and while fast-forwarding over the commercials happen to catch a glimpse of a West Wing ad. You immediately rewind the tape and watch the commercial over... and over... and over...

- You notice an advertisement for a store called "Ritchie's" and sneer, thinking immediately of how President Bartlet slaughtered Governor Ritchie in the debate. Not to mention the election.

- You can identify which episode each of the clips in the opening credits came from.

- You're watching Stargate SG-1, and General Hammond announces that the President's ordered him to take a course of action that would effectively kill one of the characters, and you whisper at the screen, horrified, "Jed, how could you?"

- Your role-playing character just happens to share their birthday with Toby.

- You go to your younger brother's school play and scan the programme for any kids called Sam or Joshua or, you know, Josiah, maybe.

- You strongly believe that world maps should have the Northern Hemisphere on the bottom.

- Somebody asks who your favourite writer is, and you say "Toby".

- When driving at night you always end up getting horribly lost as you insist on using celestial navigation, just like Sam and Toby.

- You continuously try to get the cockatoo at the pet store to repeat phrases such as "I had woot canaw!"

- You find yourself watching films you would ordinarily take no interest in, solely due to the fact that they feature actors from West Wing.

- You have been counting down the days until the release of the next DVD boxset in your country.

- You call Friday "Take Out the Trash Day".

- A friend of yours is refusing to speak to you until you start acting your age. Hmph! All you did was call them Toby and ask if they had spoken to the President yet!

- Following "Evidence of Things Not Seen", you jump on the nearest computer and look up "equinox" and "egg" on a search engine, or go looking for "ThingsThatAreWrong.com".

- You can never remember the name of Emily Procter's character on CSI: Miami. You always just think of her as Ainsley.

- You become offended when West Wing is not reviewed in the TV Guide.

- You check the crossword in the TV guide every week, not because you actually want to do it, just in case there's a West wing reference in there somewhere...

- Your new haircut looks suspiciously like a certain West Wing character's...

- When reading a book, you come across the following description, and immediately think of Josh and Donna: "...she was impudent and difficult and refused to make coffee. She was particularly obstinate about not making coffee. She wouldn't make coffee when she first came to work for me, either." (from Finding Grace, by Alyssa Brugman - good book, too, if you come by it).

- You have a sore stomach, so you take some Eno and then sit down and watch your West Wing DVD. By the time the episode has finished, the pain has gone. You credit your "miraculous" recovery to the West Wing episode, rather than the Eno.

- You're simply dying for someone to ask if you're making any dramatic changes so you can answer, "Well, I like to think I have a certain flair." (submitted by Lisa)

- You practice saying "okay" in front of a mirror so you too can imbue that one word with 100 different meanings. (submitted by Lisa)

- You called the Butterball hotline to ask how to cook your Thanksgiving turkey.(submitted by Lisa)

- You decide to change colleges, just so you can go to Berkeley - Go bears! (submitted by Rowan Cota)

- The fact that your classroom is situated in the west wing of your school is a source of great amusement to you.

- Whenever someone says they are from Connecticut, you feel like saying "Go Whalers!" (submitted by Nick Fabiani)

- You carry a backpack, which looks exactly the same as Josh's instead of a briefcase... when everyone else around you using briefcases. (submitted by Jacquie)

- You run around your house/dorm panicking about the blue folder you lost or the black one with the secret launch codes. (submitted by Jacquie)

- You sleep at your or others' desks repetedly. (submitted by Jacquie)

- Your spell checker will recognize Fitzwallace, Lyman, and Berryhill, but not words like protectee, guilted, invitro, and CBS. (submitted by Nitzoplax)

- You can quote sections your favorite West Wing fanfics verbatim but can't answer more than three questions correctly about last night's reading assignment. (submitted by Nitzoplax)

- You seriously considered joining AOL just so you could access more of Warner Brothers official West Wing site. (submitted by Nitzoplax)

- You watch the West Wing so much that your KIDS recognize the actors when they're on other shows. (submitted by Terri)

- You find it hard to get along with people who have never seen it or don't like it. (submitted by Kate)

- You're constantly telling people to "set fire to the room. Do it now." as you walk out. (submitted by Kate)

- You get angry when you see Rob Lowe on any other shows, and shout "TRAITOR!! HOW COULD YOU ABANDON US!?" whenever he appears. (submitted by Kate)

- You've attached a photo of John Wells to your dart board.

- You've ever used material from an episode of West Wing when writing a college paper. (submitted by Richard King)

- You refuse to refer to said paper as "a paper" or "an essay"... it is an "op ed". (submitted by Richard King)

- Something you picked up from an episode has made it's way onto your (in my case, official government) email signature block. (submitted by Richard King)

- You call your office the "Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue". (submitted by M. Aubert)

- When watching 'Malcolm in the Middle' while Lois is pregnant, you tell everyone you know that she's having Josh's baby. (submitted by Helen)

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