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(You know you’ve been watching too much “The Sentinel” when…/You know you’re obsessed with “The Sentinel” when…)

1. I was helping a 5th grader read something. She kept reading it wrong, even with prompting her to sound it out. The name was Mrs. Cassats. She kept reading it as Mrs. Cascade - of course I was having a hard time keeping a straight face and she in turn kept asking me what's wrong!

I had visions of Jim, Blair, Simon and the gang everytime she would read
that name wrong!

Stargazer

2. I have a customer at the casino named Christina Banks and my first thought was how was she related to Simon <G>

Wendy

3. I have another customer named Richard Burge and automatically start giggling to myself at:

1) constantly visualizing Richard's classic Adonis physique in front
of my window (this was a elderly gentleman with full beard) and

2) trying to resist the urge to correct the spelling of his last name <G>

Wendy

4. You're scanning the back label of your shampoo bottle and when you read the phrase "bouncy and full of body", you think immediately of Blair.

I don't have a MASSIVE crush on him or
anything....<vbg>

Allison

5. You hear a commercial for "Sentinel" flea and tick control and immediately envision a mini Jim walking through your dog's fur and homing in on the little pests with sight and sound and blowing them away with his gun while Blair tries to explain the social structure of flea and tick culture. <G>

Okay, so maybe the Blair is a bit of a stretch but you can't have
Jim without Blair. <BG>

Ceryndip

6. I was reading the paper this afternoon, and came across an article which referred to "sentinel chickens". That particular phrase gave me a mental image that made me laugh so hard the cats woke up to see what was going on. What they meant was there's been heavy flooding in the Top End (the northern half of the state) and resulting in plagues of mozzies which carry various diseases including encephalities. The sentinel chicken system tests birds kept in that area for the virus to act as an early warning system for humans.

Boy, do I need less sugar in my system!!!

Deb Down Under

6. You're enrolling to new members to the Players' Club at the casino where I work and they're from BLAIRSVILLE, Georgia.

WendyOwl

7. In the background the radio announcer you're only vaguely listening to is going through the list of actors shortlisted for some British award thingie and Rafe (I know it's not spelled that way but I can't remember the right way!) Fiennes cracks a mention. And in the split second between the first and last name being said, you get a mental flash of a certain well dressed detective and start paying attention to the radio to find out what award he's up for. Ooops!

Deb Down Under

8. It seems that the boys have found another way to live on.... frozen peas are apparently the ice pack of choice for heroes around the U.S., namely Gary Hobson on Early Edition.

Toni Rae Linenberger

8. I was competing in a local tournament here in Sacramento, and one of the fencers was named Ellison. I found out later that his name is Tom Ellison and he runs the fencing club at UC Davis.

Sally

9. There was an ad on the TV Guide Channel today for a pet flea control pill called "Sentinel." The tag line of the ad was "Clean. Safe. Effective." Now, I haven't seen even half of the episodes, but that just struck me as...very descriptive of Jim.

JulieJekel

10. You see a commercial for those ZipLoc storage containers, the one where they show two of them inside a refrigerator, and you notice that one has a red lid and the other has a blue lid, and you wonder if that was Jim's refrigerator.

Jamie

11. The Houston Chronicle has a new society-page magazine supplement called SENSE houston, I kept expecting to see familiar TS faces in it. Closest I could come is the first story about fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli. It had an insert of the guy's logo - MOSIMMO in stylized, scrunched together letters -- now I finally know what was on that red sweatshirt that Darryl wore in 'Flight'! I kept on trying to spell "CASCADE" out of it.

Sue

12. Have you seen the latest Lexus or BMW car commercial? It has an LED display of some of its features, including SENSES DELIGHTED 5. Must've earned the Ellison seal of approval, huh?

Sue

13. And the foreword to the Robert Goldsborough Nero Wolfe book that I'm reading has this line: "(S)everal commentators...suggest that the brownstone has been bulldozed and that Wolfe, in retirement, is living in Cairo, Egypt, raising guppies." Nero Wolfe and Blair Sandburg? What a combination of opposites!

Sue

14. Customer gets enrolled at my window...name, Stephen Ellis!!! I couldn't help

but want desperately to put 'on' on the end of his last name and wonder how

his relationship with Jim was going <G>

WendyOwl

15. You know you've been watching too much TS when you are innocently shopping in WalMart and you see a bunch of pastel colored cottonballs and facial wipes in one of those huge wire baskets--and look closer and see Sentinel's Best on each bag...yes, folks, I did do a 180 with the basket and holler "Great Jumping Cats!!!!!" before diving in...Many, many surprised people at WalMart that day...Sentinel's Best claimed to be 100 percent natural--so as not to irritate sensitive skin--LOL!!! I could just see Blair bringing them home for Jim...and imagining Jim's reaction to the pretty pastel colors...LOLOLOLOL!!!!

Deputy Fess

16. KYMBOWTSW I have to smile everytime I pass a house under construction in my neighborhood and see that big square container they use to throw all their refuse in. It has a big label on the side that says "Sentinel Resourses".

JamieR

17. You know you're obsessed with The Sentinel When - you get a big kick out of watching the current Buick Century Car commercial because Udo Kier (The Iceman) is in it! Of course, my mind refuses to see him as a befuddled German engineer. When the narrater is through insulting him in the commercial, in my mind, I keep seeing Klaus Zeller emerge and letting the comic know just how unfunny he thought he was.

JamieR

18. Was at my parents' the other day, and noticed a box in their closet that had 'Blair' written on the side. Oh, boy, Blair-in-a-box! No such luck.

Molly

19. You walk by the kitchen table and see the word, "Zoning" in a newspaper headline and automatically think it's an article on Jim.

Rachel

20. I walked in to my thermodynamics class on Friday and guess what we were learning about? Cascade refrigeration cycles! Every time I heard that phrase, a picture of Jim and Blair at a crime scene in the winter, freezing their butts off popped in to my head.

Allison

21. Enrolling new customer at work....Susan Frazier and automatically flash on photo in "Cypher" <G> No, she didn't look like her, but boy, it was a loop-de-loop <G>

Wendy

22. You know you've been watching TS too much when......... You're playing "Barbies" with your six year old and you ask if you can change "Ken's" name to "Jim."

Vision

23. Today I was given a small brown beer bottle that had a label saying, "Cascade Special Stout." The bloke who gave me the bottle couldn't figure out why I thought that was so funny. It took me awhile to read the part that said "brewed in Tasmania".

Deb Down Under

24. When you watch an old "Defenders Of The Earth" anime featuring the Phantom & his daughter's black panther & gray wolf and you think "so THAT'S where they got Jim & Blair's spirit guides from!" :D

Doreen

25. You know you're obsessed with The Sentinel when you are home on your day off, the soaps are droning in the background, and you spot a sign as part of the set on "Port Charles" that says 'ELLISON'S FLOUR" and you wonder if that is one of William Ellison's businesses.

JamieR

26. #1: Accompanied my friend to pick out a stereo at Best Buy... kept getting annoyed by the stereos and turning them off... yelling at kids who turned them on... I can *so* see Jim doing that...

#2: I am at work, in the photo lab in my store... I smell chemicals mixing underneath, my manager is standing close.. "Come here... do you smell something?" "No." "You don't smell that?" "No, I don't." "How can you not smell it?"

No, I wasn't going crazy, there were chemicals mixing, too... course, after this exchange... all I can think of is "The Switchman." ;)

Loisarah

27. For anyone out there who's ever been involved in marching bands/drum corps, you should know that there is a group from Washington state that just made semi-finals called.....the Seattle Cascades!

28. A girlfriend was up on Sat to visit with her 4 kids. She told Amanda and I that she was going to rent a house in Cascade for a week on a little lake. Amanda and I both burst out laughing! My poor girlfriend didn't know why we were laughing until we explained! I was wondering if Jim and Blair were going to be there....sigh...if only....

Stargazer

29. You're watching a movie and the two male leads are talking. Finally one of them admits.... "Its about friendship. I just didn't realized it before..." and you're snickering to yourself wondering how many other closet TS fen are out there....

L.J. Smith

30. Hm . . . I really didn't think I was watching too much TS, but I will admit that while watching "Jaws" recently, I had to stifle a giggle when folks called Brody "Chief." Does this mean I'm on my way to addiction?

Felicia

31. I was on retreat this past week in southern Pennsylvania and it was in the 60s (insanely cold for this time of year) and rained almost the whole time. I had to keep walking back and forth between buildings across the sodden lawn because there were no paths. I took off my sandals to keep them dry, resulting in my feet getting soaked. As I huddled in our dining hall, I found myself thinking, "Cold and wet is my world." Then, I looked up and saw one of the other retreatants was wearing a jacket that had "Cascade, MD" on it. I was very amused because when I came across TS and caught only snippets of the show, I thought it took place in Maryland, since when I hear Washington, I usually think DC.

Jennifer

32. #1: You develop an eye for 1969 Ford F150 Ranger pick-ups and can spot them miles down the road...

#2: It suddenly occurs to you that the truck you've been borrowing from work for the past 2 years IS a 1969 Ford F150 Ranger with a blue and white paint job!

Teej

33. You see an episode of "Buffy" and when they read their high school paper (yes, previous season...Angel still there <sigh>) you see the headline of the paper - "Sunnydale High School Sentinel", your mouth drops open and you slap your head.

osnat

34. You know you are still obsessed with TS when... you proofread your boss's PIWG report and notice the company name SenCom and wonder when Jim and Blair went into the electronics business...

TAE

35. You know you're still obsessed with TS when...You're still proofreading PIWG reports and not only is there a SenCon, but a SENSIS....sigh...SENSIS is another electronics company...

TAE

36. I was at work the other night and this guy came in the store that look just like the one who played Abe... I mean everything about him and what made it so weird was. He told me Jesus loves me... WOW!!! Is Abe really an angel. Now I know I've been watching Night shift too much...

Wolfshy

37. You overhear the phone conversation of your work partner who is saying, "Yes Jim, Yes Jim, No Jim, No Jim, that's okay Jim, All Right Big

Guy!" and you get highly amused!

Teej

38. You're in a training lesson dealing with the topic of drugs and the bad guys that sell them when the officer/instructor pulls out a large chart that has a picture and confiscated sample of PEYOTE featured very prominently in the center of it and you bust up laughing.

vonilyn

39. The management company for the townhouse you just bought is run by "Sentinel Managment" and you can't help but wonder what the perks might be!!

40. You download the new nature collection of webshots wallpapers and nearly crack up laughing when the first photo pops up and the label is "Mount Rainier, Washington".

Maggie

41. When, gazing through a magazine while walking on the treadmill at the gym, you spot an ad that says "Blair Shoppe" and want to know if you can buy a Blair there. <G>

"I'll take that one right there, dear...the one with the glasses. Oh, and that little cutie in the flannel shirt...toss him into the bag while you're at it."

Iris

42. You're searching through hundreds...no THOUSANDS of airplane pictures for a homework assignment and find a picture of a Stinson L-5....Sentinel!!! O.k. It was really cool at the time.

Allison

43. I was in the parking lot at Kaiser Zion Hospital here in San Diego today (visiting a friend's mother with the friend), and saw the following license plate:

SENTNL

Now, what other *possible* conclusion was I supposed to jump to, I ask you??? :-)

JJ2

44. You're watching The Secrets Of... In this case it was the FBI and they were talking about a paramilitary group they took down in 1985 called the Covenet, Sword, Arm Of the Lord (Aka CSA) Its a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when they said the leader's name cause baby I'd've spewed seriously.

James Ellison.

Marianne

45. Well, what about when you are reading a Christian novel and they start describing 'trees that stand tall like a sentinel' and you wonder how Jim wandered into your book.

Margie (...I think. If this from you, e-mail me and I’ll give you credit! - Allison)

46. You hear a commercial for the new "The Fugitive" series, and your first thought is, "I wonder if Richard Kimble ever passed through Cascade when he was running from the law."

Felicia

47. You're walking down the aisle of a local Mart and see a safe called Sentinel Home Security! I wonder if they come in combos.

Melba Shae

48. You get your hair cut, and just tell the stylist to do whatever she wants, and she does, and she styles it, and it looks great, but the next day when you do it yourself and of course you can't get it like she had it, but you do it, and it looks fine ... and you look in the mirror and actually think, "I look like Carolyn..."

Loisarah

49. You see a TV listing for hockey game with the Seahawks vs. the Chiefs and automatically visualize a team FULL of long, curly haired Sandburgs in hockey gear playing against the Seahawks.

Wendyowl

50. You do a double take at the beginning of today's Magnum P.I. episode and realize it's "Murder 101".

L.J. Smith

51. You go as one of the characters for Halloween. Yes, I'm dressing as our favorite grad student for Halloween tonight. Red and black plaid wool coat, flannel shirt...the works.

Allison

52. Or when you're driving on the freeway towards L.A. and see a blue jeep with the license 'RBFORLIFE', and wonder what kind car Richard Burgi's wife drives.

Bonnie317

53. Checking through the Radio Times in case there was something worth watching while I'm off work with a nose/throat infection thingy, I came across 'The Plainsman' with Gary Cooper and.....

James Ellison!

AnneCat

54. I was driving down the road the other day and saw a sign that read 'Taggart for counsil'. The first thing that popped into my head was why Joel would leave the PD to become a city counsilman, the very next thought was why he wouldn't try to become Chief of Police, instead. I laughed all the way home.

Cat