Skywater Revisited - Your Guide to the World of Boredom

You Know You're A Backie When...

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

Welcome to my compilation of the replies to one of the topics on the bttf.com message boards. Appreciate all the hard work it took for me to copy and paste every single one of the 1000+ replies on all 40+ pages of the thing. The only reason why I did it was because the Star Wars version was 250+ pages long. And I was feeling bored. All entries edited for spelling, grammar, punctuation and whatever. If I missed out anyone, sorry... it's not easy going through 1000+ entries.

YKYABW... Part 1:

- You oversleep and, as you're rushing to get out of the house, dialogue is playing in your head:
George: I overslept. Listen, I have to ask Lorraine out, but I don't know how to do it.
and
George: Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and said if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain.
- giggles

- You spend $8000 on a DeLorean so you can travel through time. (Where I come from, the average car costs US$50,000.)
- You chop off the wheels of your skatteboard so you can make it hover. (Ed: So did it work?)
- Wild Gunman

- You have a lot of tickets for speeding on the highway at 88 mph because you were trying to travel through time.
- You get a 88% on a test at school yoou say "88 miles per hour!"
- When you order a chocolate milk you say "Give me a milk, chocolate!"
- Kate_McFly99

- You're ecstatic to find out that BTTF is coming on TV, as your laserdisks are still packed (I just wish it was Part 2).
- You stay up 'til the wee hours of thhe morning reading FutureGirl's and Watson's fanfiction (this is true. When When Worlds Collide came out, I was up 'til about 5am reading Part 1). (5am? However did you get up the next morning? Unless you have a time machine...)
- After reading said fanfiction, you wwant to continue your own, but your co-writer has gone AWOL.
- giggles

- You see the words "back" or "future" in an article and begin to look for the other words of "back to the future". (Ed: This doesn't usually mean the article has anything to do with BTTF. I once did an online search for 'back to the future' and came up with an article on 'How To Prevent Back Pains In The Future'.)
- You make friends with a person just because his name is Marty.
- You're campaigning to raise the speeed limit to 90 so you can do 88mph - legally.
- Your family turn off any film or doccumentary made in 1955 or 1985 because they don't want to get you started...
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- Even after not seeing the movies for about a year (they were packed, honest!!), you can still recite the dialogue when you see it again.
- giggles

- If you're reading this right now.
- When the only CD's you own are from the BTTF sound track. (Ed: Musically deprived, you are.)
- When some one mentions anything abouut BTTF you ask if they're a huge fan. (Ed: For me, I ask if they read BTTF fan fiction and then dump a whole lot of links on them.)
- If you sleep with a stuffed Einsteinn dog toy.
- When the only song you get stuck in your head are from the BTTF movies (Ed: I envy you. EVERY song I hear gets stuck in my head... such is the curse of the band nerd.)
- If you say Great Scotts constantly - If you have a framed BTTF T-shirt inn your room
- If your home page is www.bttf.com
- Plutonuim248

- Some way, some how, you try to tie every conversation with friends, family or strangers, into the BTTF movies.
- mmickfly2

- You name your son Marty and your daughter Jennifer
- You make excuses to go to your doctoor just so you can call someone Doc
- You name your dog Einstein
- When doing a report on Albert Einsteein, you mention that Doc's dog was called Einstein
- You watch other time travel shows annd then say how much they're "wrong" compared to BTTF. (Ed: Oh yes. I even watch BTTF and say how it's 'wrong' compared to BTTF.)
- Your alarm is set at 10.04 - am and pm!
- Every November 12th or October 26th you take the day off work and have a party. (Ed: And what does your boss say about that?)
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- You take hours to type a post on the BTTF Message Board in order to discuss, in detail, the scientific possibilities of time travel and how they relate to the BTTF trilogy. Then, after you finally post it, you find that 5 other people have already posted the same thing!
- You find out that your new friend's birthday is November 5th and when you tell him that that is "a red-letter date in the history of science"; the day Doc Brown hit his head and had "a revelation" and "a vision" of "the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible", you become upset when he has no idea what you are talking about.
- You hear a train's whistle and you rrecall Doc saying, "I've wanted to do that ever since I was a kid!"
- You hear the phrase, "Just say 'No!''", and it doesn't bring to mind a drug campaign slogan.
- You know how old you will be on Octoober 21, 2015 (51 years, 7 months, 23 days old)
- WeatherExperiment

-You act like the bus boy at the local diner will become Mayor in the future. (Ed: You mean he won't?)
- You keep extension cords near the biiggest clock in town just incase of an emergency!
- You actually think the Cubs will winn the world series in the future.
- Biff's #1 Fan

- You have all the dialogue from all three films memorized and you weren't trying to memorize it, you just watched them too many times, and
- You keep scr*wing up YOUR OWN MOTHERR'S BIRTHDAY (October 24), thinking it's October 26 when it's not. I KEEP DOING THAT!!! For at least the last five years in a row, and I kick myself every time, only to do again the following year.
- Dave1982

- Someone calls you a chicken and you immediately say "Nobody calls me chicken!"
- You can't hear the song "Earth Angell" without getting teary eyed thinking about George and Lorraine's first kiss
- Ditto for Johnny B. Goode. You can'tt think of anything else when you hear that song but Marty playing that guitar so awesomely
- (This one actually happened to me laast week while playing Scrabble with my sister.) I had the letters "T" "A" and "B". So of course I spelled TAB and immediately said to my sister "can I get a tab?" and she says "Tab? I can't get you a tab until you order something"...hehe
- LadyDi1985

- Every time you see your friends you open conversation with "I love Back to the Future. It's the best movie ever."
- In the middle of the day you get thee urge to go home and watch it.
- You can't get the cool theme song ouut of your head. (Ed: Well, I can. All I have to do is replace it with another catchy song and the latter will be stuck in my head for the following week or so until I replace it with yet another song. We band nerds lead a hard life.)
- Mr. McFly

- You are moving from Iowa to Florida just to work at Universal Studios
- MartyFox

- When, having perfered Coca-Cola your whole life you watch the movie again and decide to switch to Pepsi. (Ed: I've always prefered Pepsi, pre- and post- BTTF.)
- Doc Hollywood

- Someone calls you a name and you say "Mad Dog. I hate that name. Nobody calls me Mad Dog!" before you realise they didn't call you Mad Dog at all.
- As above, except you realise they'ree not calling you Mad Dog and say "Nobody calls me [name]"
- You name your team the "Mad Dogs" orr the "Tannens"
- You move to a school where the princcipal.headteacher is bald
- Every programme on TV somehow remindds you of BTTF
- You have to do a report on Einstein or Copernicus and you mention that they're Doc Brown's dogs.
- You spend hours trying to come up wiith some of these things!
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- You reach into your pockets and pull out 88 cents and you think "88 Miles Per Hour!"
- Dave McFly

- During a lightning storm you keep looking for a flying DeLorean
- You're banned from karoake competitiions because the organisers don't want you singing Johnny Be Goode yet again...
- People ask you what your favourite bband is and you say "Marvin Berry & the Starlighters" (Ed: Nah. My favourite band is my school band.)
- Whenever you're late, you say "****,, I'm late!" like Doc does in Part 2.
- You name your son Christopher and hiis middle name Lloyd.
- (for females only) You marry someonee called Docherty so you can be "Mrs Doc"!!!
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- People ask you what you want for your birthday, and you shout "a hoverboard!" without thinking. (Ed: I'd prefer a lightsabre, but a hoverboard would do just fine.)
- You ask your parents to explain in ddetail how they met; just in case you ever need to know....
- FutureDirector

- You come to BTTF.com everytime you log onto the net.
- The only things you eat and drink arre Burger King burgers, Pizza Hut pizza, and Pepsi. (Everything's true in that except I don't go to Burger King, I go to Wendys)
- You have a jean jacket, red vest, annd Nike shoes you wear everyday. (I only wear the jacket and vest sometimes, the shoes I wear 24/7)
- You only want a DeLorean or a black Toyota truck when you turn 16. (Ed: Sorry, DeLoreans went out of production years ago.)
- You own a BTTF fan site with all thee fixings. ( www.bttc.shorturl.com )
- J-Flux

- The essay you wrote for school has BTTF characters in it!
- Delorean89

- Your cellular phone ringing tone is the theme from Back to the Future. (Ed: So does mine... I composed it in myself, hah. It used to be the Star Wars theme, and before that the Jurassic Park one. All self-composed into the phone. FREE.)
- You can visualise each and every sceene in chronological order, word for word.
- You especially learnt how to play "JJohnny B. Goode" on guitar just to be like Marty! (Ed: The sad thing is, I can play it on the piano, recorder, flute and oboe, but not the guitar... yet.)
- Schwepps

- You suddenly realize your birth year has some meaning
- You dream about modifying your DeLorrean into a BTTF one, but you don't have any car whatsoever
- You decide to skip trying to learn hhow to ride a bike, and learn skateboarding instead - You decide you want to know guitar iin addition to trombone, so yu can play Johnny B Goode along with Marty. (Ed: Trombone? Hey... are you in band too?)
- You wish you weren't raised to alwayys follow the speed limit, because 88 isn't anywhere near legal
- You start making a list of vanity pllates you want, because OUTATIME is probably taken, even though you won't even drive for three more years
- You notice any part of 1885, 1955, 11985, or 2015, and start thinking "now if only it had the other part..." (Ed: And ever wonder why all those years end with a '5'?)
- You start considering adopting kids before you're married, so you can have a Martin Fly, a Jennifer Jane, a Michael Jay, an Emmett Brown, and a Christopher Lloyd without worrying that your spouse will disagree with a name
- You keep not buying BTTF tapes, becaause you still cling to the hope that the DVDs will be out soon. (Ed: Well, they are now.)
- You keep daydreaming of going sightsseeing through time in a flying DeLorean. (Ed: SIGHTSEEING? Are you INSANE? HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM?)
- You find an old Lego car in the toybbox, and you hover convert it (then locate the person it came with and ask for $39,999.95).
- "Great Scott" is the first expletivee that comes to mind under a lot of stress
- You start topics at BTTF.com and relload the main page of the board several times to see if anyone responded
- temporal paradox

- At age 23, you finally learn how to drive a stick shift so you can pretend you're Marty racing for the clock tower.
- Florence Nightingale

- You go shopping just to buy a red T-shirt without any designer label so you can dress like Marty.
- You wear your jeans inside out/with the pockets inside out.
- You know exactly how your parents meet, just in case...
- When you write about "My Hero" for sschool, you write about Doc and Marty...
- You're planning a big party on Octobber 21st 2015 at 4.29pm.
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- The first words out of your mouth after asking your crush to homecoming are... "Did you hear Back to the Future 2 is going to be on Disney channel tonight??"
- Pinheads

- You get in trouble for hijacking, i mean BORROWING, a train for a "science experiment"
- You have the "Back to the Future tenn commandments" on your binder for school! (Ed: Which are?)
- Delorean89

- When a friend mentions how he wishes they could go back in time and warn himself not to make a mistake he made, you go nuts and say "ARE YOU INSANE??? HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM???"
- You always keep a picture of youreseelf with your brother and sister "just in case".
- Chuck Berry has filed a restraining order against you because you keep reminding him how he owes Marty for finding "that new sound he was looking for" and because you keep asking what happened to his cousin, Marvin.
- Your only criteria for which mayorall candidate to vote for is whether or not they'll preserve your town's clock tower.
- Though you have no interest in pursuuing a career in music, you learn to play the guitar "just in case"
- Upon seeing Tim's second completed hhotrod on "Home Improvement", your first reaction was " Nice of him to clean up Biff's old car!" (It was a '46 Ford)
- You run away screaming every time yoou see a blue VW bus.
- You've frequently been taken to the hospital with head injuries after hitting your head on the bathroom sink, thinking it will give you inspriration. (Ed: You mean it won't? Why didn't anyone tell me this earlier? *rubs head in pain*)
- After you first see Cal in "Titanic"", all through the rest of the movie you look around wondering where Skinhead and 3-D are.
- When Caroline and Richard finally goot together on "Caroline in the City", you cry out "What about George!?" (or Seamus?)
- You're upset that throughout the enttire run of the animated series "Gargoyles", the character of Detective Matt Bluestone, never once referred to anyone as a "butthead".
- You buy a sports almanac that gives every major sports victory in the latter 20th century "just in case." (Ed: Why is everything 'just in case'?)
- Police keep catching you loitering iin the parking lot of the nearby shopping mall at 1:15 AM.
- You keep hanging around a nearby ravvine hoping to rescue any damsels in distress on a runaway buckboard.
- You frighten the guy trying to repaiir your telescope with the funny looks you keep giving him while describing what's wrong with it. (Ed: What kind of looks?)
- No one invites you to birthday or Chhristmas parties because the only present you ever give is pictures of yourself standing next to a clock.
- t-smitts

- The power goes out and, when it comes back on and you're resetting the clocks, you think about Doc and all his clocks, then about Watson, because somewhere in the back of your mind you remember her saying something about her having just as many clocks. (Ed: She did? Hmmm...)
- giggles

- When you see a Delorean on the street and ask the owner if he's went back to 1955.
- When you have watched the BTTF Triloogy 7000 times (RIGHT HERE!) (Ed: WHAT? And I thought the person who had seen Star Wars 6000 times was crazy... Me, I've seen BTTF Part 1 seven times, Part 2 five times and Part 3 three times. The fan fiction is better, I swe... OI! *dodges thrown eggs from rabid, angry BTTF fans in flying DeLoreans*) - You turn all your cars into replcas of the Back to the Future DeLorean.
- You say "Great Scott." when you're eexcited.
- You say "This Is Heavy." when you arre confused.
- You watch The Time Machine comericall on The Time Machine DVD just to see Michael and the DeLorean.
- BTTF Delorean Project

- I drink only Pepsi
- I eat only Pizza Hut pizza
- I constantly repeat lines from bttf,, as i have all of them memorized!
- You own tons of bttf memorabilia andd have an entire wall/shelf/dresser dedicated to it (not me...haha)
- Anything 88 makes you think of ------(if you can fill in the blank if you're a fanatic)
- You wanna dehydrate a pizza! (Ed: Actually, I think the term was 'hydrate'.)
- People named Biff or Tannen scare yoou...
- You have a huge BTTF prop collectionn.
- Who Needs Roads?

- When in maths, you get a BTTF answer such as 88 or 1.21 and you think "Great Scott!"
- Your idea of fun is logging on the iinternet at 2am to discuss which Jennifer was better.
- You want the BTTF theme played at yoour wedding instead of the wedding march.
- You start a campaign to change the nname of your mall to Twin/Lone Pine(s) Mall.
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- You see a DeLorean in the new Moby's song, and immediately think of time travel!
- You drink ONLY PEPSI! You can't bearr coca cola...
- You know perfectly all the phrases oof BTTF
- You call your mouse: Marty! LOL
- You only eat in BURGER KING!
- You want to work at Burger King for your summer job!
- You fall asleep on your bed, but witth all your clothes...
- Your favorite song is certainly: THEE POOOOOWER OF LOOOOVE. (Ed: Funny, I thought it was called 'The Power of Love'.)
- You use all the time: Woooow, this iis heavy ( "Oh dur, c'est pas le pied" in French version)
- Blast From 1985

- When you look in the mirror, you immediately look away thinking it is your other self (I did this once)
- Plutoneam

- The clock turns 10:04 PM and you start making a lightning-strike-noise. - Someone asks what you're writing andd you pull it away and say,"Ho! No! No! No! I...I, I never let anybody read my stories." (Ed: I've been saying that all my life, even before seeing BTTF.)
- You get really mad when someone misqquotes a line from one of the movies.
- You want to go to California for a vvacation just so you can see the DeLorean display at Universal Studios.
- You watch the movies with the sound down and make all the audio with your mouth, including sound effects and music. I've actually only done this with the first movie cause I know it the best. They should have an audio track of me doing that on the DVD. I'm really good at it. (Ed: I've only done that with The Lion King, which I've watched about 60 times. Never tried it with BTTF yet.)
- You tell someone if they put their mmind to it, they can accomplish anything, and they think it's your original advice.
- (Hey, J-Flux, do you really have thee Nike shoes? Where can I find an exact pair?!)
- You're seriously planning on buying a DeLorean as your first car.
- You buy a pair of aviator glasses juust like Marty's and you take them off and go, "Whoa...rock and roll", or you lift them up and say "about 30 years",then you raise your eyebrows and give a smile just like Michael J. Fox.
- You are constantly looking for articcles of Marty's costume.
- You wish you had Marty's costume so you could go to a costume party dressed as Marty.
- You make the Back to the Future logoo out of your class subjects on your school book covers.
- You cry when the DeLorean model kit you wanted was auctioned off to someone else on-line, and you swear he's not as much of an enthusiast as you and he doesn't deserve it.
- You practice dancing like George so that when you're in a dancing environment, you can bust your George grooves. (Ed: You should see my younger brother do this)
- You wake up later than everyone elsee and walk past the kitchen while everyone is eating breakfast, then you turn back and slam your hand on the wall and say "Hey! What the [heck] is this?!" The cool thing is my brother's name is Dave and he knows the act so we've acted it out several times.
- You are always acting out or adaptinng parts of the movies as if it applies to your life, or you try to set up a situation in dialogue where you can say a line.
- Your friend is trying to get you to ask a girl to the prom and you say, "But I'll miss my favorite television program Science Fiction Theatre!", or "Look! i'm just not ready to ask (so and so) out to the dance! And not you or anybody else on this planet is gonna make me change my mind!"
- Mr.Eastwood

- Your passwords are BTTF related (Backintime, Outatime, Timetravel, Deloreantimemachine, etc.) (Ed: REALLY? HAH! Now I know all your passwords...)
- When someone says time travel is imppossible you feel like beating them with a large thorny stick.
- Plutonuim248

- You record all the movies onto cassette tapes so you can listen to them on your walkman when not home or around the TV.
- The-Gorf

- When every one of today's active topics, up to this point, contains a post by me.
- WeatherExperiment

-When you need a 4-digit pin number for a ATM or Credit Card, you make it 1885, 1955, 1985, or 2015. (Ed: ...I know his passwords, I know your pin number... this is great.)
- When you can listen to the BTTF sounndtrack in your head without the CDs. (Ed: I can listen to ANY soundtrack in my head without the CDs. Band nerds rule the world.)
- When you check your TV guide for BTTTF even if it isn't listed to be aired on BTTF.com.
- You know how long exactly it will bee until it is October 21st, 2015 at 4:29 PM EST (i have have a countdown timer) - 13 years, 4 months, 24 days, 17 hours, and 36 minutes(as of 10:53 PM on May 26th).
- FutureFish14

You try think out a logical way for a hoverboard to really work. (I've done this before) (Ed: Same here.)
- Your computer wallpaper, screensaverr, sounds, buddy icon, pointer, and startup page all have to do with BTTF.
- When you're bored you act out sceness from BTTF.
- Oh got another, when you're on BTTF..com or some other BTTF site you turn on the BTTF soundtrack!
- Pro Hoverboarder

- You time it so you drive by your courthouse in your town (which looks exactly like the one in Hill Valley) at exactly 10:04 pm. Did this last night. If you dont believe me about how the courthouse look check out this web page
- jersey_guy99

- You use phrases from the trilogy in everyday life.
- You only eat at cafes that are namedd Cafe 80's or have an owner named Lou.
- You're proud of the fact the other ppeople in your town think you're a crazy wild eyed scientist.
- You keep an eye on anyone with an -iiff name eg Cliff or Tiff, just in case they are Tannen relatives!
- If you have to give a false name thee first one you think of is Marty McFly
- You have a Biff haircut, and when yoou go to the hairdressers you just ask for "a Biff please". (Ed: Ever ask for "a Doc please"?)
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

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