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You Know You're A Backie When... Part 2

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

It's only the second page and already I'm getting a headache...

YKYABW... Part 2:

- I�m always on the lookout for a calculator watch that is equipped with an alarm, so that it may one day go off while using a public phone (thusly giving me the opportunity to act uncomfortable while running my hand through my hair). To my chagrin, most of the calculator watches I've owned lacked that special feature.
- Attempts at sleeping in the contorteed McFly manner have often resulted in backaches...and drool puddles on my pillows.
- One of my hobbies was re-arranging tthe furniture in my room and attempting to match Marty's. - Though I couldn�t find a Huey Lewis "Sports" poster, I found the original BTTF theatrical poster fit in nicely (This was in '86 folks).
- I took to wearing outrageously largee sunglasses.
- I carried a walkman wherever I went (made sure the soundtrack was always handy in case of a �Back to the Future� moment).
- I regularly wore a red t-shirt underrneath a white lightly striped button-up shirt to school (and a pair of suspensors). On colder days, I would incorporate the jean jacket and "life-preserver" puffy sleeveless coat (I didn't actually own the "life-preserver" - It was my father's and considerably too large for my frame - I must have looked ridiculous). All of these things fit in pretty seamlessly into my regular wardrobe (this was in '86 and I was 13 after all).
- I don't have to mention the years sppent wearing white Nike shoes do I?
- I took up skateboarding if only to ddo the "Marty flip" (a solid press to the back of the board to send into your hand).
- I'd hang around parts of my neighborrhood that reminded me of scenes in the movie just to soak in the moment. I could often be seen with my skateboard and "life-preserver" on said locations.
- Kept an empty can of 'PEPSI FREE' onn my headboard years after the product had ceased to exist. I often bought myself cans of Diet Pepsi to drink at the dinner table. Who says product-placement in movies doesn�t work? (BTW, 'PEPSI FREE'was an early attept at a calory-free, cafeine-free drink)
- Having very little disposable money of my own (in '85), I made a copy of a friend�s soundtrack tape onto a blank tape and decorated the cover with cutouts of BTTF collector cards I found as cereal-box prizes. I still own the tape and a few of those cards.
- I desperately wanted to take guitar lessons... but my parents convinced me to take up the accordion instead. Needless to say �Johnny B. Goode� did not have the same impact.
- Became an instant fan (and still am)) of every artist on the soundtrack.
- Became an instant fan of everyone asssociated with the movie (I had already been in awe of Spielberg since E.T).
- Will yell out "nooooo, b*stard!!!" aat anyone who has wronged me in any way.
- I carried the Marty haircut until 19990.
- By 1988, I had abandoned hope for a BTTF sequel and began to write my own bad fan fiction. - I always buy stereos with ridiculoussly large volume, treble and bass knobs. I love to feel them turn and power up. Woah...rock and roll!
- I feel an overwhelming wave of nostaalgia whenever anyone mentions 1985.
- Back in � 86, a family Ties episode that featured the song 'Mr. Sandman' had me giggling for hours.
- Anytime someone is making too much nnoise for whatever reason, my phrase of choice is "I�m afraid you�re just too darn loud".
- Irish Bug

- You find yourself walking around your neighbourhood or town dressed up as Marty McFly from the first BTTF. Looking around strangely pretending you're in the future or past. Muttering to yourself, "this is heavy". Then you stop, look at yourself and say, "Ok wait a second"...
- FluxCapasitor

- When you get depressed you rub your head and whisper: Man this is heavy!
- You think anyone named Biff or Buforrd is an idotic bully that has trouble saying popular insults
- You sing any song from the BTTF trillogy at a show (I sang Johnny B. Goode in the 5th grade talent show wearing the same outfit Marty wore when he sang it and even had Marty's hairdo for 2 years after that and I qoute: WON the talent show)
- When you see anybody touch your girllfriend you yell: Hey you, get your **** hands off her.
- Everytime you see a shark you say: tthat shark still looks fake.
- You wear orange life perserver-like vests every day even in 110 degree weather. (I did that for a while)
- You misspell destiny and accidentallly write "DENSITY". (Ed: As long as you don't do that in a science exam.)
- Every time you see a terrorist anywhhere even on t.v. you yell as loud as you can: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....B*stards!!!!!
- You unsrew the spokes to your skatebboards to make hover board replicas (I do this every time I receive one)
- You start a riot at Universal Studioos because they never made BTTF action figures.
- You're good at gun galleries just beecause Marty was (yep I did and I am)
- Your only defense weapon in fights iis pointing behind the person and yelling: WHAT THE **** IS THAT???
- You actually see Hey Arnold! The Movvie just because Christopher Lloyd is in it (I ain't that stupid)
- You run on top of cars and land on tto a skateboard just because Marty did it in BTTF1.
- Jimmy McFly

- You watch M*A*S*H, and whenever BJ Hunnicu mentions his home town of Mill Valley, California, you always mishear it for Hill Valley.
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- When you get married you drive away in a BTTF Delorean!
- BTTF Delorean Project

- You laugh everytime your science teacher says density! I did that and finally my teacher asked, "what the heck is so funny?", so I told him, my teacher didn't think it was so funny...
- Delorean89

- When you're watching a baseball game and you get very excited when the speed of the pitch comes out as 88mph!! It's especially cool when it results in a homerun. (I get excited all the time over this)... Oh btw.. guess what. I was taking a cab home the other day and when I got in, guess what the number of the car was? 88 baby!!
- BTTFGraphics

- Your car won't start so you smash your head on the steering wheel...(but it still doesn't start and you have a big bruise on your head, plus the people in the parking spot next to you are looking at your dumb ***)
- You wish they would cure Parkinson'ss so Michael J. Fox could make another BTTF film.
- You spend hours on ebay looking at aall the cool BTTF stuff, but you have no money to buy any of it.
- You go to Universal Studios Hollywoood and ask passers-by to borrow their sunglasses and watch so you can pose in front of the DeLorean...(I have the picture)
- You know how they did all the hoverbboard effects from the "secrets of" movie, but they still look cool!
- Kozar

- You baught a Casio data bank calculator watch as I just did...
- Who Needs Roads?

When you tape Vh1's behind the music on Huey Lewis and the news... hoping that they'll be a mention of Back to the Future
- You avoid a fight and you are questiioned as to why and reply "I'm afraid I'm just not good at... confrontations..."
- Your senior quote in your high schoool yearbook is something from Back To The Future (yes...I did this)
- You wish you can be in Clara's shoess
- You decide to read Jules Verne just because Doc did and talked about it in the film
- You force your friends to go see Stuuart Little 2 because "Marty does the voice of Stuart!"
- You feel most comfortable falling assleep with the movie playing on the TV in your bedroom
- You are up at 3 in the morning postiing on a Back to the Future message board
- Elle

- You put money aside to save the clock tower.
- You have a whole room full of clockss.
- You dehydrate a pizza so you can hyddrate it later.
- Your mom comes home you say "Mom, moom is that you?"
- You call your uncle joey "Uncle jaillbird Joey".
- When you're at the store you ask if they carry "Oh la la" magazine.
- When you're at the store you ask if they have "Pepsi Perfect" they say no so you ask for "Pepsi Free"
- When you turn your hairdryer on you say "Drying Mode on", when done you say "check drying".
- Bkewl

- You watch Back to the Future in spanish b/c you don't have cable (and know what they are saying... half the time - been a while since I've seen the movie.. this is sad (not sad that I haven't seen the movie in a while but that I saw it that way)
- DeloreanBack

- You have a BTTF themed LiveJournal layout.
- You're ecstatic you got post #88 (onn my own thread, no less XD).
- giggles

- You get married at Universal Studios in front of the Clocktower with Huey Lewis playing THE POWER OF LOVE for the wedding music. Then you leave the wedding in a BTTF replica and drive to Doc's mansion to spend your honeymoon.
- Deloreanstud1

- There is a band playing Johnny B. Goode and you yell out, "GO MARTY!!!!" or "BETTER GET TO THE CLOCK TOWER, MARTY!!!!!"
- You hear Power Of Love on the radio and you immediately think of when Marty is skateboarding to school. (I heard Power Of Love on the radio a few days ago!!!!!!!)
- You are talking about BTTF to your ffriend and he says, "Enough about BTTF."
- You tried skateboarding becuase Martty does it. (I tried it, but it is not a very pretty sight.)
- You mark down when BTTF is showing oon TV on your calendar.
- If instead of, "Oh my gosh!" or someething along those lines, you say, "Great Scott!"
- You want to go to the mall parking llot at 1:24 AM and drive 88 MPH.

- Tondog

- You use the BTTF font for all the heeadings on your schoolwork
- Your ringtone is BTTF
- You spend ages watching VH1 Classic just in case a BTTF related song comes on
- You name your house "Hill Valley Cotttage" or "Outatime House" etc
- Whenever you write a story, it is allways set in Hill Valley
- Frasier Crane

- You hear "Johnny B. Goode" on the radio and sing along or are singing it on karaoke night or whatever, and you start singing "...Go! Go, Marty! Go, go GO!....."
- temporal paradox

- When somebody says, "well, that's all in the past," and you reply, "you mean the future." But instead of the person saying "whatever," they just look at you like you're some idiot. That's happened to myself a couple of times.
- Jolly Jamo

- You buy a Delorean even before you get your license
- The Delorean stalls at a red light aand will not start, so you hit your head on the steering wheel BTTF style, but that still doesn't help
- The only thing you listen to in yourr Delorean is the BTTF soundtrack
- You go 88mph in hopes that your Deloorean has a secret flux capacitor, but cry when the officer hands you a ticket
- The cop doesn't believe you when youu try and use the old time travel excuse.
- HackMasterMarc

- You brag to your friends that you know more about BTTF than anybody else in your school. Then they ask you questions which are incredibly simple to you and you get them all right.
- Pro Hoverboarder

- You can the lyrics of Johnny B. Goode, The Power of Love, Back in time etc. in your head!
- You use over an hour drawin' a BTTF DeLorean. (Ed: Only? Wow, you must be fast. I spent 45 minutes drawing the BTTF logo, half an hour on the LOTR one, ten minutes on the Matrix one (it's WAY easier than it looks), but I'm going off topic so I'll stop here.)
- Everytime you see anything (even thee slightest) BTTF related thing (like a Texaco or a Pepsi bottle) you think it's funny and say: "Great Scott", "I really gotta go back", "Out of time" or something like that
- You know what a backie is...
- Everytime the numbers/years 1885, 19955, 1985 or 2015 is mentioned you think it's funny and say: "Great Scott", "I really gotta go back"...
- You stop sayin' gigawatt, but jigowaatt in science class
- Everytime 88 is mentioned you say: ""When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious sh*t!" - You know who John Z. is...=)
- RedSlicer

- You create an incentive game based on bttf for your staff at work ('tis true, I'm preparing it now!)
- When you arrive at work, you look att the clock and if you're early, you say "Precisely on schedule!"
- If you're late you say "Da** I'm latte!"
- When someone hurts themself and in aa shaky voice you say "Are you ok?"
- When you're late picking someone up and when they get in the car, you say "Sorry I'm late, but if my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 mph, you're gonna see some serious s**t"
- When someone mentions bad traffic onn the roads and you say "Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads".
- When you are going 88 mph down the rroad listening to the BTTF2 theme from the soundtrack, and when the police stop you, you say "Can you hear the music?? Of course I'm speeding! (that's never happened by the way!)
- You go crazy when you hear a BTTF quuote on the radio, and you ask everyone else if they heard it.
- When you call someone Future boy
> - When you call someone Doc (usually aa doctor)
- You look at bttf.com and the forums every day.
- You see someone on a skateboard, andd immediately assume they are bttf fans.
- You feel sad when you think the majoority of under 16s in the world probably don't even know what BTTF is. (Hey, I'M under 16! Oh, you mean the majority. Oh. Then again, the majority of people in the world don't know what BTTF is either. The majority of people in the world don't own television sets... do they?)
- You have the BTTF ringtone on your pphone.
- When you're listening to the soundtrrack and you try to say the diologue with perfect timing, and when you get it wrong, you rewind it and try again.
- You do loads of research, hire a giaant workshop, buy a nice car, and attempt to build a real time machine. (I'm not doing that)
- Every so often, you remind people thhat the BTTF DVDs are coming out on the 2nd of December over here (UK), and in the US they are out on my birthday!!
- When you are really chatty to someonne and they say, "you're acting like you haven't seen me in a week" And you reply "I haven't".
- Some asks, "do you want a Pepsi?" Annd you say "Pepsi Perfect!"
- You call someone "slacker"
- Hey McFly!

- You're on a BTTF message board and you get all excited when the day comes that you've reached a total of 88 POSTS!! Woohoo! I finally did it! Yeah, Baby... Yeah!
- BTTFGraphics

- When someone's riding a bike you call out, "Dad, George, hey you on the bike" or then you follow them see if their a peeping tom...
- Zorba_m_13_ILA

- When your BTTF trilogy DVD arrived you take the day off work to watch all 3 in a row
- You spent half the day looking for aa BTTF ringtone for your mobile
- Somebody mentioned going to Greece ffor a holiday and you say "Rhodes? Where we're going we dont need Rhodes!"
- johnnybgood

You sell your X-Box (which you love) so you can get a Nintendo Gamecube JUST for the Universal Studios game. Man I love flying in that car!
- MartyFox

- You spend nearly a hundred bucks in a day on ebay on BTTF toys, an annual and the remote control delorean.
- You read all these posts and decide on buying a gamecube next week to play the Universal Studios game
- You have BTTF theme & Johnny B Goodee as ringtones so you can alternate and are still hunting for a Huey Lewis one! (Ed: Just compose it yourself. Or mail it to me and I'll compose it for you for $18.85.)
- You spend half a work day creating aa BTTF quiz on Excel to send to your friends
- You keep coming back and checking thhis msgboard
- johnnybgood

- You are disappointed that nothing new has been posted in this topic in the two days since you last checked the message board.
- HVStorm55

- You have to find someone lonely who absorb all your mumbo jumbo
- You can translate every line from thhe movies from any language to English.
- You once tried to hang onto the backk of a car on a skateboard.
- You pick the doctor you visit most ffrequently and call him Doc (orthodontist in my case).
- You must always carry a cheap digitaal watch that will drift like Marty's (actually I just carry it for all those times I'm not near a clock but I dont need an expensive watch)
- You store your model Deloreans on a high shelf and only take them out once a day.
- You apply for a personalized plate aand list your 3 choices as OUTATIME, TMEMCHNE, or something to that efect.
- You fast BTTF for a whole week so yoou can watch the whole trilogy at 1:21 AM October 26 (coming up, get your VCDs and VHSs fired up)
- You go from not caring about soda drrink kinds to only drinking Pepsi (alright I know this has sorta been mentioned before, but I said not caring what kind)
- You have many clocks and make sure tthey're all in sync and sometimes set them back 25 miniutes for fun.
- Anytime you see an LCD screen you muust write BTTF dates on it, such as 1151955600, Nov. 5 1955 6:00 AM.
- You play flight simulator and set itt to the exact location of Hill Valley and fly over what would be there if it was real even though there's nothing to see.
- Whenever someone mentions the word ''time machine' you imagine they are talking about a DeLorean.
- You have to make a model of a pyramiid and your dad says it looks like a time machine, so you mention that he said that in class and say you wouldn't know cause you grew up with DeLorean time machines.
- You repeat lines from the movie justt to see if people want know where they're from.
- You're class photo is an imitation oof Marty in the poster.
- You write all your fan fiction in a little notebook like George.
- If someone mentions Darth Vader you think of Marty's space alien suit (I know I do).
- You know the slogan for and only usee Texaco Gas Stations (I donno how far I'd have to drive to do that).
- You TRY to get away with speeding tiickets by saying you were trying to travel through time.
- You buy a DeLorean and try to hit peeople with the door.
- You get really excited when you hearr the word DeLorean on television.
- When you hear someone playing the moovie you lipsync the whole thing.
- You don't pick up yout BTTF2 DMC witthout first switching it into hover mode.
- Your number #1 pick up line is, "I'mm your density".
- You not only act out BTTF scenes witth friends but you try to use pets even though they don't talk. (Ed: They don't? *stares suspiciously at talking ant*)
- Futurekid

- You redo your room with a BTTF theme.
- You redo your computer account with a BTTF theme.
- You're a 'purist'-you have no time ffor 'wanna-be' Doc's and Martys, with the exception of Doc at Universal Studios.
- You write over 100 stories of BTTF ffanfiction. (Ed: Post them, Flaming Trails! Post them!...please?)
- You write almost NOTHING except BTTFF fanfiction.
- The highlight of your trip to Floridda was going to Universal Studios and going on BTTF.
- You want to kill the people who madee "Clockstoppers".
- Your dream is to buy a DeLorean.
> - You fall in love with a character frrom the movie.
- Your parents are sick of your obsesssion.
- You build your own BTTF lego set. - Your only thought after watching a mmovie-"Whoa, how can I combine this with Doc and Marty?"
- You combine your other obsessions wiith BTTF.
- You think you can explain how BTTF iinventions work.
- Hot_For_Doc

-You come up with explainations for the DeLorean's "Workability".
- You are going to write a BTTF story that has you in it.
- You take two cameras worth of pics oof the DeLorean at USH.
- You have a shelf of BTTF DeLoreans.<
- Included on that shelf is a Lego DeLLorean.
- You are going to be Doc for Halloweeen.
- When you can actually rival Chris Llloyd in your Doc acting ability.
- When, in another RPG, (Power Rangerss) you add to the RPG Doc and Marty as Time Force Rangers, and make Doc the White TF Ranger, and make Marty the Hypertime Ranger, and have the DeLorean and the Time Train form one big Megazord, with the DeLorean as Armor.
- You give too much information about what I'm-- I mean, you're doing, in the above post...
- Doc Lathrop Brown

- You check BTTF.com at least a couple times a week and occasionally have dreams involving the characters. Hehe.
- Christina

- When you skate on your skateboard to school or anywhere you have "Power of Love" on your portable CD player. - When you skate you hang in back of tthe trucks and ride on it like Michael J. Fox (Marty) did.
- You wanna buy a DeLorean.
- You wanna make a time machine
- You wanna buy a DeLorean and build iit into a time machine just like the movie.
- When you buy a DeLorean car you buy props to make it look like the BTTF time machine inculiding the flux capacitor replica.
- You have a CD player in your DeLoreaan playing the BTTF theme song.
- You visit Universal Studios and inteeract with the Doc look-a-like.
- BTTFKid

- You create a calendar with all BTTF related dates on it.
- You understand 9th Dimensional theorry.
- When you are suprised you say with ""Great Scott"
- You say "this is heavy"
- You say "this is heavy duty"
- When you see anything radioactive yoou say, "wait, this suckers nuclear!!!"
- You wear more than one watch (I wearr two)
- deloreancrazy

- You record BTTF off the TV to have a back-up copy for your worn-out tape.
- Non-BTTF related songs remind you off BTTF.
- Hot_For_Doc

- When someone asks you who's your fave rock band you tell them "The Pinheads" (Ed: My school band is still better, hah.)
- You're an expert at drawing picturess of Marty McFly and BTTF scenes..
- Zorba_m_13_ILA

- You invent factions for BTTF fans. A faction is a group of people who love a certain thing. Here's a short list:
- Flamers: Love the DeLorean
- Fluxers: Love the Doc (Flux capacitoor)
- Futureboys: Love Marty (You may subsstitue 'girl' for 'boy')
- Parkers: Love Jennifer (Liz for Elissabeth, Claudia for Claudia)
- Butt-heads: Love Biff (Ed: And the fan fiction writers. YOU CAN'T LEAVE OUT THE FANFIC WRITERS!)
- Hot_For_Doc

- You know you are a backie when you own a mini guitar and you drink Pepsi Free!
- DocBrown56

- If anytime you have a teacher you don't like, you think of them falling into a ravine.
- HVStorm55

- You post ridiculous things to get up to 88.
- Futurekid

- Any time you are in any kind of large crowd, you hope someone gets pickpocketed so you can shout "Hey, did you just take his wallet?... He just took that guy's wallet!"
- HVStorm55

- EVERYTHING on this topic applies to you. :-)
- Frasier Crane

- You sync all your clocks but leave the oldest clock stopped at 10:04.
- deloreancrazy

- You just start saying random BTTF quotes for no apparent reason.(I do this! I can just be sitting there reading or whatever, and all of the sudden I'll just yell out "Well, be careful! You don't wanna get struck by lightning!")
- You e-mail Tom Wilson over and over,, and in your e-mails all you do is ramble on about how much you love BTTF. (Ed: You have his e-mail address?!)
- If someone says they want to go backk in time to change something they did, you say "You must be extremly careful! You can't risk running into your other self, or we could have a major paradox!"
- Every time you go on BTTF the Ride aat US, you dive for the front row and punch in BTTF dates on the keyboard.
- You go to BTTF at least twice a montth!
- You buy purple underwear and sleep iin them without your pants just so you can wake up and say "Where are my pants?" And then you put your pants on your hope chest so you can say "Over there - on my hope chest." Okay, I've never done that!
- Anytime you're humming or singing a song, it SOMEHOW turns into Johnny B. Goode! (Ed: I can turn any song into any song. Behold the power of the band nerd.)
- For the annual school talent show, yyou're gonna do Johnny B. Goode!
- On the tram tour at USH, you use up a whole role of film JUST in the part where Hill Valley is because you took pictures of the ground that Marty walked on!
- You go to the McFly home and beg thee people who own it to let you open their garage just like Marty!
- You have a pet sheepdog named Einstiien.
- You purposely sign up to do stuff thhat starts at 8:00, you set all of your clocks 25 minutes slow, and you have someone call you at 8:25 so you can say to them "D*mn! I'm late for [Whatever you're late for]. After that, you force your mom to drive a truck to wherever you're going so you can ride on your skateboard on the back of the truck!
- You constantly crash into manure truucks, because you want to smell like Biff!
- You know a guy who looks just like BBiff, and he's a bully, so you CONSTANTLY call him Biff! (That's true! I really do know a guy who's just like Biff! I drive him crazy calling him Biff!)
- You watch BTTF every night, and reciite every word IN SYNC with the actors on the screen!~
- LorraineBaines55

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